skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boffery needs to check in with these folks for possible cross-promotion opportunities...
The name is supposed to be an easy predictor of quality. There is a cognitive cost to read all these comments, you know. That's why you look at current karma of the comment and see if you recognize the nickname.
Except that that figure is quite high when you consider other nation's rates of infection

For example, Australia's rate of HSV-2 is around 12% while the UK is around 10% even though we have fairly similar cultural backgrounds when it comes to sexual activity.

I would expect that rate to be much lower in some middle eastern and asian cultures due to differences in culture regarding sexual activity.

536 million might be on the conservative side, but I would suggest it's nowhere near 2 billion.
Ask HN: What's up with Rapleaf ads *everywhere*?
Just curious, I see their ads on nearly every site I visit across the Whole World Wide Web - from respectable network news sites to seedy torrent sites. It seems quite inescapable and has been going on for weeks.

Any insights on why they are burning so much cash on ads?

I really hope they've done some A/B testing with those ads. I have my doubts that an ad of 5 white guys in suits hunched over laptops in a field have much of a click-thru rate. If you click thru, you go to http://business.rapleaf.com/ which has a picture of a puzzle and painfully dull copy.

Did they just give up and decide to just sink the rest of their VC money into brute force ads and then go on vacation?

Just curious if anyone knows the back-story ;)
I have to say this is completely untrue!

Currently readburner is dead. From their website: "Today, we've decided to temporarily take ReadBurner offline to work on addressing these issues. "

And RSSMeme gives you links to pictures as currently 4 of the first 5 entries at RSSMemes are pictures. Or if you have some luck - link to a single story.
depends on how you define "acceptable". it's hard to publicly punish someone for bad behaviour on a blog but the wave of indignation shows that it's not accepted if someone crosses a line
That comment was aimed at a general purpose behind trolling. As for Kathy Sierra I don't know anything the issue, but I can make up something.

Say these people represent the status quo for tutorials. Sierra starts a whole new way of doing tutorials. What she does is also create a space for other new competitors to emerge, i.e. there are now a number of new ideas that can be combined in unique ways. This threatens to take even more market share from the original publishers. So, they polarize public opinion in regard to Sierra and her detractors. Now, no one looks at combining ideas from either party, just one or the other. Emerging market effectively eliminated. Additionally, the emerging market can no longer give momentum to Sierra's efforts. So, this indirectly damages Sierra's market too.
Cybercrooks Target Social Networks
The distribution of malware on social networking sites first occurred in small amounts towards the end of 2007, but that trend appears to be on the rise. Fake accounts were used to post malicious links, which usually led to a phishing site, to legitimate users.
I'd say heads of state affect people. Look at how divisive people in America are because so many don't like Bush. Think that kind of tension doesn't affect people's aspirations and motivation?
Wait, you can grow diamonds in a laboratory.
I don't doubt the WHO's overall estimate; just pointing out a contrast -- both between regions and in what numbers astonish people.
MR doesn't go up with number of users. "Marginal Revenue" by definition is the difference in revenue from selling one extra unit. In many cases it would be the price of the product being sold, and is fixed.

Economies of scale works on average cost, more specifically long run average cost, while it contributes to the MC going down, MC is more affected by fixed vs variable costs in the short term and more importantly it increases at a certain point when you reach the maximum capacity of your current infrastructure.
It is. Men can sleep around without ill effect, but it destroys a woman emotionally. Women need the security of social stigma against cads. So, tricking women to think casual sex is good is misogynistic since it is all about using women. Certain aspects of feminism look like they were actually invented by very evil men.
Obama's economic stimulus plan 2009
When you say "in our favor," are you speaking as a vendor or a buyer?
(0) Get a check up by your physician. I.e., check for and treat any medical factors (high blood pressure, obesity, sleep disorders, etc.).

(1) Start regular exercise. For stress, it's better to do smaller amounts/intensities more often than to do too much but infrequently.

(2) Check your diet. Too much processed sugar and caffiene in addition to the usual issues around sodium imbalance. Also good to look into what and how much you eat later in the day and how that affects your sleep. Also, make sure that you're staying well hydrated.

(3) There are lots of different things that people jumble together under the notion of "meditation" -- especially as it's accreted into a big business for some people. Serious, hard-core forms of meditation that have been shown to have long-term transformative effects physiologically often induce (certain forms of) stress (otherwise, how are you going to learn to deal with it? :-). I'm all for learning this but it's not a quick fix to stress management.

(4) A lot of the basic, introductory techniques that are often passed on as being part of "meditation" are really just relaxation techniques. They are great to learn because you can often apply them nearly anytime and anywhere.

In particular, self-guided relaxation of each area of your body is a fantastic tool to help with stress. It's also each to fit into whatever chunks of time you have available (3 seconds, 3 minutes, 3 hours, whatever :-). For those quick, at your desk, self-checks I would suggest especially focusing on tension being carried in and around the mouth, face, head, neck and then shoulders. Also a good time to tune up one's posture.

(5) Do more (light) stretching. The lighter side of yoga, etc.

(6) Take more small breaks. Get a drink, pee, stare off into space, stretch, do some relaxation, take a walk, listen to some music, etc.

(7) Get enough rest.

(8) "Clean your plate." I.e., really finishing things so that you can let them go. Even seemingly silly things like keeping the sink clean, dishes washed and put away, etc. can have a bigger affect on stress levels than you might think. Doing a nightly list of things you need to deal with tomorrow is also a good ritual to start.

(9) Write in a journal. Self-reflection, venting, etc. but be sure to also celebrate, too.

Hope this helps,
John
da-da-chhhhh. you're quick ;)
(Context: I'm the cofounder of a pre-launch site called Boffery, a visual private diary of a user's sex life.)

Everyone tells me that, and everyone is right. There's one service I'd love to partner with if I ever got the chance. Hopefully you'll never need to use this, but inSPOT is getting popular in the Bay Area as a way to discreetly tell people you may have given them an STD: http://www.inspot.org/gateway.aspx
If its about just doing what you want to do, why are people who want to be like their friends mocked? That's all hipsters are doing to, its just more convoluted.
I use my full name as my handle for a simple reason: I want a single identity across the Internet and the physical world. I want to be able to meet people (at conferences, coffee houses, etc) and have whatever opinion they have formed of my online persona apply immediately to me in person. I want to be one person.
IPhone push notifications: Apple needs to get them right
Looks like Microsofts's growth strategy for Silverlight is based on forced adoption by delivering exclusive content rather than features offered.

My workflow is as follows:
(1)If javascript cant => Use flash
(2)If flash cant => Use SilverLight.

Rarely(never) does it trickle down to step2. It is good to have a completion for Adobe flash, but unless Silverlight offers somethign really awesome that Flash doesn't, Microsoft shouldn't expect large scale organic adoption . Forced adoption by shelling cash on exclusive content is a different story and thats probably why they have to blame the low adoption rate on recession.
In college, where I majored in English, I thought I'd have an adventure and take a class in programming. They taught us C++. I never tried programming again.

Say I was foolish enough to try again on my own. Say I wanted to write my own version of Writeroom: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom

What language would I want to learn, and is there a good beginner's guide?
Top 10 site? Maybe in the free dating site category…
This is getting really boring.

If your business model depends on being "well known"/celebrity (37singles, Arrigton, Seth Godin etc), then you have to accept the trappings that come with that. If you're not prepared to accept the bad things, then don't become well known. Simple. Change your business model so it doesn't rely on your personal 'fame'.

Sorry, but it's just a fact of life. If you become 'famous', you attract criticism, crackpots, abuse, death threats, etc etc.
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The dollar cannot be created out of thin air either. The constraints are not physical, sure, but they are there.
If by "engineers" you mean "programmers" then yes; but I think that among actual engineers, you'll find a lot of people who ride in cars they designed, walk across bridges they designed, cut with tools they designed, drive on roads they designed, and so on.
the appropriate language for any given situation is largely dependent on the environment you're writing for. writeroom is a macosx program, so it's overwhelmingly likely that it was written in objective-c. you can google up beginner's guides all day long.
Actually, the real bottom line is work transfer, which can be measured in energy. Energy can produce material goods. If I give you 1MJ in exchange for work, you could do something with it.

The only law money needs to follow is conservation, which energy fits. OTOH, the US government does screw around with the conservation law a lot, but it does apply to normal people.
Much Ado About Monads – Maybe Edition
My worst one, that annoys me greatly, is that I always write "go to" (as in "I need to go to the shops") as goto.

I doubt this is a problem for the kids but I started in early BASIC and used goto an awful lot!
This book tells about so many miracles that I mostly appreciated it for its weirdness.

I liked the part where the immortal himalaya yogi instantly makes a palace appear, walks in it for a while with his pupil, and makes it disappear again. The point was just to get rid of a desire for luxury that remained in the pupil's karma (or something like that).
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Has anyone here read it? Is it worth the space on my disc if I download it?
JRuby and Resin.
How to communicate between 2 apps on the iPhone
3 years back I realized that I am also directly are indirectly responsible for poverty in the world.
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Really? Care to name a few?

The US government has "outsourced" control of the money supply to a cartel of private banks who have, as far as I know, no restrictions on the amount of money that they're allowed to create.
money is not useless, simply it's more comfortable to carry and trade with a set of coins/papers than a cow.
Could also be measurement error...
Almost half of Dutch DVD buyers are pirates
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He was talking fusion, but I don't have enough background in the hard sciences to really make sense of the nuances of personally. He did give me some impressive general numbers about how a single reaction could power New York City for something like 10 years. Maybe fusion will happen, or perhaps something else, but a lot of the most talented people on the planet are working on more/cheaper power so I'd bet on something breaking through.
Men can sleep around without ill effect? Tell that to my chlamydia infection. Ba-da-bing!

Seriously though, your observation is totally cultural and most certainly doesn't apply in the Bay Area. There's no real stigma against casual sex here and since there is a 10:1 male to female ratio, the women are totally in control. Women here have the luxury of figuring out exactly what combination of dick size, personality, paycheck and hairdo they like. The men, rather than being predatory cads, are reduced to fretting over whether or not they should get a tattoo or an $80 t-shirt in hopes of maybe possibly (probably not) attracting the attention of a google PM.
Apache 2.2 and mod_proxy_balancer in front of a Mongrel cluster. If Passenger had been available when I set up the server, I'd probably have used that, but since it's working fine it's really not worth my time changing over.

I use Git to deploy my application, and then a Rake command to restart the cluster. In the past I used Capistrano, and then Vlad, but I found that they were overkill and just added unnecessary complexity to the deployment process.
The instructor for our discrete math class has a most hilarious way of catching cheaters: he sets up trap sites regarding the problems that he googlebombs to be on the front page of the results. Every student signed a document at the beginning stating that they acknowledged googling for solutions was cheating, but 20/195 people still managed to be caught cheating on the first assignment.
> The same eviction of malware can be achieved through a documented hardware interface to the lowest levels of microcode (say, JTAG). The current problem is not due to openness, but closed CPU microcode.

Would you please elaborate?
I do this all the time - all bills have to be the same orientation and in order of smallest to largest value. If I take a few out of the ATM I'll stand there sorting them for a few seconds annoying the people queueing behind!
"I don't know anything the issue, but I can make up something."

Glad to hear it.
Great way to bootstrap your startup :)
"Sometimes I think that Torvalds may end up being remembered more for git than for Linux."

Seriously??? I think even he would think that slightly laughable.

Git seems like an ok-ish version control system - there are a ton of them about now. Linux was a pretty big revolution and is pretty unique.
I petitioned govt to give rice freely to people Below Poverty Line (BPL), an economic indicator of standard of living, used in India.

Since rice is Indians staple food, I assumed that it will have a cascading effect on remaining food items and will help in reducing their prices and inflation.

But to my surprise BPL people started buying exotic products and services with the money saved because of free rice.
Tomsa F. Fell? Is that really you? I haven't seen you since high school!
Well, you may do that, but I rarely look at the handle until after I've read a comment, and only then if I feel like making a mental note of who it was because I really like what they said or something.

I don't feel like I know many people on HN mostly because it's more of a forum for debate than for making casual banter, the latter being more conducive to personal bonding (at least to me). On old BBS I used to know a lot of folks and met many of them, mostly because we spent the majority of our time exchanging witty banter and such.

There are only a few names I recognize here, mostly because they have a tendency to reply to my own comments with some regularity or always post really insightful stuff.
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I think it's reasonably common to check your home directory into revision control...
Dammit unalone, must you always chip away at my arguments with your silly logical conclusions?! ;)
So Arrington gets spat on, and everyone suddenly forgets what a giant, dripping blowhard the man is?

Hello.

Spitting on somebody is totally déclassé, and death threats are never cool, but the man is -- professionally speaking -- a bastard. That is an image he has carefully cultivated.

He may be beloved of his friends & fam, but they're not the ones spitting on him.
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You can learn a part of C++ in a week or two weeks, but really internalizing all the subtle gotchas takes longer. Static initialization order fiasco? Exception-safety without needing catch (...) { ... throw; } clauses? Why X-is-a-Y implies pointer-to-X-is-a-pointer-t-Y but not pointer-to-pointer-to-X-is-a-pointer-to-pointer-to-Y? Why do I get a long pause when I exit this scope where I destroy just one object? How do I debug a segfault? How do I debug multithreaded deadlock? When should I use a virtual base class? Etc.

You can't learn all that stuff in a week or two. And maybe you shouldn't learn it at all; for many applications there are things that will work better than C++ without so much complexity, whether that's C or Java or Python.
Interesting article. Does anyone know if this insight can then lead to curing already infected patients? My understanding is this treatment is a condom, not a cure.
Wasn't this possible with other version systems before?
And /etc is pretty standard, too.
Hey, at least it's tail call optimized. It could have been lather, lather, lather, lather, lather, bottle empty, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse...
So you want to write a Photoshop killer
Casual sex works in theory but not in practice.

I suspect that your own sex life could use less theory and more practice.
For many startups, the short answer is: they don't right now. Everyone involved is betting on them needing it later.

But I understand your confusion. VCs are always knocking at our door and we still haven't answered the question, "What the hell would we do with 2 million dollars?" This is precisely why we haven't taken it.

Well, we've answered it, but it involves the words "hookers" and "blow".
Simple: so I don't have to work hard later.

Plus, web development is fun.
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apache 2.2 and mod_proxy_balancer in front of a Mongrel cluster for our main apps. we have started moving some of our ancilliary apps to Passenger to test the waters so to speak. seems to work great.

And yes we have a staging setup.
I heard that Vista advertising budget was $2 billion.
which sites do you see them on? i haven't really noticed myself
Vendor, I guess. Why would he contest a chargeback as a buyer.
Putin-Dell Slapdown at Davos
Democracy = Wisdom of Crowds

Science = Meritocracy
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programming has taught me 1+ 1 = 2

life has taught me 1+1 = 4-2 = 3-1 = 5-3 = 2 and so on.
VCs don't invest anything less than a crapload of money

A comic strip illustrates the point: http://www.thevc.com/strips/strip38.html

"C'mon folks, we need major cash outlays. [...] Work with me here, we're talking BILLION with a B..."

I think this could also be called an instance of perverse incentive. VC's have perverse incentive to invest more money than given startups need. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
That kind of encryption is useless, because I can't audit it. How do I know my data really IS encrypted and the key isn't just stored on the drive itself?
This reminds me of the spider in Bruce Sterling's novel Distractions which crawled the net for people saying bad things about its owner. When they had crossed its threshold their names got posted on an enemies list website, which was read by nutcase supporters, who then tended to go out and try to assassinate the listees.
I had to downmod you, sorry.

Most scientific advances have been made in the last century, nay the last fifty years. The pace is exponentially accelerating. That means, unfortunately for your case, that most advances have been made under modern goverments, i.e., democracies (or rather democratic republics)

Then you kind of went on a tear about old people mucking in things which they don't understand, which I have no idea what you are talking about -- funding of research? Selection of who gets grant money? Retirement home members playing WoW?

Sorry for the downmod, but posts that do not parse and are obviously false should go further down the list. I'd give you one or the other, but not both.
Startups may be undependable, but I'm dismissive that there's a dependable way to become financially free unless you go down the self-sufficiency route.

After all, if it was dependable (no-risk) who wouldn't be doing it already?
Read Article #14 of the US Constitution:

"4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void."
Thanks for your post, it really clicked for me. I certainly suffer from this problem. I have several projects that have gone through major revisions over a period of months or even years, without ever launching.

As soon as I see a potential problem down the road, I lose motivation and want to start over with a fresh approach. But then after that delay, often a new technology/framework/version has appeared that would make things so much easier/better/faster, and I start over again.

Client work has deadlines that force you to finally make compromises, but it's enormously more difficult to do work for yourself.
I wish everyone on HN would quit debating Arrington's spit incident (breaking news: man gleefully disparages European society, returns to Europe and is spit upon, and then proceeds to declare himself a victim of cruel and unusual punishment!) and would watch this instead. This really does so much to explain the core of our economy, its problems, and where we go from here. Totally loved Nassim's thoughts on medicine and religion as well...

Even if you don't care about the economy, the psychological discussions here are very, very useful as an entrepreneur. Billions of dollars have been made on the thoughts contained in this panel session (see: John Paulson).