jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Treehouse is looking for an Awesome iPhone Developer
http://gotreehouse.com/jobs
You are someone with serious talent and experience developing iPhone applications. You have a passion for user experience and interaction with meticulous execution. You are thorough, responsible, accountable, and ready burn the midnight oil with the rest of the team. You are a perfectionist and have an eye for good design.

Requirements
+ Expert knowledge (5+ years) of Objective-C, XCode, IB, and + Cocoa Touch
+ Experience with Photoshop / Graphic design

Bonus Skills
+ MySQL
+ PHP
+ Python
+ CSS / HTML
+ Javascript
+ Scaling (architecture/databases/memcache/CDN)
+ Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3)
PlaceIMG
http://placeimg.com
Simple and fun image placeholder service for developers.
Ask HN: How do you run your customers' apps?
I'm working on a tool that requires running my customers' APIs inside of self-contained environments. They can create/destroy these environments at any time. Is there a 'best practice' method for this situation? Some googling turned up very little (maybe I don't know the term for this type of thing), so I thought I'd raise the question here instead.

My gut instinct is to run each inside of its own Docker container, perhaps in a Kubernetes cluster. Is this safe?
Inbox2, is email saved? (demo)
http://waseem.sadiq.nl/blog/?p=41
Scoble sais: "Email is saved! Inbox2 rocks", what do you think?
Seven Things Still Missing in Google Chrome 9
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/7-chrome-annoyances-and-how-to-fix-them.html
Despite having won hearts for its speed and elegance, Google Chrome does have some minor flaws that you might want to fix. Here are some extensions to fix all those shortcomings
Pomodairo - Adobe AIR client for the Pomodoro Technique
http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/
An Adobe AIR client for those who like to use the Pomodoro Technique to stay focused.

Pomodairo: http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/
Pomodoro Technique: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
Craigslist for iPhone on WSJ
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-app-from-mokriya-aims-to-simplify-mobile-classifieds/?KEYWORDS=LIZETTE+CHAPMAN
Craigslist gets a makeover on iOS and Android, from the app dev who worked on Hipster, Sidecar, SimpleGeo, and Threadflip.
Ask HN: What's the social music startup from W2011? 
Referring to this post http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2043422

According to the OP, the site already has traction, hence the curiosity.
Hacker Builds Voice-Controlled Raspberry Pi R2D2 Robot
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/raspberry-pi-r2d2/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znuUm5vbSpI

"This is a birthday gift I built from scratch for my girlfriend :)
The hardware is made of a broken Interactive R2D2 toy and a bunch of cheap parts purchased online. Inside, the little guy is powered by a Raspberry Pi running Rasbian.

Features:
voice control (in English and Chinese, using PocketSphinx)
face recognition (using OpenCV)
motion detection
ultrasonic distance detection
audio message record and replay
sound play and TTS
rechargeable battery
wifi"
MemoShake - Android Apps on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.memolane.android.shake&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5tZW1vbGFuZS5hbmRyb2lkLnNoYWtlIl0
Memolane launches new app. Find fun memories on the go!
Character Encoding Issues with China's New ID System
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?scp=4&sq=SHARON%20LAFRANIERE&st=cse
"The bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read only 32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters, according to a 2006 government report. The result is that Miss Ma and at least some of the 60 million other Chinese with obscure characters in their names cannot get new cards — unless they change their names to something more common."
TasOS 12.07 released 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tasos/files/TasOS-12.07-desktop-i386/
Yet another fork of TasOS 12.07 distro is released
Ask HN: Guides on Being a VC?
For someone looking to be an angel investor or a VC, are there any guides to read about the subject? how to invest? what to look for? etc

Basically, a good A to Z guide on being a VC
Kunvay: Intellectual property rights management for the everyman
http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/kunvay-intellectual-property-copyright-management/
Article in Digital Trends profiles company that helps others with managing copyright and intellectual property transfer online for the every man.
We Just Delivered 500k Anti-Censorship Signatures: Sign On Before Tomorrow
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/sopa_conference/
go go go!
Show HN: A puzzle game based purely on GitHub
https://github.com/Karthikeshwar1/Puzzle
All you need is some logic, and some basic knowledge of GitHub!
Ask HN: Viable Quickbooks alternative for web dev biz
Is there a viable Quickbooks alternative? My partner and I have been researching this and there doesn't seem to be.

Sure, there is plenty of accounting software out there, but all seem to lack at least of the following key requirements:
- integration with major banking
- payroll tax integration
- cash flow projection and other basic reports

We don't use the invoicing feature at all because a) it totally sucks and b) GetHarvest works way better for what we do.

QB is so kludgy, so buggy, and so over-laden with edge case features that it's a nightmare to use. My partner handles the books and the only time I hear her drop the f-bomb is when she's dealing with that crap software.

Help me, Hacker News, you're my only hope.
Exploitable Bug Detector
http://bugspy.net/exposer/
A bug search engine. Automatically classifies if bugs are potentially exploitable (using their description)
Frame Player
http://vagnervjs.github.io/frame-player
A video player without video files, just JSON. Based on "images frames" thought to mobile devices!
The Open Access Guerilla Cookbook
http://pastebin.com/3i9JRJEA
Taking the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto to the next level. Dedicated to Aaron Swarz (1986-2013)
European Rating Agency Short on Cash - Experiment Failed
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-15/roland-berger-is-short-on-ratings-agency-startup-cash-ftd-says.html
"Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH doesn’t have enough money to introduce a planned European ratings agency, Financial Times Deutschland reported in a preview of an article to be published tomorrow, without saying where it got the information.
The company has failed to gather the 300 million euros needed to start the agency owing to lobbying from the Federation of German Industries, according to the FTD."

How about a kickstarter project on this? ;)
Starting RSpec/Cucumber/Spork/Watchr test environment with a single command
http://www.nils-haldenwang.de/frameworks-and-tools/rails/how-to-start-your-rspec-cucumber-spork-watchr-test-environment-with-a-single-command
Setting up the necessary processes to run your test environment can be tedious to do by hand each time. Here is my solution to this.
Does Web 2.0 rely on instinct or hard numbers?
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2007/10/18/Elusive-ROI.aspx
Story talks about how a lot of business managers and IT managers act on gut instinct instead of hard numbers. And part of the problem is that Web 2.0 creates so many difficult to foresee results it makes you wonder if there are any real "hard numbers".
E3 2012 Report
http://www.soft32.com/blog/platforms/windows/e3-2012-report/
We have gathered the crumbs and build an overall picture of what we have to expect from this year’s gaming industry. There are many new video games coming next year, a lot of them sequels to established franchises and many choices regardless of the console you own. If you could not make it to E3, here are some of the biggest highlights
Amazing collection of Digg tools
http://virgintech.blogspot.com/2008/11/amazing-collection-of-digg-tools.html
Digg the name says it all.

Digg and stumble upon are the most important weapon of a Blogger.

Digg is a social bookmarking site which give us the power to reach to people who share the same interest.

So here is the list of most comprehensive tools for all diggers.
Tell HN: An idea to improve HN front page.
Limit upvotes.

Maybe this has already been thought about and dismissed.

Here's my thinking:

Originally, I thought a good idea might be to give users' votes more weight if they voted less often; perhaps with their karma as a weak coefficient.

But that would require significant programming for something that might not work; or significant research into users voting habits to see if it would have the intended effect. As a rare-voter, I feel like my vote 'means more' than a frequent voter, but there is still the question of whether or not my votes are actually a better signal for what we/pg wants the front page to look like.

Then, I realized that simply limiting upvotes is cheap and could have basically the same effect. If users had a max of 5 upvotes a day (or maybe 1% of their karma with a minimum of 3); people are less likely to crowd-think and push meme-y things to the front page.
Rent/Hire Friends Online, Get Paid For Your Friendship
http://www.frently.com/
Frently.com allows users to be rented/hired as a friend and make money just for hanging out with someone. It also allows users to search the database of friends and pick friends to hire for any activity or event they would like.

The website allows for webcam chat, live chat, contact via email, phone, and more forms of contact between Friend and Renter. There is no reason anyone should do anything alone anymore since you can find a friend to join you in just about anything. It also help those who want to offer their friendship get out of the house and do something fun while also making some quick cash. This service can be useful for just about anyone who has ever been bored or just wanted to do something new and out of the ordinary. You can hire friends to teach you new skills, show you around an unfamiliar town, give you unbiased advice, or just have someone to talk to on a lonely day. The website allows users to list any and all things they want to be rented for and even charge separate fees for different activities. Therefore, the website can be used for just about anything. It allows users to be creative and compete for a good rating on their profile and bring themselves more business as a friend.
Show HN: StorageX – An all-in-one localstorage/sessionstorage/cookie manager
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/storagex/pafddkhaocklakonboekmgodcmgmfcbp
Hey everyone, my friend and I created this browser extension for developers as a toolset to manage browser storage(local/session/cookies).

Though this was started with just the share feature where in you can share storage across tabs (personal use case for Rahul in his organisation which inspired StorageX), but it has grown into a multi-featured toolset to manage all browsers storages.

And plan is to add more features going forward and make it a single extension you'll need for any operations on browser storage.

Please give it a look and let us know your thoughts/suggestions!
We Tore Down the San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway for THIS??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOF7OYuWY0M&feature=youtu.be
This is not the right project for San Francisco. It does not support the transportation and affordable housing initiavies of the city, and requires too many variances. It benefits the developer but leaves the city with a poor bargain in return. In the process, it destroys open recreation space which benefits seniors and middle-income residents. The supervisors need to step up and say no to this development.

If you agree then please sign the petition at change.org - save the SF Financial District recreation area:

http://www.change.org/petitions/supervisor-and-board-president-stop-the-8-was...

CalSTRS has already wasted $25 million on the "Wall of Wealth". Why can't CalSTRS learn? Why can't CalSTRS learn - to invest in affordable housing for teachers?

The Port of San Francisco proposes transferring $24 million of San Francisco property taxes from this project. Why? To pay for stuff and refund $5 million to Simon Snellgrove's thing. In other words, the Port says: "Give away the city kitty."

What do you do with with big center city spaces? London builds a Ferris wheel. Paris sets up video screens up for every event in front of city hall. Chicago has Millennium Park. San Francisco builds absentee-owner condos? Stop this fail!

San Francisco Supervisors: please give this site to Facebook or Apple or Google. Give this project to Wikipedia or Craigslist. Give the planning to somebody who builds successful projects, who understands the modern world...
The world's first wristwatch GPS mapping device
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/314-watch-the-road-worlds-earliest-satnav/
From the 1920s!
The Lead Engineer should be the Release Engineer
http://adamgent.com/post/22258164806/the-lead-engineer-should-be-the-release-engineer
IMHO blog post on why the lead engineer should be the release engineer
Change or Die 
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.html
What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We're talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most?
A wall hack for Letterpress App
https://gist.github.com/c3129ba0a6cd9b12fd8c
So my wife has a better vocabulary than me, but I can program with ruby and have access to the unix dictionary. Therefore, she will never beat me at letterpress again!
Bitcoin Explained
http://vimeo.com/63502573
A short video looking at 'Bitcoin', a decentralised digital currency.
Free crypted p2p based voice chat
http://www.meeet.at
meeet.at is a free web based voice chat for Chrome and FF. You can create custom channels, mute yourself/everybody, set a nickname, kick or ban users and set up a channel password.
Indexes in Apache Hive
http://marouni.github.io/blog/hive-indexes/
Using indexes with Apache Hive to improve SQL-on-Hadoop efficiency.
Show HN: The Behance Portfolio Review Site We Made
http://www.islreview.com/
We're doing a local Behance portfolio review here in DC around the same time as a number of other cities. We decided to burns some pixels on this...
Show HN: I built a Golang module to access and parse data from Wikipedia
https://github.com/trietmn/go-wiki
I was making a Python Wikipedia scapper for my system, then I realised Python is kinda slow so I moved my project to Go. The problem is there wasn't any module to easily access and parse data from Wikipedia in Go, so I made this module. Please enjoy playing with the module and send me your feedbacks.
App engine new pricing model cost examples for small websites
http://www.dev-articles.com/article/App-engine-new-pricing-model-456001
What are the consequences of the new pricing model. Real example for small web site with low traffic.
Unlimited Electric Guitar on Kickstarter
http://kck.st/MfsNq2
We designed a new electric guitar with all the functionality of amps and effects pedals but none of the hassle. The Unlimited uses smartphone technology for effects pedals and a built-in amplifier so you can rock out wherever you go.
Show HN: pffft.wasm an FFT library powered by SIMD WebAssembly
https://0110.be/posts/pffft.wasm%3A_an_FFT_library_for_the_web
I needed a fast FFT library for audio analysis on the web and found PFFFT. PFFFT is a small, pretty fast FFT library programmed in C with a BSD-like license. I have taken it upon myself to compile a WebAssembly version of PFFFT to make it available for browsers and node.js environments. It is called pffft.wasm and available on GitHub: https://github.com/JorenSix/pffft.wasm

There is a SIMD and non-SIMD version. Their performance can be compared in the benchmark tool. Run it on your machine to see the difference and compare it with a pure Javascript FFT library.
Why did plague.io change to plag**
I'm just wondering why- I know they bought the new domain name, but why the name change?
Send weather directly to your Kindle without any Hack
http://www.kindleweather.com/
its my first app so i'm looking for any advice what options users prefer
JVM Host - Grails - development and hosting of simple database application
http://www.jvmhost.com/articles/grails-hosting-demistified-with-simple-database-application#.Tt4G4PtViXQ.hackernews
Grails is a very popular Groovy/Java framework amongst Java developers worldwide. We, at JVM Host can see increasing interest in Grails hosting too. In this tutorial we will show you how you can build and host a simple database driven Grails project with our Tomcat Plus 128MB heap
package. As this is a tiny project we will develop it directly on JVM Host Java hosting server. You will surely prefer to develop your advanced projects locally using an IDE like Eclipse. After you order Tomcat Plus package and receive account details you are almost ready to go with building your first application. 128 MB of heap memory provided with the package is enough for many applications as we as a Grails host can see, yet you can upgrade heap memory whenever you need. Login to cPanel and JVMCP panels to familiarize as you will need them later...
Three lines weighted random choice with Python
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2012/09/weighted-random-choice.html
This post shows how to implement weighted random choice in python in just three lines of code.
Ask HN: Decent guide/tutorial on using the Linux terminal?
Just moved to linux, and looking to get brought up to speed on how to make full use of the terminal.
Apple to Build Their Own Telecom Infrastructure -Jason Calacanis prediction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WeCWF-Cqro#t=39m59s
On This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis predicts Apple will buy a telecom operator and build their own infrastructure to combat the problem with current carriers technology and service capabilities.
Pepsico Achieves Positive Water Balance in India
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/pepsico-achieves-positive-water-balance-india/
Pepsico recently announced that all their plants in India are water positive.
5-minute Logstash: Parsing and Sending a Log File
http://blog.sematext.com/2013/12/19/getting-started-with-logstash/
How to use Logstash file Input, its grok Filter, and its Elasticsearch output to get logs indexed (and then viewed with something like Kibana)
PHP Event Library
https://xpspl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Hello HackerNews!

Putting this up here on hackernews looking for some feedback!

This is an event library for PHP I developed over the years ... it is pretty awesome ... at least I think so ... :)

Enjoy!
Integer Factorization in Polynomial Time
http://www.slideshare.net/bosons/integer-factorization-37080835
GitHub Link: [https://github.com/bosons/rsa-redis]
Interactive rendering in Aqsis 2.0, an open-source Renderman system
http://blog.aqsis.org/2010/11/interactive-rendering-with-aqsis-20.html
The latest screencast of very fast interactive rendering within Aqsis 2.0.<p>Aqsis is an open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard
The Nazi's comprehensive graphic standards manual
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=24358
Here's a link to a PDF of the book itself, if you want to try your hand at reading German printed in tightly-spaced Fraktur:

http://ia700306.us.archive.org/16/items/OrganisationsbuchNSDAP/Organisationsbuch_der_NSDAP_3._Auflage_1937_678_S._Scan_Fraktur.pdf
Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Get A Job
http://www.seanogle.com/headline/entrepreneur-get-a-job
If you want to be an entrepreneur, maybe you should get a job.
Whoever says there aren't Entrepreneurs in Mexico is wrong
http://42claps.com
This is a week MDP-athon whose we'll have at the end of the Challenge a VC dinner here in Mexico City!
Ask HN: Why are there no encrypted wrist bands for post Covid-19 infection yet?
This is a vital part of re-opening the economy.

Cinemas can re-open for people with the bands for instance. They will be vital in the health care sector.

We ignored organising PPE until it was to late, even with months of notice, why are we still not looking ahead?

There is no evidence of quick reinfection, and in the unlikely possibility it is possible we will quickly realise by formalising the post infection process.
Heracles a Python configuration file parser for unix systems.
https://github.com/llou/heracles
I've just built a configuration file parser in python, it is built upon augeas (http://augeas.net) to allow direct access from python to their lens parsers.

It allows you to parse de file, modify the data and render it back to its original form without loosing any additional data like comments.

Hope you like it!
Goodbye Digg Power Users
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/26/goodbye-digg-power-users/
With the new Digg, the power users are becoming irrelevant, and the new "power users" will be the news sites that ask their readers to follow them on Digg.
Something else (please tell in the comments)
How accurate is Samsung’s latest Apple attack commercial?
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-accurate-is-samsungs-latest-apple-attack-commercial-2012105/
Samsung's latest commercials have been incredibly incendiary towards Apple. Do they have any merit?
Tesla share price falls by 13% after Goldman Sachs releases bearish report
http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2013/07/16/tesla-skids-13-as-bearish-goldman-sachs-warns-of-25-downside/
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATSLA
Show HN: CSS minifier implemented in dependency-free C
https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/cssminc/wiki/cssminc
cssminc is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) minifier implemented as a tiny, dependency-free, C89-compliant library which can read CSS from arbitrary sources (via a callback) and emit it in minified form to an arbitrary destination (via a callback).

Its library-level code is only 2 files (one header, one implementation) and it includes an optional CLI app which demonstrates how it's used.
RIP Dr Henry Roberts (inventor of Altair 8800)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8600493.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8600493.stm
Show HN: Filter message types for simplified team collaboration
https://lampoint.com/
Hi Hacker News,

Lampoint is an application for team collaboration between company employees.

The main concept of this app:

- Collaborate in a room with all message types.

- Collaborate in a room with one message type by using a filter.

In short, the main features:

- Create teams, collaborate in public and private rooms, or 1on1 direct messages.

- Communicate with regular and temporary messages.

- Create tasks and timer tasks.

- Publish posts and editable messages.

- Upload files.

- Filter by message type.

- Video and audio calls, screen share.
Ask HN: Should SSDs be accessed like a filesystem or a memory?
Macbook Air SSD memory sticks look just like DRAM sticks to me (see link), but they use a different abstraction to access them (SATA vs. DDR). Are the requirements that drove the original use of ATA still applicable with the SSD memory form-factor (e.g., seek times, etc.)?

http://notebooks.com/2010/11/08/toshiba-introduces-macbook-air-style-ssds/
Cookieless Identification to Prevent Fraud While Protecting Privacy (ha)
http://threatmetrix.com/threatmetrix-announces-cookieless-device-identification-to-prevent-online-fraud-while-protecting-customer-privacy/
Although this technology is useful to fight fraud, it clearly goes into the creepy world. Farewell to even more privacy.
Ask HN: What service will be rehashed and be claimed as revolutionary?
e.g. Meerkat vs Periscope. Don't get me wrong, Periscope's app is very slick. The less abrasive question might be what existing product could use a UI overhaul?