jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Anyone looking to hire a UI designer in San Francisco?
Hey all,

I'm new the Bay Area, but I've been in California for nearly 15 years. I moved down here to look for work in the information architecture/interface design area.

I'm pretty good with Photoshop, but I prefer wire-framing with CSS3. Doing design iterations in Sass is much, much quicker than messing with unwieldy PSD files. I cringe at the term 'slicing' because it's such an inefficient use of developer time. I'm not even going to go into how useful Git is for keeping track of UI changes.

Of course, icons, typography, and heavy graphical work is far better suited to Photoshop.

As far as technical stuff, I write HTML5 and Sass in Vim. I try to make designs look as good as possible in Webkit-based browsers, and only after preliminary designs are done do I think about IE. I'm a fan of the graceful degradation school of thought.

I know a know a bit of Javascript and Ruby, knowledge retained from when I attempted to get into programming.

Esoteric templating languages are not a problem. I've worked with startups that used Rails/Haml, Django, and web.py. It's all HTML after all.

My portfolio: http://nylira.com

My resume: http://nylira.com/p/cv

Email: peng at nylira dot com
Can We Condense the A.S. entries into one feed?
http://ettanews.tumblr.com/post/40407560151/can-we-condense-the-a-s-entries-into-one-feed
Can we cover this story without being so noisy?
Evidence for solar wind modulation of lightning 
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/5/055004/article
What if solar wind does more than "modulate"? What if it powers lightning?
Ask HN: Would you like for HN to have a collapse thread feature?
I love the side and meta discussions and comments that happen on HN, but sometimes I just want to read the next comment that responds to the actual content of the article.
Would be lovely to be able to collapse a sub-thread (the way you can in many IDEs).
Would other users find this helpful as well?
Ask HN: I created a free service to help people make money. Am I crazy?
I created an open crypto trading signal publishing/trading platform. (https://bitcoinvsaltcoins.com) The goal was to provide an easier way to manage crypto portfolio by allowing people to copy/trade the best crypto trading strategies. This service is completely free and the trader client is open source. (https://github.com/jsappme/node-binance-trader)

Today, the platform has more than 1000 users and I see many of them making good money using it.

Am I crazy to provide this service for free?
What would you do?
Where would be the best place to create a business around this idea?
What about regulations?
It's tradition in the Game industry to write a "Postmortem" after launch, telling your launch story.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/article_display.php?category=5
Imagine if more startups were this open about their process-
Coders at Work
http://www.codersatwork.com
Is Jessica Livingston going to write a second book?
A flag for the Earth
https://github.com/stephanerangaya/earthflag
There is no internationally agreed upon flag to represent the whole planet so I decided to create a new Github collaborative project where anyone could help create a flag of the Earth.

I've made a first attempt, based on the Pioneer plaque sent to the space 40 years ago. Feel free to fork it!
Orman - lightweight Java Object Relational Mapper for Android
http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/introducing-orman-framework/
this framework is really small (150 kb) and allows everyone to code database-consuming Android & Java applications without writing SQL.
Poor Man's Template A/B Testing (in Django)
http://tech.matchfwd.com/poor-mans-template-ab-testing/
Ever wanted to A/B test your templates in Django and didn't know where to start? Here is a 50 line function as a drop-in replacement for render_to_response with full breakdown of how and why.
Ask HN: How do I bootstrap an online real-time multi-player game?
A friend and I have been working on a browser-based real-time multi-player game for over a year now. Right from the start, we considered the real-time multi-player aspect of our game to be its biggest strength, given that it is a browser-based game and it does not use Flash or any browser plugins (yes, so it works on Mobile Safari on the iPad too).

Now, the problem we're facing is, boot-strapping the ecosystem within the game. We do not have a single-player mode, because it is a strategy game and we felt that writing a reasonably good AI engine would take a lot of time - we've already been in development for 1.5 years (working part-time on it) and we want to push out what we have ASAP. We've shown it to our friends, everyone says the game is very addictive. BUT, the problem is, to get the full experience of the game, several people (10 at least) need to be playing together in real-time. Achieving that critical mass of people, that initial push, to sustain the multi-player ecosystem is proving to be a challenge.

We tried contacting tech and gaming blogs, etc. We were featured once by a tech blog, but what happened was, though we had a lot of traffic, people visited the site sporadically and none of them got the actual experience of the game. So well, no one came back. (It's a real drag to play the game single-handedly).

Any tips on how to go about boot-strapping our multi-player game?
White House Concerned about User’s Privacy, Calls in Facebook and Google
http://www.techieapps.com/white-house-concerned-about-users-privacy-calls-in-facebook-and-google/
Giving due importance to the right to privacy of the users, the White House has called various internet firms to come up with stronger provisions for protecting the privacy of the consumers.
Face it - You are Addicted to Success
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123423234983566171.html
Excellent excellent introspective piece!
Ask HN: How does a private, nearly-inactive Twitter account get suspended?
My Twitter account got suspended today. I've had it since 2008, and it's under my real name. (Years ago, I was offered the option to get "Verified" by Twitter.)

My account has been private for years. I haven't tweeted in years, though occasionally I will like someone's tweet. I don't accept new followers and haven't in years. I also think it's unlikely any of my legacy followers would have reported me.

I do NOT think I have "liked" a tweet from an account that was later suspended. (I generally only like CS-related accounts—mostly 3D graphics, machine learning, etc. and occasionally, sports. Definitely nothing political or remotely controversial.)

I have NOT gotten an email from Twitter about the suspension.

Any ideas? I'm at a loss to discover what may have caused it, or even what to do. They are NOT asking for my phone number.

Update: I had over 1400 tweets or retweets over nearly 12 years, tons of legit follows/followers (lots from HN), and I accessed Twitter most days. So not "inactive", just "not tweeting so couldn't possibly be breaking any content rules."

Update 2: It will let me log into it. It puts up a message that says "Your account is suspended and is not permitted to perform this action."

Uggh, now HN won't let me reply to people posting here. ("Please slow down.") Were any of you who got your accounts back able to get your likes/followers/followees back?
Flash artwork to html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
The the ActionScripts.
Show HN: hubot-control - webapp for managing hubots
https://github.com/spajus/hubot-control
A rails app for managing self-hosted hubot installations.
Shellconf.py – Simple remote configuration with shell for UNIX/Linux systems
https://github.com/adionditsak/shellconf.py
Hi all,

I have created my second Python script, and would appreciate comments, contributions or just someone to discuss it with, as i am sure it can be optimized in many ways, as it is a part of my learning. The script is for configuring UNIX/Linux machines with shell scripts with Python - So pretty much a Python way of Fucking shell scripts.

I added it to Github so you can view it there:
https://github.com/adionditsak/shellconf.py :-)

Sincerely,
Anders
It's all about context [2001]
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col38.html
I was reminded of this story by the first segment of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172801

/.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses-list-context-cops-interrogate
Show HN: Search engine for software eng blogs and technical content
https://sodha.dev/
Sodha is a micro search engine focused on software engineering with an index hand-curated(ish) with several hundred blogs and resources.

The motivation behind it is that there is a lot of great content written by engineers in personal/company blogs, niche websites, and even by big tech in some of their more obscure doc/devrel pages. And I wanted a way to quickly access that by topic.

Vaguely inspired by ArxivSanity and HackerNews :)

I've only been working on this for a couple of weeks, but would love to get your thoughts HN! Some ideas I have (beyond indexing more pages) are: adding similarity/recommendations, fully automate the crawler, and allowing voting/ranking or some similar mechanism.

Content wise: there's a lot that should be on here, but it's a modest start so far. If you have suggestions please let me know here: https://a.sodha.dev/suggest
Extreme Shepherding - Best Sheep Hack I've seen all day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw
this will blow your mind!
10th ICFP contest has begun
http://smlnj.org/icfp08-contest/task.html
main page here: http://www.icfpcontest.org/
Courage to Change Direction, Letters to Graduating YC Companies, Letter 1
http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/47
It's important for you to focus on your demo for the next 10 days before demo day. Focus focus focus, and you'll do great.
My KickStarter Project: A Low Cost AirPlay Receiver
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/931927530/tunebridge-a-simple-affordable-airplay-enabled-rec
Hey Hacker News!

I wanted to share with everyone my first KickStarter project: the TuneBridge. TuneBridge is a simple, easy and affordable audio streaming device. Using Apple's AirPlay, TuneBridge lets you stream your music or podcast from a wide variety of devices to just about any speaker or receiver out there. No need for special speakers or receivers, no more wires to contend with.

What I think is most exciting about the TuneBridge is the affordability. The target retail price is $59.99. This opens AirPlay up to just about anyone and any device.

This project is a huge leap for me to move out of a 9 to 5 engineering role and into the world of product startups. I'd love any feedback you guys may have.

Best,
Brandon
Ask HN: Who wants the .app TLD
Me and some friends have been discussing the idea and awesomeness of having a .app TLD . After doing some ( very ) preliminary research we decided that it might be worth pursuing as a project on Kickstarter. First we thought we would ask how many others felt this way, how much you would pay and if you would contribute to a kickstarter project.

Given our early research ( read: limited knowledge ). We would love it if people could give some insight into the process of applying for and running a TLD.

We know this is a very speculative idea, but think it's well worth doing for the tech community.
Android app killed by its author due to incompatible phones
http://blog.iwonderphone.com/2010/03/07/killer-was-killed/
Leech Killer is a SMS/call block app for Android phones http://iwonderphone.com/leechkiller/
Huge collection of entrepreneurship videos from Stanford
http://edcorner.stanford.edu/materialSearch.html?materialType=9&top=20&title=Top+20+Videos
Video lectures on entrepreneurship from Larry Page, John Doerr, Guy Kawasaki, Vinod Khosla, Mark Zuckerberg and hundreds of other speakers, from the Stanford Technology Ventures program.
Show HN: Onefetch – Command-line Git Information tool
https://onefetch.dev/
Onefetch is a command-line Git information tool written in Rust that displays project information and code statistics for a local Git repository directly to your terminal. The tool is completely offline - no network access is required.
AllThis misrepresentation and/or copyright infringement?
http://unicornfree.com/2011/what-to-do-when-allthis-steals-your-photo-bio
@amyhoy has written a post about possible misrepresentation and/or copyright infringement going on over at AllThis. Even recommending unhappy individuals send in DMCA takedown notices to their service providers.

Honestly, I'm not sure where I stand on the issues she raises. But I do wonder, is there any real copyright infringement going on when taking Twitter's TOS into account?

All this reminds me of 37signals and Get Satisfaction,
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
Show HN: Subtitles are not the same as sign language
https://www.signlvideo.xyz/
Hello HN,
get your videos translated into sign language quickly and easily by uploading them and choosing your favorite language.
After 48 hours you will get your final video.
That's it.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Thanks a lot!
Ask HN: Saturday dilemma
Hello HN,
Recently we are going through a dilemma which I am sure you all can help us with.

I run a small IT service company in India along with 3 of my friends. We are 7 years old now and have team of around 50 developers.

We have 1st and 3rd Saturdays off and we work on rest of them in a month.

Inspired from following article about 40 hour work week culture in Microsoft.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2010/10/21/40-hour-work-week-at-microsoft.aspx

We were thinking of having 40 hour work week schedule at our company too.

If we implement 40 hour work week, what should we do about the 2 Saturdays we are working on, assuming everyone will finish their 40 hours from Monday to Friday.

Should we keep those Saturdays completely off?

OR

Should we have some interesting activities, fun games, coding war games, lunch, movies etc on those 2 Saturdays?

What will make developers more happy?

1) A Saturday completely off

OR

2) A Saturday completely for their own selves for doing anything they want, for e.g. a pet project, a blog post, improving writing skills etc.

We want happy developers and great teams in our company so we are seeing this dilemma as an opportunity to do that.

Since HN community comprises mainly of programmers and think tanks of our world, I think I will get the right answer here.

Thank you in advance.
Animated Content Tabs with CSS3
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/04/12/animated-content-tabs-with-css3/
Content tabs are a very common and familiar element in web design, and often their turn out to be pretty useful. So, in this tutorial we are going to implement some simple CSS3 content tabs using radio buttons together with the :chec...
Paul Graham and Walt Disney
http://community.livejournal.com/penguicon/40139.html
Here's more of an opinion piece than a convention report. Needless to say, everything here is my own opinion alone and I'm not speaking for anybody else running Penguicon. I like to think that Penguicon is an incubator of Imagineers. This is a combination of artistic and literary imagination with engineering know-how, a word coined by one of my lifelong inspirations, Walt Disney:
Ask HN: Best USA state to be self-employed in?
Hi HN,

If you were planning on being self-employed, which state would you move to and why?
PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system?
http://reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c50
While reddit's comment system is obviously an improvement over Slashdot's, I'm increasingly convinced that the community is more important than the tool.
Mistakes to Avoid as a Lean Startup
http://uxceo.com/post/26338362669/7-huge-mistakes-to-avoid-as-a-lean-startup
Mistakes I've made over the past two years working on two startups.
Ask HN: What is your programming music? 
I am learning how to program, thought it would be interesting to see what music is best for programming. It was said that music limits your creativity in programming (Blink: Malcolm Gladwell, I believe).
Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth (or why not everyone should be a social worker)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-09/st_thompson
I've gotten into more than a few arguments with people who disparage entrepreneurs (read capitalists) as greedy, and too insensitive. What do you think the world would be without some of them? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, greedy, I think not.
Firefox future could be without tabs
http://techcombo.com/firefox-future-could-be-without-tabs
How did you come to know Firefox? For me it came after my best friend said, “have you used that web browser that is meant to be better that Internet Explorer?” I replied in saying, “there is no browser better than Internet Explorer, which I was soon proved wrong and to this day I use Mozilla Firefox as well as the other 100 million of the population that did the same.

Whilst we go on with our lives, head of user experience in Firefox Inc. who are, Oliver Reichenstein and Aza Raskin have been shuffling up some possible ideas that could come in use in the near future, which you can see in the image above showing a glimpse of what the revoultionary Firefox style could show up like.

Reichenstein also states that tabs could not be the web’s next biggest thing as tabbed browsing isn’t such a big deal in many people’s minds...
My Hobby Project: Wispy, a canvas powered word cloud generator
http://wispy.me
HTML5 Canvas powered, with a flash fallback so it even supports ie6 (very slow on it though). Supports twitter, facebook, and pasting in anything you like.
Show HN: Crowd.dev – The open-source platform for community-led growth
https://github.com/CrowdDotDev/crowd.dev
Hi everyone, after months of work we’re excited to show you crowd.dev - the open-source platform for community-led growth.

We created crowd.dev with the belief that the future of business relies on thriving communities - particularly in the fast-growing open-source and developer space. Developers have increased buying power when it comes to the technologies their companies use, and the way to their hearts isn’t through paid ads or sales reps but through authentic community interactions. In other words, developer-focused companies (open-source, API, dev tools) need communities to grow. While crucial for every developer-first company, community building is complex and time-consuming work. The developer community tech stack is fragmented, and organizations are stuck managing endless platforms and working with incomplete data.

Today, the term “community” gets used to describe everything from social media followers to online learning groups to DAOs. There has been a lot of hype around community, but the ability to turn it into real value and growth is still nascent. We see the need for a platform focussing solely on developer communities. “One-size-fits-all” doesn’t make sense when communities are different in terms of their members’ motivations, the platforms that they live on, or the business objectives that they should fulfill.

Furthermore, we believe that an essential tool for open-source companies, as community management is, should be open-source itself.

Since the beginning of 2022, several hundred companies have joined our closed beta, including some of the fastest growing open-source companies in the world, like Meilisearch, CrowdSec, or Dragonfly.

Starting today, crowd.dev is also an open-source project.

We’re looking forward to any feedback!
Startup Websites that Work
http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/193/Startup-Websites-That-Work.aspx
What should be on the main page of the startup.
Silicon Valley's child soldiers. 
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2011/tc20110412_222218.htm
The vast majority of them will fail miserably. Then they've screwed up their careers.
Orbvt - a Svbtle/Obtvse clone in Meteor
https://github.com/bmelton/Orbvt
Made using the new Meteor JS framework @ http://meteor.com/
Inside the lonely, cranky Microsoft Store on iPhone 5 launch day
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/21/inside-the-lonely-cranky-microsoft-store-on-iphone-5-launch-day/
MSFT has come a long ways in the past 2 years, but whew... they have so far to go to capture the hearts & minds of the people. Hope this story makes it to the ears on high
The Transit App now free with vehicle locations
http://thetransitapp.com
We launched Transit 2.0 today, a completely free version of our public transit iPhone app now with real-time vehicle locations.
An Insider On the Apple Tablet
http://gizmodo.com/5335942/an-insider-on-the-apple-tablet
Come on, you have to admit it. This article has all of us gizmo fanboys drooling.

ASK HN: How many of you guys would shell out $800 for this thing? Honestly. I'm thinking about buying it for my dad.
Ask HN: What is your workflow for saving bookmarks?
Interested in hearing the various services/methods folks use to save url's. Especially with delicious likely shutting down (which I used), I'm interested in hearing about this. The only requirement is that the url's are available everywhere and not (just) stored locally.

Thanks.
Ask HN: How do you get into mental flow?
I think many of us here are software people or in a job that requires holding complex ideas in your head for long periods of time. I’m curious what you all use to get into the zone and stay there.

Do you have a mental hack, a playlist, white noise, etc?

I personally use a hand crafted Spotify playlist that works well, but I’m always looking for another trick to hold the flow for longer.
Show HN: We Made a Marketplace for Reputation
http://www.repcoin.com/#/
Repcoin’s the first market-based approach to reputation. It’s a content-discovery platform for everyone from developers to musicians. Investors give reps, our virtual currency, to experts they believe in for various skills like coding, blogging, and guitar.
Stunt Pilot - our first flash game
http://www.rocksolidarcade.com
We've just put up an initial version of our site, Rock Solid Arcade, along with our first flash game, Stunt Pilot. It's in semi-beta right now - the site itself is just one page, I'm working on the dynamic site in django to integrate high scores, comments etc. But the game itself is fully playable and pretty much done (we'll probably add features as time goes on). I'd really appreciate it if you could check it out and let me know what you think!
Mercurial 1.1 DVCS Released
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-December/022670.html
You can see a full list of the new features at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew. My favorites:

1. A real rebase command, rather than having to use quilt voodoo
2. bookmarks, git-style lightweight local branches (though git users beware, though bookmarks and local branches have the same functionality, their semantics are radically different (and speaking as a Mercurial user, I prefer git's, but whatever))
3. Much more Windows-friendly repository format (and improvements to case-folding systems in general)
4. Vastly improved web interface

There's lots more, but having used the development version for the last several weeks, the above features are my favorites.
YC Startup Justin.tv hits Alexa 160
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv