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HAL.xyz | Backend (Golang), Frontend (Typescript), Product | Remote We are building the IFTTT for blockchains - a tool to query, trigger and automate blockchain data :) [0] We rece…

I was taken aback by how incredibly naive/amateurish most of the answers so far are, but I'd rather upvote and try to highlight this post instead which is excellent and very insigh…

Hey HNers, I'm going to NYC in a few days and I was wondering if you had any special recommendation for stuff to do, places to go, people to meet up with? Doesn't have to be geeky,…

The first and fundamental question you want to ask yourself is not how, but why: when your reasons are clear, the path naturally follows. I can see three strands: 1. For health rea…

* The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley. [0] So famous it became a bit of a cliche. I read it years ago and it didn't make any sense to me. But now that I've been studying Budd…

I helped writing the Alexa skill for The Guardian [0], and I really didn't think highly of it, nor I thought I'd ever use it myself: the voice recognition is still poor, and it's d…

We also have an open API ;) http://open-platform.theguardian.com/

Yep - I was lucky enough to be hired by The Guardian ( https://www.theguardian.com ) :) Oh, and we're still hiring! Happy to help if you have questions, or want to be referred. All…

I hit the front page with "Where is who is hiring hiring?" [0] I got my current job through it and from time to time I still get "thank you" emails from random people telling me it…

I got my current, first job through "who is hiring?" alone. The response rate was insanely high, I reckon >80% if I include the "thanks no thanks" answers. A few (obvious, but HN-o…

Fell in love with this one years ago, and still love it... #!/usr/bin/perl APPEAL: listen (please, please); open yourself, wide; join (you, me), connect (us,together), tell me. do …

I know the feeling. We're somehow wired to blindly believe in the decades ahead of us for so many aspect of our lives -- be it compound interest or love affairs. The most peculiar …

Lots of good essays already, so I'll chime in with some literature/fiction suggestions off the top of my head: - Borges, Ficciones ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones); that's…

Could you elaborate on what kind of MAs are you into? I always wanted to try, but I hate the hyper aggressive, macho-alpha-thing attitude that I suspect I'd find in, say, the box g…

Contributing with what I bookmarked so far: * Watsi - https://watsi.org/ - A nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform * Akvo - http://akvo.org - Akvo builds open source internet…

Thank you, but I want to point out I'm driven by selfish reasons just like anybody else: spending your life on something you hate/don't believe in is the recipe for alienation. Als…

Disclaimer: I know that 1) this will sound horribly naive of me and 2) I probably haven't had enough rejection emails to set me straight yet and 3) most of the people on this plane…

Done! Better late than never ;)

The awesome thing about Tinder is: a ton of hot girls use it; not just girls: hot girls. This sounds shallow, but it's not. They somehow managed to make them believe there is nothi…

Unfortunately no, 1) you can't trim the whitespace if you're matching cities, 2) matching the cities lowercase opens up too many false positives. At the same time, matching every c…

All these strategies are interesting, but I'm afraid we are over-engineering the problem here. The pretty simplistic strategy I'm using now is basically just pattern matching, and …

Fixed that.

Love the alphabetize idea! I just fixed that, thanks for the suggestion :)

Aaaand, feature is up ;)