skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Review my startup idea
I've been an officer in a club at my university for about a year now and I've noticed potential for a startup in this niche. There are quite a few repetitive processes that are quite tedious and time consuming. Keeping track of members seems to be a time consuming aspect of running the club, and I'd like to build a web app where officers can keep track of their members. A club will sign up for the site, and be able to login and add their members including their .edu email, major, and year. Ideally members would be able to pay their registration fee's through this site and become a member for the club so that they are automatically populated in the member list. Then members can check in to meetings and events through this site which will allow the chapters to track the members participation within the club.

They'll have an option to receive notifications. Officers will be able to create an event, and then the members will receive the information for that event automatically, the day of or the day before, whichever works best. ...I'm not sure about this feature though because this can already be done through facebook.

Do you think clubs would like to use something like this? If you think they would, do you think they would they be willing to pay a small fee for the service (I'm thinking about $5 a month or $50 a year, but I would have to reach out to clubs to see what they think is a reasonable amount)? I am also thinking about taking a small percentage of the club's membership fee as another source of revenue (maybe 5% per member that signs up through the site).

I plan on validating the idea by reaching out to all of the clubs at my university asking them about the idea and see if any of them will commit to the service before I build it.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
From http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4286090/path-is-spamming-a... it sounds like it's a result of "finding your friends" actually texting invites to friends, and then text messages being put in a queue so they're getting sent out even after the app is deleted.

Obviously such an action should be more clearly labelled. If it was, could they whitelist the times it sends out text messages to not do it at 6am? How easy is it to lookup an approximate region for a mobile number?
hehe, it wasn't that bad. But now I live in San Francisco, and if not visually drowning, it sure smells like human and dog excreta everywhere!
If this supported zotero I would use it all the time. Looking forward to the update.
You really should always rebase before merge, the workflow I use is just pull and not worry about rebasing until you want your branch mering.
Speaking of which: any suggestions on ending the deluge of likely black-hat spam? Shrinking hoses, Russian brides, plenty of other crap which darn near screams "if you hit 'unsubscribe' we'll know we have a live one and send you more!"
there are sd carts that allow you to play ds games on 3ds, that is as far as they have gone
They certainly could. The talent pool would certainly hear about it as well.
This seems to be a theme with Nintendo, and it's rather unfortunate. When I first got the Wii, I was blown away by the console itself, but I was rather underwhelmed with most of the games available (Super Mario Galaxy was the only one at the time that both used the Wiimote extensively and was fun to play).

Nintendo has a pattern of overdelivering with the consoles, and then underdelivering with the games available for said console (at least at first).

EDIT: I should add that this is a relatively recent pattern; the N64 and the Game Boy Color are definitely stronger as platforms (with all their available games) than as consoles. Somewhere between the Game Boy Advance -> 3DS (which has terrible game availability for an awesome console) and the GameCube -> Wii, the pattern reversed itself.
Ah yes, there it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsOhJgCSpw
How to find funding for your hardware startup
Technically, you mean the only USN SSN with two shafts, but even that is incorrect. Nautilus was a conventionally-driven submarine with counter-rotating screws just like its diesel-electric WWII-era forebears.

The first single-shaft U.S. submarine was a diesel research vessel, USS Albacore, which proved the feasibility of many innovations which were later ported over to the nuclear submarine fleet. USS Skipjack was the first nuclear submarine to include most of those features, including single-screw design.
looks neat. is it doing well?
Science Exchange is awesome -- I hope in a time of declining grant funding, it's possible for researchers to use this to lower their costs and do the same/more total research.
This is amazing! So happy to be a part of the upcoming hacker school batch :)
No. Only on some custom Android builds.
NASA says: The ISS is the most heavily shielded spacecraft ever flown. Shielding is designed to protect critical components such as habitable compartments and high-pressure tanks from the nominal threat of an aluminum sphere approximately 1 cm in diameter. The ISS also has the capability of maneuvering to avoid tracked objects.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/laboratories/hypervelocity/...
Would you consider the IK12 Start Fund an investment in other startups? Or is that just more of a general investment?
What Is Audience Development?
Ah, a greek goddess, didn't realize that. You get the general point though, I'm sure.
I love that pg actually browses hn and responds to questions like this.
I want to add that, according to the standard scientific view, it ought to in theory be possible to catalog every component of experience down to whatever level necessary (neuron, molecule, electron... whatever).

So, according to the mainstream view that Dennett holds, yes -- qualia (or rather, or illusion of qualia) can be cataloged and put into some framework of so-called "absolute elements".

Philosophers on the other side of the table, who hold that qualia are non-illusory (and not mere epiphenomena), have varying and incomplete accounts. The best frameworks, by my own judgement, involve some sort of neutral monism. [1]

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neutral-monism/
I wrote up something quite quickly: http://maxmackie.com/2013/04/30/The-Turing-Oath:-The-Promise...

"The Turing Oath" is on Github (https://github.com/maxmackie/Turing-Oath/blob/master/README....) and I recommend people contribute and we grow this to become something people recognize.
This bar graph is difficult to interpret- there is way too much information on the graph leaving the viewer lost as to how flavor co-varies with value. It looks like a big jumble. Also, how do you "average impressions" when those impressions are binary?
>Maybe it's time to create a Hippocratic Oath for developers to publicly commit to?

This is silly. Stop trying to add grandeur to writing some code at X,Y startup/company.

People don't die or get harmed when some social-messaging application spams someone. Code is a way to implement an idea. Most applications exist to make money. If this a shock to you, read the user agreement before installing/upgrading, uninstall the application, or realize that in social networking, your personal data what the company uses to make a profit.
Trello does not support offline operation. It may work sometimes but offline sync is not a feature of any of the official clients.
just looking at the site, and not having an idevice, all i could think was that this is "pdf in the cloud" i.e. a way to get data in a way that is hard to work with other tools.

also, have no idea what's mendeley.
The Turing Oath: The Promise to Develop Ethical Software
Im really interested in this but have some questions I would like to ask you. Do you mind dropping me an email at toni (at) banyan.co?
Shitty behavior also does not stop being shitty behavior when you're pressured into doing it.
Thanks for the input. I just started learning Clojure and it's blowing my mind... I felt sorry for some friends in college that started with Scheme but now I'm realizing I missed something pretty beneficial.
EDIT: I forgot, I'm not allowed to express an opinion on HN.
I strongly disagree with that post, and I find the closing words very grating (and even a bit condescending).

> Trust and verification. They just go together.

Trust and authentication are not the same thing, even if they are related concepts.

And there absolutely is a place for anonymity even in a so-called "trusted" community - in fact, those communities are the place where anonymity can be the most powerful (and also the most effective, or most needed).

Even if this doesn't apply to AirBnb's situation, I find it incredibly irritating that they try and frame this behind some 'Anonymity is bad, and without verification there's no such thing as no trust' philosophy, instead of owning up to the fact that AirBnb apparently has some issues with fraud/abuse, and this happens to be their solution to fixing it.
thanks (from a Science Exchange founder)! we also hope that the platform provides an alternative mechanism for raising research funds as well. why write a grant when you can perform an experiment/technique you're an expert at for another scientist... and get paid for it? i think of it as bootstrapping for science.
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Cost of ticket would offset cheap housing probably. Any small midwest town would work and be much easier to reach.
Really. You're really going to use that logical fallacy to support the religion for which you are a true believer.

The delicious irony of your hatred is that your point is so poorly argued, you must be a wikipedia editor.

I'm actually a pretty accomplished wikipedia editor with several original article credits. The articles are standing today. I have barnstars and everything. But I actually submit my articles to Encyclopedia Britannica now, because I realized the truth about wikipedia. It's just a really low quality content farm that can't be trusted on anything.

What is the point of getting your knowledge from unreliable losers? All the biggest wikipedia editors are no-life losers with zero respect in any real intellectual community. They are divorced from the community of experts and receive nothing but scorn from them.

What's the point of reading an encyclopedia written by people who you can't rely on? Getting 80% of the content right is not an achievement--every content farm on the internet does the same--from eHow to expertsexchange.

Wikipedia is just an ideology and volunteer driven low quality content farm. Due to Wikipedia's overpowering marketing/SEO, when Wikipedia writes an article on a topic, that Wikipedia article will now have higher visibility than the original information source that it scraped and now cites. The Wikipedia article will steal traffic from the original source.

The internet would be so much better without content farms. And Wikipedia is the worst of the worst.

When I feel like writing an encyclopedia article, I send it now to Encyclopedia Britannica. They've edited my writing and incorporated parts into their high quality encyclopedia.

By the way, that study that said that wikipedia was just as good as Britannica was complete bullshit--as flawed as your informal fallacy that you just shat out right above this comment.
The N64 has a fantastic library of games (and had very good launch titles) and a mediocre console.
Is there any other option for my (slightly) grown-up startup with a ton of traction to come pitch you?

p.s I did read the YC FAQ etc. But hoping that might be just the "official line" :-)
Get a cheap/used popcorn popper (metal chamber, not plastic). Pour in a cup of green (unroasted) coffee beans. Start popper. After a few minutes, you'll hear the beans crack (you'll know). Keep roasting. The moment you hear a second round of cracking start, dump the beans into a large cool metal pan, swirling and transferring to another cool pan often until about room temp.

Store beans in sealed container for 0 minutes to 1 week (flavor changes over time).

Grind with burr grinder to fine.

Brew thru AeroPress.

Don't drink coffee because it's a cultural obligation (per poster above). Drink coffee because, done right, it's awesome.
>This is why I hate install-time permissions.

Android developer here: I would have to say a mix of permission types would be best. Sometimes a feature of an app is crucial to its design (or, to be blunt, to its monetization).

A few things -- using the camera on the phone, accessing the address book, sending text messages, maybe a few others -- would be great to request as "optional permissions," or even better, "runtime-granted permissions," so that an app that only 5% of the time needs that permission could ask for it LATER instead of making everyone who installs the app agree to using a permission that they may not want the app to have.

As it stands, you'd have to break your app up into several different downloads in order to have optional features. Not impossible, but neither is it a good user experience.
BoycottOpera.JS :-)

<script type="text/javascript">

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') !== -1) {
alert("Hello Opera User! I encourage you to uninstall Opera and use Mozilla Firefox instead. Click OK to learn why.");
document.location = "http://trondblog.tumblr.com/post/49192504201/so-my-former-employer-opera-software-has-filed-a"
}

</script>
all nintendo consoles since the snes are like that.

they keep regurgitating the same franchises.

they almost did something new with n64/gamecube, but just because the 3d shift forced them to. (e.g. pikmin)

the DS almost pushed the envelope again, but they quickly settled to just regurgitating old franchises again with an extra map screen or something else that is irrelevant.
The ACM and IEEE both have a "code of ethics"

http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics
You linked to http://outpostp2p.com/##### which shows nothing. I clicked on the outpost logo and it took me to the home page, but I don't think people will bother giving you feedback if you link them to a blank page.
Let's sue them for hacking into everyones phones.

Which is essentially what they did. It's still a break in even if you leave your door unlocked.
The El Injerto that won is a particularly excellent crop. I didn't know Stumptown got a parcel, but I've had the Phil & Sebastian roast of the same crop, and it's delightful, particularly in an AeroPress. You should give it a try.
Enterprise anti-theft tools.
Yeah, that negative publicity around Foxconn's workplace conditions really tanked Apple.
Why is .co.uk any more meaningless than .com? They're both arbitrary character strings. If anything, .com is less meaningful than .co.uk: .co.uk conveys a larger quantum of meaning ("British company") than does .com ("company").

And what's wrong with wasting letters? Expecting the entire world to exist under .com is just as stupid as AOL expecting the entire world to exist within a 16-character username space.

Thinking that you must pay "for stupid extra domain names to stop someone else impersonating you", well, that's stupid too - just as stupid as saying you have to maintain your email address on every single provider to stop someone else impersonating you. Names aren't unique. The world needs to deal with it.

You could say that the US has squatted on two TLDs since the beginning (.gov and .mil) and .edu was later added to that list, but all of the other TLDs have always been open for registration anywhere in the world.
The wording is slippery and pretty deceptive, but it’s technically correct.

“Deactivating your account will remove your content from Path.”

The ‘Path’ in the sentence refers to the social network, not the company’s servers.
Path is spamming address books with unwanted texts and robocalls — again.
that link appends four #### to the URL which seems like it causes it to break.

Also after looking at your landing page I have no clue what the service does. You say "Ride, Rent, and experience
a new way to travel." This doesn't tell me much, other than it does something cool, why not just tell me the #1 benefit to using this service?
Yes. Life is about balance. Too much working is bad. Too much relaxing is bad.

About getting rid of unnecessary things: For each item I buy (say a pair of new socks), one old has to go. Usually I throw away (or donate) more than one item while I am at it. It's a long-term lifestyle change. But the last time I have moved was the least stressful ever.
A "Hippocratic Oath for developers" sounds like a great idea, but we vastly underestimate the number of jerkbags in the world.

People want validation. Line-level employees want praise from coworkers and bosses. Executives want praise from their peers, investors, industry, and press. Concepts like ethics, "right," or even this-is-good-for-thie-world isn't a concern when faced with "X will increase my social status and happiness with my peer brogrammers." What's X? It's anything possible, regardless of legal, right, wrong, or ethical.

A nontrivial number of companies use unethical methods (spam, false invites, false installs, phone and email address book capture, fake attractive profiles) to increase their vanity metrics. Employees see those methods as either: "this is bad, but it's sooooo good for us — look at all the lame n00bs who fall for our tricks" or "this is bad, and I'm ashamed to work here."

The ones who feel shame would take the Hippogrammer Oath. Those who revel in manipulating others and standing on their broken bodies will rake in all the profits while the good guys just sit around and "play nice."

Even the tech darlings of today used spammy methods to grow their initial user base. How do you grow your userbase to ten million when you're growing at a constant 5,000 per day? Obviously you want to "go viral." How does one just on a whim "go viral?" You can either become a meme, a social phenomenon, or spam and manipulate unsuspecting people. Spam is less work than creativity.
Thank you. Definitely going to be tweaking my WP config after this week...
I think you're missing the point in defending the current status. Nobody is "misusing the DNS" when they're searching for something and don't find the most relevant examples on the first page because of shortcomings in Google's categorization.

Search users shouldn't "just deal with" substandard search results because of geographic hacks chosen by webmasters, and we certainly shouldn't accept search providers' shortcomings on something as palpably obvious and relatively easy to fix as genericizing an obviously-generic TLD for ranking purposes.
Sorry, that's the link, I can't seem to edit the post: http://outpostp2p.com/
They're clay covered in pyrite, which oxidized into the uninteresting yellow coating. Calling them "rocks" is a bit inaccurate when they're man-made objects.
Show HN: Making graphics - with an API
I'm not talking about decisions but the actual process of selling, organizing, etc.
ZombiU, New Super Mario Bros. U, and Nintendo Land are all great, and there are some pretty good multiplatform games too.

The Wii U has been out for about half a year. Has ANY console actually had even a decent library at this point in their lifespan? Basically every console starts with a couple mediocre exclusives, one or two good exclusives, and a ton of ports. (And god forbid if they're bad ports.) It's usually only the fall following a console's launch that good games start coming in any appreciable number.
Let's not jump to conclusions too quickly. This was probably (hopefully) a bug.
If you append .json to the URL of a Board you can download it as json. Not really an answer to your question but...
I disagree. As a computer engineer in Canada, I must swear by the Code of Ethics because what I do (or potentially don't do) can cause harm.

Ethics in computer-science-related fields are important and I think we do need a set of rules we can dogmatically follow like the Hippocratic Oath. Of course, the HO is different in that failing to follow can cause physical harm. However, the world is progressing quickly and more and more information is hosted online -- personal information.

I think it's our jobs to make sure we don't promote poor practice and un-ethical behaviour.
Yeah, but the real cost, IMO, is the cost of the "residents". I think one could convince 1-10 great people to take a working vacation in Hawaii for a while for $x. I'd expect 10x for St. Louis. (NYC, Seattle, or SF would have local people, so it would be a different thing...more part-time, but they could continue going to day job)

SF to Hawaii flights are $300 r/t. If it were in a place like Boulder or Utah, you might be able to get local companies/VCs to sponsor it, though.
Introducing RAD
I'm OK with that game not being played. That spam-calling random people at 6AM is not an immediate "get the fuck out of my office" is probably a pretty good indication that something is deeply rotten in, as you put it, "VC-stan."

But you can get on TechCrunch, so it's gotta be okay, right? :(
Or:

# /var/spool/cron/crontabs/apache
*/2 * * * * ( cd /var/www/htdocs && [ ! -e .mlan.lock ] && touch .mlan.lock && wget -q -O tmp.html http://www.mywebsite.com/blogs/my-long-article-name/ && mv -f tmp.html my-long-article-name.html && rm -f .mlan.lock )

Post HN story http://www.mywebsite.com/my-long-article-name.html and it'll get refreshed every 2 minutes. Pretty simple hack. (Edit: add lock file)
God says...

young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor
abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve
it.

31:6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
revolted.

31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a
sin.

31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man;
and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee
from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

-----

God says...

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Hmm... rate limit, anyone?

Just thinking here. If you sadly used just 26 characters in this space (rather than the 64 you can easily get in a URL), 26^7 ~= 8B codes. So, even if you perfectly got the first 14 characters, you'd have to brute force in the billions of attempts here. If you even more sadly did just hex characters (16^7) you're down to ~250M.

However you cut it, someone had to hit up the reset API a bunch of times even in the worst case. Regardless of the entropy and key length used, if you're going to allow that many attempts, someone will get in.

That and shame on anyone for assuming a basic math lib rand() function creates security grade entropy.
How to register? I'm typed random username and password and pressed "Login/Register" - it return "Wrong password" to me.
I'd love it if you could go into non-bio (I guess more electrical engineering) -- what I'd like is test/reversing of hardware. This requires a fair bit of equipment and expertise, depending on how small the item is. Reversing a PCB is one thing; extracting keys from a chip is a $1mm lab and ~6h.

There are companies who do this already, but much harder to contract.
I just deleted my account as well. I never really used the app due to a lack of traction within my own circle of friends, but now I have an even better reason to rid myself of the thing.