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You're going to face a lot of problems, mostly cultural ones.

Porn sites are like the "your parents have sex" realization in Internet business terms. We all know it's there and it happens, but we like to put our fingers in our ears over it. Even though most of us here are surely regular purveyors of pornography, not many people of a certain class/culture or over a certain age want to admit it or acknowledge they like porn. This love/hate relationship makes it easy to get traffic but hard to succeed (whether financially or to just get funding).
Technologically, this could be anybody's FiOS, or anybody's Cable.. I realize FiOS is more of a trade name, but the general design of 'fiber to the last mile' is being adopted by others too. Fairpoint I believe is also using the FiOS moniker due to deals w/Verizon. So IMO it's more about the two technologies and why one's superior in this situation.
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HN itself is great because it has constant attention from the right people, but the organization isn't there.
is that still the case? I heard how porn drives innovation, but I'm not sure I've seen too many examples in the last 4/5 years.
After I got downvoting power, I found that the downvotes I checked had no effect. Was it because I downvoted too many in a row?
Software as popular as Gmail is like an iceberg: most of the engineering effort doesn't go towards user-visible features but towards the -ilities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilities
Development by nullstyle on that stopped in 2008. Clojure wasn't even 1.0 at the time. However looking here, http://github.com/nullstyle/clojure-tmbundle/network, shows that development is alive and kicking, hopefully one of these becomes the new official release.
Studies back up your hunches:

And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.

And:

Now let’s look at attitudes towards women. Studies of men who had seen X-rated movies found that they were significantly more tolerant and accepting of women than those men who didn’t see those movies, and studies by other investigators—female as well as male—essentially found similarly that there was no detectable relationship between the amount of exposure to pornography and any measure of misogynist attitudes. No researcher or critic has found the opposite, that exposure to pornography—by any definition—has had a cause-and-effect relationship towards ill feelings or actions against women. No correlation has even been found between exposure to porn and calloused attitudes toward women.

Read more: Porn: Good for us? - The Scientist - http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/29/1/

The anti-porn brigade is just as bigoted as the anti video game brigade.
Is it just me, but every city at and below the 100 mark are world renowned for their criminal histories, and all the cities above it are not.
No.

He explained that the problem with cable (any cable, not just comcast) is that it needs lots of repeaters, while fiber does not.
FiOS isn't fiber to the last mile, it's fiber to the home, which is a huge difference. AT&T U-verse is fiber to the last mile and copper the rest of the way and it has nowhere near the same speed.
The adult industry seems pretty good, anywhere you have people acting economically irrational is an opportunity to make money.
It seems like it would be very easy to just photoshop in a new value, and drain someone's account. Much easier than doctoring a physical check.
I would assume that when a new user is excited enough to join, they would in fact rate and review many of their favorite places. I agree that its a difficult subject but removing reviews does not seem like a good approach.

I would like to see them show all the reviews and separate the ones that are not approved/flushed out. Have the reviews/rankings grayed out and require the user to hit certain publicly known goals to get their reviews to be approved status. I think this approach would also help with spam as those companies that are placing and encouraging shill reviews are easily spotted.
What damage to families does porn cause? The same damage that condoms do? (If people can get off without making children, that's bad right?)

Also, what if I don't have a family? Does that mean I can use porn and drugs with impunity, since there is no family to harm? Or does it magically harm other families, perhaps via some obscure quantum effect that the Large Hadron Collider is studying?

I would keep my name and any money I had as far away from it as possible.

So far away that you read articles about it and post your "opinion"?

Anyway, this comment was amusing to read. Now to see if you are actually serious, which would, admittedly, make it a lot less funny.
Vim-shell isn't bad, but the version on the site is outdated. You have to scour their mailing list to find a working link to a patch that works with vim 7.2.
... And in related news; inflammatory and misleading articles get promoted on HN! Who knew!?
Good point - maybe offer only to customers with X years of banking, or minimum account value . . .
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I have the USAA app, and it works quite well, but I've mostly reverted to their java-based deposit-via-scanner application.

The problem is that with the USAA app, I've had two instances where something was wrong with the picture and I was directed to deposit via mail instead.
Or Cython. That one is nice.
But think of all those sperm cells that did nothing more than moisten a kleenex. All of those are future babies that were basically murdered in cold blood!!!
Gmail uses the Google Web Toolkit, a lot of the javascript that runs on the site is actually produced via code that is originally in java.

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
How is this in any way surprising from a 1-year-old?

This guy gets paid for this research?
I think the more appropriate analogy is "shit filter."

The article specifically mentions the difference between shit "funnels" (or filters) and shit umbrellas. Shit is shit, there's no good amount, other than zero, that it's good for engineers to have rain down on them. If there's anything of importance in the shit a good manager's job is to fish it out, wash it off, and pass that on to their engineers.
He thinks everything is fine, but unless he has some way to verify the data he copied from that failing drive there may be corrupted data that he will notice later. I really wish Apple would add a filesystem with some data integrity features. Even if they're not going to go with ZFS they could at least have a checksum so that you can know when your data is bad even if it can't be repaired.
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The website at www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk contains elements from the site iasitvlife.ro, which appears to host malware"

That's what Google Chrome tells me.
It would be bad to do it a lot maybe. But a few times is not going to have any harm.

At worst it will teach the baby to cry right away when the mother does that.

Babies cry a lot, and people don't play with them constantly. A little more isn't going to harm them.

The times where there is a positive reactions far outweigh the negative ones here. Not sure if that was clear. I mean that when there is a positive reaction the baby learns from it. A negative one is mostly ignored as far as long term learning goes.
Dude, why not just get yourself another server?
Even after all these years in the U.S., I find amusement in technological innovation for cheques.
Getting Kinkos to run 1000s of color copies is like getting Pizza Hut to cater for a wedding. They can do it, but their limited capacity and selection can make it expensive and limited in scope.

Instead, find a regular printing company. They won't always be as easy to deal with as Kinkos (they might demand you supply press ready PDFs or the like) but they can quote you for pretty much any reasonable quantity going (any decent printer would be fine up to several thousand flyers with a few days turnaround) and give you a far better price (especially as the printing industry isn't doing so well right now).

For example, one of my clients here in the UK is a printer. They charge $267 for 1000 A4 (roughly letter size) color flyers. So 27 cents/copy but by my understanding printers in the US are way cheaper than here. If you wanted only A5 (or whatever the US equivalent is) size, cheaper too.
The revelation that Buzz was produced by a team of 30 engineers and one product person, who only ever meet to give product demos, explains much about that launch.

I'm not a mindless Google-basher. They have many brilliant products. But Buzz was a pointless product that looked terrible and broke user expectations, produced entirely on a "because the data would be fun to have" basis -- something you'd expect from engineers who aren't thinking about the customer.

Engineers can build great, customer-focussed products (heck, that's the idea behind most of YCombinator). But this group did not.
He's merely speculating based on the WIRED article, he hasn't actually gotten the call. I see nothing wrong with removing some reviews that appeared algorithmically fraudulent, so Greenspun isn't really adding any evidence against Yelp.
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Hard to tell without being hip-deep in that world, but the number of players makes it an ultra-competitive market, possibly the most competitive segment of all online business.

And that includes gambling / gaming and so on.

Right now I think the major players in the market have all gone through several boom-bust cycles, and are concentrating on billing and other financials.

Some of the larger ones own their own IPSPs and are facilitating payments for third parties, ironically most of them non-adult. This is to manage the charge-back rates, because historically large adult companies have been literally blown up by taking their banks down.

I used to be fairly close to people working in the adult business, so my knowledge is at least a few years old, the innovation right now is centered more around business models, finance, diversification and other non-technical items.

I think that is in part because all the basic components to run an online business are now well understood and there are plenty of ways to deliver media.

edit: maybe mobile devices will really create a shift, but from what I've seen so far it will be an incremental thing rather than something that just hits one year and will leave the way we interact with online resources unrecognizable from the year before.

I doubt if there will be any major technological development, inside or outside porn until we hit something like 'the street' from Stephensons novels.
Not sure if the anyone knows it or not but in the last picture is one of Comcast's cable amps laying on the ground. (The grey bit with the heat sink)

Note, I don't work for Comcast, but I used to work for the local cable provider. I didn't spend much time in the field but from what I recall that grey box is either, a cable amp, or the fibre to cable converter. Most cable plants now have fibre from within 1 km of your house.

One of the other really crappy things about cable is that squirrels will chew the cable until they hit the sheath of the cable, once that happens when it rains the water will eventually suck all the way to the amp as the cables heat and cool. It massively degrades the signal quality while this happens and if left long enough will eventually kill the amp. The water travels both directions and if your connections are tight enough will actually go all the way to your house. It usually doesn't penetrate the house as the temperature fluctuations aren't great enough inside.
I agree that the title is sensationalistic. That being said, I think it's a poor product decision on the part of Yelp. Showing and then removing reviews is a lot more suspicious than not showing them at all for a period of time (until a user has made a second review, or some other criterion), or showing them but not counting their rating toward the overall business rating (until the criterion are met).
I understand affiliations, although I'll have to take your word for it about the young republicans, What I was trying to do is bring out the point that in the world of ideas there are libertarian ideas that are separate from the the Libertarian Party, and so when we talk about ideas we don't necessarily need to find an actual affiliation with a particular party. Many people, particularly conservatives, seem to be aligning with libertarian ideals, even if they have no interest at all in the Libertarian party. A political idea never needs a party, it exists as an intellectual construct.

Disclaimer, I am not a libertarian, I align most closely with progressives, who don't have a viable party in the United States today, but I appreciate a lot of the work and ideas of conservatism, libertarianism, left-wing labor, and social democrat.

Isn't it far more interesting and valuable to talk about the world of ideas: libertarian, progressive, fiscal conservative, social conservative, fiscal liberal, social liberal, social democrat, socialist, lassez faire capitalist, and so on, than about specific parties, or to haggle over whether a person's party affiliation is the Republican Party when in fact it is a libertarian idea that is expressed. Isn't that just letting a party set the boundaries of the debate?

The ideas need to be the focus of the debate if we're to accurately discuss the work of an individual, regardless of their nominal party affiliation.
Experimentally confirming things you think are true is still science, especially if you can quantify the results precisely. And as he says 1 minute in, this experiment was first done 30-odd years ago, when scientists (perhaps obtusely) did not think babies interacted in a socially meaningful way.
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"Click here to download a version of the patched Ruby for OS X". That's as easy, for the end-user, as rewriting the executable on the fly. And it's probably easier for you guys too ;)
I don't understand parents who let their kids (e.g. <2 years) "cry it out" to learn how to self sooth, especially at night w/r/t to sleep. It's totally counter-instinctual and inhuman. Just look at how freaked out this baby gets, and she can still see her mom. Our son woke up about 8 times a night for 1.5 years, and we were always there for him. Luckily he's gone down to 2-4 wake ups a night, finally.
I'm amused that USAA has had deposit via scanner for about five years, and it's still considered an innovation.

That said, american style bank accounts are obscenely silly legacy products. I keep hoping the US will boldly jump into the 1990s and implement a saner system.
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I'd be really worried about some algorithm somewhere deciding to crawl less frequently even after the temporary ban has been lifted.
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this goes into more things that babies can do:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18404_6-shockingly-evil-thing...
In the company I work for they use "direct report" to identify someone who reports directly to a manager or supervisor. But like it or not, "subordinate" is not so much a slam as it is a way to describe one's position in a hierarchical command structure.
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The anti-porn brigade is just as bigoted as the anti video game brigade.

Porn and video games are enjoyable. Enjoying your life is a sin! Don't you get it?

Now get back down into that salt mine!
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Sydney (which was a penal colony) doesn't count as having a "criminal history"?
I doubt doing it once matters, but isn't there something kind of bad about having a baby escalate signals until it cries, and then responding with attention as soon as it does?

Potentially, but not as bad as you'd think. Especially if it's inconsistent.

Most babies have no problem adapting to new routines or stimulus/response patterns within several days if you do it properly. This is what the so called "baby whisperers" and child psychologists do/suggest in situations where the parents have failed to encourage good behavior in babies and older children.

Consistently "bad" behaviors - such as overuse of a pacifier or other prop - are not hard to train out with the right behavior consistently given from the care giver(s). The problem, though, is that most parents cave in too often for habits to be resolved adequately (while allowing the original habit to maintain its hold).

Calming down a distressed baby isn't as unpleasant as it seems, by the way (sorry if you're a parent and know this, I'm just assuming you're not). My wife gets a lot of satisfaction from doing it successfully. The unpleasant times are when you have an inconsolable baby on your hands (that is, over 5-10 minutes of agonizing wailing) - but this is nearly always down to an underlying problem (in our case, reflux and gas).
It is true that there is lots of money going around in that world but the pie has to be divided by a very large number of parties, who are very adept at analyzing and copying each others ideas and business models.

To gain and keep an edge in that world is very hard work.
1. Where will you get the $5k? Your own pocket? Are you charging people $1? But it says free ...

2. Are sure you aren't going to get into legal trouble? IANAL, and I know nothing at all about the relevant laws, but still ...

3. Contest Rules and Terms don't mention the required tweet anywhere.
Babies cry a lot, and people don't play with them constantly. A little more isn't going to harm them.

I wish I could find the citation but my wife and I did a lot of reading of studies in the early weeks we had our baby. There were more than a few references to actually allowing your baby to be frustrated and upset from time to time in order to ensure they developed the skills to deal with a little frustration, rather than growing up to freak out at every tiny thing.

We're no child psychologists, but it's worked for us. Perhaps a few times a week when the baby was inconsolable, we'd let her "cry it out" (but not full on Ferberizing) for 5-10 minutes and then console her when she went into a quieter phase. Now, at five months, she's well adjusted (for her age), sleeps through the night, and deals with frustration pretty well. It could all be BS, of course, but letting her freak out from time to time didn't do any obvious harm, at least.
I've personally spoken to a restaurant owner that told me that a Yelp salesperson told him that negative reviews would be removed if he signed up.

Nothing they do will really surprise me anymore.
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You realize that all you need is the routing number and account number and you can print a demand draft which looks nothing like the original, write "AUTHORIZED BY ACCOUNT HOLDER" for the signature, and just deposit that demand draft, right? No doctoring skills required, and the information needed to drain the banking account is handily written on every single check drawn on it.

Checks are among the least secure payment methods ever devised by man -- that is why banks are trying to kill them. (The fact that banks subsidize them instead of earning fat interchange fees on their usage doesn't hurt, either.)
Relevant link: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/yelp-sued-for-alleg... Comments claim that first positive comments were removed, then promotional calls were made for a subscription. No hard proof, but same pattern repeated by several people.
POTS was referenced in the article and it stands for Plain Old Telephone Service.
Maybe before the start of every round, display the percentage of picks (e.g. 51% picked Duke, etc.).
Thankyou.

That makes complete sense - that competition would be driving innovation, and me not seeing it means that it's on the back-end. The process/model/non-tech stuff rather than the technology.
AHH YES! Maybe they will bring it to Athens too!
I have also thought about this as well as many other people I guess: A porn site or Netflix-like company but run by techie people, not industry insiders, a Google-like no-nonsense approach if you will. Apart from the investor killer aspect (as well as the social stigma: e.g. how many women can accept that their fiancee/husband are the owner of a porn startup) that most people point out there are other problems:
1. Customers are indiscriminate: There are many well photographed sites but how many of your prospective customers are willing to shell out monthly fees when bad quality content also "does the trick".
2. Service providers may be jumpy. You might have difficulty using some of the channels that are common to early startups, e.g. Amazon's S3 once prohibited "obscene" content; they now have:

11.6.3. ensuring that any materials posted on your site or within your Application are not illegal and do not promote illegal activities, including without limitation any activities that might be libelous or defamatory or otherwise malicious, illegal or harmful to any person or entity, or discriminatory based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;

What if someone at Amazon decides that some of your content falls into this category and yanks it off. Remember how quickly Apple booted off iPhone apps with such content.

I think the best way to go about this is: (1) Go after a niche area to reduce the huge amount of competition, e.g. "porn for women" and (2) partner with a content provider so you don't get into the intricacies of producing content. I thought the Fyre Box (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2008-01-10-po... had an excellent idea (streaming movies with detailed search functionality) but they have disappeared.
But that's even more true of the Internet at large where queasiness isn't preventing throngs of people from competing.
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Stimulus/response. If crying results in a near instant response, crying becomes the mode of communication. I'd love to find the citation but studies we read months ago indicated to us that allowing a baby to experience a certain level of frustration can help it build coping skills - so we gave it a try (but not full on Ferberization, just 10 minutes here and there for the first few months, mostly during the day - at night we did the "pick up, put down" technique). My wife found it very hard but she was all for it, and as a bit of a Vulcan-esque personality, I could control the situation.

All babies have different temperaments, of course, but ours has now slept 7am-7am with only one wake up (for food - she goes back to sleep within 5 minutes) between 2-5 months (with only one nightmare week when we tried weaning too early - causes painful gas!). She is a very happy baby. We have teething due next though, I bet.. :-)

Something interesting has arisen from our technique, too. She's had to build a rich vocabulary of sounds. We can usually tell when cries are "real" or merely to communicate, and can "ignore" most of the superfluous ones. The result has been that she shouts or laughs for attention, and we respond to that immediately (as we want to encourage it). Over time, nearly all non-essential crying has stopped and been replaced by funny sounding "argh!" and "Wooo!" type shouts and calls.

To any (future) parents reading this who want to try similar techniques, I can't personally recommend it. All kids are different and what we've tried is very against the grain with the current common literature on raising a kid. Take what I say with a big pinch of salt - it just worked for us, is all.
I wonder what caused the move from 8th to 17th by London, and likewise 17th to 12th in Sydney?