skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'But, "it's no problem, just give live shows" is a stupid answer. At best, it's a non general enough one.'

Hear, hear. This is a problem I've, of late, being trying to sort out, and would love to hear success stories about musicians or musical outfits that have a viable business without having to tour.

OTOH, I have no problem with selling related product; in fact, I found the idea compelling, especially non-traditional delivery means.

But not so much T-shirts and the standard rock memorabilia. "Art" objects, physical things that are interesting in their own right, whether it be some aspect of CD/DVD/USB/SD packaging or something more out there.
That is indeed an interesting idea. I'm not sure about this promise though:
"YOU remain in control of them, so you never end up starring in your own sex tape scandal if a nasty breakup occurs."

I'm guessing most people would be uploading video from their hard drive or camera, as opposed to having the site capture it live via webcam, so that means that the media still resides somewhere besides the online site. I'm not sure people would actually delete their hard copy, and thus there'd still be a risk of a sex tape scandal.
I probably wouldn't pay for a Chrome extension. I might, however pay for a service that is accessed through a browser extension.
Boehner to livestream opening day of new Congress on Facebook
> No, but you had to have had $10B to transfer.

No, I would have had to have just $1B (it gets tossed back and forth--with interest given to the Fed). Also, the Fed doesn't need the $1B, it can create it and then destroy it when it's deposited back. It's electronic these days, so a number is incremented and decremented in a database.
I tend to buy things that solve a problem correctly and add value to my life.

How I spend my money doesn't rely on "what it is" in any way. Is it a "Chrome Extension"? "Standalone Product"? Doesn't matter.

I don't "expect" something to be free, but I'm happy when some things are. But if I find a Chrome extension that is $99, but it solves my problem perfectly, then $99 it is, and I may just buy it.
What's your price point? If you made something that truly added value I appreciated, I'd pay $1-3. It'd have to be really awesome to sell for more than $3 though.

I can't speak for others, but I'd be primarily looking for value-added, not slick/cool/usability.
Yes, but it would need to be something that is really cool or game-changing. Audiotool is a perfect example of this, although I would prefer a freemium model, or ad supported.
I wouldn't pay more than 30 dollars, and I would want a trial period.
Love their home page.

"We are a professional organization serving as a solutions provider to the U.S. government."

No doubt.
> Using it to get sex is not what I consider "greater good".

Helping smart people procreate could be considered "greater good"
Yes, I would pay for an extension if it was valuable (eg: historio.us) however not for your idea. Voted yes though, as per poll q.
Actual link: http://mixpanel.com/internships/
Wow. Which - of - those - things - is - not - like - the - othhhhers?

[edit after downvote: it was the foie gras].
Why you ask? Because it won't be believed otherwise. Causal proofs of a statistical nature aren't math proofs. They aren't, generally at least, proving fundamental relations that resist all dispute. Rather they are simply persuasive.

To be persuaded of something you already strongly believe is far easier than something you don't believe. And really the key word is persuade. It's not that people can prove the sun will come up tomorrow, but they can persuade you that it will.
.
Works on My machine certification -- we are all guilty of this at some point.
Lisp vs Scheme [pdf]
Oh nice ! I for some reason thought google exposed Pageranks only through their toolbar and that one needed to be logged in.
I find that when I'm focused on something, I tend to completely ignore outside world, that thing doesn't really exist -- I'm completely inside code/sketch/whatever. Appreciation from the outside world is something I couldn't really care less about, as the fantasy becomes reality.

I think that a healthy balance between living in fantasy and real world, as well as perfecting tools for connecting fantasy and reality is the key.
It's simply the way Bayesian statistics work: if the prior probability of something happening is very low, then for me to flip from thinking "didn't happen" to "did" it will take some new information that is very powerful.

If you think that's illogical, I'd ask you to consider why a teacher is more likely to accept the excuse "my dog ate my homework" than "aliens kidnapped me and stole it". You seem to be arguing that given that the evidences are equal (a mere statement from a kid), the teacher should properly consider both occurrences to be equally likely.
> I've done it back in the day in the 90s on chatrooms

In the late 80's I did something similar with a Minitel-based chat system. It required a bunch of computers and a couple phone lines.
He sounds like a genuinely nice guy, and I think it's great he's trying to turn his life around. I'm seriously considering trying to find him a project. His voice is simply to great to pass up.
UPDATE: No response from support@zoneedit.com in the time frame they established. I've moved on and found Zerigo meets my current needs.
It seems to me the woman would only be impressed by his resourcefulness, and flattered, if he told her how he got her in a joking way over dinner. I, personally, would be impressed if a woman did it.
Yeah... Google thinks that too ;)
Why would people come back to a landing page littered with ads, more than once every few months?
While the term "artist" is of dubious applicability, Justin Bieber built his career on YouTube and the labels came to him with no leverage.
Android's VM can improve perf-wise - see http://blogs.oracle.com/javaseembedded/2010/11/how_does_andr...
This is one double-blind test that would be fairly easy to do with friends.

Try it at home, kids?
Working with OS X and Emacs
If everyone thought the way you do, we'd still be paying taxes to the King.
Physical objects can't be reconfigured via the net. My cellphone can; I could use Chrome2Phone to direct it to a page containing a script causing my phone to reformat its data card, for example.
I wouldn't pay a single penny. Purely and simply because I can't be bothered to set up another payment method. I didn't do it on my Blackberry, nor my Nexus for this precise reason.
I believe what the saying means is this: If a theory X is accepted as true, then that implies that some amount of reasonable evidence exists in support of X. If we are to prove ~X, then we must show not only evidence in favor of ~X but also explain why the evidence in favor of ~X is stronger than the evidence in favor of X (e.g. using better instruments results in more precise measurements). The new evidence must be more "extraordinary" in the sense that it must be strong enough to overturn the evidence in support of the "ordinary claim".

The line "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is just more poetic than the paragraph above.
> If you were forced to choose between eating 100g of a random "chemical" [man-made] molecule, or 100g of a naturally occurring molecule, you would be much better off with the latter.

How about some supporting evidence? (I assume that you're excluding man-made molecules which are also found in nature, but if you're not, please explain where you're putting them and why.)
Good example. I wasn't aware he did everything on his own. I've been to see him live and the crowds are always large and very excited.
So you think maybe that by being paired with sodium in a salt, the glutamic acid that occurs naturally in many of the most popular natural foodstuffs in the world might "set peoples brains on fire" (see above)?
My answer is No, I wouldn't pay for something that should be included in the browser itself as a feature, especially when the browser is free to begin with. Everyone form my cable/Internet provider to my cell phone companies are charging me for everything I want to do, and most of those charges should really be standard features.

I think the path to riches on creating extensions lies in marketing the features to browser makers (from the companies that actually make money) like Microsoft and Google, so that they can eventually integrate your add-ons into their browsers for a fee, or better yet, buy you out altogether. That's the way to monetize that idea. If you put a price on your extension, chances are that you're also shooting yourself in the foot because your reach will only be to people who would pay. Unless its of course a revolutionary feature that no-one can live without. I'm a web designer and I think Firebug for FF is great, but if it had a price on it, I'd probably never care to know about it because its not "that" essential to me.
The main difference is that things will be much simpler and clearer. He's being paid _exactly_ so the company can say "we want [abc]". If [abc]s get too big or not important enough for Rich, he can also stop renewing the contract.
Knowing their targets well and distracting the competition is "morally wrong"?

If, for nothing else, the guy stands out for cleverness.
It would have to either be something that would make me money, save me money, or save me time.

I'd probably pay a few bucks for FlashBlock, since it saves me a lot of time (by keeping my computer running nice and quick when I have a ton of tabs open).
I would pay for a Chrome extension that adds value in a way that no free alternative is able to add it.
AF4 And Intuitive Versus Rational Time Management
What are the foods you eat that you perceive as containing a lot of added MSG? Maybe there's something else they have in common. Insulin responses can easily and predictably give you a headache.
its the number of points you get on comments or submission. Like, the submission you made has about 54 points or so, that is about 53 people upvoted it.

Anyway, I did not mean any offense. I think it was a fairly genuine question.

I think your point about testing and 'living' by the data is spot on, though, I have no idea how I would find out whether it was a male who clicked or a female and what age group they are.

I also think that what's cool and new about what you said is the custom tailoring to each country or age group or all of that combined, based on different times, etc.

Isn't that almost kind of tricking your customers into clicking though? I mean, what does your google friend/google publishing manager say of it?

And, 0.28 cent per click needs 1000 clicks to go to 280 which, with a click through rate of 3% translates to about 35 thousand visitors. You can get 35,000 visitors on $25?

I do actually like your site though. I managed to go right to the end at which point clicking on the button would not bring up any more sentences. I think at that point a lot of people would be tempted to click the ad or facebook like. I was ha.

But yeah, I like the site and thanks for sharing. As for your question as to how to get more people to visit it, I think one way may be to put up an e-mail this, and then give your visitors an easy way to enter loads of email addresses of their friends. Its sharable stuff, especially for teens.
The poster you responded to, was suggesting that a decent designer could be matched to the project before the majority of the work takes place.

This makes sense.

If you have a competition - the amount of effort expended is far greater, and much of that combined effort will have been spent for nothing.

--

There's a commonly held assumption that design takes only a little bit of effort, and that it's so remarkably fun that little or no reward is required by its practitioners.

This assumption is wrong, and even if it wasn't .. what's the point in creating a design that stands a very good chance of not being used?
A couple of ideas:

- increase your price (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639712).

- consider partnering with sites that you select to send you traffic and give them a kickback of for instance $20 / signup.
If I remember correctly, it's got something do with underscores being easily mistaken for spaces, especially when part of an underlined URL.
The author cites immutability as a large concern for using Scala. Immutability is pretty easy in Scala - use vals (like final in Java) and persistent datastructures (which have the same API as mutable objects), so I don't think this is a valid concern. Almost everything I write is immutable.

I'm not very familiar with Erlang, but I thought mutability was pretty easy to achieve there. Maybe it's the messages that have to be immutable? Could someone clarify?
I think there are two parts to what you're saying: "chemical" molecules are, as I said elsewhere in this thread, are better described as artificial or synthetic. We agree on that, but I disagree that it's reasonable to be wary of chemicals - it's a triumph of rubbish marketing.

The other part is the assumption that "natural" molcules are inherently better. There is no difference between naturally-occuring vitamin C vs synthetic vitamin C. Also, there are lots of naturally-occuring molcules you don't want in you.
I think it would be in Google's interest to start some sort of certification program/or requirement that ensures that any device with their logo on it also can run a user installed vanilla straight-from-Google version of Android without the gunk.

That would accelerate crappification as carriers would rather remove the Google logo and apps than remove their crapware. The idea that Google can somehow force carriers to do what they don't want to do is admirable, but it won't work (maybe it would have worked in 2008 when Verizon/Sprint/T-Mobile were desperate for an iPhone alternative). If Google wants vanilla Android phones to reach non-developers they're going to have to make them (and market them, and set up a retail distribution chain, and maybe an MVNO) themselves.
> mating has always been an arms race to some extent, and that's not going to change.

Well. At least we are past the kidnapping and rape stage that was still common a couple centuries ago...
Especially since I'm using CR-48, you better believe I would pay for an extension of business value to me. I would not pay for anything fun or personal.
About a year ago there was a rash of pessimistic opinion articles on how technology has done little to nothing to further education in the U.S., and that attempts to modernize schools have mostly failed.

But a couple of months ago I came home from work early and my kids, 3 and 5, who are home-schooling, were both sitting in front of computers learning the alphabet and arithmetic, respectively, and having a blast. My wife was monitoring them and preparing the 5 year old's language lesson from a curriculum she found online.

The thought struck me that technology may have done very little for traditional education, but it just may have completely revolutionized education for my kids. I'm excited that they'll be able to explore any interest they have in a depth that was unavailable to me as a child for lack of resources.
The question was 'obstacles in the way of taking a porn company public', as far as I know there are none (legal or reporting wise).

I don't know why a porn company going public would be any less 'real' than any other company.

1999 was an easier time for IPOs but not an easier time to make money online. Don't mistake the money that was pumped in to the market for turnover, there are many more people making cold hard cash online now than there ever were in 1999.

The one problem with porn as a business is that the number of potential exits is very limited, another problem is that the market is very fragmented which will likely limit the size of the players.
Intel Sandy Bridge, disappoints on Linux
Wait, let me get this straight. $2B in revenue is not 'sizeable' ?
It's probably worth mentioning that if you think RockMelt will be a big deal, it may be a good idea to make your extension blend in naturally with the Rockmelt UI since it is built on top of Chromium and is compatible with Chrome apps and extensions.

If you want more feedback you should setup a google form where we can give you our e-mail to beta test your app. Ever since I started using @byoogle's disconnect extension I've been trying to find more "killer apps" to use.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" -- and I wouldn't count these small studies as extraordinary.

Unfortunatley, publishing these kind of claims prematurely help the more gullible among us to fall for ridiculous claims from psychics and others who would take advantage of them. (The authors of "The Secret", I'm looking at you.)

Commenters on NPR's website (not exactly the dumbest audience online) have already shown this problem; "All of you criticizing this need to open up your minds" and "The future, as well as the past, influence our dreams."
Ask HN: Why is Google not offering real time analytics?
Google Analytics is undoubtedly one of the advanced free solutions but not being a real time platform definitely sets it back. It has been so long and i am wondering why Google is not offering real time tracking (may be with premium accounts, if not for free). Infrastructure might be a bottleneck but is it the only reason? GA might be mammoth in size when compared to Mixpanel or Chartbeat but how are these companies addressing the scaling issues?
Are any of those dealbreakers though? There are all sorts of non-tech things that go on in the classroom and can't be controlled other than by the "old fashioned" method of the teacher looking around. I'd be really surprised if a student ever needed to have their tablet on for six full hours out of the day - my kids are only in school for 7 hours total, and if you take out lunch, PE, recess, bathroom breaks, and time without textbooks open, I'd guess they'd only need about 3-4 hours max (they certainly don't have to use it during the ride home). And is the parental control situation any different with iPad than with any other computer? Anyway, I'm not saying that iPads are necessarily right to replace textbooks (maybe, maybe not - I'd be way more excited about using them in school in other ways besides), but these reasons don't seem like serious problems to me.
The US Govt bought things, but it didn't tell folks what to build (for other people).

Govts like to pick winners. So do companies, but with companies, only one has to hit for society to win.
The list mentioned in the article was about Trader Joe's.
Wow. Good point. Please stop talking before you convince the courts to mandate auto-phone-search at traffic stops.
Another good anecdote along those lines: http://www.metafilter.com/47719/unite-and-take-over#1147083
Facebook to Live Stream US Congress Opening Tomorrow
And I was thinking 1% was too generous. My guess would be more like .01% to convert.
Elsewhere they say the industry standard is 3 months average length of a membership. It properly takes that long (maybe not consecutive) if not more for somebody to get of the dating market permanently. A porn site has little chance of going viral (who wants their facebook status to be "John is browsing cocksuckersluts.com"?) and almost no chance of an upsell - but I know that people share recommendations of online dating sites and when there they are an excellent place to send people to other partners (looks like you are going on a date! Do you want to buy flowers and reserve a table for two at a romantic dinner?) something that is not likely to happen on a porn site.
The problem with Wordpress isn't the choice of data store, and I say that as someone who uses and loves MongoDB. Wordpress itself is relatively slow and inefficient in a number of places. It doesn't come with any appreciable caching built in out of the box. It makes bad assumptions about the amount of data you're going to be dealing with. Various plugins are naive and trash your performance.

While it'd be neat from a curiosity standpoint to see Wordpress running on a NoSQL database, it wouldn't magically make Wordpress "web scale". PHP is slow and memory-hungry, and if you don't aggressively cache your pages, you couldn't easily scale Wordpress even if you had a magical infinitely fast data store.
Pretty big privacy risk, no matter what the website says.
Clustrix hiring systems developers
The first thing I've noticed about Android was the overall slugishness of UI animation. And the guy who was showing it to me was amazed by the smoothness of my iPhone 3G UI. BUT YES OF COURSE NOBODY CARES.
I am not sure if it's on purpose but the div with the text "class4" in it actually has the class set to "class3" and the div with "class3" is actually set to "class4". Also I found it unintuitive to click a selector on the left and then have to click "css editor" from the menu bar v.s. clicking/dbl clicking on the selector and seeing that dialog.
The overwhelming usage would probably come through the extension and a site would compliment it as a dashboard.
Is Google poised to take over NFC-based mobile payments?
Great. Youtube-style annotations as advertising using an ipad synced with a video player to augment your tv screen?

I really don't get it. I honestly can't see a use for this that isn't incredibly annoying (like youtube annotations). I also don't see what the point of even having a tv in the equation if they are going to be paying attention to an ipad screen. Or why they would want to bother with the ipad if they were already watching tv.

It really seems like a lot of extra work just to have more intrusive advertising.
I did something similar to this, though much smaller, a while back, using (parts of) JavaScript as the host "functional" language, just as a thought experiment.

http://roboprogs.com/devel/2010.06.html#2010_06_02

It's interesting how much easier it is to assemble functionality with closures in many cases, when all you want is to initialize ("construct") something that you are going to make one (1) call to, or at least one kind of call, repeatedly. Interesting? Maybe obvious.

For a class with many methods, I think OOP does have value, but one does get tired of it being presented as the One Way.
The closest thing Erlang has to mutability is the process dictionary (get() and set()), which can be thought of as a sort of memcache for each process. Native variables themselves are immutable, without exception.

Unless you have a really good reason, using the process dictionary is generally frowned upon.
I'm not the average user but it would have to add significant value. I haven't started using the browser as my main application even though most of the services I use are web based. I expect the application to provide much of the utility and I'm not personally interested in aggregation services.

That being said, for a killer productivity tool I might pay but I would question wether a chrome extension is the right venue.
so what you are saying is that coolstuff.com's servers must always look for a signature from auth.com when they are accepting user data, they cannot trust the user input. That makes sense. So does facebook connect, google, etc. have this? I assume not.
Wow, the word retyping test seems like a total scam. Of course you're better able to recall words after a test in which you were already better able to recall those words. It's called memory. Correlation, not causation, as the maxim goes.
Has anyone investigated Dean Radin's work? It demonstrates similar statistical effects in a huge number of experiments. He has put forth quantum entanglement as the explanation.
Revenge of the Know-It-Alls 
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/egoboo.html
The poll is the important part, I'm glad you voted.
It being in a virtual machine doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the problems; Audio/video sync in lots of flash content doesn't even work properly outside of virtual machines.
Contract and temp jobs may blunt IT hiring increases
It sounds like you are looking for Erlang ;)

Not knowing anything about your problem domain, of course...