jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tipjoy is hiring developers at its Boston area office
http://tipjoy.com/jobs/
Tipjoy is hiring! http://tipjoy.com/jobs/

We are currently hiring killer developers to join us in our office just outside Cambridge, MA.

Are you the best developer you know? Tipjoy is going to be huge. Because we only want the best, we want you to be a part of it.

Tipjoy is a new micropayments service that will revolutionize how payments are done online. We're strong supporters of free culture and currently support a voluntary payments model. We make it extremely easy for people to leave tips for stuff they love online. Rather than turning people away by gating content, Tipjoy allows people to choose to leave a tip for a content if they think it was valuable.

Requirements:

0. You need to be really, really smart.

Plus:

1. A sense of aesthetics and design
2. Deep knowledge of the tools we use: Linux, Python, Django, Javascript, CSS, and some Flash/ActionScript
3. Experience in configuration, scaling, and deployment for servers and databases.
4. Experience managing complex, dynamic systems (especially people)

We like effective people that can focus to get things done and make real things. We're building a culture which demands excellence. We understand that anything that lets you perform better is worth it: fully loaded Macs, enormous monitors, Aeron chairs, food, etc.

Apply by sending mail to founders@tipjoy.com

Make sure to tell us about something you've made that you are proud of. You can also try your hand at these puzzles:

1. Puzzle 1: explain python generator expressions in 140 characters or less and tweet the answer to @tipjoy
2. Puzzle 2: Concatenate the page source for each level of http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ and find the number of times the substring 'tipjoy' can be found via character removal.
3. Puzzle 3: Make up a puzzle which can be solved in less than 30 minutes which we're unable to solve. It must be possible for us to find the solution, and you need to know it.
VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop
http://blogs.eweek.com/permit_deny/content001/virtualization/vmware_vdi_open_source_client_released_for_thin_client_makers.html
Code is hosted at google-code.<p>http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/<p>which indicates something brewing between the two. ?
el.js - Element/Node creation tool
https://github.com/markgandolfo/el.js
A simple node/element creation tool. Native JS without any library dependencies.
Show HN: iOS Motion Library – detect a backtap, knock and wave in your app
http://www.kiwimotion.io
Try out an alpha version of our new iOS motion library.
A free Hacker News app for Android
http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/A-Hacker-News-app-for-Android.aspx
It's in the Market. It's my first Android app, so I'd be grateful for feedback.
Mesosphere Launches Elastic Mesos, Makes Setting Up A Mesos Cluster Simple
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/12/mesosphere-launches-elastic-mesos-makes-setting-up-a-mesos-cluster-a-3-step-process/
Mesosphere, a startup that focuses on developing Mesos, a technology that makes running complex distributed applications easier, is launching Elastic Mesos today. This [free] new product makes setting up a Mesos cluster on Amazon Web Services a basic three-step process that asks you for the size of the cluster you want to set up, your AWS credentials and an email where you want to get notifications about your cluster’s state.
Show HN: fluent SQL – a minimalistic SQL builder for Java
https://github.com/ivanceras/fluent-sql/
A minimalistic Fluent SQL API for Java built with one compilation unit aimed to resemble the code to your original SQL code
Tool for detecting "social widgets" problems on your site
http://whiteposts.com/not-async
People asked for a simple tester for the problem that I've described in the topic "Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771607 (in brief: are there any scripts on your pages that can significantly slow down your site and therefore cost you some real visitors that won't wait 2 minutes for page to load).

If you see any "non-async scripts" on your site - you're potentially significantly slowing down your site.
Hidden Video Courses in Math, Science, and Engineering
http://www.datawrangling.com/hidden-video-courses-in-math-science-and-engineering.html
For people who like lists... some full courses in computer science, machine learning, math, and physics with video lectures you might find useful.
3 Founders, 1 Round & $.72 in the Bank
http://founderdating.com/3-founders-1-round-and-0-72-in-the-bank/
Brendan McCorkle recounts the true story of how he and his cofounders (all from DreamIt Ventures) were out of money before their round was raised and how they survived.
Learn to program Python using a Logo-like turtle
http://www.learnpython.org
Good for teachers who don't want to set up any programming environment.
learnpython.org is a new website I've developed for the Python learning community. I would love people to help me out write more tutorials, or develop the logo turtle programming idea further.

Tell me what you think. Thanks!
I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool
http://www.unethicalblogger.com/posts/2009/01/im_using_git_because_it_makes_me_feel_cool
"Here I was at this hip start-up, really feeling cool, but still using the same version control system (svn) that uncool companies like, Yahoo! and Sun use. I would not stand for this. As 2007 became 2008 the writing was on the wall, Git was our new bicycle. It had been blessed by Saint Torvalds and clearly we needed to get in on the ground floor of the new cool before it became mainstream."
Why is there so much self-help featured on Hacker News?
It feels like at least a third of the content is something about "how to learn", "how to think", etc.
Product Engineering at Airbnb is Growing
http://www.airbnb.com/jobs?=sourceHN
Want to join a promising early stage startup that is growing rapidly and make a big impact?

Joining Twitter as employee #301 not early enough for you?

Come join our engineering team at Airbnb. We're 6 engineers, you can be engineer #7.

If you're interested in a front-end role, you can be front-end engineer #2!

We're building an engineering team that can produce what teams 10 times our size can do. We love what we're building. We talk about product daily, how we can enrich the experience of our users further. We love working on challenging problems and working with smart engineers that can help us grow individually too. Most of all, we value engineering.

Check out some of the challenges we're working on: http://blog.airbnb.com/hard-problems-big-opportunity

Email me at barry@airbnb.com if you'd like to chat and hear more.
Show HN: ICEcoder v2.0 – online and offline browser code editor
http://icecoder.net
Have been building a web IDE & browser based code editor and v2.0 has now launched. Contains a whole load of features beyond just code highlighting such as online & offline use, code completion, type boosting, Emmet, database management, find & replace builder, auto backups, Github syncing and a whole lot more. Oh, and it's free & open source. Any and all feedback welcomed.
E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.
http://www.noteslate.com/
Although it's obvious, I didn't immediately consider that these sketches could be saved. Once I did, my interest in something like this grew several-fold. I love to doodle and jot notes, I miss it. Now, I can do it again...

BTW, I don't know anything about the company. Maybe it's vaporware? I just happened across this on Kottke.org. I'd love to know more.
Show HN: Animated Watch Illustrations with CSS3 and SVG
http://www.wrist.im
I wanted a little project to practice illustration as well as animation on the web. Plus I'm a big fan of watches.
The microhydro plant
http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
This guy built his own micro power plant for his house.
Founders at Work - now in paperback
http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2008/09/founders-at-work-paperback-edition-is-out.html
In case any of you haven't already heard.
Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web
http://www.writeboxapps.com/
Similar to TextDrop, but free (as in beer) and without some of the handier NV-like features.
Show HN: RawInputViewer – Examine how games receive inputs from Windows
https://github.com/EsportToys/RawInputViewer
This is my third ever GUI programming project -- I've only ever done any sort of programming in AutoIt as I'm entirely self-taught via their docs/tutorials. I've only just started learning about control flow and structuring of GUI apps really recently, so you might find that the data access patterns in my source code to be a mess as I wrote them before learning about those concepts.
SQL vs. NoSQL 
http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/book/introduction.html
Theres a lot of debate on this and I understand theres no clear answers. Just wanted to hear some of your experiences working with both and whats applicable for what type of systems. I myself am working on a database for a web app analytics tool and witnessed some benefits of NoSQL while SQL is supposedly more reliable.

Understand companies like Amazon have shifted to NoSQL to manage their data.
In short, I do think that SQL is for high processing, low disk space while NoSQL is vice versa in layman terms. Im pretty new to programming and appreciate a healthy discussion on this.

Please do not draw lines and have hate posts and all. Keep the discussion clean and intelligent.

Thanks!!
OS X Mavericks GM is out – how to make a bootable installation USB
http://povolotski.me/2013/10/12/osx-mavericks-gm-out-bootable-installation-usb/
The golden master for OSX Mavericks is out! For all you guys who wanna try it out, but need to install it via a USB, here’s a super simple way to do so.
Lock-free Multi-producer Multi-consumer Queue on Ring Buffer
http://natsys-lab.blogspot.ru/2013/05/lock-free-multi-producer-multi-consumer.html
Work queue has always been one of the most hot points in server software.
Here is how to scale it effectively to multi-core environment.
Show HN: Uber for Coding — Build product with bounties
https://algora.io
Hey HN! After lots of dogfooding, we are now releasing Algora.io to help developers share bounties & easily meet new collaborators.

The problem: early-stage founders always have more work than people, tight budgets and no time. Hiring full-time engineers is often not an option, yet most founders would welcome contributions from new collaborators. Meanwhile, most developers welcome flexible work. However, today, all of this is hard.

Our solution: we built a Git GUI where you can pay developers and start collaborating with new ones, in just a few clicks.

On Algora you can share, reward and earn bounties right inside your code repositories. Algora also recommends developers/bounties that match your tech stack and makes it simple to start working together.

We are excited to welcome you on Algora, answer your questions and further improve our product and documentation with your feedback!

Thank you

- Ioannis & Zaf
Show HN: Game of Life on non-square topologies with 2^32 update rules
https://github.com/Jeadie/Go-L
Hi HN, when learning Golang (and topology), I ported a simple GOL in C (https://github.com/Jeadie/GoL) into Go. I then added a bunch of features
- Playing on other fundamental polygons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_polygon#Examples_o...)
- Considering all possible update rules (of which, there are many).

Looking to get back to this project soon. Would love some feedback + ideas.
Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company
http://alexlod.com/2012/03/12/10-facts-about-working-at-a-startup-vs-a-big-company/
I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to recruit friends of mine to come work with me at my super early startup. In doing so I’ve had to educate a lot of my friends on what it’s like to be at a startup, and why you might want to join one. This post is a summary of all that advice.

My hope is that I can inspire more people out there to quit their job at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, The Man, and join a startup :).
High risk transactions
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/44046687068/high-risk-transactions
Cancelled orders on CoinBase is going to kill their business. New customers are unhappy and the post does not make sense as the users are verified and money is withdrawn from their account.
Ask HN: Is “contact us for pricing” a dark pattern?
Some companies have simple products with no explicit pricing. When I call them, there is no custom or bespoke aspects of the pricing and they simply quote me a price. Why didn't they just put it on their website?
Show HN: Morgan – PyPI Mirror for Restricted/Offline Environments
https://github.com/ido50/morgan
Mirroring PyPI packages for environments/networks that do not have access to the Internet is hard. It's actually hard even in environments that do have access to the Internet. Most solutions out there either:

1. Depend on pip to download and cache package distributions. This means those downloads will probably only work in a similar environment (same Python interpreter, same libc), because of the nature of binary package distributions and the fact that packages have optional dependencies for different environments.

2. Depend on other PyPI packages, meaning installing the mirror in a restricted environment in itself is too difficult.

3. Cannot resolve dependencies of dependencies, meaning mirroring PyPI partially is extremely difficult, and PyPI is huge.

Morgan works differently. It creates a mirror based on a configuration file that defines target environments (using Python's standard Environment Markers specification from PEP 345) and a list of package requirement strings (e.g. "requests>=2.24.0"). It downloads all files relevant to the target environments from PyPI (both source and binary distributions), and recursively resolves and downloads their dependencies, again based on the target environments. It then extracts a single-file server to the mirror directory that works with Python 3.7+, has no outside dependencies, and implements the standard Simple API. This directory can be copied to the restricted network, through whatever security policies are in place, and deployed easily with a simple `python server.py` command.

I should note that Morgan can find dependencies from various metadata sources inside package distributions, including standard METADATA/PKG-INFO/pyproject.toml files, and non-standard files such as setuptools' requires.txt.

There's more information in the Git repository. If this is interesting to you, I'll be happy to receive your feedback.

Thanks!
Central Logging with Open Source Software
http://divisionbyzero.net/article/2012/06/17/central-logging-with-open-source-software.html
I'm attempting to implement a Splunk-like setup with open source components. This blog entry is the first in many to be a brain dump of how I'm using this setup, what I get from it, and why I've arrived at each of these components.
BigScreen — Javascript library for HTML5 Fullscreen API
http://brad.is/coding/BigScreen/
BigScreen is a simple library for using the JavaScript Full Screen API.
Show HN: owo – OneNote to Plain Text
https://github.com/alopezrivera/owo
Hey kind stranger. Hope you find it useful.

Any comments or suggestions are appreciated :)

Enjoy your day!
I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons
http://skrivr.com/samuel/general/iphonelessons
[Update] It seems Skrivr has crashed under the HN load. I've thrown up a flat-file version of the article here:

http://samuelfine.com/iphone_lessons_learned.html
Show HN: "Dropbox for Wi-Fi"
http://www.instabridge.com
Since the server just went down:
Since the site is having problems:
Vimeo video: http://vimeo.com/54228044
Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instabridg...
Blog: http://blog.instabridge.com/
Wikipedia, other websites go dark in anti-piracy bill protest
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/18/tech/sopa-blackouts/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
I looked at CNN's frontpage take on the SOPA blackouts. Here is their definition of SOPA:

If SOPA passes, copyright holders would be able to complain to law enforcement officials and get websites shut down. Search engines and other providers would have to block rogue sites when ordered to do so by a judge. Sites could be punished for hosting pirated content -- and Internet companies are worried they could be held liable for users' actions.

I placed the emphasis around the offending line. This wordplay makes SOPA sound more palatable. Under DMCA, copyright holders already have the right to demand that websites take down offending material. Under SOPA, a judge can order the search engine itself to be shutdown. Search engines, news aggregation sites, and online community providers must be proactive in removing links before a judge is even involved. Under SOPA, the definition of a "rogue site" is anything that happens to have a link or piece of information representing a violation of copyright.

See "No Duty to Monitor" at http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
Show HN: Colorfle – A daily color mixing game inspired by Wordle
https://colorfle.com/
Hi HN,

I was inspired by Wordle to make Colorfle, a different take on the genre where the goal is to mix colors together to match the target color within six tries. There were some interesting problems to tackle in making this game, one of them being the difference between mixing digital colors and real-life behavior (in RGB, blue + yellow = grey!). I hope you enjoy it -- any feedback would be much appreciated!
What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US]
http://chronicle.com/article/What-I-Did-When-I-Couldnt/66281/
For anyone curious about what Sikkim looks like...
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sikkim
Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits
http://feedaneed.org
Instead of asking for money, we thought we ought to pool the talents of our community (and the greater geek community) to improve the most worthy non-profits we could find (submissions and voting going on until next week). And for volunteering your time, you become eligible for some great prizes...
Clustrix, a distributed SQL DB, launches on AWS
http://www.clustrix.com/aws
We listened to the community and made our database available on AWS. We're currently working on making it available as standalone outside of AWS as well.
Flat Design and Color Trends
http://designmodo.com/flat-design-colors/
When it comes to color, flat design works with a variety of colors, but most commonly designers are choosing to go bold and bright.
Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-the-revolutionary-new-statistical-test-that-can-tease-them-apart-ed84a988e
"The key assumption is that the pattern of noise in the cause will be different to the pattern of noise in the effect. That’s because any noise in X can have an influence on Y but not vice versa."[...] "That’s a fascinating outcome. It means that statisticians have good reason to question the received wisdom that it is impossible to determine cause and effect from observational data alone." https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-the-revolutionary-new-statistical-test-that-can-tease-them-apart-ed84a988e
Show HN: Copy React code from any site
https://sample-code.aspect.app
I made this because building React components from scratch is super annoying. Most visual elements already exist on the web, and I figured there should be a way to leverage that. I hope it's useful!
We Spent $1,138 on Facebook in 6 Days: Numbers and Lessons Learned
https://signnow.com/blog/2011/06/23/we-spent-1138-on-facebook-in-6-days-numbers-and-lessons-learned/
We just completed our first Facebook advertising campaign, corresponding with our trip to TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference. Startups test theories, so we treated this first attempt as an experiment. Here is what we did and our results.
New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9HSWRkbjNyUGRxS2JIV3NxYVdiaXc&hl=en_GB
To follow on from cdixon's recent submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710), I suggest we put into practice the "opposite of secret" theory.

Feel free to add your own ideas and leave feedback on the others. Also if you see something that interests you, get in contact and make it happen!
Backbone.js Screencast - Introduction and Views
http://joeybeninghove.com/2011/08/16/backbone-screencast-introduction-views
A couple weeks ago I gave a webinar for Develop with Passion on Backbone.js. Unfortunately there was a problem with the recording, so I decided to redo what I covered in screencast form. In this screencast I give a basic introduction on how to bootstrap a new Backbone.js application and go in-depth on how to use Backbone Views in particular.
Exponential Smoothing: faster and more accurate than NeuralProphet
https://github.com/Nixtla/statsforecast/blob/main/experiments/neuralprophet/README.md
We benchmarked on more than 55K series and show that ETS improves MAPE and sMAPE forecast accuracy by 32% and 19%, respectively, with 104x less computational time over NeuralProphet.

We hope this exercise helps the forecast community avoid adopting yet another overpromising and unproven forecasting method.
Wolfram Alpha doesn't "get it"
http://blog.agiletortoise.com/post/3564424414/wolfram-alpha-doesnt-get-it
Full URL: http://blog.agiletortoise.com/post/3564424414/wolfram-alpha-doesnt-get-it
Show HN: Chitchatter – P2P chat app that is serverless, decentralized, ephemeral
https://chitchatter.im/
For anyone who is interested to learn more about Chitchatter, please check out the project README: https://github.com/jeremyckahn/chitchatter#readme

Chitchatter is very much an early MVP, so I'd like to get your feedback. Thanks for looking!
Show HN: Pg_jsonschema – A Postgres extension for JSON validation
https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema
pg_jsonschema is a solution we're exploring to allow enforcing more structure on json and jsonb typed postgres columns.

We initially wrote the extension as an excuse to play with pgx, the rust framework for writing postgres extensions. That let us lean on existing rust libs for validation (jsonschema), so the extension's implementation is only 10 lines of code :)

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema/blob/fb7ab09bf6050...

happy to answer any questions!
Show HN: Three Magic Words
https://www.threemagicwords.app/play/
Here’s a free, fun, novel five-letter word game for the web! It’s a game I originally wrote for the iPhone in 2010, but wasn’t able to finish before my first child was born. When I left my senior web developer job in September 2021 I figured I would postpone looking for work and finish the game before another 11 years passed, and expose myself to new skills doing it (in this case, Swift). I released it on the App Store in December, then turned my attention to doing a web version — when suddenly Wordle was in The NY Times, and then everywhere.

Perhaps foolishly, I plowed ahead and here we are. Like Wordle and some other NY Times word games, there is a single daily puzzle, but like traditional crossword puzzles, it gets harder throughout the week.
Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?
I understand that it’s not for everyone, but I’m curious to see which companies work that way. Would love to give it a shot.

Edit: @Waterfowl posted the specifics:

this article about how gumroad works was at the top of the front page yesterday.

https://sahillavingia.com/work

discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275
reply
Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
https://hue.tools
hue.tools was created after spending way to much time trying to find the right tools when working with colors.

It's an attempt to create a simple but useful toolbox for common color related tasks and problems.

While it's in no way perfect or provides the tools for every use case, it has served me well in the last few months and I hope it will be useful for some of you as well.