skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend talking to prostitutes or reading about their lives instead of imagining them. Sudhir has talked to a bunch of them, I've talked to a few, you imply you haven't. There's a lot of diversity among prostitutes, which the article does a better job of representing than you do. I think you'll have to look long and hard before finding anything that's true of 99/100 prostitutes.

There are certainly plenty of people whose souls have been crushed by prostitution, but it's by no means a universal experience.

Reliable statistics are quite difficult to come by. I strongly suspect that people like "Allie" don't show up in the denominators of the stats you cite in your other comment. Farley and Barkan (where the about.com article got its stats) were interviewing street prostitutes, not all prostitutes; the KISS 95.1 page doesn't cite any sources, so they probably just made up their numbers, but still, being 99.8% certain of not dying on the job doesn't seem like a major risk. It seems like the possibly high risk of being raped or otherwise traumatized is more relevant.
As a matter of fact, Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her research of radioactivity ("radiation phenomena" was the exact wording).

Her Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her discovery of new elements Radium and Polonium.
Wow, this has become petty thread crapping on your part and I'm not going to help. I'm done.
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Using a CDN service with ESI support handling all external hits can be even better.
Samsung/Swype texting record broken on iPhone
> Most women don't do this because of the social stigma, and those that don't care about the social stigma don't do it because they don't want to contract STDs

You know, some people don't do it because they don't want to, just like there are plenty of people who don't collect garbage because they don't want to.
The bridge that this is adding between Google Voice and the browser is really great. It really adds a lot of value to Google Voice, because you don't end up starting a call from your browser to then have to pick up your phone. You can, if you want to, do everything from your browser.

They put the accent on Gmail but I see the value more on the Google Voice side where your computer really becomes part of it by being an end point as much as your other phones.

addendum: in my personal case, this is a serious threat to my use of Skype. And I also won't be surprised if a version of this makes it to Google TV. At least, I wish it will: phone screening and conversations from your couch, easy transfer to other phones, etc.
Also, Allie is almost certainly white, and she had a lot of money and skill to invest into things like house furnishings and building a web site.
File the provisional patent. 99 bucks. Show documentation at what date you made the invention.
You don't know for sure what's in this patent application, and you certainly don't know if it'll be granted. Even if it is granted, it likely won't be granted for years. Even then your competitor would have to decide to file a suit.

Talk to a patent lawyer, but in the meantime, build your business and make some money.
Because I have Google Voice setup to handle my voicemail for calls made to my T-Mobile phone number, when I miss a call to my T-Mobile phone number (or send it to voicemail) it pops up in Gmail and gives me a chance to accept the call through Gmail. This is awesome.
Make and receive calls in Gmail
This is an interesting rule in the context of Hacker News. Now that it's not really about hacking any more, it seems like the common trait is that everyone is an asshole.
Dowling Duncan’s Proposed Redesigns of U.S. Currency
I should hope that parents don't consider the interests of multi-national corporations when talking with their children. I assume that you meant the curriculum of public education, but even that should (should) be driven by local opinion and not corporate interests.
I met a COBOL programmer from a bank a few months ago. He was driving a taxi.
"Android Tools Are Horrendous, OS Is Hideous," FB iPhone Dev Joe Hewitt Tweets
Uh... well.. it looks like a remake of Google Wave with Google Docs access and SSL. How is this "a new way to communicate"?
Sure -- there's plenty of stuff you can do. I'm a developer similar to you, the majority of my work is in C++ and C oriented languages.

Some things to consider

- Mobile apps and games (Iphone, Android, etc) -- Anything that doesnt require UI can be wrapped in C++; OpenGL Es Games can be done with minimal Obj-C usage (< 100lines).

- Databases

- Games and game streaming

- Building some sort of api for anything that requires high performance or computation such as image recognition, sound recognition etc

- Bridging certain things that are very low level and connecting them to a web interface (Might not be for you). For example: Connecting a home automation system with a web interface or mobile app.

- Anything so technical that it requires a huge amount of domain expertise to build properly.

Alternatively, something else you could do is teaming up with a front end web developer. It's something I'm doing now and we make a great team. He does everything front end, builds the html/css pages and I basically make them work with PHP and do anything that requires 'technical' expertise.
Have you read the following article? http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25665/?ref=rss It (partly) fills in the other half of the free will theorem by Conway and Kochen ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem ) which states that if we have free will, then so must elementary particles.

It's an interesting way of looking at the problem. And I think I can say conclusively that we really have no idea whether or not elementary particles can have free will. However we do know that they don't function purely deterministically/probabalistically or randomly.
Colocation Company Will Submerge Servers
I started to collect some links here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3561301/overview-and-news...
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Oh, I completely agree. The earlier post was specifically talking about "the music platform iTunes represents" so I didn't understand what the comparison there was and how it ended up with happier feelings toward Kindle.
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And if you have Google Voice setup to handle voicemail for your cell phone it will forward missed calls from your cell phone to Gmail before dropping them into voicemail. This is awesome for me because sometimes I'd rather answer a call through my headphones and keep my hands free than pick up my cell phone. This integration is definitely going to increase my use of my Google Voice account.
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Everything has already been done, except your life. Free will is not "instead of" determinism... It is that "despite everything already being done" something else... Now, me.

The real beauty is to turn that around and give your own turn to everyone else, and say: Now, you. Or, Namaste. I honor your plans for what to do in all this, peacefully.
Apple sends out invitations for Sept. 1 'special event'
I don't think that's really the case. I can call Germany for $0.02 with gVoice and that's pretty much the cheapest I've ever seen for a international rate. Even my family over there can't call the USA for less than EUR 0.019 (which is MORE than gVoice)
Ask HN: One comment to rule them all?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that the first comment to get up-voted and gain some momentum on a post usually stays there and dominates the post indefinitely.

It has a negative impact on my experience here at HN because people drop off when they have to scroll all the way to the bottom to read other interesting commentary. A lot of HNers don't even bother to scroll down and get wrapped up in the dominant comment.

The one solution I thought of was to split the comment threads vertically down the middle. The left pane showing the top comment and the right pane showing the 2nd most dominant comment. It wouldn't solve the problem completely but it would certainly make it easier to parse for my reptilian brain.

Thoughts/ideas?
If I watch TV, I watch it for entertainment. PG is a smart guy, but I'd rather watch Seinfeld reruns for entertainment, and watch PG to learn something new. At that point, though, I'd rather simply read what he has to say at my own pace, rather than wait around to hear him say it.
Funny, I always thought Paul would speak in received pronunciation... :-)
Staggered Android upgrades highlight Apple’s attention to consistency
Morgan Stanley Says Government Defaults Inevitable
Generally the ideal is co-op; that's what my parents did. I know it's somewhat a radical idea, but you can make friends with other parents. Even with two or three families your individual responsibilities become much more manageable. Each parent can take off early once a week and 7-8 children come over to hang out. You do it right and they won't even really need supervision.

And since you've fostered relationships with the parents of your friends' children (or fostered your childrens' relationships with your friends' children) odds are there will be enough overlap in after-school activities that rides home are equally simplified.

Of course, this sort of stuff does take planning and relationship building, but generally it will be a lot less trouble than having a single-income household.
so, it seems to me that we have different viewpoints. i would say that you have free will until it is completely gone. if you're being manipulated, you have free will but are being externally influenced, and you only have no free will when you are completely predestined.

looks to me like you are the opposite, that you only have free will if you are completely influence-free.

thoughts?
Why has it become such a popular meme to hate on Wave? It's only been a year and the technology is still very immature, there are few plugins and nobody has really found a really killer app for it yet.

I actually use it though. I brew beer, and I use it to store and share my beer brewing recipes. It has the property of being both a document that I can edit and a record of when I brewed the beer. There are no plugins supporting this yet, but I want to write some that do calculations within the wave. There are currently better apps for beer recipes (Beersmith, BeerAlchemy, etc) but I can imagine free Wave plugins taking over that space.

So what is it -- why do people think Wave is irrelevant? Do they have no imagination for how Wave could start to dominate collaboration with a few cheap-to-develop apps? Was Wave excessively hyped before it developed the features needed to support the needs of the masses?
I'd be happy with some of the gmail labs being available in Apps. Like undo send?

I'm with you. Tell us that Apps users matter, or don't. But say something.
Nothing to worry about for at least the next two years. By then, this being an iPhone app, things will have changed one way or the other.

The only protective measure I would take right now is make sure you keep all e-mails and logs of discussions, so you could prove that you were first to invent. That could become handy 5 years from now.

But frankly, they don't have a patent yet. They may never have. Keep an eye on their application when it becomes public, read the claims carefully then (that's the only thing that matters really). Then call us again :-)
Another big yawn from Wikileaks. This could have been written by any college poly sci student as a B- paper.
Flyposting in London is an organised, professional business. There are a few people doing it themselves, but the major campaigns are organised by large agencies on behalf of club promoters. The clubs design posters with the small print "not for flyposting", the agencies distribute them through freelancers who aren't told specifically what to do with the posters other than to get them seen. The only person who can be held liable is the guy on the street with the paste brush. The council can't go after the people paying for and profiting from flyposting, and they can't afford to remove enough posters to make it unprofitable.

The club promoters are well aware of what's going on and it's a significant disincentive for them to pay for flyposting if there's a chance that it will do their event more harm than good. The council aren't trying to completely stamp out flyposting, they're just trying to make it less attractive than flyering or advertising on pirate radio. It's a rather clever economic nudge, designed simply to increase the CPA of flyposting.
RabbitMQ rocks, I've recently written a small tutorial on using their rabbitmq erlang client: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/2010/08/setting-up-qu...
I went with the Nook for a few reasons: In-store support. ePub is an open format, supported on Google Books. Support for other book stores besides B&N (via side-loading and Adobe Digital Editions). SD-Card support. Plus, it's Android and has a small hacking community.

The newer Kindles are sexier, but there is very little exclusive Kindle content. Nevertheless, here's hoping that someone hacks the Android Kindle app to run on a Nook.
Carbon dating always requires an estimate of the initial amount of C14 in the object whose age is being determined. That is an issue separate from the one being considered in this thread, but one whose error bar is probably more important. I cursorily touched upon that with:

*x* is the initial amount of C14 we obtained via other means.

These 'other means' are thoroughly explained in various places on the web, due to the amount of creationist attacks on carbon dating.
This kind of post is of a common fallacious argument against HTML5: Stating that there are places HTML5 (by which this post means <video> mainly) lags behind flash, and implicitly implying HTML5 won't change anything.

There's no evidence given of the argument that Flash can "leapfrog" HTML5 in any way: Yes, browsers aren't always up to date, but that's just as true with Flash.

Flash certainly won't die for years. If it stays in its current state, it surely will as browsers make it increasingly obsolete.

Consider Java applets as a technology that flash couldn't entirely replace, but how many of them do you see on the web these days? In my opinion, Flash will become like it. Many users will still have it installed, but mostly to use websites where it is the point, like Netflix.

Step back from the hype, the slander, and realize that our toolbox has simply grown with HTML5, and nobody is going to be killing anything. Hopefully we can stop using our hammer on screws now that we've got a screwdriver, but that doesn't kill nails.
You have to be smart and fairly industrious to cook. If you can't hold down a job, odds are you can't cook well enough to make it a serious value proposition over pre-packaged and restaurant fare.
Useful post. It addresses some of the facile comments above that the Freakonomics article is just about business/pricing strategy, by calling out some of the non-economic opinions pushed in the article. ("Allie is like the ideal wife", Allie is successful because she sees good in everyone, etc.) It's glib and myopic -- concentrating on this little aspect of pricing, and highlighting all the sunny and upbeat sides of being a prostitute, passing over the bad stuff almost completely.
This is very different from Paschal's wager.

Paschal's wager presents a false dichotomy: either you believe in no god, or you believe in the christian God.

There are a plethora of religions to choose from, and it is also possible that there is a very strange god who puts all athiests in heaven and all believers in hell. Therefore Paschal's wager breaks down.

However, we have a true binary split here when talking about free will.

If there is no free will then from a pragmatic point of view all philosophy is pointless, since it can't effect your decisions.
Colbert Tackles Internet Privacy: ‘Become A Disfigured Nameless Loner’
I dunno, book is a very common word, if microsoft tried it with Windows if I remember correctly and lost. Windows or Window was too common to trademark.

What about a social network for book fans called bookclub or socialbook.com would that be considered infringement?
This is one of the reasons I find microbes so incredibly fascinating. If you can find a niche, there is likely to be some sort of bacterium setting up shop there. Furthermore, practically any carbon source has some oddball microbe who sees it as "dinner".
Hello, Firefox 4 beta 4
Well, I do believe in free will, but since free will doesn't exist, it's not my fault.
Restaurant review startup raises 1MM
Google is no longer developing it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave...
I don't see this in my Gmail account, and I didn't see any mention of how they're rolling it out.

Any ideas as to when it'll be enabled for all US users?

Edit: Nevermind, found it.

"We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already)."
The original has been submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1633332
This was one of the first ideas I had for an iPhone app. I could never find a suitable answer to your point which made me rapidly lose interest in pursuing the idea.
Considering that they do not lock you in (they allow to export your content), I see nothing at all unfair about it. If you have your own URL that you point to your blog, switching should be pretty seamless as far as your readers are concerned.
Of the various submissions, this seems to be the one with the most comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1618853
Google Brings Voice Calling to Gmail
Definitely a comment that is worth a prop. In addition, I am completely impressed with the lack of lag in the voice calling that I constantly have issues with in Skype.

If you could pick up in Gmail, have solid to no lag, Google could produce a podcaster's wet dream
If you don't believe in free will does that mean you will always win in Rock-Paper-Scissors?
Yep. I get the impression from chatting with people more up on philosophy that this model has fallen into disfavor but I seem to bump into real-world examples of it all the time.
I noticed that Wordpress.com sites started serving ads too.
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I'm on a first-name, share-an-occasional-beer basis with every parent on my block (and there are many), and my perception is that this kind of arrangement is not as common or simple as you're making it out to be.

It seems fraught; taking care of someone else's children is a serious commitment. If you screw up your schedule, people lose half a day of work. After-school child care just isn't expensive enough to be worth this hassle.
I know! Let's ask Him. Philosophy is not the source of religious knowledge :-)

God says...
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strait generally delete diversity tower infants affliction
Pusey DAMAGES partners beatific adversities burial translated
damages neighbouring creatures itching palaces exhausted
fountain intermitted Virgin spider inanimate gazing were
Thee lulled Ghost family assent

Wha? Philosophy is gay? ROFLAO

Okay, He said something -- your guess is probably not quite as good as mine. I just like jokes.

One thing I know is causality is quaint.

Getting back to the question, I get puppeted, but it seems like any other decision I make -- it's not like my arm involentarily does stuff I didn't tell it. When I speak more cleverly than I had a right too, I can't tell a difference. I think this question is pointless to worry about. It's just one of bunches of mysteries you just have to live with. I mock people who don't have my pragmitism. I donno, but it works for me.

God says...
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maidens musical saint lamented recent specimens legal
shall grass email passionately exclusions ashamed once
ripened grieved occasioned selling overcome deserve repeating
brides crucifixion applicable overhastily glorified temper
ocean resisteth unadorned five indignant cleanse anguish
realised reviled lettest gladly passage feareth joyously
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terms impression miss held resolute sparks reaching mankind
grammarian trace utterly stumble province Prodigality
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main medicine willed noble reformed notion wishes littles
scanning eloquently forests commiserating breadth fig
teach overturned ripened loss Rejoiceth actors against
unhappiness seemed honest bargain Agonistic Donations
manifestation exceedeth warped partaker monstrous supercelestial
mention paths list adulteress tend oftentimes unarranged

Sometimes, I think about my pet birds and how they live while not understanding reality. They have absolutely no clue, but carry-on.

God says(random passage)...C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

th salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth! 52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when
the LORD shall bring again Zion.

52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem.

52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our
God.

52:11
> The issue with pensions is that everyone used to do it. Private and public sector both.

No, everyone didn't do it. At its peak, which was decades ago, 30% of the private sector was covered by pensions and many of them were pretty crappy. Pensions are now fairly rare in the privat sector.
"Top Secret" typically still has "need-to-know" restrictions.
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It moved over to the other humanities domains. Every philosophical "criticism" (art, literary, feminist, media, cultural, etc) stems from Hegel. The latest trend is Zizek.
It comes down to trademark law. Can you trademark a class of names? Or just one at a time.
>even though Google's core assets - search, ads - aren't open-source

Thats probably another example of cargo cult openness. I can't see how anyone is better served by opening google's client-server stuff.
Really, try FlashDevelop. It works well in Wine, and there's a beta version of it that works with Mono.
They don't have to be "ok" with it; the question is does their trademark extend to names that are "sort of like" their name FaceBook. I don't think so.
The fact is they trademarked "Facebook", not "book". Very clearly this is a frivolous lawsuit and scare tactic borrowed from McDonald's who started suing every company and brand name that started with "Mc".
Hmm, that might be fun to hack on...

One problem will be that AMQp is much more complicated than Stomp, and exposes a set of primitives for which there is no good analogue in Stomp -- notably bindings and queues as first class, client manipulable, items.

It should be possible to choose some reasonable behavior though and go with it. Ah, where is my copious free time!?