skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite how god damn awful this is by today's standards I'm still experiencing happy nostalgia fuelled memories having viewed your 'homepage'.

Now I'm not saying we should bring back geocities but I still have fond memories of finding fan sites and personal home pages hosted there.

The web seemed more homegrown back then in the 90s - which wasn't always a bad thing.

Nice job!
To and from where, though? That's the issue. The issue isn't the delivery vehicles; it's the inventory management. For Google, the most likely way around this problem will be as a service provider / aggregator for existing shops (similar to Amazon's affiliate program).
> 251 registered, and how many unregistered? That, to me, qualifies as "around every corner" - not some rare boogie man, but I'll leave semantics alone.

Zero? Without the numbers, i might as well also create a fiction that supports my argument. 251 in a city of millions.

> We live in a society where you can get an order of magnitude more prison time for distributing weed than for raping children. If that's not a sympathetic public, I don't know what is.

That is a ridiculous conclusion. If anything the public supported the massive prison time for distributing weed because of politicians being "tough" on crime -- not the other way around. The public is completely irrational when it comes to "saving the children." Why do you think urinating in public (a non-sexual act in most cases) is a L1 sex offense?

I saw a referee of a children's soccer game run into the woods at halftime to go to the urinate. According to the current laws, he should have been arrested, locked up, required to register as a sex offender, and prohibited from being any where near kids. Those laws are sympathetic?

> Every single call, and they are numerous, sticks in your head forever. All because some subhuman wanted to get his rocks off and didn't care who he hurt.

That's awful, but I don't think this means the public is soft on perpetrators.

That's very different than people thinking being upset that getting spammed CP into your inbox makes you an instant felon. Or that a 16 year old girl becomes a sex offender the second she sexted a nude photo of herself to her 16 year old boyfriend. Or if he forwards it to a group of school friends that they are all instantly felons.
Heroku targets MongoDB with new Postgres V8 feature
And my expected shortcuts work out of the box. Brilliant. My import isn't even finished and I'm liking it.
Or it's someone who noticed the same amount of postings that you did with great success and knew they'd get a good amount of rep points for it.
Stephen Fry reveals he attempted suicide in 2012
GOP Candidate: Yoga Opens You to Satanic Possession
Honestly, the most exciting aspect of this would be in being able to just have a passive scanning system that can identify where in the house my kids are.
I just pre-ordered! What a great idea! My whole business life revolves around charts and graphs. I can't wait to apply the same level of deep analysis to helping my pet stay healthy and happy!
Is Rising Early a Form of Escapism?
What?? If I leave my car at a garage, I don't expect the people there to do swipes of my seats for cocaine readings, this is beyond absurd. If you leave your laptop at a repair shop you are not automatically giving them your consent for looking through your pictures, they are neither trained, not qualified to do so!
You really need some basic landing pages that give people the impression that this is a legitimate service. I forwarded info to a feed provider that's blocking your feed requests (they're a bit aggressive about abuse and want to whitelist), and I'm sure the webmaster's next step is going to be to look at your homepage, decide there's no way to contact you, shrug, and write you off.

This is very unfortunate, because I think nuesbyte is the best GR substitute I've seen yet (for my desired feature set). There is just no information about whether anything is happening with the site, who made it, future plans, status, or anything. Each time I go looking for information I wonder if the project has simply been abandoned.
But a lot of people are claiming (rightly) that general knowledge that these car systems have vulnerabilities is widespread.

So you have a device that can open random car doors in seconds? Do you know where to get one? Do you know anyone who has one?

The police apparently don't (and the police almost certainly know far more about crimes and how they are performed than you and most other HNers do). A guy who specializes in car electronics exploits doesn't.

So yes, this is a mystery. The counter-argument seems to be some variation of the too-common world-weary-haughtiness that spreads like an infection on HN.

Bank closes at night like always. The next morning the manager arrives and finds everything seemingly as it was, but when they look in the safe all of the money missing. Would that qualify as a mystery? Even though people have been robbing banks for centuries, even breaking into safes? Yes, of course it would, though I'm sure there'll be that guy who'll point out the obvious that somehow someone got in the safe.
If the system has enough lag, clever cats might dart in and out before the shower sprayed for a brief bit, so as to get some fresh water (which they like more).
Not getting it. What makes it weird?

Its like listening to people talk about "power" WRT computers unless they know ohms law, you'd think there's gun barrels in there or little politicians.
If the developers put themselves in a non-game category of the app store, it would be alright?

Whether something is a game or not isn't defined by how much money you need to spend to play it (or to win it).

Plenty of games and hobbies require purchases to play, and plenty give better chances of winning if you spend more.
How did that work?

Usually user groups are independent initiatives by developers, with at most a room or minor funds provided by a sponsoring company or two.

Companies can't keep their employees from going to the Ruby/Java/C++ User Group in their spare time.

So what was the situation there?
I can't come to peace with the idea that modern browsers still support <marquee> and <blink>...
I don't terribly mind the repost, I missed it the first time.

>> I dont think it can be used for mainstream

Certainly not, it looks awful of course (but isn't that the point?). I had a good laugh, and a quick trip down memory lane though.

The landing page is missing multiple embedded midi files though.
I just want to make sure I'm hearing you clearly here:

The company that has built a system that allows cars to drive themselves, with no human intervention, across entire states and through urban areas, can't figure out a way to go 20 feet from a car to someone's front door/mailbox? Really??
> The kind of material you describe is very much borderline

Do you think there are limits to what young people will do in front of a webcam? Or do you believe only older teens perform such acts? Which part do you think is considered ‘borderline’ by law?

> not really the sort of CP that the law is largely concerned with

I’d be very interested in a copy of the book you’ve got that mentions which laws count and which ones don’t. As you admitted to yourself, there have been plenty of cases in which teens using webcams have been convicted for producing and distributing child porn.
I can't believe someone devoted this much time to this...
How Gmail’s New Inbox Actions Work with MailChimp
So this is quite much like Gumroad but with bitcoin. I think that it is perfect for ebooks.

As there is now a bitcoin-gumroad, is there anyone planning a bitcoin-kickstarter?
These are not reasonable at all.

> Don't take pictures of kids in bathing suits.

That's absolutely ridiculous.
Is there a way to archive projects? I would like to use this for my work, but I wouldn't want to have a longs list of past projects in the drop-down.

Also, there aren't tasks, right? Sometimes it would be nice to have several tasks under a project.
agreed. excellent selection of gifs as well
When I say very young, I actually mean people talk about her as if she was 12-14 years old. I should have mentioned that more clearly. That age was mentioned a lot.

I see you must be talking more about the crazy Christians you have in the US though.
The first Lisp compiler was written in Lisp, not the first Lisp interpreter (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%2... ).
Woah that blows. Is this your first app?
How Do You Meet Other Cool and Smart People In The Startup Community?
Skuemoprhism and Flat be damned! WE HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED AND IT IS GEO!

I'd of subbed the dancing MC hammers with rotating fire skulls, or one of the more common 90s animated gif standbys.

Also for fun:
http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm
Since this feature is backed by a bank (FDIC backed bank no doubt) I assume it has the same protection as any other transfer and that the backing-bank is actually shouldering the risk.
Few of my own reasons/excuses:

- Fear of rejection. What if no one likes it ?

- Fear of being mediocre. What if it really is not what I wanted it to be ? Damn I hate to be mediocre.

- Distractions and not enough focus. I should have coded up that module last week but I am too distracted to do so. Every day I think of coming home from work and compiling that piece of code. oops I rather start playing with my kid or watch TV

- You know what. I have this stuff ready but I want to enhance the design further. Damn I don't like that CSS. Ok will finish this tomorrow (which never comes)
Just to be clear, this requires a balance in your Stripe account? What if you do not have a balance? How does this affect the currently (already very slow) 7 day payout? If an account is balance holding, and then you withdraw to your own bank account, does that mean the 7 days starts then? What if you do not have enough balance?
I like this :)

I don't want to differentiate people who can't pay.
You are limiting your thinking to one type of solution. You also forgot the one thing that will trump all this, the human mind. A criminal mind would easily be able to rip off all the goods in a situation with driver-less cars.
Could you be more specific? AFAIK there are no ads in Google Talk/Hangouts, Calendar and Contacts. Google is known for making the vast majority of its money from ads, but definitely not for putting ads in all of their products.

Even if they did show add in these products, how does that relate to supporting standards as alternative means of accessing your data? Like in Gmail, which shows ads in the web interface but also supports POP and IMAP.
I wonder if they found an exploit for Bluetooth. Newer cars have this feature so the owner doesn't have to use the key. If the Bluetooth service has access to the On Board Diagnostic (OBD), it can get to a lot of the car's info and commands, such as unlock door.
I remember working on AutoPC back in the day and we tapped into the OBD and provided a feature to send a message to the car to unlock the doors. Similar to OnStar now a day.
التوب , اشهار المواقع , الربح من الانترنت , ادسنس , كوبونات استضافة
سيو ، ادسنس ، هوست
التوب لتقنيات التسويق الالكترونى , واشهار المواقع , والربح من الانترنت , والربح من جوجل ادسنس , وافضل شركات الاستضافة فى العالم والحصول على كوبونات خصم على الاستضافة .
التوب لتقنيات التسويق الالكترونى , واشهار المواقع , والربح من الانترنت , والربح من جوجل ادسنس , وافضل شركات الاستضافة فى العالم والحصول على كوبونات خصم على الاستضافة .
What about Joseph's age... If it had happened today both Joesph and Muhammad would both be considered pedos.
Clearly the journalist doesn't have time to give a lecture on a cryptography primer. I wouldn't call this ignorance, but convenient shortcut
LMAO. I had to do a double take and make sure the URL was correct and then I realized what was going on. Great work, you shot me right back to 1997.
What sort of environment are you using React in, and what process did it replace? (trying to get a better understanding of how it fits into the modern JS app world).
Poll: Would you sell your startup for 5x to Google so they can kill it?
Why would you say yes or no?
i like this idea vs "pro"
Back in 1997, I got connected to the internet. Thinking it was owned by a single company, the first time I ran across a site like this... made me want to develop websites. I thought to myself, Why did this internet company make suck a crappy webpage. Then I found out it was a personal home page, and anyone could do it... I then spent the next 5 years making awesome sites just like this, sans MC Hammer.

It does bring back some good nostalgia.
Or for ironic fun, accept Google Wallet XD

This looks great, gonna give it a try. It's simple, and that's harder to do well.
Yeah you had to delete your posts because they made you look bad.

Note to myself: beware cowardly, feminist frauds
I think another key point is one that was only partially touched on in this thoughtful post. When you go to raise your B round, this party round A is going to look "different" than what the B investors are used to seeing. Anything that looks "different" creates some amount of impedance on the deal. B round investors are used to seeing a few familiar names from the A, and at least part of their diligence is based on if they want to work with them or not.

This doesn't mean don't do it - it's just another point to consider.
Hey why don't you email me at vojto@me.com and I'll send you a free promo code.

For me it's worth giving a few copies away to users who like to give feedback. :-)

About archiving, I've been asked about this before, and now I'm pretty sure this will be needed for the next version. So maybe you are better off waiting for the next release.
I think shipping fast is useful if you want to get an early feedback from users. With feedback you'd be working on something somebody wants instead of losing your time (and money) on product you think everyone would need.
I don't think so, at least not if they actually read the New Testament. I remember very little of it, but I do remember it mentioning that Joseph did not 'know' her until after she gave birth. Pretty sure that means they didn't wait another 5 years to consummate their marriage.
The problem comes when a 500MM fund makes a 100k investment.

Right, so the problem isn't party rounds, so much as people not taking advantage of the fact that doing a party round allows them to go after smaller investors.

I think we work pretty hard.

Having never been through YC I have no direct evidence, but all the indirect evidence points in this direction, yes. ;-)
I can just imagine the grandmother in a walking chair trying to get the package in a timely manner.
CirroScope: Stealthy cloud security startup hatched by ex-Symantec teammates
If amazon's big plan is to gain a monopoly like status , which many investors think it is, this competition and price erosion is a big threat both to future amazon and it's current investors.

And hurting the stock is a good way as any to hurt a company.
Vis: Vatican Information Service
I'm sorry if we gave you that impression.

All three founders have engineering degrees. I built the original version of the product, was the second engineer at Milo.com, and wrote DDoS prevention software in college. Mahmoud built high-frequency trading systems for Wachovia Securities and built Milo.com's matching and categorization system. Jareau studied Electrical Engineering at U Penn, built GPS enabled devices in college, and wrote Milo.com's original systems to interact pull in data from retailers.

Even our General Counsel codes. He studied Symbolic Systems and wrote some of our internal reporting systems in Python.
> Investigators are trying to shut down a black market economy that harms children, and going after the consumers in that economy is one effective strategy.

I think Johnathon Swift would agree that killing all of the children is a way more effective strategy at stopping CP. I mean investigators only care about stopping this behavior.

> If prosecutors had to prove that the offender purchased the material in every case, it would create a very high burden for law enforcement, enabling people to violate child protection laws that are already difficult to enforce.

Wouldn't that mean that it isn't an effective strategy? It's only an effective strategy, because you can easily arrest anyone -- all you have to do is email them photos that makes them a felon.
I had a similar idea to this about a year back and didn't get out of the feasibility stage. After crunching the numbers I just couldn't make it work as a free service. Maybe I wasn't doing it right, but the bandwidth of attachments becomes the killer. Mail-list.com seems to have the pricing in just about the right spot, and I'm not sure that is something the common user is going to go use.

It appears that Fiesta.cc had this issue as well. From their blog they were going to shut down about a year ago but managed to figure out how to keep it running. Their site is a little short on details - I'm not sure what the limits on the mailing lists are.
Romeo would be considered worse than any other kind of criminal and a target for lynch mobs, even here on HN.

Actually no, read the comments on this page. There are many who think that Romeo did nothing really wrong.
Agreed, a nice library overall.

And at first I was impressed by the overlay, especially considering the novel implementation. However, after a little thought and setting that novelty aside, I think that effect is broken. It's simply not at all conventional for a fully masked page to retain interactivity (despite the odd site that allows this).

Worst case scenario, an unsuspecting user activates an overlay button, and while it's loading, starts clicking state-changing buttons around the page just to kill time.
YC has to work hard in order to justify the low valuation (or large equity stake, whichever definition you prefer). In that sense you can't really compare YC with normal investors.
I remember looking up something for my dad in the mid nineties and the website had a cyan background with yellow text. You had to highlight it to make it legible. At that time before I knew much about HTML / CSS we were like creating content for the Internet must require some über skills if people find it so hard to even make text readable! How little we knew.
Any chance to have OPML import? Will definitely remove a lot of load off of the Google importer.
I love dogs, I think it's terrible that we have so many in shelters and so many being euthanized. I wish we could provide happy homes for all of them.

That being said, I would rather euthanize a dog than put it in a home or half-a-home where it isn't cared for in the way it should be. I would rather it not suffer at all, than for it to be ignored, not loved, or not looked after.
Boxer launches with Dropbox integration before Mailbox
I doubt Stripe could do that for much cheaper unfortunately, without basically becoming a bank, and keeping money in multiple countries.
#YOLEO
Can you just release a library? (even a paid one if you feel the need)

This is silly to have as a service.
Probably the attack from two years ago: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/422298/car-theft-by-ant...

Essentially, with the newer cars keyless entry cars, it's the car that transmits the signal to the fob (so you can't get stranded with a flat battery).

The protocol itself is secure, but open to a MITM attack. The exploit works essentially like a WiFi booster.
Perp #1 places himself near the car, receiving the car's transmission. This is relayed to perp #2, who is near the owner (and the key). The key communicates with the car (via the relay) - the door opens, the car starts, and off you go.
So? I did say overtly broad laws were wrong. That doesn't mean that all forms of "someone over 18 having sex with someone under 18 is wrong".
Microsoft has CalDav/CardDav support coming for WP8 in the next update [1]. iOS has had CalDAV/CardDAV support to boot (AFAIK).

I'm not sure why posters ITT are acting as if I am making demands to Google. In my original post I simply stated that "it would be nice" to see native CalDAV/CardDAV support in Android. But apparently making suggestions for a better product by providing the same support for open standards that other OSes provide is "a childish perspective" according to a Google employee [2]. I guess we need to keep in mind that a client and a server are barely even related [2]. TIL.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/14/windows-phone-8-summer-up...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827461
But that was a clear mistake in the ODB port programming on new BMW, which was fixed by the manufacturer. Not something that can be easily done on any car.
For sure, I don't disagree with that. As a developer though, one reason I would try developer auctions is for a chance at some ludicrously high salary. I'm just wondering if that is the reality or not. Seems like it isn't.
Ask HN: Revolutionizing self-service in the healthcare industry
I posted this question a day ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5816537 but updated the title in case the original title was the reason for zero interest.

I sincerely want your feedback if this is a good idea to pursue.

Was the zero interest on the original post due to a poorly chosen title or is this idea not valid enough to be worth solving?

How should I go about validating this idea and signing up customers?
All built on the rock-solid webscale foundation of Mongo?
This will open up all types of theft. Camera on the robot? No problem, that mask and spray paint will clear that problem right up. Not to mention all the kids who will definitely be pushing this over for fun....
Bad Piggies 2
2. Dog Sleep: I want to keep a healthy sleep vs activity percentage.

What is the healthy ratio? Are you a veterinarian?
Yep, I broadly agree with that.

But remember there are cases in child molestation / paedophilia / child sexuality which are very very much not like.
Sure, Careers 2.0 is good. The jobs space is _very_ big, plenty of space for everyone.

Among other differences, Careers 2.0 focuses on StackExchange karma, which is useful, but not everyone wants to go in that direction.
I believe it's very necessary both in startups and enterprise. Here's why - it helps you get to the core of what people need. It helps you iterate instead of building 30 features no one uses. I think it also makes you focus on what's important.
The languages are, I guess, most useful for people who design their database as a datastore with an API, used by multiple independent clients (a common setup in enterprises). The API typically consists of stored procedures, and normal queries are disallowed for most usernames.

Being able to implement such an API in $DECENT_LANGUAGE and not pl/pgsql sounds like an enormous win.
For companies raising $1.5 mil or less, from my (very limited) anecdotal observations it seems like investors have a base usefulness that may or may not fluctuate as a function of the amount they have invested. It also may or may not fluctuate depending on how interesting your startup is, how much they like you, how often you run into each other at social functions, etc...

From what I've seen (certainly a small sample, so may be wrong, curious to have others chime in) there are investors whose lowest possible usefulness (they invested the smallest amount they ever invest) still exceeds other investors' highest possible usefulness (however invested they would be if they were responsible for the entire round - $1.5mil or less). As a result I see the appeal of a party seed round - you increase your chances of getting investors who are useful by nature.
Which jurisdictions? (Do you have a reference?) I don't think US law works this way, for example, and would be curious to know where it does.