skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has actually done porn, I can confirm this. It optimistically works out to more like 200 an hour (for women), or at least that's how it was about 5 years ago. Obviously rates varied based on how rich the company was, but you couldn't be picky because work was spotty. I once only got paid $200 for an hour of caning which left my butt bruised for two weeks.

The worst part is that it's a lot of work to find constant work unless you have a really good manager or you're famous. Sure, the hours are short, but I found that having stable hours and not having to live shoot pay check to shoot pay check is preferable, even if it's a considerably lower hourly wage.

(Much like contract programming work!)
There's a free version of the app on the Android Marketplace that uses a TTS engine but we're about to bust some magic up in that bitch so it doesn't sound like an 80-year-old smoker ('scuse my french). There might be a paid version coming up soon, depending on how some stuff tests. iPhone app is in the works (timeframe in the magnitude of weeks), so is blackberry. We're trying to hit every platform -- so we do want to live on your computer too.
A great social resource for getting good restaurant recommendations in an unfamiliar city. Would be a great and fun addition to any conference.
I saw a link on hacker news to this article on how to sleep five hours a day[1]. Since following this advice, my life is really much better. Like Steve I set a fixed wake up time (5am) and go to sleep whenever I'm tired. I use a lamp that slowly turns on leading up to 5am and always get out of bed right at 5am and immediately make tea first thing. Then I use the computer or read in front of the 10,000 lux lamp. I probably don't do every single thing in the blog post, and I'm actually sleeping more like 6 hours a day, but still less than before.

I was never a morning person before either and I always had tremendous difficulty waking up. Part of the problem is that I knew as soon as I got up I had to start getting ready for work. By waking up long before I need to get ready, I actually have something to look forward to every day, some nice relaxing time reading, having breakfast, etc. This has been the most important factor in making it work and making it a truly positive change.

1: http://blog.ernestsemerda.com/2010/08/06/sleep-5-hours-night...
It'll be forgotten in a few days.
in the "LAuNCH PAD" area (the trade show area) the startups can be launched. we sell those for $1,500 with everything (3 tickets, internet, electricity, etc).

just thought i'd give 10 away here to help fellow startups out.

the conference should break even and I won't lose more than $100,000 putting it on. heck, it probably will break even if things keep growing like they have!

if it does make a profit i'm going to put that toward angel investing at companies from the event. :-)
ThinkUp(http://thinkupapp.com/) does something similar, though with a focus on analysis. It retrieves your data from different sources (facebook, twitter) and indexes it, so you have a copy you control. Once you have a copy of your data you can present it anyway you want, see who you interact with the most, etc.
This worry could be pretty easily assuaged with good copy.

"We never, ever tell anyone who crushed on them without seeing if there's a match"

and

"See what will be posted to your crush's walls:"
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Let's make another comparison. Most of us pour everything we've got into our startups. The only difference is nobody asked us to build them, the rest of the story is the same - most people are going to waste a lot of their time and money.

Why would Johnny Designer deserve guaranteed money in this of all communities where we gamble years of our lives in the hope of getting paid? Like us he's chosen a route that only rewards a lucky few.
> Many older DBAs, and their proteges distrust query planners because of bad experiences back in the 80's and early 90's. They are sure they can do a better job, even though they can't.

I remember having cases in the past year (on Oracle 10g) where adding hints helped substantially. Since it's impossible for me to ever do better than the optimizer, I guess this must mean I've gone nuts?

> Other DBAs are lazy or labor under unrealistic deadlines. Applying a query hint is often faster and easier than diagnosing the real reason the query has a bad plan.

Hints are evil and you should never use them, even though they make your job easier.

> Ignorance and weak software play a role too: good diagnostic tools and techniques for troubleshooting bad queries did not become available until relatively recently, and most DBAs still don't know how to use them.

Instead of just telling the optimizer what to do, you should have an extensive discussion with it and attempt to persuade it with concessions so that you don't hurt its feelings.

> The developers who work on the PostgreSQL not-for-profit database project, though, have the privilege of not implementing a bad idea just because a lot of people seem to want it.

Hints offend us, and we don't care if people find them useful.

> All that aside, there are those 0.1% of pathological cases where the query planner does The Wrong Thing even when it's patently obvious what the right thing is. In our community, that usually leads to patches and improvements in the query planner and the statistics system

Not supporting hints helps us extract useful code from our users. (hey, this is an aweseome idea, I need to think how to apply it to my projects...)

> Well, one thought is a system which would allow DBAs to selectively adjust the cost calculations for queries. For example, one which allowed you to put "SELECTIVITY 0.1" after a WHERE clause to tell the planner that despite what it thinks from its statistics, that set of criteria will give you 10% of the table. Even better would be a system of fudging the statistics on database objects, to allow DBAs to indicate (for example) that using a particular index is more costly than it appears because of the poor clustering of the data or because of the complex calculated expression it uses.

Hints are normally done the wrong way, and when we say we won't implement hints we really mean we won't do them that wrong way. We think we know the right way to do hints, and we're working on implementing it.
He's talking about handling a single request.
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They haven't "hacked" anything. Those are simply subdomains. Since they prefix your whois query string in their subdomans, they are listed in the output.
Yeah, it's hard to convince people that the CRA was not responsible for the real estate collapse. There were property bubbles in Spain, Ireland, Britain, etc. The CRA was responsible for those, obviously.

It's easy and natural for one to want to collapse a complicated issue into something manageable and understandable. Even if there is no evidence for it.
This is what I was getting at in my original post: why do so many people feel the need to render a moral judgement on the behalf of others? If it's rotten, don't participate. Everyone using those sites does so of their own free will.
We're building a location-based discussion platform. Using your location, we can put you in direct communication with people around you. We're taking an anonymous approach to the concept. We're drawing inspiration from tools such as Citizen's Band radio (CB). Currently it uses a very large radius, and allows you to tag your location with an optional name. This large radius is adjusted for now, so that the concept can be played with. How this radius is defined is still in the works, but we're planning on doing this in such a way to where you at least won't ever be talking to just yourself but are still talking to local people.

Check it out, early public beta at http://geohello.com
#ywahusty: you will always have users smarter than you
you will always have users smarter than you are. respect it and engineer products accordingly.
>maxed out at 5K friends

Really????? I don't even think I met that many people in my 30+ years of life!
When you take anything to that extreme, it inevitably starts to lose some of its original meaning at some point.

The word "friend" in the context of Facebook creeps me out more and more. It devalues immensely what it really means to be someone's friend.
Racial bias in tech companies (a survey for a good cause)
I learned hypnosis, just fyi.
Ha! That doesn't surprise me at all. What's the book called?

There is an appetite to reform this stuff now, but it's hard to imagine the winners of the game when played by those rules deciding to change it dramatically.
> Microsoft refuses to allow anyway to disallow click traffic patterns involving your site

Because that information doesn't belong to the site to which it is associated, but to the user.
It doesn't have hints but you can turn off the ability for the query planner to use certain types of operations. And let me tell you that the Postgresql query planner does screw up. And the way to fix it is to turn off its ability to use certain operations and then run your query, yes it's not a hint, but it's necessary to make postgresql work.

They should change the FAQ to 'we don't have hints because we're so arrogant that we think our query planner is perfect'.
I don't know why more people don't use the "hide" feature.

I was rapidly becoming sick of Facebook. I only friended people that I'd met before, but even so it was polluted by people who I went to middle school, etc. with who I really didn't know that well even then.

Then I found the "Hide" option. I hide probably 95% of my "friends." After I did this, I LOVED using Facebook again. Every time I logged in, I was able to keep up with good friends of mine who live in other parts of the state, country, world. These are people I DO care about, often talk to in other ways, but it's a nice aggregator. If I post something, everyone that isn't directly relevant to my life can still see and comment on it, but I don't have to see their stuff.

It's perfect, it really revitalized Facebook for me and it's actually FUN to use again.
Tell HN: Enough About Bing Copying Google, Really We Get It, Move On. Thanks.
Check out http://www.feedparser.org/. It's for python and pretty robust, handles Etags and Last-Modified headers. Well documented and loads of unit tests.
You can mitigate it by restricting how many people can be matched with a single email/SN. It's hard to try and out someone out of your whole class when you can only have 3 'crushes' to use; the odds are low unless you're pretty sure you know who likes you, at which point the service is a little redundant.
Yes, but that feature still hinders SQL today. If "usability by normals" was dropped as a design requirement, SQL would look a lot more like a normal programming language, and suck a lot less.
Ask HN: my startup got acquisition interest, what's next?
Recently, my startup got acquisition interest from another large company. Did a long telephonic conversation on our vision, product, etc. and it seems they are interested in taking this to next step. They've asked for our revenue and other metrics.

Now my question:

a) Should I ask them to sign NDA?

b) Should I insist on a ball park figure first before revealing key information? (They vaugely know the number of customers we have and general product price point)

I had casually asked for a ball park figure on phone but they said they would first need to meet us face-to-face to see if it is a strong fit.
Summarizing your results, your hash table implementation is between five and ten times faster than STL and G++ generic maps, because G++, like most C++ compilers, imposes a substantial abstraction penalty on the use of templates — even though in theory that's not necessary. Is that right?
It is fantastic marketing if you ask me.
That's some top shelf snark right there.
:).

It's not really a separate pipe, its's simply the bits of information that tell the dumb pipe where/how to run. For example, the Google Docs connector knows generically how to connect to a hypothetical person's Gdocs account, but the auth credentials provide the information that is required to connect to a real person's account.

A "smart pipe" is actually a lot more like the Collections. They bring data in from sets of similar Connectors (dump pipe) and collect, de-dupe, and normalize it.
E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.
Although it's obvious, I didn't immediately consider that these sketches could be saved. Once I did, my interest in something like this grew several-fold. I love to doodle and jot notes, I miss it. Now, I can do it again...

BTW, I don't know anything about the company. Maybe it's vaporware? I just happened across this on Kottke.org. I'd love to know more.
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They have no way of knowing you've hidden them.
You don't agree women are more likely to vote for statist social programs?

Please provide some evidence for your disagreement.
did they address any of the concerns about hosted redis that you mentioned on the changelog podcast (in terms of value-add?)
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I would count myself in this category also.
I'm one of the guys behind Schoolbinder (http://myschoolbinder.com). We're more than a learning management system - we're adding learning tools that help k-12 students collaborate, share, and study better and more effectively.

We're incorporating state standards and goals and reducing the work necessary for teachers to track achievement for their students - giving them more valuable instruction time.

LAUNCH is perfect timing for us - we're getting ready to release the full goal tracking suite for teachers and schools, as well as some non-traditional ways for kids to connect.
It's pretty interesting. Do you handle Android and TV broadcast in separation? We build a hypervisor for android on omap processors (http://b-labs.com). It might be interesting to build a prototype demo for this platform.
Viralheat is doing some very interesting stuff
Well, good stuff. :) I didn't have access to a pc before uni (1998); I just ate the material up and practically memorised Deitel & Deitel's c++. I worked for so little cash programming through summer I suffered from malnutrition. I don't even know if I was natural - I just banged my head against the wall until it fell down. It really is rather rewarding :D.
Food Inc.
Although it's obvious, I didn't immediately consider that these sketches could be saved. Once I did, my interest in something like this grew several-fold. I love to doodle and jot notes, I miss it. Now, I can do it again...

BTW, I don't know anything about the company. Maybe it's vaporware? I just happened across this on Kottke.org. I'd love to know more.
Have you looked at telehash (http://www.telehash.org), a much more recent project by the same guy?

I'm impressed by how elegant the protocol is. I hate XMPP, but telehash gives me faith.
What do you mean by "expect to reveal itself"? Those rounded corners are indeed images... I did that for non-webkit browsers (i.e., IE lol). And what gives it away that they're images? It looks fine (blends in) on all 5 browsers I've tested.

I've actually shortened the descriptions 4 times to as short as I can make them while still explaining the full idea. If you can come up with shorter descriptions please help me out. :)
Completely off topic, but the ?printable=true in the url is a very nice touch
The UK spent the last 10years in a period of genuine economic growth - but still managed to increase it's national debt.

There is no limit to how much government's can spend, however they get the money!
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Right now I am an information assurance consultant. Job focus is on the policy and management side.
Any 'rules' my kids had were rooted in reality, not in mom's neurotic personal crap. "Don't run out into traffic" wasn't some "Because I won't love you anymore/what will the neighbors think?/how can you embarrass me this way???" kind of rule. It was a "because cars will hit you and maim or kill you" rule.

Two days before my 2nd child was born, my then 2 1/2 year old stood between me and his father, each of us holding one of his hands, and was told "don't cross the road without us". Being a bright, curious, strong-headed kid, this meant he promptly pulled away from two adults and dashed out into the road just to see why we saying that. He came so close to being hit by a car that he cut his finger on the side of it (well, he was hit by a car, but only his finger). The driver likely had no idea how close he came to tragedy that day. My son was so short, I don't think the driver ever saw him. I spent the next year standing on the side of the road for up to 20 minutes (in the heat, the snow, the rain) waiting for my oldest son to conclude it was now safe to cross. He needed to learn to use his own judgment to safely cross the road.

I raised my kids with an eye towards producing functional adults who could make their own decisions. That often meant putting up with inconveniences so they could internalize valuable decision-making rubrics instead of simply doing as they were told -- which really doesn't work. Even assuming I had perfect judgment (which I don't), what happens when I am not around to tell them what to do (like at daycare or school or after they grow up and move out)?
I've definitely tried quickbooks and it is a bloated, feature-ridden, trainwreck that requires weeks of training. Doing simple things like setting up categories and viewing transactions become ridiculously difficult and time consuming.

I like lessaccounting because it has some of the features we need, but it's really setup for invoice-based businesses which we are not. As such, there's no way to track things like... credit card payments that a merchant fulfills in May but were actually run against expenses in the end of April.
I think the solution is pretty simple... just be transparent and say for security reasons you can't reveal whether or not the user exists.
Maybe one of the admins are 26-30 and didn't want any competition!! I kid. :)
Also: I am interested in knowing if there is a way to do a "reverse lookup" on UPS / FedEx / USPS. For instance, I want to know: what packages are pending delivery to "1234 Main St. Anyplace, CA 91234". I think this would be extremely useful.
Myself (and many colleagues) are professional EE's. We all own soldering irons and know how to solder in the most basic sense (I'm one of the few with a hot-air rework station and a stereo microscope).

About half of the professional ME's I know either own a TIG/MIG welding system and/or know how to weld.
Yes, that's the right way to do it, but a URL that makes the user auto-login is not the same thing as actually reminding the users of their passwords. And I bet that quite a lot of people prefer getting their password in a mail instead of a weird URL thing and being forced to enter a new password.

Remember that you and me are not the main target group of a service like this.
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Yes. Even if they're in a startup, the best is usually keeping an eye on the menu, and options available (knowing your opportunity cost allows you to make more informed decisions).
Best reply I heard was an interview with a new graduate.

"We will just do what we have always done when the government fucks-up - we emigrate!"
Working with Talent markets: oDesk, Elance, Freelancer, Guru, vWorker
Tools Never Die? Yes They Do.
Please dont take this the wrong way, I'm curious to know, what motivates someone to do porn? was it money or fantasy?
http://deel.co

What's for lunch at Tony Roma's? Where can I find the latest from Nike's? Need an oil change in your neighborhood?

Save big money buying local, explore deals around you.

Sample deals here http://deel.co/deals/city/nassau
The difference is that the company actually used your ideas.
On the concern of usage based billing by ISPs
Oh, I actually do plenty of that or I wouldn't still be posting here. I'm a woman and very open about that. Women sometimes comment here that it's a tough environment for a woman. And it can be. But it's also a growth experience. If I get badly downvoted or something, I wonder why, I wonder what I can do differently, rather than just feeling burned and going away to lick my wounds.

In this case, I really think my impetus to immediately post and start asking questions is probably a bad one, a premature impetus. It will be better for me to do some of the legwork before posting and requesting feedback. I'm not a patient person. :-) So I don't really want to wait. But I think it is best, not just because I am not in a good place mentally today but for other reasons as well.
HoneyApps Raises $1 Million for Security Management Software
Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple does for all products
NewsBlur, http://www.newsblur.com, is a free web-based visual RSS feed reader with intelligence.

NewsBlur is a RSS feed reader like Google Reader, but it has three distinct advantages:

* Shows the original site (you have to see it to believe it)

* Hides stories you don't want to read based on tags, keywords, authors, etc.

* Highlights stories you want to read, based on the same criteria.

It's a very original take on RSS feed reading. It's also being built by a sole indie developer as open-source software: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur.

It's freemium, with premium accounts costing $12/year for unlimited feeds, faster updates, River of News, and access to future features like the iPhone app.

It's entirely self-funded, but it very well could become more. And it's already profitable (but most of that is going to paying for servers). Nearly 10,000 users, hundreds of daily users, and lots of very happy folks using it. But there's so much further to go and to build.

Having a table at LAUNCH would be an excellent way to meet potential investors. I'm entirely technical, but good tech means more good tech, so it's also possible to meet more developers, too.
You're responding to the quote of the comment I responded to. I've met many people who started programming late, that was my point.
Window Cling Prank Lampoons Kenneth Cole’s Cairo Gaffe
Ronald Reagan's social standing made him an idol despite a mediocre record
Charging ahead with prefixes is sure better than without.

Doing that and encouraging web authors to create public-facing sites that depend on the prefixes to work correctly (which is what Apple has been doing) is no different from Microsoft's behavior around 2001, imo.
Right now I either get infinite redirection loops for the front page, or internal server errors. Seems somebody hasn't expected so much traffic...
Sooo, how'd the relationship turn out?
this seem similar to the system we had in italy up to some years ago. It was changed so that the party decides who is running, and people cannot vote on the person.

The result is, of course, that people who would be ineligible because of obvious incapacity (or any other reason) still get elected when people vote for the color instead of the person, and the parliament is full of lackeys who don't dare to disagree with the leaders for fear of not being put on the safe list the next time around.

Be careful when you wish for a better system, you may end up with a worse one :)
Birds in Chase...