skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seriously doubt it, who wants to sound like a very stupid child?

This is more of an XKCD fan boy project. So let's look at a famous XKCD comic using this, "US Space Team's Up Goer Five". "US Space Team" barely makes sense, does more to obscure than illuminate, and "Up Goer Five" makes no sense at all.
There are lots of things you can do to make a car not street legal. And people have access to them. And it's their responsibility to make sure they only drive a street legal car on the street.
Apply HN: Ram Accelerator Supergun Space Launch
Idea: a cheap cannon-based space launch system

Who: Ryan Lackey <ryan.lackey@gmail.com>

Objective: to put satellites into LEO, materials into higher orbit, and do so at <$500/kg to LEO.

Stage: some research, no detailed plan, looking for expertise

Technology: A "Ram Accelerator" -- essentially a 10km long, 1m bore cannon, to be built in a remote location, ideally on a mountain near the equator (Ecuador? Ethiopia? Somalia?). 500 m/s chemical gun at the breach, projectile enters a tube 10km filled with ~10 different mixtures of natural gas and oxygen. Projectile is shaped like a ramjet core (cones), so it compresses/detonates fuel, causing constant acceleration. Leaves muzzle at 10 km/s. Hits atmosphere, massive boom. Projectile contains booster rocket and circularizing rocket.

Projectile peak G load is ~5-10k G, which is a non-issue for solid state/potted electronics. Deployables can be immersed in incompressible liquid fuel.

When: "Someday". I'm not an expert in aerospace/mechanical engineering, so I'd need to find solid cofounders, and would like to validate the idea more. It's been researched extensively at UW, Boeing, and other places over the past 15y. Production scale is a $50-100mm project. Subscale is maybe $5mm.

Fellowship product: Detailed computer simulation and answers to key questions (barrel erosion, payloads/capacities, costs, market)

Final Product: Probably a LEO satcom/sensing constellation, or delivered components to orbit, rather than launch services themselves, due to unique characteristics of launch platform.

Links for reference:
http://ramaccelerator.org/home/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_accelerator
http://www.tbfg.org/papers/Ram%20Accelerator%20Technical%20Risks%20ISDC07.pdf

(I have full-time other things to do, but I wanted to write this up just to get feedback from people smarter than me.)
We took "Apply HN" out of the title since that's the bat signal for actually applying to the community.
Billionaire's move from NJ to FL may affect state budget
>Many went bust

As is expected with investment.
GitHub is introducing DGit, which could eliminate repo downtime forever
Directly relevant: Toki Pona, a language with 123 (ish) words. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-p...
While I do think it is interesting to compare Gmail and Youtube to Facebook, I think you are being down voted for bringing in Android and self driving cars. So is Apple now the big Facebook killer?
Interesting idea, and definitely different than any other social networking platform I've seen. If this is already active, have any "krewes" been matched together yet? If so, did you get feedback from the krewemembers on how they liked the experience? It seems to me like it wouldn't be easy to get six random strangers to actually commit to meeting up for something.
Do you own or rent the houses? Also which cities are you currently present?
Short term: raising awareness, clever ad campaign

Long term: acquired by Pinterest
Thanks and great you share the pain.
Critical mass of users
We are trying to use linkedin :). We are researching the most active set of users on linkedin (apart from sales and recruiters) and thinking to cater to one vertical to start with so maybe engineers and technology people or new graduate students

Fighting linkedin - Agreed. Its a gigantic company and a very difficult fight with amazing engineering talent. Convincing users to open another professional site account is not our value proposition, instead creating a product where they find a value proposition different from Linkedin's is where we want to concentrate.

Also, YC's and HN's guidance can help here.

Please share if you have any ideas too on your second question
Found the link to FCC's Fact sheet[PDF]: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-312244A1.p...
Dosing problems: it's a fine line between sedating and killing and it's dependent on many factors you can't control for, especially from a distance. Sedatives can also react dangerously to drugs the person may already have in their system.
Doesn't the patent imply realistic implementation? I don't think you can patent just anything without any idea how to make it. For example a teleporter? I agree however that preemptive defensive patents that are released for free is a good idea.
> For whatever reason, the textbox just isn't as good of a preview when compared to viewing the actual post.

I know. Good lord do I know.
That's really annoying :(
Great question. The main problem isn't necessarily placing orders, its also being able to manage your ordering process. If you are doing a new cocktail menu and you need a lemoncello that is under 20 dollars to fit into your cocktail, you would have to reach out to every rep and ask them for product info and pricing. Our system lets you see everything available to you from all distributors. You can then one click order across as many distributors as you want.
Casus telefon
LinkedIn is Down
One concern I could see is around disclosing the idea. I know, I know, idea.pre_exectution_worth = 0, idea.post_execution_worth = $, but I have to think that some of the most interesting applications to YC or any other accelerator are at least partially executed hence giving out their intent, or some of the sexy secret sauce which might help them gain a favorable ranking is pitted against a desire to remain secretive. Obviously you have other submission processes but seems like perhaps something to consider, my 2 cents.
Please please PLEASE authenticate over https.

Currently you're just SHA512'ing your users' passwords and sending the hash over the wire in the clear. This is INCREDIBLY insecure and you're putting your users at risk.

I don't know a good resource off the top of my head to best practices, could someone else provide a link?
> "During his initial appearance in a federal courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., the prosecutors indicated a willingness to reduce or drop the child pornography charges if he would tell them about the C-17, said Sara Naheedy, Gartenlaub’s attorney at the time."

While that does sound damning in a certain light, it's also consistent with their primary mission, which is to counter espionage. I would hope that the FBI would make exactly this kind of tradeoff in its pursuit of spies.

Now, of course, if your implication is that they fraudulently manufactured the CP evidence in order to create leverage to extract this confession, that is indeed reprehensible. But if they just happened to find CP and then used it as leverage to pursue what is, IMO, a more important line of inquiry, then that is just fine with me.

> No evidence of downloading the porn. No evidence of viewing the porn.

While the article does say that, let's be honest. What evidence can there be of downloading porn? We all know how computers work, and this guy was a sysadmin, so he does too. The fact that he didn't forget to clear his browser history does not invalidate the presence of child porn on his computer.

That being said, of course it also doesn't eliminate the possibility that he was framed or that he wasn't at fault for its presence there. But if the FBI finds CP on someone's computer, I expect them to investigate and prosecute the case in the absence of positive exculpatory evidence indicating that it wasn't put there by that computer's owner.
Discount Moving Truck Rental: What Everybody Knows (And Maybe You Should Too)
You can specify the time when the computer will reboot. Like the middle of the night.
Amazon hires team behind deep learning startup Orbeus
It's interesting to see people criticizing a software tool for it's potential uses and effect on society when that tool isn't cryptography.
Ask HN: The Story of Zapto Games
Let me tell you about the story of Zapto Games. In late 2011, I had just quit my job as a Front-End Web Developer in Los Angeles after working there for 2 years. I became homeless and decided to move to San Francisco to realize my dream of having a successful app company. Around this time, bu.mp was really popular and I thought I could get a job there or in some other tech company. Even though I had technical talent, little did I know that it is nearly impossible to get a job while homeless.

After 2 weeks living in the streets, my younger brother bought me a plane ticket to Miami and I moved in with him. It was then that I started Zapto Games. My first game took 3 months to develop. It was called Bug Fallz. Unfortunately, the game didn't sell. I found success in porting successful games on the Play Store to the Amazon and Nook Store. In addition, we launched several hidden objects, educational, and nutrition apps.

Our latest project launched has been 'Whose Price is Right?'. It allows people to guess the prices of products and create matches against other players in order to earn coins. Players can also unlock rewards. The app is essentially a client that receives a response from a server for most of its functionality. I also have plans for adding more minigames to make the game more exciting. The app uses the Android SDK and the server is written in Node.js.

The reason why I'm writing this letter is to ask for the help and support of the Hacker News community. Zapto Games has been a one-man operation since the beginning. I will gladly accept any criticism on how I could improve this app, increase monetization, attract more players, and so forth. Also, if you are willing to partner up and make some meaningful contributions (UI redesign) I will gladly split some of the revenue with you.

Stats:
Total Downloads - 3,271
Daily Installs - Around 100
Daily Ad Impressions - 1,500
Reddit - New and improved “block user” feature in your inbox
ITYM "acquire Pinterest"
I see people on dating websites writing c* cktail with the '* '. Not nearly as funny as Hecko, though!
Despite all the recent ai hype it still sucks whenever I use it. All my photo categories have wrong entries in them.
And Tesla said they didn't do it or it was not done in retaliation but rather to resolve an issue with the firmware version wk057 was running. I think it eventually got reverted but can't be sure of that.
>it's almost as if there is an entire division..., sitting around at Facebook cooking up ways to make me login or install the app

that is exactly correct
The Google trick doesn't work for me anykore
This idea reminds me of an amazing talk by Guy Steele: https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0

He starts the talk by assuming monosyllabic words as his primitives and builds up the words he needs to use to give the talk by providing definitions for them first.
There is a web version of this which I made a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424197
OMG I am glad you asked that.
Like traditional idea is to solve one side first.
For first 1000 users there are only fellow chickens. So it is just engineers sharing work and profiles with fellow engineers. Once we have enough chickens, eggs will start showing up. Then chickens decide how eggs contact them.

chicken - users
eggs - sales, recruiters, etc
Safer universal equivalence (==) for Scala
Since Computer Science pervades many fields these days, it make sense to have a CS Minor. Unfortunately, aside from J. Gutag's course on computational thinking, not much time seems to be focused on the how's of computing and not much on the why's and what's.
gets YC money

immediately acquires delicio.us
Southern California braces for summer blackouts due to Porter Ranch gas leak
To make it simple, you would need to use <=1000 words _and_ avoid phrasal verbs. Otherwise it is a kind of cheating (at least, in English).
Hard to keep a straight face when singing about "golden showers", I must admit.
basically do the same with drupal also.
It's better than Craigslist because we use Facebook to verify users' social identity, filtering fake accounts and scammers unlike Craigslist is anonymous and full of scams. Stubhub is taking a 30% to 40% cut from both sellers and buyers, queueIn's sellers can get the same amount of money or more back while buyers pay a lot less than they would have on Stubhub. Currently, we acquire most of our users from social media such as Facebook, and also Craigslist.
I cannot give an exact value, but the main targets are universities with CS courses and there is already a nice demand in our beta.
“Two years in Bitcoin” by a mildly interested outsider
Sure, but HN users aren't actually sinking any money here. They're just telling other people to. Which is maybe not so different from regular HN comments? Who knows. We shall see!
Feature-wise Bandhub can be thought of as a combination of Facebook and YouTube with added specialized features for music collaboration.

(1) COMMUNITY FEATURES: Each user has a profile, you can follow/be followed, there is a news-feed, etc. The "posts" are exclusively music collabs, so you stay up to date on collabs your Bandhub friends are making, what's new, etc; you can comment and so on. You can search for collabs ( e.g., artists/styles/etc ) and create/share playlists. Also, there are interest groups ( e.g., "punk rock style covers" ). And there are added features specific to music collaboration ( e.g., "my list of collabs to participate" )

(2) THE MUSIC COLLABORATION SOFTWARE: There are two parts to it

(a) A collaborative GarageBand with video. When you open a collab in "STUDIO MODE" you get to a web-based multitrack audio/video editor - with many of the features of a DAW, but way simpler to digest. You can send/receive individual audio-video tracks, set the audio mix, enhance it with effects, determine which tracks stay/go, etc.

(b) Bandhub Recording App: when you want to record a part (called 'tracks') for a collab (e.g., the bass part), you use our Bandhub Recording App ( native app available for PC and Mac ). You connect your mic or instrument to the computer and using the computer's webacam you record audio+video through it. While recoding, you will hear the other parts of the collab (e.g., the drums and guitar) as backing tracks so you can play on top of them and stay in sync. When you are done, the track gets inserted in the collab in draft mode. You don't have to edit timelines for synchronization or use complex audio/video editing software at all. It's actually super super easy to use.

Here are a few screenshots:

collab "post": http://i.imgur.com/2nmc5J1.png

studio mode: http://i.imgur.com/VEKqHKe.png

news-feed: http://i.imgur.com/d2aytQH.png

Recoding App: http://i.imgur.com/xhbc3Xo.png
Some distributors have built out systems to allow online ordering and it works well for them and they view it as a competitive advantage. A few have also tried over the years but found they couldn't get customers to actually use it.

It helps that we have seen a major shift from food distributors to online platforms.

A concern of some distributors is losing the touch point with the sales rep. They want a rep to be talking to the buyers at any chance they get or they think people will pass up on their products.
Problem is power. Batteries are holding back the future.
What steps would you take to make sure Pinboard is taken to the next level?

Where would the money go? Would you consider investing, assuming you get the funding, at least $1m into a $plashy landing page?

Finally, what is your strategy (and God help you if you do not have it) towards convincing potential investors to give you $80m and not think about the revenue?
Too bad the pricing is not as smart as the technology:
Look at splunk, it's free for small usage, to get people started, just as google apps used to be, then when half or the whole company depends on the tool, then it starts to cost money, and quite a lot.
That's better, softer approach.

Anyway, kudos to sandstorm, what they built is awesome.
Would love a slider that would allow you to adjust the words allowed from 500 most common words in English to 10k most common words. Also, it would be great if you could compile a windows version.
>PCIe is the huge bottleneck... The two Xeon's in the box..

It's a wast to put Xeon's on this things if they use the PCIe, you end up in a loot of cases only using them to drive the GPU's.

>When I talk about balanced (which is a huge influence in my architectural and system level designs)...

The DP performance on Tesla's is ridiculous, think it is a marketing ploy. People talk of buying gaming cards.., as you are almost always memory bound..

>I'm working on my own HPC targeted chip..

Looks nice, you are throwing out all HW bloat and doing everything in software? Are you planing to have some form of OS running on this chips?
Thanks. We will get it fixed.
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Apply HN: Protoship.io – generate entire front end (HTML/CSS/React) from designs
You are a web developer - back-end/front-end/unicorn. You're good, you're fast, you have many years under your belt. Yet, building even the simplest of web applications is still a time-consuming chore. It is not the code, programming is always fun. But it is the tedium of writing and tweaking HTML and CSS that takes up most of your time (and money).

Protoship generates clean HTML, CSS, and even reusable React components for you, straight from design. No measuring of margins and paddings, no extracting and assembling of assets, and none of that pixel-perfection worries. Drop in a .sketch file, name your components, and it is done.

We have a video of a really early version here: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/code-generator-to-create-react-projects-straight-from-design-with-clean-html-and-css-c399a8189f0d#.kgvfikpvf

Our Homepage: https://protoship.io/#products

We are two developers who want to make useful things on the web without being bogged down by automatable, routine work. To make beautiful software without having to stay up all night.

Our Story: https://protoship.io/story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441183 :)
I almost got them on the last sale!

Delicious costs $9K/month to run on AWS, so funding would definitely help there.

As far as I can tell, the site is now being run by some regretful SEO dude in Canada, and I don't think it would take a large suitcase of money to get it away from him.
Just curious: why do you want that? What is the use case for you?
Also Telegram has built-in bot support, which is a big plus in my book.
Those tooltips don't work on mobile.
There is a quite good technical description of difference between Spark and Flink

http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/
Thanks for the thoughtful questions! Let me go through them 1 by 1.

Wording: Contest/Prize vs Auction, we're evolving our copy as we go. The initial idea was that through the iteration process, the best (not necessarily the cheapest) vendor would win. So in our eyes, less like an auction. But point taken.

Vendor incentives: Vendors will be able to proactively approach events that fit their style/schedule. They can worry less and less about their own ads, and let their service tell the story (with a good review system- this will be possible). Also, we think that standardized agreements/money escrow, we can take some of the friction out of both sides.

50% before/after the wedding: We're working with just a small subset of wedding vendor silos at this point, and focused on vendors that can fit in with this 50/50 template. It may not work for every silo in the future. Vendors will be guaranteed 50%, we hold the other 50%. If something doesn't go off well at the wedding, we will look into an arbitration clause (still working out the details here), but our hope is to make sure both sides are happy.

Customer acquisition: This is the hardest (isn't it always?). Right now we're hyper focused on the NYC Wedding market (2x the average wedding costs). It's all super grass roots right now; face to face meetings, wedding events, also we're incentivizing new clients with $100 back and $100 for anyone they share the service with. We're also running a few targeted fb/google ads to see if they are helpful. If you have any other ideas, we're all ears!

How will you make money?
What if you just act as a marketplace for vendors, handle the payments in full up front, and take a percentage? <- This is in large part our idea on how to make money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

GitHub announcement discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430009
Teslas are exposed to the internet via the wlan/gsm connection built into the car. It would be very bad if this were exploited.
Technical interviews.
Ethernet Connected Remote Wifi Sniffing Station with an ESP8266 Module
Google wants to call drones to medical emergencies at the push of a button
Apply HN: CreatorsNest – On-Demand, Private Workspaces for Artists and Creatives
CreatorsNest (CreatorsNest.com) is a network of private, affordable creative workspaces that are accessible on-demand. Each space, or “nest”, is developed by repurposing residential garages and transforming them into beautiful and inspirational spaces for artists and creatives to use for a variety of purposes. The goal here is to fundamentally change the way artists work by providing affordable space for creatives, and to disrupt the > $5 bn creative studios industry that capitalizes on artists' need for privacy.

P.S. The first nest was recently opened in Los Angeles. You can view it here: http://creatorsnest.com/the-nests.html
Escort really shouldn't be on there, nor "jelly donut," and words like "hardcore" and "neonazi" are really quite questionable. And yet it's missing words like condom, scrotum, and labia.
Thank you!

Looks like a great idea and I will definitely check it out.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Pinboard is great for what it does, and it obviously has a fan base, but in a world where Evernote and Pocket exist and are massive, there is not a lot of room for a service like Pinboard to become huge. If I were an investor I'd be wondering "how does this become a massive internet consumer service" and I just don't see the answer to that question.
The full document link: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
Donuts.
When users sign up they enter their home address and pick an age group and a category (professional, creative, blue collar, none). It'll then search for a group within a half mile that matches all their two criteria (that isn't already full). If it doesn't find one, then it'll create a new one and the next person to sign up in the area with the same criteria will join.

So it is essentially random, but so is everything. The kids you were friends with in school were just the ones who lived in your school district. Mature adults are mostly able to get along with anyone.

Even if you don't like the people you're placed with at first, you do get to grow your group and meet more people. But some of my best friends are people I didn't really get along with at first. We became close because we spent a lot of time together. I influenced them and they influenced me. We discovered new common interests, and built a culture around it.

I think having a group of friends can be a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There are safeguards to remove people who really don't fit in, but I really hope that people will take the time and try to get along with those they're placed with. If it doesn't work, then implementing some sort of interest based system wouldn't be that hard.
It's not bad. It's in quotes, and it actually closely tracks the title of Ioannidis' paper, "Why Most Published Research Findings are False".