skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mentioned, I don't know the whole story, only the tiny bits and pieces presented by biased parties. And, as I also mentioned, shit happens. Congratulations on your acquired startup, and I'm glad to hear your cofounders in the failed YC startup hold no grudges.
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Property Values? I've heard that austrilia hasn't had a real estate bubble 'pop' yet.
I'm reading through Brad Feld's blog posts on term sheet lingo, but I'm finding it rather thick and it's getting hard to concentrate at 1am here. Does anyone know any other good sources for info on these matters? Preferably something with a more layman-focused writing style :)
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Cool idea, except the tweet sent out only includes a link to http://twitbet.com/. Instead, you should link to my personal bracket that I just filled out, so that my friends can see how badly I am at picking winners in college basketball.
Gmail precedes GWT.
"something 4 people use every 6 months doesn't tend to get optimized much"
I used to work at a content publisher with an adult focus that took in a significant amount of VC money from credible investors. It's true that many VCs will shy away from adult but not for the reasons you might think.

Whether or not YC will back your "hack" should be secondary to whether or not you can create a credible business. Youporn was a "hack" created by 2 guys and is now despised by the rest of the industry and is largey credited as letting pandora out of the box. They're also not rolling in cash. If you have a solution to "solve" the current situation adult publishers face then you've got something of real value.

The adult industry is in an awful state due to the rise of free sites and talent brain drain over the years. That makes for a perfect environment for companies to try and innovate in this sector and do what Apple did for music - but you've got to understand the business before you try to fix it. And being a consumer of the product is a lot different than creating a business out of it.
Of course you're right. They couldn't have done full code reviews on every app. But they do review every app to some degree. Combine that with the locked-down nature of the phone, and you get a reasonable amount of security.
Robot bans can render your archive.org records inaccessable, zap all your former code 200 urls out of the major search indices, and yes, kill your inclusion in the list of topical sites.

Much better to set a temporary Crawl-Delay directive. Otherwise you're not just telling the engines to pause crawling you, you're telling them "take all of my pages out of your index."
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You get meetings with beer? What is this? Madison Ave where everybody has a bottle of scotch in their drawer?
Where is the complete list?

And it's very surprising that shanghai would be nearly as expensive as new york, a city that is already considered fairly expensive.
55% of news stories placed?
Chicago is as expensive as New York? Really?
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I think you have that backwards.

Queasiness isn't preventing throngs of people from competing, the amount of $ going around in porn is what is encouraging lots of people to compete.

The word 'sex' is present (according to google) 574 million times, and is probably the one of the heaviest SEOd keywords on the net outside of some medical bits & pieces.
Presumably the PR firm for the researchers didn't place this one.
yeah, no way. we have outrageous sales tax, but rent is fairly reasonable.
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Chicago is 36 and it has had its fair share of crime. Al Capone? Mayors that bulldoze operating airports in the middle of the night because they want to build a park there?
Ever heard of the Paris suburbs? They are not a nice place.
I think "sleep training", as it's now often called, is a better description than "cry it out", since training your child to learn how to put himself/herself to sleep whenever they have those brief waking moments in the night is the goal.

For us, our son would wake every hour in the night and none of us were getting enough rest. He was cranky all day and we were too. We finally started sleep training after about 4 months and quickly got him to start sleeping long stretches through the night. A year later, he's an excellent sleeper and a very happy child.

Overall, it really depends on each family situation and the child. If your family can bear 2-4 wakeups a night for over 1.5 years, then go with it. If the wakeups are making everyone miserable -- including the child -- then that's why many parents turn to sleep training.
Cheers for the reply Paul
The Census obfuscations have apparently screwed up a variety of research findings:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/can-you-tru...
I think if you're producing the content yourself you're doing it wrong. There's a lot you can do in distribution and marketing without ever having to photograph a single naked woman.
Woah, people! Down votes on HN comments are only supposed to be used for malicious or spammy comments.

He's expressed a valid opinion. Don't downvote.
Relevant info:

The GAO shall conduct a study of the feasibility of forming a self-regulatory organization to oversee private funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds. and

Dodd’s bill, however, would allow each state to create its own set of regulations. Not only could that become a paperwork nightmare (read: larger legal/accounting costs), but it also could delay startup fundings if one state has a longer waiting period than another.

In short, nothing good.
This letter reads like some cliched copy he had written up by his staff. In most cases, 'his' thoughts are never carried out for more than a sentence or two. Where's the content?

Am I missing something?
Interesting pricing experiment ($0.99 iPhone app changed to $350.00)
One reason: parents need sleep too. Some parents will be better able to care for a child if they sleep through the night, and after about a year, many kids are ready to sleep through the night themselves.

At around 1.25, we decided to see how our daughter would do if we let her cry a bit - we'd wait through 5 minutes of crying before going in. It was really hard for us all, but it took exactly 2 nights before she was sleeping through the night without crying.

It's totally ... inhuman.

Also, that's a little strong. At a point (e.g. 6 months), this is totally true, but at a point, families need to figure out what works for them.
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>An insurance company somehow gets their hands on search data and finds a way to associate that with their customers

You mean like the AOL search data leak? I never read anything about insurance companies misappropriating the data in this manner. So I'd say its more of a long shot.

Same with political parties... again, never read anything like that.

Not to say that it hasn't happened, I'd be curious if anyone has any information to show if it has?
In case anyone needs them, I wrote up Okasaki red-black trees for Scala:

http://matt.might.net/articles/implementation-of-immutable-p...
Vanguard made a piece about porn industry and the what the effects of the internet has on it that had some relevant bits on innovation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsO5uNVCWI.

One of the porn company's tech guys claimed they were the first to pull of live HD streaming and they had a TV network calling for consultation.
Search your area for a press company that does gang run printing. Might not be a good choice depending on your media size and layout, but it's often the cheapest thing going. In SF, I know a number of folks who use these guys: http://www.clubcardprinting.com/
It depends on whom they surveyed. If they surveyed white collar workers and Western expats, the cost of living in Shanghai could very well be that expensive. If they surveyed migrant workers... no, it definitely is not.

Also, peg aside, the RMB has been strengthening in value over the past decade, and the Euro, I believe, has definitely gained against the dollar. So while NY may be expensive in the US, it is increasingly cheap when compared to certain other countries.
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Man I wish this was going on when I lived in the area.
nice way to delude yourself, pg fan boy.
Yes, these lists tend to be aimed at corporate expats with spouses and children negotiating with HR about their cost-of-living adjustments for overseas assignments. So you get a basket of goods that reflects that audience --- big flat in an expat-friendly district, private schools, foodstuffs which are available locally in NY but have to be imported in Shanghai, etc.

What Hacker News really needs is a list of cities ranked on minimum cost of living: how little can a foreigner spend on housing, meals, entertainment, etc. in a given city, without being in danger of crime, disease, ceiling collapse, frostbite, or an unstable internet connection? That figure is far lower in Shanghai and even Hong Kong than in New York ...
Also this guy:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_truglia_a_leap_from_the_edge_...
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>I doubt if there will be any major technological development, inside or outside porn

I'm not sure if that is the case. (link below is NSFW)

http://gizmodo.com/5129520/realtouch-teledildonics-as-design...

As we're seeing people embedding the web in many other devices, the same is happening in porn.

It's bizarre, but I don't think we've seen the zenith of porn tech yet
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I've posted my contact information here several times. I really wouldn't call myself fishing, but here's my contact information in full.

And I can understand how my post may have seen somewhat fishy (no pun intended!).

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My guess - mostly facebook, with the odd sms and email depending on the person, but rarely call.

BTW, what's a good polling & stats service to submit this sort of question to?
What are the details of crawl-delay? If its supposed to be "number of seconds between hits", for some sites, 1 hit per second may as well be "not crawled at all"..
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i asked kinko's and they basically told me to do it myself, it would be cheaper. i was pretty surprised.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Colour Psychology or Colour Symbolism yet and how these two colours are used to illicit a desired emotional response from the viewers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism

I would suggest that these colours are used rather deliberately for that very reason.

I've reposted some meanings of the two colours below for reference.

Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.

Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
Then is there is an opportunity for adult-themed angel fund? Brand damage would be a non-issue for such a niche fund.

(A fund on lines of fbFund or iPhone apps fund.)
Thanks, I'll look into real printing companies. I've been trying to bum color prints from different folks and it just does not scale.
Baby's are attention craving machines -- all they want all the time is attention. If doing good things gets them attention, they'll do it. If doing bad things gets them attention, they'll do it. As much as you are training them, they're training you.

Most experts, however, do not recommend just letting babies cry it out. Sleep training involves going in a making your presence aware for increasing lengths of time. Giving a baby too much attention at night, however, will simply train them to wake up and get it. Although the one truth with babies is that everyone is different -- sometimes it does require drastic measures and sometimes you don't have to do anything at all.
This doesn't answer the question about YC, but adult web startup Zivity started with real Silicon Valley VCs behind them. It looks like that relationship didn't last though.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/amicable-spli...

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/zivity-splits-employees-exe...
Why are we optimizing physical paper check cashing instead of streamlining Consumer/Business to Consumer/Business fund transfers?
Huh. See, I don't like it when other people invite me by calling because it puts me on the spot (and no, it's not because I'm deluded with so very many invitations...). I hate trying to remember if I have any conflicts and I hate trying to come up with a polite excuse if I don't feel like going.
I understand that. I can see how this piece of experimentation would fit into a greater project. But to produce this video and tell the world about it? Seems crazy to me.
Which leads to the question - had this been repeated daily - can training make logic overcome the emotion at such a young age? Can the same situation be turned in to a "game"?
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This is what is typically used to deter the rodents, and prevent water damage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icky-pick
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp seems to contradict that - they seem to be moving to C++ for future projects, which is kind of a shame.
For what is worth, this is what I could fid about the methodology:

http://eiu.enumerate.com/asp/wcol_HelpIndexCalc.asp

Basically, it says it's only useful to companies to decide what to pay their expat executives.

For the rest of us it's pretty much irrelevant. Normal people will change their consumption patterns according to their income and the local living cost. If you move from Rio to NY and then to Tokyo you'll probably settle for a smaller apartment each time.

But the index seems implausible even for its stated purpose. Let's say you're a "regular" person and are happy with x in NY; then you'll be very comfortable with 1.4x in Tokyo, and will live like a king in Rio with .85x. So what kind of stuff are execs consuming that makes those numbers equivalent?
You left out a critical fourth category: the world's oldest profession.

* This is LEGAL just about everywhere other than the US (including Australia and the UK).

* The market size is huge

* People will pay serious cash money, unlike online porn

* Far less competition and tech in the business (see myredbook, cityvibe, and erosguide for the state of the art)

* Given the dogfooding imperative, recruiting lonely male programmers would probably be very easy

I say all this only half tongue in cheek. With a little bit of technology you could become the world's biggest pimp.
It's simple. A high price causes a perception of value.
Would be nice to see Ann Arbor get it. There is support from the city and the University of Michigan.

Maybe Larry Page could influence this decision and give back to the state and university where he started.

I think it would be good choice for Google and something positive for the area.
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I just posted a link to something like that below, but I think they went under, there are some rumors of fraud.

I don't think there is really room for such a fund, simply because the competition is so fierce that you would have to do 100's or more investments to get one that gives you a good ROI. The successful ones can bootstrap, the others die and try again.

One of the more interesting observations that I read on the adult market somewhere (I can't find where, sorry) is that the adult and the gaming industry are the only two 'mature' internet industries, in the sense that the cards have been dealt and new entrants have a very hard time getting traction.

That alone would be a reason to make an investor very skittish.
Right, but his point is that at least this way you won't get delisted :)
Don't ever buy a variable annuity.

1. Some forms of oil and real estate investments, in some states, can be a significant tax deduction. Otherwise consider saving this money for future tax benefits or new opportunities.

2. Get involved in the community where you want to work with angels. It looks like you've already started. People make angels, not a brand.

Go to YC demo days http://ycombinator.com/dday.html

If the $50k is more than 1% of your liquid assets you should consider short-term investments until you're in a position where angel opportunities find you.
Hm, my earlier reply to you seems to have vanished.

There was this thing called 'adultvest', but I think they've died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultvest
Surely not, but its still annoying.
Biggest problem in adult biz is exits. IPO exits are very rare--adult or not adult. But 10-100M level exits which are common for typical successful startups are almost non-existent.

You do have a TONNE of 10-100K type of exits in adult--but that's hardly attractive even for angels. It's often great money for one-two person shop though.
I'm not 100% convinced.

Is this really about still-face or lack of interaction with the child?

What if the mother interacts with the kid with a still-face, will the baby react the same way?
Well, that's really why if there was a way for the community to mark interesting comments from banned users (sort of like the flag/unflag thing), it would make it much easier to manage...

No need to point it out, just click on a link and if enough people think that the user shouldn't be banned, automatically unban him...
Agreed. Both those industries are decent ones to be in if you want to make a secure income without shooting for the stars.
Any entity that resists change to a broken system is at fault. Unions bear part of the blame for the current state of our education system because they resist reforms that most people think are likely to improve education, like merit pay. This is assuming those people are correct, however.

Blaming the government also makes sense. The government runs most schools.
Your comment says boatloads about you, but little about porn.
On a related note the threads page seems to load very slowly now. I guess because it would place heavy load on the DB grabbing all your comments from different threads.
Not really. He made broad, sweeping and unreasonable assertions, incorrect assumptions and no one has any real reason to believe anything written up there.

It was a personal opinion that many disagree with.
This is probably the best explanation of Red-Black trees, even outside of a functional setting.

There is an implementation that is pretty faithful to Okasaki's paper here: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/smk/redblack/Untyped.h... . I used as a reference once because it also implements delete.

In the same directory, Kahrs develops other versions with stronger constraints coming from the type system, but I never got far enough in to Haskell back then to understand them.
They are also to express disagreement.
I did something like this with job ads on my main site. I was charging $199 for 30 days, but wanted to get out of the contract with the people who ran the board by stopping new ads. So I put the price up to $499 but I still got a few sales. So I put it up to $899. A day later, I got a sale.. at $899!

Since then, the board has had better traffic so I've stuck with the provider and now charge $249 for 60 days. Seems a good middle point between quantity and money.
The fluctuation of the dollar has no impact if your entire income and expenditures are all in a different currency. But as others here mention, this kind of chart is mostly for "expats" living in a bubble.
Didn't see that one.
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It's the trick luxury brands have been playing for years. Walk into a Tiffany's store and you see the same silver that was poured to make the jewelry at the department store, but the blue box costs you a 2000% premium.

I've always wanted to go into the luxury goods business for this exact reason. I just never thought there was such a thing as luxury software goods..
though some media reports may say otherwise, australia hasn't had a significant decrease in property values in the last 5 years.

there are some isolated cases of properties/suburbs falling significantly in price, but absolutely nothing like what has happened in the united states.

in particular, inner city areas have continued to experience growth year on year.
Well, sure. But look at the screenshot of the game. This is clearly a 99c game, and while I can see the perceived value argument working for a sale price of $15, I struggle to believe he made any sales at $299.
try this link instead:

http://engineeringisawesome.tumblr.com/post/444251956/dmdhas...

edit: this is better: http://www.fastcompany.com/1579263/3-d-printing-whole-buildi...
Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the feedback. The discussion here gave me a few ideas.

Perhaps if anyone is interested, I'll do a blog post within the next few months explaining what opportunities I chose to pursue and why.
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Popularizing scientific findings is also a service. I have that conversation a lot with people. :D Maybe it's not "hacker news", I can't say.
i don't mean to doubt the experiment, but 14 people paid $299 for this game? my understanding is that sales of any app over $5 are quite hard to come by. looking at this game in itunes, it really shows nothing that i imagine would convince someone to pay any more that a few dollars for.

itunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/zits-giggles/id309069413?mt=8
I must say I sympathize. We have a pretty stringent code review system where I work and people are always coming up with nitpicky type of things.

Whenever I get technical comments from people that seems to me like they put alot of thought into, I always approach them for a quick chat, ask some questions even if you don't have any. It's a great way to build relationships, especially if you're new. And you tend to find that in the end it's not really important that you guys agree, but that you guys understood each other's technical perspective. This is an opportunity for you to network with this particular engineer, you should take advantage of it.
Check out the now banned "I am rich" app.
Sure, there is innovation in the technology, and adult themed sites to their credit have driven a lot of tech change including arguably the internet itself. But I'm talking about innovation in the space of adult themed web sites. Can you name a single adult themed web site whose approach is innovative for it's target market? (not just the tech)