skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I've got to say this: I went through a few pages, so I saw ~100-150 people. It seemed to me that women's pictures tend to (i) show more of the body and (ii) how to say this, had a more "flirty" look.

Now, this is my completely subjective impression. However, it seems to me that the women in such technical conferences tend to send in more glamorous shots, to perhaps cater (subconsciously) to the highly skewed gender ratio. What do you think?

As an aside, I think if you want to get more love (from HN or anywhere else) don't emphasize the "pretty girl" angle because the label "girl" is felt to be demeaning by many people and after all in your site one can select both men and women, so why not say "attractive attendee"?

EDIT: Just thought of this: If you gather a lot of data, you can post results on how speaker/panelist attractiveness affects the number of people attending a session, corrected by the effect of the topic, of course. There are many organizers, I think, who would even pay for such information.
This is a great start. Asking people how they respond to marketing and what you can do better is a huge step in the right direction.

Be slightly cautious with the answers you receive here though. The HackerNews crowd is largely different than the type of people you may be targeting. Many of us would prefer to hack out our own solution than pay a premium to another designer.

To answer your specific questions:

- quality UX and UI design commands higher rates, but there is likely more volume in logo/web-design and identity creation

- usability = win

- i personally prefer per-project pricing, because what i may be able to do in an hour may take someone else five hours, or 15 minutes. it's hard to gauge what an hour of someone else's time and ability is worth

- revisions, knowing i'll be happy with the end product. communication is key here. i hired someone and hardly heard from them, it was very frustrating
All is true. But please, nobody comes from doctors saying they're bad communicators. They say that they are educated. Some people accept that they don't understand and just heed the advice or ignore it altogether or something in between, while others try to learn enough about medicine to understand what the topic is.

But everybody is an expert on software - since their mother told them so. I'm sick of being patronized by people who refuse to pick up the tiniest bits of the craft saying "no, no, no - that's not my job" - while they are clearly working in a field they haven't the slightest clue about.

Software has to be the only field where ignorance is used as a badge of honour: "I don't need to know anything about how it's done, I'm a project manager."

I'm an excellent communicator, I can figure out how to talk to anyone about anything (I'm a hustler by nature), but when people start talking down to me on a topic I dedicated half of my life to. I make them remember.
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The author talks about his experience or getting fit by going to a gym and lifting free weights. I countered with my approach, which revolves around setting your life up so that fitness is merely a side effect.

I'm not contradicting anything that he says. I used to lift weights in much the manner that he describes, and it'd be difficult to deny that it works.

The thing that he misses is motivation. Most people simply have none of it. I certainly don't for weight lifting.

In my experience, climbing rocks and surfing, while possibly suboptimal as workouts, will absolutely get you into great shape. And they have the added benefit of providing their own motivation.
if it's like other expense report apps, it's probably mechanical turk-like, and not OCR. ingenious though.
Very cool. Making a note to check it out later when I get home.
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The article mentions the four basic muscular aptitudes: strength, power, muscle mass, and muscular endurance. In your case it's about muscular endurance, while in the case of those bulked up guys it's probably about strength and muscle mass. What I'm trying to say is that you're comparing apples to oranges.
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And that some common knowledge only appears to be.
Required to read? Sure.

Own? No.
I've been using http://www.food52.com lately.
Your wizard should be linear, top to bottom. The current layout is a little confusing and not obvious enough.
What I got from the article is that it's mostly aimed towards the typical local gyms. He isn't arguing cardio is unimportant. He's saying that inside a gym the free weights are important, everything else might just be a waste of time. The full paragraph you quoted seems to be saying cardio on a treadmill in front of a T.V. is a waste when you could be getting the same cardio from a different activity (such as real running.) But, if you are going for the sorts of benefits that free weights can bring, then there really is no better alternative except perhaps in certain extreme cases such as with elite athletes. So again, the article is aimed at the inside of your typical gym, not outside it, which is where you would be doing most of your running I assume. ;)
It depends on what you're doing, really. If you write something in Ruby that then performs like a dog and you have to rewrite in Erlang to get to anything remotely "web scale", I hope you learned a lot about your problem domain in Ruby because otherwise that's a pretty big waste of time.

I personally tend to use Erlang in the core of the product as the internal router and basic message bus, with the ability to "drop to" Erlang if I need to, but leave a lot of the business logic in higher-level languages in processes connected to the core. I don't necessarily want business logic in my Erlang, but I wouldn't even try to prototype a router-like program in anything but Erlang, because nothing is better at it than Erlang.
I found this really interesting. He's over 90 episodes already.
Thanks for this input. It's well thought out.

Honestly, part of putting the word 'girls' in the title was to counter my last attempt at promoting my SxSW data. That one was very legitimate and professional. And in some ways, I think the data is even more valuable. But that one failed because the headline wasn't 'sexy' enough (IMO).

Whereas this one is getting some good buzz. Unfortunately, even using a demeaning term can sometimes get attention. I try not to be objectifying, but I fall short some times. Hopefully no one will be too offended.

If there's enough data, I will definitely post a recap. Stay tuned.
Alternatively, he's a guy who did a physics PhD when he was 23, did cosmology post-doc studies under Stephen Hawking, founded a software company and sold it to Microsoft when he was 27, and later created Microsoft Research at the ripe age of 31.

But maybe that counts for nothing when an emotional topic like patents is involved. Look, an ugly troll, let's throw some rocks!
If only the UK tax / business law allowed people to submit digital copies of receipts. I still have to provide every original receipt :(
Just because those words didn't appear in the article doesn't mean that they're not an accurate description of the author's tone.
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>if you learned them once you can learn them again

I doubt this personally. I didn't have any problems with the partial differential I was set. I mean on a general level that something once learnt can be relearned.
It's a lot different being a woman. Pick the wrong gym, and there's a lot of harassment that can happen, unfortunately.
we most certainly change as a species. Something as simple as choosing who to reproduce with affects the distribution of genes that are passed on to the next generation.

A more obvious example of the sorts of changes we can still go through is sickle cell.
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Stack splitting is also central to efficiently implementing parallel logic programming languages. This was the missing insight required for efficient or-parallelism that the 5th generation computing project was hoping for.

Nice summary and much more about that here: http://bizrules.info/conference/ORF2008DFW/GopalGupta_Buildi...
Now that the MacPaint src is out, I would like to see a web version of that. Sure, they're functionally pretty similar, but I have more nostalgia for MacPaint.
Yeah. Just buy the car first. And automated car insurance. And the monthly fee for internet connectivity so the car can get data from google.
Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site.
People are down voting this, but to me it seems like a very justified comment. I find this to be to be intensely, but shallowly interesting. It appeals to me as a male, but does nothing else. This certainly doesn't teach me anything about the world.
I will never sign up for any website who puts something so jerky into their website. Adding transactional friction only drives users away.
It's essentially a modern day protection racket created out of our poor patent system. Myhrvold and company patent a bunch of vauge "forward looking" ideas. Actual product people then create an actual product and have to pay them because one of their vague ideas could conflict.

The only reason it works is because Myhrvold made a bunch of Microsoft money (he never created a product there either) so everyone fears going against him in a lawsuit.
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This is great, very close approximation to actual latency. We had a similar need on our cloud speedtest http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest and implemented using a Java applet that executed and screenscraped an OS ping to capture latency. We've been wanting to replace this with a less intrusive javascript approach.
Add to his accomplishments a serious cookbook.
http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/...
+1 for a nice clean design.
To be fair, the revenue is all from licensing, right?

That makes Intellectual Ventures a Non-Practicing Entity, right?

I think we can rationally judge Myhrvold to be a troll at this point. We don't need emotional responses.
When I conceived of this, I wondered how evil it was.

I have to admit, I felt pretty slimy going through this. I like a pretty face as much as the next person, but these people (I assume) didn't send in their picture expecting for it to be run through hotornot. Which brings me to the next point...

But after testing it a bit, I'm pretty confident in saying that pretty people propose great panels!

You're kinda hand-wavey here. What sort of data do you have to back this up? And what exactly do you mean by this? Do you mean that attendees have a more enjoyable time interacting with a more visually pleasing panel, or that attractive people are inherently better at running a panel?
Quick suggestions for improvement, design-wise:

* Put the rows into a fixed-height container so that the size of the page doesn't keep jumping as the images load.

* After the second page or so, I found it too annoying to skim such a large list of images, so I just picked one and hit "next". Maybe only show a random subset of the pictures to every user to reduce overwhelmingness, or do it facemash/hotornot/cubeduel style and do 2 at a time.

* Bonus points if you can make all the images somewhat larger (maybe 50%) and the same sizes (by cropping with the face centered).

Overall, I applaud you for your effort. Unfortunately I can't imagine this having any longevity after the next week or two. Which doesn't necessarily make it a waste of time, some things are just worth doing for the sake of doing. :)
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Kind of odd that there's virtually no data in this article. I feel like I could write an article that said the complete opposite and be just as compelling. Seems like a typical "health magazine" article. No data, just conjecture dressed up as fact.
my 3 favorites are:

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http://epicurious.com they have ratings; more sophisticated

http://showmethecurry Indian recipes that actually work via video
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OK, here's a challenge to you. What has Nathan Myhrvold actually ever created. He didn't make any great contribution to physics or cosmology. His software company made a product that was a clone of another product. Microsoft Research has been a money drain since its inception (having never created a revolutionary advance). And now he runs a company that does nothing but file patents.
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Why is it anti-aliased?

Also, what license is the code?
This is incredibly alarming!

Censorship and information control of the highest order.

Those things have no purpose but oppression.
It's probably not wise to link to the HTTPS version when it has a broken certificate.
Thanks for pointing this out. I just renamed the site to cloudping.info.

Would pg or another admin be so kind as to change the URL to http://www.cloudping.info/ ?
Personally I'd say own simply because it's a book worth rereading yearly or at least every other year, which means I'm due for a reread.
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I've been a procrastinator for as long as I can remember. In elementary school I recall being assigned the the task of writing a report on the composer Rossini. I had no interest and I still haven't done it 30+ years later. But for some reason I still think about it. The explanation in this article doesn't hold true for me. When it comes to things that aren't fun or that may be evaluated for quality and I must get them done of face some dire consequence, maybe... I also procrastinate in buying things, mostly as a way of saving money. But I rarely if ever procrastinate in doing things I love doing. I never put off playing a game of chess with my son or going biking or writing or taking on an interesting software project.
I was lucky enough to find this for $10 in the SUB at my school. Haven't delved too deeply into it, but it seems good so far.
Is the past founding and sale of a successful internet media company to Yahoo!, and the founding and current running of a top ~100 quantcast media website not suitably impressive? I believe he has walked the walk, and earned the right to talk the talk.
If obesity is a disease of poverty, then how come truly poor people (e.g., the poor in India or China) are skinny?

Lack of money for food is not a cause of obesity. If your goal is to obtain 2500 calories (assuming that is what you need to maintain a healthy weight) for a little money as possible, you will consume 2500 calories of carbs. You will not become obese. If you instead consume 3500 calories and become obese, you are wasting money on 1000 extra calories. You are not constrained by cost. You could instead reduce consumption by 1000 calories, and spend the money on increasing the quality of the remaining 2500 calories.

There is no significant research that shows adding exercise to an overweight person's lifestyle will significantly reduce their weight - typically just increases their appetite.

Increasing exercise and holding consumption constant will reduce body fat. One of many studies:

http://www.duke.cardiologydomain.com/images/uploaded/dukeh/2...

Do a google scholar search. The only difficulty is that you'll find so many studies which measure additional benefits to exercise that some of the studies measuring only effect on body fat will be buried. (I.e., the majority of the articles have conclusions like "exercise reduces body fat AND increases muscle mass", "exercise reduces body fat AND breast cancer", etc).

I'm curious, did you hear this claim from Gary Taubes? The one time I read a blog post by him, I discovered him to be incredibly dishonest: http://crazybear.posterous.com/how-1-graph-reveals-what-3000...
Yep, he's a clever patent troll.
Difficult != impossible. I'm certainly not one of them, but there are people out there who actually do carefully consider where and how the things they use are made. It's pretty lame to call someone who actually tries to take responsibility for him/herself as a consumer delusional.
Eat rice and what else? Rice alone is not enough. It doesn't provide vitamins like A, C and E and fats.
For effective communication. Specific terminology has more uses than insults you know.
In the end its all about specialization.

A body which has been doing squats is not going to be a great runner at a professional level.

But at our "weekend warrior" levels it does very much translate. I infact did this exercise on purpose to prove to myself that squats would translate.

And it very much did increase my sprint speed.

Dont take my word for it... Email a few strength coaches - Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson. Ask their opinion.
Seems like he read Putt's law and really took maximum out of it.
The answer to this will really depend on what you're building. If you're asking this question, then I assume community really important to you.

The best communities are pretty good at moderating themselves. Take hackernews or reddit for example. The barrier to entry is actually very low in each of these but the community decides what gets seen. Although ubiquitous, Facebook is actually another example because everyone is the moderator of their own community. eg: I wouldn't friend a spammer.

I'd suggest you'd think more about how you build a strong community than how to moderate spam. The community is the big picture. Spam is only a symptom of a weak community.
First, imagine what public transportation would be like today if as much money had been invested as has been invested in cars.

Honestly, I do this all too often. What if the American passenger railroad system had never been left to die? What if the Big Three hadn't bought up streetcar services all over the country and run them into the ground? What if we'd been investing money for the past half century in making advances in new rail technology instead of trying to make dangerous cars slightly less dangerous?

The intermittent dialog about high-speed rail here brings to mind an obese diabetic who has resolved that he definitely needs to start going to the gym one of these days.

Ok, I think I'm done ranting.
In the northeast of the US, getting winded is breathing heavily from exertion. It implies reaching your max exertion point.

I would think the rest of the US uses it the same way, just based on talking with friends throughout the country. I'm not sure if our brethren to the north use it the same way.
Development and deployment are two different things. Just as development and system administration are two different things. Deployment is actually more in the realm of administration than development. So, I'm not sure you can say deployment helps with development, though it's good for a developer to know about the administration side also.

To say "Other people created startups by hiring freelancers to do their coding" is too much of a blanket statement. This is something that has to be carefully considered on a case by case basis. Outsourcing works in some cases and it's a disaster in other cases.

You mention that you need someone to hand over the documentation, but that's not the sorts of problems I'm referring to. What happens if the server hits a hardware failure and you have to work outside the documentation to recover? I run into crazy stuff with Administration all the time, it's never so tidy that I can work any sort of documentation people could hand to me. If you don't have a basic working understanding of what you are working with and nobody on staff who can do the same, then you are at the mercy of the same issues you are running into now.

I guess what I'm getting at is that you need a process which you can run yourself even when things go very wrong. If you start relying on processes that you can't handle in house (you) then those processes become liabilities rather than assets.
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Capturing and recording these latency measurements and associating them with the user's location would be fairly easy with MaxMind's free GeoIP databases and Apache module mod_geoip.
You can get _x_ features if you're willing to wait longer for updates, are willing to potentially be told your warranty is void if your device breaks, and don't have a recently released device.

Versus having said features out of the box.
Pitch your app to everyone who will listen. What do you have to lose right?

Yes, fear of rejection... No matter how often we repeat: "WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE". Still. People are scared of selling. It seems that a rational argument doesn't work. Does anyone have a more emotional argument that would convince an otherwise shy geek to start selling?
And hyphens

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That's why I requested that only in these cases where the print link autoprints should the normal link be used.
Wow, this site is great. Spamming all friends.
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I haven't done crossfit, but I am curious - what prevents you from doing 20 proper form clean & jerks if you lower the weight?
Not going to SXSW, but...

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I believe they're compensated in real tangible ways for doing the work of wealthy people.

That is a more severe and pernicious problem than most people realize.
So just to summarize:

Elite 'hacker' group claims to hate marketing guru/bullshit tactics, then proceeds to ply the hell out of everyone to spread their concept in a viral Twitter hashtag manner.

Granted, I totally just did it because that puzzle was way too easy, but c'mon now.
You should be able to do a URL redirect from http://awsping.com/ to http://www.cloudping.info/ for now.

Cool tool btw!
Both are too easy to hurt yourself. This is why, for example, why deadlifts are generally not recommended for professional athletes. For example, notice Kobe doesn't do deadlifts: http://www.nbaplayerworkouts.com/kobe-bryant

The delta in benefit is not worth a back injury.
We did and they have few followers, few connections on them...

Should I post names here for people to take a look? I also noticed that thet were doing a bunch of introductions there.
Odd because Bing bought Farecast a few years ago and Kayak is Farecast's biggest competitor
Looks like the count is in the url.
Where are the start-up success stories?
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I got full marks on the map reading one, but I do know the area around Waterloo and London Bridge pretty well.
I know, I know. I feel guilty already. I'm often torn between things I want to do because they seem exciting and controversial, and the effect it will have on people involved. I really hope I don't get any tear stained emails from panelists upset at this little project.

But to answer your question, I'm actually talking about the panels that were recommended to me by the system based on my choices. The best one, which I never would have found otherwise is this one:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5380

I'm super-excited!

And not to be too hand-wavey, but what if (I know this sounds crazy) there's actually a reciprocal effect here? What if there's a natural conceptual affinity between people who are attractive to each other? What if I only like the topics I like, because those are the ones the people I find attractive like? Or they like them because I do?
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