skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something we put together back in '98 and one of the guys still keeps it running: http://www.imood.com It's not what you would call "well designed", but it was fun back in the day and managed to get a bunch of users back then.
1 - Good points. There is a setting to require customers to confirm appointments via email. If not confirmed within 1 hour, the appointment automatically cancells itself.
The demographic transition has been observed in many different races and cultures, as parents deliberately have fewer children as their confidence increases in the survival of those children (and the parents' own subsistence in old age). If wanting more babies were a heritable biological drive, we wouldn't see whole societies ignoring it immediately after it became economically rational to do so. Instead evolution took the easy way out and created drives for sex and for nurturing babies, because those are immediate experiences an animal can respond to. We've given contraception a bunch of cultural baggage, but there is no drive against using it any more than there is a drive against overeating processed sugar, because neither existed in the environment that shaped us.
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Annoying to have to dig the link out of the twitter section.
I think sample images would do a lot for you. Some sort of detailed description would be helpful too, because I had no idea what the app did until I used it, and if I had to pay for it first I would probably just not use it.

Also, when you upload an animated .gif the different colors seem to uncover different frames of the image, which confused me for a minute.

---Edit---
It looks like this http://ompldr.org/vNzFpaw
Finally, some love for the Gleec.
At the risk of coming across spammy, I'm the founder of a web service called Geckoboard [1] that might be useful here.

It integrates with 3rd party services such as Google Analytics, Freshbooks, Pingdom, Mixpanel, Zendesk, Uservoice etc. and we're pushing out new connections regularly.

Where it might be useful for you is that we also have an API that allows you to use your own scripts to get data that's in your database onto the status board. You create a script that outputs XML or JSON in a certain format, add a widget to your Geckoboard that's configured to poll your script at regular intervals (support for webhooks is coming) and the data appears on your dashboard that's accessible anywhere you can get on the web.

We're in private beta but will be offering paid plans very soon. I'll reiterate my open offer to HNers: if you would like to check it out the beta then just use the email address in my profile and tell me your HN handle.

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I love the idea of developing in the cloud with only js and a db api. The option to "view page source" makes each js app kind of "open" and more trustable. Thanks for sharing pageforest.
"What has government done to our money" by Murray Rothbard

It's available free in pdf and audio from mises.org.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie...
I never understand how sites like that convert. To me it screams scam. I think this is more likely proof that horrifically ugly pages don't convert.

I suspect the reason video converts so much better is because of how horrid the page is to begin with.

ORIGINAL: http://www.sixpackabsexercises.com/

VIDEO: http://www.sixpackabsexercises.com/getsixpackabs

The real question should be how much would the conversion rate increase if he placed a photoshopped cheque from Google next to his abs?
This is the previous study that was cited in the article: http://phobias.about.com/od/research/a/snakeandspidpho.htm

(I'm sure I read it in the dead-tree version on the New Scientist but can't find it now).

What's interesting is that the children simply paid more attention to spider/snake-like shapes rather than actually fear them. This seems to have been the case with both of my children who have been fascinated by spiders from an early age and will spot them from across the room. I encourage the curiosity and discourage the fear (we're in Ireland after all).

For some reason, I think it's more plausible that we have a genetic predisposition to pay attention to spiders/snakes rather than the emotional fear response. Perhaps that distinction isn't present in crickets?
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Edit: I'm not sure if the one who posted this is the author of the post, but this is directed at the author.

It seems to be a nice idea to connect philosophy to Lisp, but it is too short, it lacks coherent arguments and it jumps from one proposition to another without finishing the previous one.

For example, when you explain what you think philosophy is, you cannot simply cast aside everything after Socrates as irrational absolutism (Descartes' "evil demon" certainly is not irrational.) You need to explain why you think it is irrational.

Also, where is your evidence for claims such as "It would follow that the greater the fidelity a programming language has to these mathematical concepts and the more it builds upon them then the more powerful the programming language will be." and "History provides the evidence in that there is no other programming language that has done this better than Lisp."

Also, "Sound philosophy demanded that these mathematical concepts be tested by evidence, logic and rigor from some very basic premises that were built up to more complex and powerful structures of thought which were proved to be true.
" So how did one prove these structures of thought to be true?
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Wow. Looks like you have outsourced every imaginable job when there's a webservice for it.
Are you doing this because of bad experiences when servicing your own or did you do this from the start? Did you compare the running costs/reliability between outsourcing and self administration with a positive result into outsourcing?
Sites that break the back button like that make me want to do bad things to them. (http://www.sixpackabsexercises.com/iflshvid.html)
It's too soon to blame this on Zugo, unless you know more than was stated in the article. As far as we know, they're just a custom toolbar distributor, like Conduit and many other companies. How many people away they are from the affiliate buying the ads, how many people away they are from the company paying that affiliate, and whether any terms and conditions in-between forbid tricking people into installs are all unknowns.
Well, the long salesletter format websites are poles apart from slick UI you see on most HN startups or web apps. But the audience for these websites is VERY different and they do convert.

All these techniques have been employed by direct mail and infomercial for years. Long sales letter website is just a manifestation of those techniques on the web.
When I was asking about startups in Canada in HN a few weeks ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060383), I got a very negative picture basically stating that tech startups do not exist in CA.
I agree with the sentiment but dams can only do so much. In particular, dams don't absorb water, they move the problem somewhere else. There may be enough unused room outside Brisbane, I don't now the situation, but in any area of sufficient population density that won't be the case, unless you want 10 meter high dams throughout your country side.

In the Netherlands where I live, dams are combined with controlled flooding areas. The dams should hold most of the time, but the system is designed in such a way that once in 20-50 years when there is too much water it can be directed to low value areas like farm fields.

That's logical to an engineer, but it takes serious political courage to build a dam in the middle of an area where there is no water to account for a once in 50 year event, and even more courage to declare one side of that dam as "lower value". It makes economic sense though, 10 meter high dams are very expensive (and ugly), more expensive than rebuilding a few houses every generation.
Ask HN: What is the best way to monetize international traffic?
I have a site that is getting a lot of international traffic as well as national. Specifically from India and Persia. What are some recommendations for monetizing international web traffic? I am planning on using Amazon affiliate links for the US, but I am under the impression that these will not work for international traffic.
You're right - I mis-read the article as saying Zugo was the advertiser. My previous comment has been edited to make the same statement about Make-my-baby.com
Ah! I'm pretty sure that's the site I recalled when I learned about smyface. Small world!
Interesting. I think most of this stuff is not a core competency for a startup.

I guess my responses are:

1. Zendesk
We needed a good system, not really outsourcing of support. So, we do our support in-house but we use the Zendesk SaaS system to manage it.

2. GetSatisfaction
As above.

3. SendGrid
Email deliverability was not a piece of expertise we had in-house, especially when we were 2-3 people. Now we're 10-ish, our sysadmin guys STILL don't want to do this stuff.

4. MailChimp
Hand-coding HTML emails more than once was boring.

5. Apigee
This is something we were on the fence about. The metrics visualization probably swung it.

6. String
No-brainer :)

7. ExpressionEngine
Still a bit of friction in the decision between self-coding or using EE. But it's the 'annoying' stuff that swings it like plugin availability for new functionality, rather than do-it-yourself.

8. Chartbeat
Couldn't do this ourselves.

9. Mint
Could do this ourselves, too cheap to bother.

10. PivotalTracker
As above.

11. Salesforce
Industry standard, makes sense to outsiders, reliable.

12. RightSignature
Awesome. No point building ourselves. Legal worries too if we did.

13. Gotomeeting
Yeah no way we want to build this.

14. Xero
The non-enterprise stuff we do is billed through our own app. But Xero makes sense for invoicing and proper accounts. Risk is, if you build it yourself, you need to know GAAP inside-and-out AND still it's a concern for outside auditors I think.

15. Dropbox
Yeah no way.

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Well, we could get an intern to go to the mom&pop store every week. But no.
I'll say it again, Facebook is making ephemeral cash flows which bolster more investment and thus attention and thus more ephemeral cash flows. Facebook is a ponzi scheme: http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme .
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I've been trying to stay out of this. I'm a woman, and a former homemaker/homeschooling mom. I originally wanted three kids but stopped at two, largely for health reasons but also for other reasons. I have an older sister who had serious fertility problems. She went through fertility treatments on and off over 8 years with two different husbands, which is considered to be a rather tough case (often just changing partners resolves the problem). In contrast, I seemed to get pregnant at the drop of a hat. I've done a lot of reading on women's issues and thinking on topics like this because the truth is I never planned on being a full-time parent for so long. I wanted to be home while my kids were little and then go pursue a career. But I had undiagnosed health issues, special needs kids and a military spouse, so I had a lot of obstacles to pursuing a career.

I have noticed patterns like: A career military wife has two kids, they both start school, she is still in no position to pursue a real career and is basically bored and lonely. So she has a third child to fill that empty void, because it is the only real viable option that satisfies her needs to be occupied and feel useful/valued and also fits into her current life -- which she can't conveniently dismantle or walk away from. If there weren't enormous obstacles to her pursuing a real career at that point, she might have done that instead.

I don't think the divergence of two types or groups of women has anything to do with "some women really want kids and some don't". I think it has a lot more to do with "some situations, once you get into them, are incredibly difficult to get out of". This cuts both ways: Not only is it very challenging to try to establish and pursue a career (as opposed to just getting a job) once you've had kids, it is also very hard to try to fit in kids once you've established a real career. Women who strongly want both and get adequate support for doing that tend to end up in "pink collar" jobs, thus in most cases really aren't on the same footing with the typical male career. I don't think this involves any male conspiracy to oppress women or any female ambitions to be supermoms. I think it is rooted in the simple fact that a serious career and a child are both similarly demanding obligations which you cannot simply and easily walk away from, limit the demands made on you and so forth -- so they compete for your time, energy and other resources in a way that makes it difficult to do both. For some people it is harder than others. If we can find a cultural means to resolve or ameliorate this fundamental conflict, then you will see fewer women choosing one or the other.
Next thing you know people will be making 'free' browsers just to capitalize on the search revenue.
Haha, that reminds me of something I wrote a while back, as an exercise while learning Django... Perhaps I could still put it online somewhere... :)
Are you on a slow connection? Has always seemed fine here. Or perhaps that s3 bucket is not near your part of the world, so a bit slower for you than me
Another reason to stay away from clicking anything inside Facebook. Once I though they were amazing, now sadly I can see that as many other companies it is just money, no matter how.
Assange asked the US government to specify which names and identities should be anonymized prior to the leak, but the US refused to cooperate.
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Luckily as humans we can fight the logistic death phase after the singularity 'period'. Fight it with more and more superior AIs; perhaps something like what Adams envisioned.

But we'll most likely lose to ourselves. It's a M.A.D. world.
I prefer to stay anonymous on here, but I can be reached by this same username on Gmail if anyone wants to know more.

I'll just say that it's a very simple skill-based, text-based multiplayer race-against-others game (something like a multiplayer speed Scrabble). It has almost no graphics and uses AJAX.

how is it not earning a livable wage with 2 million users?

It's livable if you have very low expenses, but in my limited experience, 2 million users just aren't enough for a free website to make good money. Maybe I'm hugely under-monetizing the site somehow, but I don't really see a good source of revenue other than from ads.
Warren Buffet became one of the richest people in the world based on ephemeral cash flows. (See Berkshire Hathaway and buying for cashflow)

You realize that the amount of cash printed is insufficient to even pay back the US Debt. The economy for the most part is a ponzi scheme. It will only stop working when the birth rate slips below the death rate, and at that point humanity is on a timeline. As Keynes said, 'in the long run we're all dead'.

The primary question with Facebook is how much more revenue they can suck up. Thats what's driving the crazy valuations and so far they haven't stopped booking revenue.
Not all the good stuff. Project Coin is a much needed feature, more specifically multi-catch, switch over strings and resource management.
If you donate at Crown they will match your donation. Probably have to physically be here though.
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I recommend Piwik for real-time statistics alternative to Google Analytics. It's free also.
Yeah I've seen the stats on that kind of stuff. It's mind baffling.

It makes one ponder if you had an infinitely long sales letter whether it would result in infinite sales. Will people just buy stuff if you speak to them long enough?
The problem with that is the relative performance. If you have no shot at being top 20% all you need to do to survive is pick one of four peers and "outperform" him or her. No wonder cutting throats occurred...
I think its cool. :)

Here's a suggestion though. Seeing as its an appointment making service basically most companies would like to have this service through their own sites.

So, it would be rad if you made a javascript plugin that your clients can pop in their own sites so that their clients can make appointments right from their own site.
A browser used by the user for browsing the is huge distances away from browser plugins that hijack the home page for purposes unrelated to the initiating task.
So he basically says that there will be no "general AI" because he studied the field and can't see how it can work, duh! :)
The key is "hook". You see such web pages have impossible-sounding headlines which interest visitor and then the first paragraph is arousal of interest. Then testimonials (with photographs). Bonuses. Money back guarantees. They employee every trick in Human Psychology 101!
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I really liked this quote:
"Between the incredible growth of casual games that arguably do little for the collective human experience but consume a growing amount of it each day... it's hard sometimes to take Facebook seriously when it says it wants to bring people together and make the world a better place."
I'm using critsend.com - it's just "pay as you go", not a monthly fee. $1/1000, with discounts as you go up in credit purchases. I've had no problems with them in the last year or so. No - I take that back - the bounce stats data was 'lost' from my display for a couple days, but the retrieved it and added it back in. Happened once, IIRC - generally nice people, and there's an IRC channel for help if you want that (in addition to standard other help channels).
Gmail does this as well. Our outbound mail to Gmail accounts was just disappearing until we fixed a reverse DNS record.
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Perhaps bing works better when searching for baby face making sites.

http://ask.metafilter.com/70731/Why-is-Google-Toolbar-bundle...

I've certainly seen Google's toolbar bundled with pretty much anything not related to searching the web. Yes, it's easier to remove, but it's damn annoying after clicking Next Next Next, that Google Toolbar is installed.

Also, you'd never find a shitty site like baby-face-maker or whatever advertising on Google.
What I like the most about Org syntax is that it gives you a framework
to plan your tasks by using nothing but text. For example:

- [%] Task 1

+ [X] Task a

+ [ ] Task b //C-c on this task will check this an calculate the %

+ [ ] Task c

Plus, it has comments. I haven't researched enough but I cannot
remember of any other syntax that has comments.

# Fix this paragraph later...

* Why I like Org syntax

When you export this to latex, post it to wordpress or with org2blog, etc...
the comments won't be shown. Very useful.
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> Also, "Sound philosophy demanded that these mathematical concepts be tested by evidence, logic and rigor from some very basic premises that were built up to more complex and powerful structures of thought which were proved to be true. " So how did one prove these structures of thought to be true?

There is some excellent essays answering the points you raise here in some of the Less Wrong sequences. Rather then butcher them here I will just point you to the "Map and Territory" sequence going into the subject "What is truth?", "Can we determine truth?", etc. the essays are here: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Map_and_Territory_(sequence)
That's fair to say. Any comprehension is understanding even if it is just rote learning of single words to commands.

You're right, just because the dog doesn't understand 50+ words for 'drink' (water, coke, pepsi, coffee, tea, etc etc.) doesn't mean it isn't understanding in the same comprehension as if you got a 3 year old to bring you a 'drink'.

I don't know what I was thinking, I must have been in a state of sleep deprived idiocy. The simple fact you can teach a dog in human linguistics to sit when you say 'sit' signifies its understanding. You wouldn't get this response in an animal that all its communication skills are genetically encoded.

I remember reading about how Native Americans used to hunt Wolves with pitfall traps and how wolves would teach their young how to avoid the traps, like they would hunt a deer, they can also do the same with poisoned meats. These clearly show wolves are capable of understanding abstract concepts. Unless sink holes are a natural predator of wolves I doubt there's a genetic cue for "you see that flat piece of ground, you'll fall through that into a big pit" or "you see that steak, that's poisoned, but the one sat on the side of that metal contraption in their yard isn't!"

I was thinking of understanding along the lines that we can understand multiple meanings and abstract ideas. However, 1:1 learning is still understanding, and clearly Canis Lupis is capable of learning abstract ideas so a dog certainly has the ability to (even if we have to rebreed it into the species).
I haven't yet heard any critic of Singularity religion claim that strong AI is never possible.

What we are skeptical of is that we need just a little bit of development and strong AI will take-off just like that without any regard to physical world constraints.
A cursory Google search would seem to imply it begins with a "T"? You might wish to reconsider the depth of your anonymity.
Afaik I've never seen a single impression of that ad.

It would be interesting to know whether their ad targeting algorithm has me as in the unlikely to be interested in baby pictures demographic or in the people that have previously reported scammy ads demographic...

To be fair, hijacking ad click revenue seems a lot less underhand than some of the "Scamville" advertisers...
what a load of BS
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Thanks! I really like this model too.
Good technical summary. I would like to point out couple of things:

1) Most (if any?) Western Europeans does not use ASCII. (UK being an exception.)

2) There are no reason to use ASCII if your program handles any kind of textual input. Not even English can be properly represented by ACII, because it can contain foreign names, brands, loan-words etc. with non-ASCII characters. ASCII with its arbitrary 7-bit limit was invented in 1960 when computer resources were extremely limited. Always deploy Unicode, whether your application is English-only or not.