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lambtronon Show HN: CC/Fwd any email with a URL to get an email of extracted main text

Hey Colin, author here. Seems like you expertly found one of the edge cases. I went in and added more sophisticated error handling so hopefully it should work. I'll also add an email for support.

Thanks for trying it out! Mind sharing with me the link you used in the email?

lambtronon Show HN: Get SMS/tweet updates on World Cup goals

hey, thanks :)

lambtronon Show HN: Get SMS/tweet updates on World Cup goals

Thanks for the feedback. Good call on the FIFA trademarks.

lambtronon Show HN: Get SMS/tweet updates on World Cup goals

I am interested, how do i sign up?

lambtronon Show HN: Get SMS/tweet updates on World Cup goals

Thanks for the feedback. Probably has to do with the poor filtering mechanic i added minutes prior to the game. I'll take a look at it!

lambtronon Show HN: Get SMS/tweet updates on World Cup goals

You can send 'STOP' to end incoming SMS!

lambtronon Managing Pricing

Great work! Always wondered what the vibe masters were up to ;)

lambtronon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

Rainforest QA, San Francisco, CA (but open to remote employees)

Additional info: https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/

FULL STACK ENGINEER

Are you an experienced web-software hacker? If you have worked on a production web site with meaningful traffic and customers, know at least 3 programming languages and are comfortable writing unit tests then we want to talk to you.

Are you opinionated and diplomatic? Most people are one or the other. All major decisions are made democratically, and we do code reviews on every pull request to keep quality high. You need to be able to express your opinions in as objective a manner as possible, and be able to accept and learn from constructive criticism. There's always a better way to do something.

Are you working on personal projects / your own startup? You'll need to be a self-starter to get on at Rainforest, because we'll give you a lot of freedom and almost no hand-holding.

DESIGNERS WHO CODE

Design is at the heart of everything we do. We fundamentally believe that great design - meaning usability, simplicity and elegance - is core to our competitive advantage, and one of the most important ways we can work toward our mission of making developers happier and more productive.

We are proponents of noPSD design (so much so that we wrote a blog post about our process). To that end you should at the very least be comfortable with mocking up your designs in HTML and CSS, and ideally be able to own the entire front-end process of shipping a new feature, from conception through user research, to design and build, and iterating based on usage metrics and qualitative feedback.

We know we're looking for a unicorn, so if you feel like you're an excellent front-end hacker whose design chops are a bit rusty you should still get in touch. Design is all about iteration, and we already have a great designer on our team who can help you grow as a designer.

DEV OPS

We're looking for an exceptional DevOps engineer to join as the next member of Rainforest. We're still a very small team, but people usually think we're much bigger given the scale at which we operate.

One of the more technically complex parts of our infrastructure is managing a large stack of virtual machines. Every single test run through Rainforest is done through a newly minted VM. This means that we boot thousands of machines every single day. Given our current growth, we expect this to grow exponentially.

Here's what we hope to get out of you: You're not afraid of writing code, our stack is Ruby, so you'll have to either know it or be ready to learn it. You need to have prior experience with a provisioning tool (Puppet, Chef, etc). You understand systems and networks thoroughly. You know things we don't about distributed systems.

We're working on super hard problems that make developers' lives easier. We are a group of friends that love what we're working on, and believe that we're going to change the world for people building software.

DATA NERD

We run a lot of tests here at Rainforest. We record everything that testers do to execute each test. Clicks, text entry, submission times, answers, screenshots… everything. Alongside that, we have fine-grained metrics on our testers, where they are from, what time they log into the system, how often they test with Rainforest. That's a lot of data and we could do so much more with it.

We're looking for someone to help us do that. Your role will be to use this data to improve the quality of the results we return to our customers, detect fraud, resolve disputes, generate tests automatically and many many other things.

We're looking for someone with a strong background in data science, statistics and supervised learning. You'll also need to be able to write code to productize your work. Most importantly, you should be able to own your projects and see them through to improving the lives of our customers. This role would probably be perfect for academics who want to get into a small team that moves fast and ships software every day.

Apply via our website! https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/

lambtronon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Hi phelm,

We offer QA/integration testing as a service here at www.rainforestqa.com and currently support many paying customers. We also can import tests from various sources (testlink, spreadsheets, etc.) to make it as easy as possible to get immediate coverage with Rainforest.

Send me a note at andy@rainforestqa.com if you're interested and want to learn more.

lambtronon Show HN: Track your frequented muni buses and stops with this mobile web app

Thanks!

lambtronon If you lost your wallet at Outside Lands, your information is now public

Ditto to jnfr.

The information was added to site was no different than the information added to Coachella or EDC's lost and found site. It was in the spirit to help people reclaim their lost items. However, it appears one person's opinion is now forcing the volunteers who are managing the lost and found to add additional layers of security at the expense of time and effort.

lambtronon Scraping web sites which dynamically load data (like Twitter)

Interesting. Do you have an example of the latter approach? I have been trying to build a web scraper, but many times after the HTML is returned, the javascript then loads the data dynamically. I'd love to learn of a few techniques to fetch the AJAX data.

lambtronon Should I Use A Button?

It would be great if there were some examples of good and bad buttons and their contexts.

lambtronon Blind faith (computer programming)

Definitely a victim of this. Many times, when optimizing for time.

lambtronon Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’

.travel as a top level domain? Nice! How did you go about getting this may I ask?

lambtronon US surveillance revelations deepen European fears

I wonder how China is thinking as it actively pushes its own web titans and forbids the entrance of Facebook and Google and the like within its national borders.

lambtronon Twilio Raises A $70M Series D As They Consider An IPO

Groupon was not profitable when they filed for S-1.

lambtronon The Google Graveyard - Leave a flower for a deceased Google product

Interesting to see the products that Google has deceased over time. Would also be interesting to see what products are up-and-coming and what products are still alive (would be a cool road map of the company's pipeline and future).

Seems like Google still strives for the move fast, iterate approach with their products, throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing if it sticks. Though it may break a few hearts here and there (yes, I once was an avid user of Google Reader), Google has a plan for everything.

lambtronon Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game

Cool game. I remember flipping through old puzzle books as a kid and playing these types of puzzles.

One small thing that annoyed me was that even if i connected a path to complete a puzzle, if my finger slipped and removed another path, i would still have to go back and correct it before the puzzle is completed. I think that the puzzle should complete as soon as the final path is connected; the validation shouldn't occur after my finger is lifted from the last move.

Anyway, great look and feel and overall design. Best of luck!

lambtronon Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

I think when viewing this game from the understanding that every game lasts for 20 minutes, the dying and starting over again adds a sort of endless zen to the game.

lambtronon Vipassana: 10 days of solitude and insights gained from it

My take on vipassana:

http://andyjiang.posterous.com/vipassana-meditation-ten-long...

Humorous account of the ten days.

lambtronon Show HN: Bookmarklet that sends highlighted text to your phone

Twilio :)

lambtronon Show HN: HTML5 Minesweeper

Thanks! Yeah, i want to make it so you can change the size of the grid.

lambtronon Show HN: HTML5 Minesweeper

Yeah, this was the first game that i tried making while learning canvas and javascript. A lot of fun!

lambtronon Ask HN: Who were you before you were a silicon "valley-type techie"?

I was always interested in programming (started programming on my ti-83 calculator in middle school ~2002). Parents both worked at dotcom companies from late 90s to 2000s. Went to college to study finance and went into banking, but always kept an eye out on the technology sector and became more and more interested in startups. Decided to leave after my banking stint to renew my knowledge of programming and be a part of the tech/startup scene! Haven't regretted it ever since :)

lambtronon Ask HN: How have you made "quick" money before?

One time, me and my friend came across a book that was only sold through a small publisher in Omaha. The book sold for ~$20 and, since we couldn't find it on Amazon, we resold it for $300 a pop.

Every time we received an order on Amazon, we would just take that buyer's information and buy it on the small publisher's website—we essentially took on zero risk and worked a few minutes every time we got an order.

It was a great example of arbitrage. And just like arbitrage, competitors also saw this exploit and the market inefficiency disappeared. Margins were competed away.

Even though it was a temporary window of opportunity, we found an article saying that some people do this kind of work full time (finding obscure books and reselling at a huge markup)!

lambtronon Show HN: I built a thing

Very cool thing. I would include a summary on the use case on the questionsthree website or a short paragraph describing what exactly it is. The only reason I had some idea of what it was, is due to the blog post that directed me there.

Just some information (also, pricing) to provide before asking for people to give away their emails.

Cool thing, though!

lambtronon Ostrich Pillow - take a nap anywhere

Just curious, how meaningful was the monetary return on the referral redirects from snugies? Wondering if we should do the same and get ostrichpillows or something.

lambtronon “Growth Hacking” is BS

I always thought "growth hacking" meant a hacker that has strong knowledge of "hacking" tactics (a/b testing, optimizing on boarding funnel, etc) as well as a keen business sense (markets, distribution, etc) to grow the startup's user base.

Anyone?

lambtronon Zombie Theme Park in Detroit

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230455000457750...

It appears there is already a big demand for this sort of fun.