skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very uncommon from blue collar agencies and downwards, but actually an expected service of more upscale agencies and/or freelancer prostitutes. Really expensive escorts sleep with less men in 10 years than really cheap ones in a year or two. Also, it's a given that sexually transmitted diseases are less common in men that belong to the social class willing to spend two thousand dollars for company, therefore they're also less common in the prostitutes this men frequent.

There is one thing that you should have in mind though. An escort (whom doesn't mind the unprotected sex) can and will say no to condom less sex a lot of time if the client looks like a shady character that saved 5k for a few months to get the date, when she doesn't know the customer in one way or another, or if she detects the slightest irregularity in the guy's penis' smell or appearance. Condom less sex in upscale operations is a normal thing, but it's almost exclusively done between an inner circle of regular clients, and in some operations all the participants are required to have current blood work and std exams in which they prove they're std free.

It's really a game of quality and quantity. The inherent risk is always there, but trust me, you're more likely to get an std from a random hookup at a high scale bar than from the prostitute your governor uses.

There are also lower end prostitutes that charge more for condom less sex. This are std and aids infested petri dishes. They're not that common, but are always women down on their luck and are generally addicts.
with all the publicity he will get more girls now :)
Bullshit Talks, Code Walks?
Yes, informing them is not a perfect solution, and anyways there's no such thing as perfect information. Is it better though to take a decision for them, and not inform them at all?
Perhaps I was overly harsh. :-) Different projects have different needs.

Some projects work best with a small number of designers and core contributers, and a larger number of people who submit an occasional bug fix (or good bug reports). In a project like that, bringing a perspective contributor on board can take several hours of my time. If I tried to invest that time for everybody who said, "Hey, I'd like to implement feature X" or who sent a dodgy patch, I'd never make any forward progress.

So in self-defense, I now encourage people to start by contributing a small, simple patch. That gives me a good idea of how much time I should invest on bringing them up to speed.

Imagine running a company this way...

Essentially, a potential contributor's first patch is a job interview. Once they demonstrate that they can help the project, then it's worth spending a lot of time with them. But even in interviews, I want to see code.
> Vaccination is a form of making them sick to protect them. It gives basically limited case of the disease so the body recognizes it and creates anti-bodies.

Hardly. Many vaccines are made up of dead virus particles. A dead virus cannot cause disease. It causes an immune response, but immune responses are not diseases.

Tree pollen triggers an immune response in me, but that doesn't mean I'm getting a disease every spring.
The article makes it sound like she is some kind of genius but using http://www.memegenerator.net/ is not rocked science. Pretty clever though.
this is a really great piece of advice. i'll check this out.
‘No’ usually doesn’t mean ‘No’ but ‘Not yet’
There are some threads on learn how to code: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+int...

In general, learning how to program will take its time. It's a craft that has to be learned. (http://norvig.com/21-days.html) And other option for you is to find a technical co-founder, which is probably more effective than learning how to code ;)
It could have been a better read. It doesn't actually tell if the girl in question used SEO/blackhat techniques to rank his name. My feeling is that it was not an act of gaming the image SERPs, it was merely a byproduct of MemeGenerator's SEO optimization.
WordPress is very cookie heavy. I don't think Varnish OTB would work in front of it. Sure you might be able to configure it to work, but that's probably more effort than just tweaking a few lines of Apache.
How to fire a programmer
Ignoring the issues surrounding the decision to let a programmer go. What should the team/management do when firing a programmer?

* What do you tell the rest of the team?
* How do you actually go about firing someone?
* What do you do if they have copies of code/data on their laptops?
* How does the team move forward after this decision?
To MBA or not to MBA
Firebug reports this error: "missing } after function body"

jquery_menu (line 1): ("li").addClass("selected").parent().p...).addClass("selected"); }); });

My FF is in Windows at the moment; it would be weird if that was the real difference.

I wonder if it has to do with the use of C++-style comments on unbroken lines? The HTML is pretty fairly unreadable on my side, as if someone joined most of the lines together, both in linux (I did a wget on your link) and Windows. As a result, I think some of those braces are on the same line as a // comment.
seriously? redis is super easy to configure. my god. are you guys making any money or what?
To be fair, when the WSJ app first launched on the iPad it took at least a minute to download each issue. They had no 'staged' loading so you had to sit there and watch a progress bar before you could read a single article.
Doesn't work with Cyrillic text. I got only dots as summary.
This scale can be a wonderful focal point to explore different kinds of energy technologies. Once it gets to type I, the mega-structures we think would be required stir the imagination.
I love that the example of Type I is a synopsis of Stargate Universe
Also a good point, but that was constant pre and post bubble.
She just used the Meme's sites optimization, but she named her pictures correctly and etc.
The best marketing strategy for a cash strapped SaaS startup
Rather than fuss over Apache settings, use some decent caching strategies and you won't need to worry about this at all. And BTW, nginx is not always faster than Apache, and not always the best choice for any app.
I've met lots of sane, pretty and smart women. I wouldn't let a few exceptions tilt my perspective.
Hope this doesn't sound like an ad, but Philips makes a very interesting alarm clock: "Wake-up light" that gradually increases its light so your body thinks it's sunrise. One model slowly dims so your body thinks it's dawn... May work for someone.
Sane, pretty, and smart... and single.

It's a human being thing. And amazingly enough, those who are sane, pretty, and smart have a tendency to date each other. :)
I've been waiting for this for long, so which registry can we use to get .ng?
Just as a data point for you, this poll sounds like you are using various terminology in specific ways that are perhaps meaningful in the context of your service, but it is not clear to me (as a guy running a startup) what practical functionality you are offering, how it might integrate with our other functionality, and what benefit there might be in using your service rather than something integrated into our own.

FWIW, my instinctive reaction is that these sound like minor features where the hassle of integrating an external service would far outweigh any benefits. However, if you could provide some sort of examples/cases studies to give some more detail about what you're offering, perhaps I would get a different impression.
I use a combination of Hide (after I see someone who likes to spam crap like "I'm at a coffee shop") and:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-frie...

for notifications.
I'd be pretty touched if my gf does something like this for me - only if they were all good messages.
True, and true. The main issue with caching WordPress is that WordPress itself is very dynamic and full of cookies, WordPress has plenty of caching plugins available but as I point out, that wont help you against Apache spawning tens of processes and eating all your RAM.

So therefore you're down to external caching, which is another layer of complexity and detrimental to anything dynamic you have on your blog (which is pretty common).
Gmailr: An Unofficial Javascript API for Gmail
FDA/regulatory failures have gone from being common, to being rare. And people are much more scared of rare events than of common events. For example, parents are much more scared of child abductions than they are of car accidents.
They neglected to grab bu.ng while they were at it.
I went crazy too trying to learn everything. Everyone had the same advice: just use the Internet.

Try this book. it is phenomenal.
Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
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After you are done with that, try this book:
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And after you are done with it. Beef up your css with this one:CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
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Once you are done with that, get your jQuery groove on with this:
jQuery: Novice to Ninja
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then you can go on to jQuery cookbook and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

Personally I love ruby for rails (ror) rather than php. But for development/sys admin and the developer community, I would stick with php. I have used cakephp which is ok. Not like RoR (which I pine for). But the development community is much nicer. If you decide to learn RoR go with: Head First Rails and Agile Web Development with Rails. There are some others that I have not read but are have good reviews in Amazon.

Oh yeah - stay away from Dreamweaver. What a piece of crap.
I'm surprised I'm downvoted for this, perhaps someone would explain why -- a significant percentage of budget goes to fund politician's friends and supporters. Specifically, the $700B bank bailout of 2008 went to pay for reckless bets by bankers. (Which were all too happy to take the profits, when they were there, to themselves)

How is that not part of the tax system?
PyCon 2011 Poster Session
I tried hunting through the government website, and it lists a large number of registrars, but none of them seem to offer an easy way to sign up for one. Keep in mind the following things though:

(1) You need to have a business in Nigeria

(2) ccTLDs are subject to local laws, so be careful before basing your brand around a ccTLD name. Case in point: Bitly http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3503/bitly-builds-busine...
This is what happens when you host new and exciting open source projects on GitHub, a social coding website. Contributing to open source projects is so much more accessible than it used to be, and the exposure that GitHub gives these projects will inevitably attract all kinds of people who all have various ideas about the direction the project should be taken.

Before GitHub, these sorts of projects were announced on IRC, and were then discussed on IRC, so that everyone participating had a better idea about what direction the core developers wanted the project to be taken in. This made it more likely that pull requests were for features/bugs that the project team actively wanted people to work on.

GitHub is missing this kind of environment, so it's almost inevitable that first contact between maintainers and potential contributors usually comes in the form of a pull request.
This scale is very cool and all, but speculation about when we will acheive these levels is a guessing game. In the very least it ignores the possibility of a technological singularity, beyond which speculation becomes impossible.
If they signed a Non-Disclosure Act then you are covered legally to sue the living crap out of them should they use or distribute the code.

If they have code on their laptops make sure they delete it obviously and get with your attorney.

Just let them go, and let the team know along with the programmer in question as to why you let them go.
This may thwart kettling but I think it also thwarts protesting.

The whole idea of the kinds of protests which get kettled is to show that a large number of people care about an issue. If the software advises people to disperse if the police show up where is the protesting?

I'd have thought the best response to kettling would be distributed civil disobedience. It could easily be far more economically costly which would hopefully persuade the politicians and police that mass gatherings of people don't require impromptu imprisonment.
I think you've got half the equation- you're motivated you know what you want, and you're seeking guidance.

The best way to learn programming is to have a project you want to implement. It is clear you have a web project in mind, so the best way to implement, and thus (probably) the first thing to learn, will depend on what kind of project it is.

Is it something like 280 slides where it runs all in the browser? Or is it like facebook where each action (nearly) results in a new page load?

If it is the former, then looking at sproutcore or cappuccino would be a good idea. IF the latter, then you need a web framework.

Once you've answered this question the first step is to start looking at tutorials for the technology you want to learn. (javascript, CSS and html are a bit too broad right off, we need you building your first "hello world")

There is going to be a tutorial for just about every web technology framework you could imagine. IF you've looked at javascript and you can sorta follow what's going on there, then maybe sproutcore or cappucino might be good things to look at. If you don't have a clue what's happening with javascript then it might be prudent to look at a python or other tutorial.

There is no wrong answer here. You can pick a language, any language, and work thru a tutorial. IF that tutorial is anywhere close to being web related, then try extending the tutorial to do some aspect of what you want to do (Eg: add a form to it.)

Tutorials are nice because they are step-by-step, and you can't really get lost. Just keep doing them and reading chapters of books and articles about the particular language you choose until you start having lightbulbs go off in your head.

I've been programming for several decades, and when I have a new area that I need to learn about, this is what I do. In fact, several years ago I picked up a new language. I used to be proficient at it, and I have an idea that makes sense for this language, but I didn't keep it up....

and so what am I doing?

I'm reading a book on the language and working thru tutorials for the technology I want to use. I really want to start building my project, but I'm forcing myself to re-learn the bits I forgot. So, I'm doing exactly what I recommend you do.

I think python or a python based framework might be a good way to start. (I'm not a python fanatic, but find it usable, and think it might be relatively accessible to you..as my personal favorite language is known for being inaccessible.)
Thank you. Now for finding a tech co-founder.. do you know of any sites? Would a NDA need to be present? What percent of the company should the tech have? They are doing most of the work.
You can use the one Microsoft did: http://www.webdomains.com.ng/
Very true, without the power of Microsoft it's hard to maintain that domain name... in such a remote place.. I mind as well just give up.

And likewise I searched the government website and none of its accredited registrars offer straight .ng registration
Probably just read the threads first :) http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+int...
One of the coolest sci-fi ideas related to the scale is that of a Dyson Sphere (a megastructure that surronds a star to collect it's energy). I recall personally encountering the idea for the first time in a Star Trek episode. The wikipedia article mentions it. Sends a chill down my spine.

Edit: Here's a link to the ST-TNG episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Gen...
The concept we are working from is creating an API and possibly an embedded JavaScript to analyze the data and to provide updates, alerts and reporting. The plan is to make integration for tracking users as simple as possible to implement, while allowing for heavier customization for alerts and feature control if desired.

Where we've started from is that we have a product that we're going to be releasing in the next few weeks, and we felt that not only did we need to develop beta/release functionality, but that we would need it for several successor products that we will be developing. Rather than creating a compiled component, we thought that an API-based tool would give us more flexibility in future platforms and in sharing the features with others.

Like all other delegation, if we can't provide more benefit than you'd be able to develop for an equal or lesser cost, we're not worth it. But from the work we've done so far, we believe that we can make the process more efficient for startups.

That may not be enough specific info for the moment, but we will be fleshing that out more in the coming weeks. Thank you very much for your feedback.
0:30 the goal for bill gates? reducing population growth?!!
The only way to learn programming is to just do it. Start with a small project, a simple problem that you can program.

Go through the HTML manual, test every tag and attribute, write a little snippet of HTML, upload it and display it on your browser (this assumes you have a Website and know FTP. GoDaddy is an inexpensive and quick way to get started). FireFTP (Firefox plug-in) is great. All you need is Notepad to edit the raw HTML. It's not efficient for production, but it's perfect for learning fundamentals.

Go to www.w3schools.com for a well-organized overview of HTML, CSS, Javascript.

Firebug (another Firefox plug-in) will reveal the inner working of your CSS. You can change the values interactively and immediately see the results.

Just do it.
I agree with you. But I believe most startups do not need a bizdev guy (or they are more likely to get one they don't need than to not get one they do). And that "bizdev" guy is a marketer, (eg: he's wearing one of the hats I described) and is involved in a process of bringing in other companies on a strategic basis. (which is quite different from just having a "wouldn't it be neat if there was a website that..." kind of idea and then "being the CEO of the startup" to build that website.)

So, BizDev may not be best done by sales guys, but it is closer to a sales process than being a winklevoss twin. (At least that's what I was trying to say.)
ok, this is the problem. Nooooo. You will be doing a shit load of work too. Why?

You must validate the market and make sure there are users who will take money out of their wallet for this: either as direct or indirect (advertisers).

Your job will be to find what is working and not working.

Forget programming, make pencils sketches even - then talk to the people that will be using this. You will be working twice or more harder than the programmer.
Doesn't explain is->in -- that's 4 keys over, and opposite hand...
For all intents and purposes, there are two types of "medicine". Modern science based medicine, and everything else. I put medicine in quotes there because the "everything else" isn't medicine. Traditional medicine is a form of alternative medicine, and it is bullshit.

"The American National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) cites examples including naturopathy, chiropractic medicine, herbalism, traditional CHINESE MEDICINE, Ayurveda, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, hypnosis, homeopathy, acupuncture, and nutritional-based therapies, in addition to a range of other practices.[5]"

Capitalization for emphasis.
I first read about Kardashev Scale on Michio Kaku's Parallel worlds. Nice starting point to speculation!!
The Star enjoys the lowest reputation among widely distributed UK newspapers.
So do you know what a browser is? :)
I saw another Nigerian company for which an "exception" had been made. Overall, I think it's risky business right now, especially if you manage to snag a desirable .ng domain. I don't mean this as offensive, but it's not unimaginable in Nigeria that a few greased palms could lead to an "exception" being made for re-assigning your DNS record if you don't have local interests there to back you up.
In 1994 Bryant Gumbel asked: 'What is Internet, anyway?' [video]
FoxiFrame basic: Add-ons for Firefox
Unfortunately they don't offer .ng on their website, probably still a over-the-counter thing
"Dr. Andrew Wakefield should be in prison for fraud. Why isn't he?"

Probably for the same reason Saddam didn't get a real trial. In addition to having dozens of high-profile collaborators, including the heads of several medical schools, the kinds of practices he engaged in aren't even that unusual for medical studies. Even if Wakefield could be convicted of criminal wrongdoing, which may well be possible, there is no one in pharma or the medical world who benefits from a highly-publicized show trial.

What's actually more interesting that the Bill Gates thing is the fact that Salon.com just retracted their 2005 RFK, Jr. article because it was apparently finally debunked in Seth Mnookin's new book:

http://www.amazon.com/Panic-Virus-Story-Medicine-Science/dp/...
It's a bit of a paradox that the head of the page reads "BookShrink - summary made simple" when, further down, the user is told that "this will not generate a summary of what you type in. [...] Summary is something different." I find it confusing.

Another thing is that the results area should be used for the results, not error messages. For instance, i entered a text with less than 10 sentences (which is illegal) and couldn't tell what was wrong. Perhaps highlight the error (ie use colour) and show it above the form.

This is rather interesting, it could be marketed in the autoblog arena with ease!
A more useful lesson to us is: use http status codes appropriately.

The site took down the photos, but they keep returning 200 for the links, and saying "image gone" in content. That's not how it's supposed to be.

Please check to see your web-framework and CRM actually respect HTTP, in spec text and spirit.
< pedantic > Wakefield was struck off the Medical Register in May 2010, and cannot practise medicine in the UK </pedantic >

(Genuine query )Should he still be addressed as Dr.?
I don't think "fooled by randomness" makes sense, because it presumes its conclusion. I do not believe that Warren Buffett is just a random guy who happens to always make the right stock picks. He makes the right stock picks not out of randomness but out of the opposite of randomness. (For instance he makes very few picks a decade.) While the competition to Buffett are often people who are much closer to "Random" (or would be better if they were random).

The same thing can be said for a bunch of MBAs. It is not whether they are rich or not (which can be a factor of having been born into money or not) but whether they can make it rain.

Sure, some will get lucky. But when you have a field of 100, and of those 100, 20 "got lucky" and made a pile of money once, and 1 of them might be poor, but made a small pile of money every quarter doing several different things... it is the consistency of the last guy-- the rainmaker-- that is appealing. Even if his net worth is smaller than the smallest of the 20 who "got lucky" or the dozens who may have started out rich.

So, it is his actions as a process that speak to his qualities, not the size of his wallet.

I think this is what the poster is saying.
Sounds cool, alas on my android phone the games went outside my screen and zooming out was disabled. Sounds very promising though.