skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problems with that: people are even more interested in signaling when they're trying to get into a relationship. Once you have a large sunk cost (e.g. announcing that you're together, moving in with each other) it's possible for each side to get away with a little more honesty.

People are very hard to model thoroughly. I hope you're exaggerating in the last sentence of your first paragraph.
Not sure I could handle that personally as a photographer... impressive strength no less on both sides.
> Parks on Fire is the latest short graphic film creation of digital artist Scott Pagano. It is an exploration of the complex, interpenetrated, and reflective relationships of structure, form, and motion that both bind and conflict the natural and manmade worlds.

You know, I like art.

...but why, oh why, do artists have to lard everything they do with these absolutely idiotic, content-free "artist's statements" ?

They just make me think "this person is either an idiot, or has so little self respect that he knows better but nonetheless cranks out one of these piles of words just because it's expected of him".
It sounds like you are uncomfortable with it. Is it because of your own values, or are you just worried about your reputation? It sounds like you have problems with it because of your own morals, and I don't think you should go against your values just for some money.I personally would not even get associated with porn.

But if you decide you are comfortable with it, is it really realistic to be running to unrelated websites at the same time? Your friend knows a lot more about it then I do, so how much time a week are you talking about to run a porn site? Are you wanting to create your own content, or just host other people's content? I really doubt you will be able to keep your name unconnected to the porn industry if you decide to create your own content. I think this situation would be somewhat comparable to working full time and working on your masters at the same time. It might be doable,but the quality of both projects will probably suffer, since you are focused on working on two separate things. So I'd advise you not to do it.
Whether you decide to quit your job or not, do the startup anyway.
The Joel Un-test
I have worked in a startup before (in fact, I have worked only for startups in my life) but I don't think that's necessarily a prerequisite to starting your own.

When you enter a "classic", funded startup as an employee then you won't get in touch with the meaty details outside your area of expertise more than you would in a conventional company. Thus the "new" aspects about founding a company remain new, even if you went through one as an employee before.
You won't lose anything, because you'll compress a lot of learning into that time. Just be quick to release, because you start learning after you release, not before.

Pre release is like building a boat. Post release is like sailing out in a storm.
Is military strength and/or its application of negative value? If military strength is of positive value, then better weapons are of positive value. Usually, nuclear weapons are better than conventional weapons. If one fails to adequately defend himself from good weapons, it is not entirely someone else's fault.
I wouldn't do it. With sites like youporn, xvideos, redtube etc growing by leaps and bounds, the amount of paying customers will go down the drain.

+ don't forget, there are something like a million porn sites out there competing with you, so unless you pick some sick shit involving grannies in wheelchairs or midgets, you'll be hard pressed to gain paying customers.

As far as dealing with someone involved in porn? Its honestly not something you have to think about. Once you get big enough with porn(to pay the bills), you won't want to do a legit startup anyways. A porn site is pretty much a license to print money. Even if you have a mere 1,000 users, at $20 month, you already make 20 grand a month without doing any major work.
I guess it does sort of force a minimum on repayment. Those sorts of things tend to create much resentment. I'd be curious to see if this would be a better solution than the one we currently use.
Ask HN: What is up with he submissions on the front page today?
Today is odd for HN:

* How Photographers Help Parents of Stillborn Babies (newsweek)

* School Recess Improves Behavior (nytimes)

* Adult Fast-Food Diets Tied to Too Much TV as Teen (washpost)

* What Do Women Want? (nytimes)

The new media/social media PR zombies are here!
Thoughts On The Economics Of Giving It Away
This isn't wisdom. It's just a weird (and in my opinion unfair) method of dividing contested assets.

Regardless, it's annoying that you're trying to turn a mildly interesting solution to an old puzzle into a statement about how close-minded atheists are.
I'm an artist and I work with many artists on the technical portions of their work. The artist statement is something learned in art school and is generally required if you want to get a grant, or show up in a magazine, or be in a museum or big gallery show. They are largely nonsense.

Personally, I love them because they incite pretentious art goofs to ridiculously pontificate, and they send the boring practical sorts into a frustrated rage.
When I get birthday event invites (and for other activities) to various restaurants and bars, and the event creator (or administrator) asks "where do people want to go" I'd like to see some relevant ads here. Perhaps describing the atmosphere, music, menu, prices, etc.

It seems like it'd be self-policing because it was local. It'd be a somewhat efficient market. Just a thought
If Judaism and Christianity are real religions, what are the fake ones? Did you mean, say, Scientology and neopaganism? Or did you mean, say, other major world religions?
8 "frat-boy" business ideas
I'd say if teleworking puts a strain on your employee-relationship then you have bigger problems. Why do some people have bigger offices than others? Why do some people have no offices at all?

I have yet to see a company that truly treats all employees equal. That would be the only setting where I'd agree with your concern.
How do you get 0 points on a submission, I wonder?
Isn't it kind of sad though that MSFT invested x dollars in this and it only has value as (potentially) the next i-meme?

On an unrelated note, I am going to to start using that footnote technique of yours because I often have several tangential points, which makes my comments messy.
I can only speak for myself, as an entrepreneur myself, so not for VCs and other similar types, but as for me, I would consider the fact that a cofounder or employee has successfully run a profitable porn site a plus. First of all, it'd be quite interesting to find out how that business works. Secondly, as others have pointed out, there are technical challenges to this which are useful on most start-up jobs. Thirdly, it shows initiative and a willingness to do things which are not commonly seen as "the right thing".

However, I'm suspicious of the "it's an easy way to make quick money" statement. In my experience (and I started a business that used MLM for its distribution with a friend before - not as disreputable as porn, but also generally looked down on imho), even those apparent shortcuts require insane amounts of work... so the suggestion that you can somehow do it on the side to tide you over seems suspicious. You can start a porn site - but it'll take all your time for 6 months to a year... so if your 2nd start-up is about to launch, I'd give it a miss unless you're prepared to forget about your 2nd start-up for a year.
Allowing that both are real is incorrect, even as they define themselves. Christianity and Judaism, by identity, allow only one of them to be real, if real is defined by correspondence with existence.
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Visualizing the growth of Target
So, you can't make a non-porn site with tons of traffic pay...but you expect to build a porn site that makes money?

I will humbly point out that porn clicks are some of the least valuable clicks in the industry. Sites like YouPorn, with huge traffic, aren't exactly making a killing (they aren't going broke, either, as far as I know, but a handful of these sites are in the top 50 on the Internet...there are non-porn sites that are dramatically less popular that are making a lot more money). If you expect an easy road to that level of popularity and traffic, and expect your porn site revenues to be respectable very quickly and without a lot of work, I suspect you'll be disappointed.

That said, there have now been a few reasonable exits for adult Internet businesses in the past two years. Before that, it would have been foolish for someone who wanted to be really rich to start a porn site...unless they planned to go "all in" in the industry and become a major player for years to come. It's still far less likely for a porn startup to be acquired than a non-porn startup, and this is reflected in the hesitance of VCs in investing in adult startups (it just doesn't happen, and it's not because the majority of VCs would have ethical issues with such investments). And, going public is pretty much impossible for a porn business, so the VCs that are looking for a huge score are simply not going to be interested. Of course, if you're bootstrapping, you don't care about VCs or exits.

All of that said, about six or seven years ago I did some infrastructure work for one of the top-tier porn empire builders (I won't name names, but at the time, his network was very likely the second largest). He paid on time, was a joy to work with, and had very serious hardware running his sites. He had no problem spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for expenses (his bandwidth bill the month I worked for him was $86k, for example, and that was after he'd negotiated a new deal that dropped those expenses by tens of thousands per month), so his revenue was obviously respectable. But, he'd worked hard to build it--it took several years to reach that level. He worked directly with the content providers who were creating new branded content exclusively for his network, he had his own porn ad network (because he had 30 or so brands to promote, he could buy in large blocks, and also could barter with friendly competitors), and he was extremely focused (which I think might be lacking for you, if you're thinking of porn as a stopgap measure just until your "real" project gets going).

I know several people who have had some level of success building small projects specifically for revenue generation, and I don't think you have to go the porn route to get there. Since you're obviously uncomfortable with that path...why not choose something else that provides recurring revenue without a huge investment of time? Widgets, iPhone apps, Flash games, etc. all are pretty small projects that can produce a few hundred a month in revenue.

Or, perhaps you should be seeking investors for your "real" project. That's how most successful tech businesses were started, you know?
It's odd that he would pick Hiroshima as his example, out of a war in which: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

Over 70 million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.
JQuery 1.3 Aftermath
Isn't there a difference between being concerned about the consequences of something and being ashamed of it?
Not the typical method I use to detect assholes, but it is interesting technology.
It probably depends on your personality. It used to help me work to talk to my dog. On the other hand, some of my friends can only work with a closed door.
#haskell is a busy place
Ask HN: How often do you develop use cases?
Are actor/system use cases common practice?
What does starting a pay porn site entail? Signing up for some sort of porno affiliate link program and just posting previews of other site's content? Or actually buying cameras and lights and hiring people to go to town?

I ask cuz I had a friend who was really into this idea about 7 years ago and actually did all the legwork and research into who makes money and how. He decided that actually making any money in porn involved a lot more work than simply getting another job.
I helped a guy I knew with his porn site for a bit, and I wouldn't repeat the experience:

1. It was kind of unconventional stuff - not illegal, but more like "ouch, my eyes" sorts of things. Not fun.

2. The people involved in it were pretty sleazy individuals, and also fairly lame in terms of simply being unprofessional and not pleasant to work with. Could have just been a bad experience.

And, because the whole operation was kind of shitty, it didn't even really make that much money, so, like others say, it's not a free ticket to tons of cash.
Good question. Doesn't the board mechanics prevent that?
Agreed. <i>Everybody</i> feels that way when starting their first company.
"What if the company fails? I would have lost this time."

You're going to learn a lot while doing this - more than you would have at any corporate job - so regardless of what happens I wouldn't consider your experience a failure. The financial outcome isn't the only metric involved in success.
Why Spend More than Five Minutes on a GUI?
Newgrounds.com has a section for adult flash games and cartoons, and I think the pr has actually given them more users. Checking their policies it seems like they might have some polices regarding porn, but Newgrounds.com doesn't have a reputation for banning objectionable content.

Of course Newgrounds.com has always used their policy of accepting almost anything to gain media attention and viewers. For instance they currently have a flash up created by Jeff Weise, who was the gunman in the Red Lake High School massacre. They also host games concerning the Oklahoma city bombing, the V-tech massacre, and suicide bombers.

I doubt that the pr from objectionable flash content has hurt them at all. And I don't think they have had any legal trouble concerning the porn on there. Also I doubt that it has affected their business deals. This could just be because their main focus is not porn, and right now they are one of the major players in flash gaming.

Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrounds#In_the_media
The suddenness and completeness of nuclear annihilation is what makes people fearful -- even though, yes, fire-bombing can do the same thing.

There's a reason "nuclear" is a fear-word and "fire-bombing" just isn't.

He picked it as a point of data that everyone understands, that has deep resonance, and that everyone is familiar with.

Communication generally works better that way.
Someone please edit the title and mark this NSFW. Thanks.
No, it's easy to remember, if you remember the childrens' game "Duck Duck Goose." If you don't know the game, then yeah, the URL is just pretty nonsensical.
Social networks are just a great foundation for a lot of other businesses. - I don't think so, nobody has come up with a good business model for social networks yet. Ads don't work, and if you try to harness the information held in profiles you get privacy problems. Beacon showed this clearly.

Also, I think that in reality there isn't as much brand loyalty as people think. Three years ago pundits said the same thing about myspace.

My position is that facebook is vastly overvalued - Gartner was just an example to show that even if they become the biggest in the field the income would still not justify their evaluation.

In fact Gartner has a market capitalization of 1.3 billion US$, meaning that facebook should be worth more than 12 times gartner. And Gartner has 4000 employees, 60.000 clients, and offices worldwide.
Yeah, but there is a qualitative difference in the ideological implications of office size/placement vs. fundamentally not having to come in and be stuck somewhere for 8 hours a day.

I don't know that the difference has a name, but it's a difference.
By 'real' I mean a religion which is elevating the human spirit, in contrast of being any kind of ideology.

P.S. Judaism and Christianity are the only 2 religions which can be defined really similar. They are much less in contrast as most people think.
Kissmetrics is going to address this problem head on
Work on your project for a couple of months, and see how it feels then.

If you're feeling good about it, do continue, if not, think of something else.
There's a reason "nuclear" is a fear-word and "fire-bombing" just isn't.

What is that reason? The power of urban legend?

The suddenness and completely of nuclear annihilation is what makes people fearful

Does suddenness and completeness of nuclear annihilation exist? It seems not to exist. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aglasstone.blogspot.com...
It has happened before, as a result of accounts being flagged as unable to vote.
They seem legitimate to me, at least reference the guidelines for the site.

It's not like you have to read them.
I thought it was the other way round... If you ask me for a copy of Serenity, and i give it to you, then I have infringed on universal studio's copyright. You however have done nothing wrong, because unless you broke into my computer, you would be unable to make a copy without my consent.

Your way makes the whole internet ... broken. anybody can ask for anything, but the guy in control of the resource does not have to honor the request.
You probably had something like "Do people speak English good?" in mind.
This article started well, but the list of "frat-boy ideas" was actually quite poor and unhelpful... seemed more like examples of business types the author doesn't like rather than inherently stupid ideas.

Also, he seems under the fallacious impression that better ideas are somehow easier to implement. Sorry, pal - good ideas are just as hard to pull off as bad ideas.
A real religion is elevating the best part of yourself, without encouraging some too human inclination (I could make examples, but I don't want to).

All 'fake' religions are (in reality) some kind of auto-idolatry (let it be violence, egocentrism, and so on, it's a never-ending list...)
Facebook is also easily disseminated. It doesn't really have a "core competency" so to speak. Most things that can be found on facebook can be found better elsewhere on the Internet. Companies that try to be everything to everybody get in BIG trouble (Microsoft).

I think I've mentioned this before here, but (for example) Friendfeed is a nice comparison: it lets people show exactly where and why and how it draws links together. Facebook puts all of this information into the same facebook bubble.
Configurable alerts of any kind, email being one of them.
I liked the bit in the article about MetaFilter shutting off the new-user page whenever they got too much press.

Maybe turning off new signups whenever some popular blog mentions Hacker News might raise the bar somewhat. That would get only those in who find HN interesting enough to bookmark it until the flood drops off.
find, spotlight, locate, Start->Search, dir /s, Everything, Google Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search.

What makes you think more software, more solutions, will make computers easier to use?
Ask HN: Paperwork and tax deduction when hiring someone overseas?
I live in California and I'm hiring a friend of mine who is in Spain, paying him by the hour as a subcontractor. Questions:

- Can I deduct from my (U.S.) taxes what I pay to him?

- What is the paperwork I should keep in mind?

Thank you all in advance.
The real question is, do you use this to avoid porn--or find more of it?
Raising money: get a CEO. You will need to get one in the VC image. Make his remuneration dependent on the investment raised.

That one made me curious. You say that as if they came boxed off the shelf (best before 09/12, store dry).
Where and how do you "get" a CEO?
So you mean that I mean that atheists are close-minded?

What does 'atheist' really mean? It's the negation of God, OK?

Many of the best scientists out there initially were atheists, and have been convinced by science itself of the existence of some kind of 'God'.

So please don't try to convince me, try to back-convert them to atheism!
Managers are not to manage people, they are to manage problems. Most big companies simply get this wrong. Just make sure any oncoming manager understands this.
A teacher for entrepreneurship sais to us, that you should not focus about organisation until you have 50 people working for you. But that does not mean that you don't need management. Actually you are doing managent when you are working on ideas. But if you feel you are not have time for your research then i would say it's time to get a partner/employee who focus on running the company and doing administrative work.
WooHoo! Now when will it be packaged for Debian?! And what version of Rails do I need to work with Ruby1.9?
Now that the article mentions coffee shops: A good friend of mine started a coffeeshop six years ago, and today he has four of them. He drives a mercedes and has a huge house overlooking the ocean. He started with nothing.
Yep, you will fail - but it won't be wasted time. Even if you go back to the corporate world, any manager with two brain cells will think you're more interesting because you went out and started your own company - whether or not it succeed. It's like a mini-MBA.

Also, it will forever resolve that interview question "Describe a time when you showed initiative."
Please Review My Web App: A Nigerian Craigslist
I was lucky enough to get a free physical copy of this from work. Well worth the read.
Disagree somewhat. If every app has to standardize, how does one innovate and differentiate? How does one improve things and at the same time keep everything the same?
Are you being deliberately daft?

One bomb -- not millions of firebombs requiring thousands of planes -- does a pretty good job of destroying just about everything at ground zero, and after that as the radius increases, yes, the destruction lessens, but it's still pretty impressive.

And that's from one bomb only:

http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclear_weapon_effects...

Is this a prank, or do you really think nukes really are as benign as you seem to think? Is your next argument to be that, hey, white phosphorus isn't that bad for the skin after all?
More info at http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-191-released-first-production...

But also mirrored for much faster speed (ruby-lang.org is notoriously slow, even with HTTP): http://www.rubyinside.com/files/ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.bz2
Yes, I'm the designer behind Minuteglass and I'll think about using the Mechanical Turk to get some feedback.

Thanks.
Something about these Wolfram posts always sounds like a a shady late night infomercial to me. I can't quite put my finger on it.
And the US has the benefit of a near universal language.

Mobility in the EU is not entirely limited by language, especially with manual work, but in professional circles it's a killer.. so EU mobility is pathetic compared to the US (hardly anyone I know in California is from California.. :))
Impressive! You might want to make it available to other countries and cities as well.
Thank you! I've been mistaken for years (I can't read the glyph myself, just took it from someone who I thought could).
I picked this niche because:
1) I am a Nigerian.
2) Most potential competitors won't touch Nigeria.
3) I run a Nigerian forum that gets a lot of unsolicited ads.

The business model is: Adsense when the website becomes popular. It's boring, but really makes sense here.
Because AI operates according to structures that have been designed by human hands. The human mind is incomprehensibly more complex than any AI. So you could make AI that does innovate, but its innovations would still be far more predictable and routine than any that a human mind could come up with.

Not necessarily. Using evolutionary approach, AI can come up with innovations on par (and possibly even beyond) to what humans could do:

http://www.genetic-programming.com/humancompetitive.html
How much traffic does the non-money maker get, and in what market?
Adobe and Apple working to bring Flash to the iPhone? We’ve heard that before