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Hey now - I live in Maine, I can't think of anywhere with single digit kbps internet! My in-laws live in the sticks, in a town w/ a population of 600, and even they have DSL.
Ask HN: How to monetize my page and newsletter views as an adult film actress 
Warning: I'm a male to female transexual porn actress so click links at your own peril.

I am getting some good traffic via my subreddit, twitter, instagram, tumblr, etc. to my website, alhenaadams.com, and am wondering if one of you will build an adsense for adult content so I can monetize said traffic. Also if anyone wants to collaborate on a project with me of any kind for whatever reason, I'm looking for something new. I know if I could buy a pick axe that got adult actors/actresses from point a to personal adult website, faster, I'd buy it.
For now that's the product I'm working on, and would
love someone to hack with me on it or advise/mentor me in regards to it so it actually gets done. I should be building my website but got distracted building the adult site generator, and I should be building that but I have other mainstream, unmentionable projects taking precedence because they are my exit plan from the porn business. However, porn pays the bills today, and if I can get it a bit more algorithmetized, I'd be in business.
Hence why I am looking for partners of any sort willing to take on such a non HNesque challenge, but hey, where else would someone like me bring up something like this and have a catch the attentions of a crowd like this? If there is anyone that fits that bill here, I look foward to hearing from you.
(1) Slow and fast learners don't necessarily refer to the speed of learning, but rather how much information must be digested and how it must be digested to achieve a level of competence.
(2) True
(3) Until you have to go through 5 of them to finish the content for a block and that content is stretched across arbitrary breaks. Not to mention "next week's" chapter which you have to now wait for and continue with the same content.
(4) Class-specific message boards are a positive, but don't change much about the nature of the internet, which is already availible on sites like StackOverflow, Reddit and IRC.
(5) The same kind of timing can be seen in on-campus courses. Coursework needs to not be on a time limit. At all.

(6) Please do take some courses. They are a net gain and should be given a fair shot. Personally I find them frustrating and lacking.

A course should be complete-able in a week or two for a reasonably prepared person.
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I had to deal with the same issues as well. Protecting the supply-chain is priority one in the industry I used to work for, but the fact is that the internet exposed the entire industry for the BS protection mechanism it is.

What happened is that the distributors decided to go past the suppliers and order direct from China, which they couldn't do even 5 years ago, but the suppliers, if they ever went direct to the end-user, would get tarred by the entire industry. It didn't stop here. End-users would contact the suppliers, who would uphold the honor and refer them to distributors. The end-user would say screw that and order direct from China who couldn't care less about what American companies think.

I don't want to specify what industry I used to work in, but that fact is that this old-world ol'boy protectionism is destroying America's ability to re-enter manufacturing. The sick part is that there are entire regulatory bodies protecting the supply chain.

Unfortunately, politicians either don't know the truth, or really can't be expected to explain all of this to the general public. Of course, the politicians will be incorrectly blamed for not bringing jobs back to America, but the reality is that this all has to change from within the industries who are destroying themselves.
Sounds like there needs to be a porn startup accelerator. We could call it TA-Combinator
BitBucket. It's essentially the same service as GitHub, but allows private repositories for free. And with an academic .edu email you get unlimited collaborators. Much simpler than running your own git server as others have suggested I think.
This sentence grabbed my attention, but I'm having trouble getting a clear understanding: "While efficient finance is essential to a modern economy, it appears that a significant share of returns to large human and technological investments in the past decade, such as those in sophisticated computerized program trading, were from rent redistribution rather than genuine wealth creation." In particular, modern finance as rent redistribution. The wikipedia entry on 'economic rent' is helpful, but doesn't get me all the way there. Help would be much appreciated!
We would all act to defend ourselves physically; we would not all act to "defend" copyright. People infringe copyright all the time, and others simply reject what they cannot copy easily.

There was enough disagreement to dislodge the right to own people from the right to own property. Is there enough agreement to keep copyright?
You are correct that they should charged if they were to target a civilian, but you are neglecting the definition of “all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.”.

Once that male first responder is in the US-determined strike zone (ie, his country of birth) he is a combatant -- and hence an justified target ---until proven otherwise, which can only be after he is dead. By this definition, there is legally no such thing as a living male adult civilian first responder.

Sadly, the US doesn't even deny that they make follow-up strikes: 'We don’t discuss classified programs or comment on alleged strikes.' Anyway, who else would attempt to aid a wounded combatant (male funeral goer) other than another combatant (grieving male relative)?

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror...
Yes that was it. I didn't know it was a contentious word at the time.
> There was always a wage at which all these horses could have remained employed. But that wage was so low that it did not pay for their feed.

The people of 1800 had poor reading skills, the people of 2000 are much better at reading; meanwhile the horses have not improved their literacy. Horses are not people. To suggest that low-skill workers are hopeless and cannot improve themselves is paternalistic and insulting.
The web dependency is awesome. It makes it that much easier to share the chart with others. Since you're probably on the internet at all times, what exactly is the detractor here?
(-> (initial) a b c d e) is like "The city on the bay in California"

and

(e (d (c (b (a (initial)))))) is like "The Californian bay's city".

These variations are different thematic structures to language.
I'm now storing my data on someone else's servers, and they promised to remove it after 10 minutes. Not good for sharing. And if the site is down...I'm out of luck.

Edit: And there's not even a straightforward way of saving the graph...it's not a real image. Do I save it as a webpage? That's inconvenient for embedding it elsewhere. Do I screenshot it? That's cumbersome...
It should generally be presumed that when something has happened repeatedly and predictably in the past, it shall continue to do so.
The good part is you can do it yourself without GitHub (which, after the downtime, could come into the equation quite easily):

-- Remote machine, or SSH port forwarded machine --
> adduser git (you either add pusher/puller's ssh pubkeys to its
authorized_hosts, or use a shared password)
> su git
> cd ~
> git init --bare myproject.git

-- Your local repo --
> git remote add <name> git@aforementionedmachine:myproject.git
> git push <name>

Setting up a git repo for confidential pushing and pulling is quite easy.
I think what he means to convey there is that a person with a low predisposition would be affected by the actual content in the drug than just taking any pill.

Including predisposition to placebo as a variable would just increase the number of experiments needed. Instead, if you could eliminate a variable from the system by preselecting for people for whom the variable doesn't apply, it would reduce the time to experiment
I wonder if the snapchat / facebook situation is more a suggestion that the MVP-then-launch approach to startups is more risky than some allow for. If you just release an MVP it may not have enough in there to be a solid finished defensible product, containing just your hook to test if you can get momentum. Then when BigCorp sees the hook, if you get enough success with the MVP they're heavily incentivized to take the next leap before you do, and they have more resources - you're still working at the underfunded MVP stage. Then you go from Lean Startup to No Startup in short order.

Just thinking out loud.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't even matter the industry you specify - if it involves manufacturing of any sort, I suspect there's a lot more of what you and I are describing going on.

The "refer to distributor" model can have its place, but I think those days are numbered for many industries. In many cases, it's just a different person you're ordering from, and an extra day to get your stuff - there's 0 value add. The fact that we can even talk about ordering direct from China - shipping stuff 15,000+ miles over several days, and still getting better value than buying from someone two states away says far more about the state of 'business' than anything else. It's felt to me that for most of my adult working life, 'business' has been far more about cost cutting and offshoring jobs than creating any sort of value - I'm not even sure most 'business' people (with the degrees and years of experience) even understand how to create or measure the value their customers want. Competing on price alone they've been doomed for a generation, and we're continuing to see the unravelling of American business (primarily manufacturing, but it'll happen to other industries too).
Do they? Cause from my view, the role of capital is greatly diminished, even from 10 years ago. PG has acknowledged as much with their move towards smaller monetary investments in Y Combinator businesses.
Dreamdu5t was just making the point that every person owns the products of their labour; and one's failure does not grant any right to take from others.
We ensure that the machines serve the people, as opposed to a person.
Hacking this weekend? Join us on Freenode: ##holiday-hackoff
Working on something? Feel free to idle with us.
Yup. Github going down barely breaks my stride, but for a real production outage (e.g. Heroku going down), I pour myself a tall glass of scotch and thank my lucky stars I'm not the one who has to scramble around tailing logs and restarting servers. I'm pretty sure their ops team is better at this than I am anyway.
What if I'm trying to read their offerings on my phone or tablet? A lot of the things these pages load are not worth the time it takes to load them.
This is not a helpful comment. The anecdote is not suggesting that everyone who commits an accidental crime is trafficking Tylenol One. It's a story about how a small action can turn out to be a felony. This has been true in other cases that have nothing to do with Codeine.
Ghostery takes care of several of those things.
> Math and science use exactly the same method of reducing their claims to their basic claims and backing those with a failed search for counterexamples.

This is false. You're overlooking a very important difference between math and science. Science is empirical, which means any scientific theory can be overthrown by new evidence arising in nature. This is not true for mathematics -- once a conjecture becomes a theorem, it's irrevocable.

Your viewpoint is a philosophical one that fails to account for the key difference between math and science.
> There has to be a way.

No, there isn't a way. Seriously.

Shannon proved it rigorously. It's also intuitive if you understand how a OTP works. This is probably the most solid proof in all of cryptography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad The final discovery was by Claude Shannon in the 1940s who recognized and proved the theoretical significance of the one-time pad system. Shannon delivered his results in a classified report in 1945, and published them openly in 1949.[3] At the same time, Vladimir Kotelnikov had independently proven absolute security of the one-time pad; his results were delivered in 1941 in a report that apparently remains classified.
Secondary school quality directly varies to the income of the school district.
Secondary school is "free" and compulsory.
Post-secondary school rates have massively skyrocketed. One needs loans, scholarships, and many other financial aids.
If you can afford to live for years on a minimal income (working unskilled jobs) while going to school, you have a chance to graduate.
Employers won't hire unless you have a degree.

When education is out of reach for many of us, yes, hopelessness does very well come into play.
I think your point is lost here. Most people here are self-made millionaires and entrepreneurs that believe everyone else just doesn't try hard enough.
He makes some good points. In particular the idea that web sites and other common applications don't need to be hand-crafted at a low level for each individual customer and instead can be built by configuring and combining components with graphical interactive tools.

This type of component-based software development has been available for years. It just hasn't become popular with programmers, because configuring components isn't considered programming since it doesn't involve typing cryptic ASCII code. This is the main issue holding back software development.

Also, the idea that you shouldn't have to write code to position text and graphical elements on a page, I think would be obvious to more programmers if it weren't for the HTML+CSS tradition that has been built up and become ensconced.
This question applies to all proprietary platforms. By tightly integrating your application or service, you're pretty much at the mercy of the PAAS provider.

To avoid vendor lock-in, check out the OpenShift platform [1] from Red Hat. It's open source [2] so you can set it up on your own servers if you felt Red Hat weren't providing the service you required.

[1] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/paas

[2] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/open-source/download-...
> Clojure can, in a sense, be written forwards or backwards

Clojure can in many senses be written forwards or backwards. By defining this short macro somewhere...

(defmacro topdown-tale [& stmts]
`(do ~@(reverse stmts)))

we can write our top-level control statement at the top and the functions it calls underneath, by bracketing with...

(topdown-tale
...
)
Well, I could at any point in the future produce a one-time-pad keystream that decrypts it to a plaintext message.

Also, my comment about it being /dev/urandom may have been pure misdirection.
What would happen if that service goes down?
Hypocracy implies no desire to change. The US did, eventually, deliver on its promises. That says to me that the ideals were aspirational, not hypocritical.
It's interesting how people struggle with this argument. Just the fact that this guy needs to write a 30 page essay to explain the point tells you something.

However I tend to stop short of this kind of analysis, because it all seems to be trying too hard. My argument, is that in the end it's just biological. We're built this way (not all, but most of us). Perhaps for good reasons, perhaps not, but it doesn't really matter. We can't rationalize or deconstruct it any better than we can needing sex, fearing the dark or the extreme reaction a person has to waterboarding. It just is how it is - we evolved to want privacy, and now we need it and that's that. Trying to deconstruct "why" we want it at a deeper level might be interesting, but it is not useful for producing counter arguments to the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument, in fact it is counterproductive, because it values the most important argument of all with zero weight. Further it just prompts people to come up with "solutions" that address the lower level issues and still leave us with our biological sense of privacy invasion.
Don't make the easy mistake of assuming that school spending is correlated with educational outcomes, there is plenty of evidence that that's not the case. I would suspect that the biggest reasons why educational outcomes tend to be correlated with the income of the school district have to do with culture, parental involvement, and educational levels of the parents. If you grow up in a house of educated folks you are more likely to value education and put effort into it, and you are more likely to be held to a higher standard of achievement in education, regardless of the quality of the education you get.
> Everyone is capable of learning new things

Perhaps not quickly or efficiently enough, but even worse, it's not a given that there will always be enough valuable activities for everyone to perform and earn a wage.

This is particularly true when wealth is not evenly distributed. The needs that a small group of wealthy people have for human-created value is, well, small, and therefore wealth barely gets redistributed. Other factors compound this, like the fact that most of the proceeds from a market do not go to the (potentially many) people involved in producing the goods or services, but to those comparatively few with the capital to finance that activity; the chasm between the (so to speak) haves and the have nots grows bigger and bigger.

At that point, a significant segment of society simply can't earn a living, and society must adapt to become sustainable again.

It's not the kind of thing that happens overnight, but you can see how most forces are pushing in that direction, so without a fundamental change in the dynamics of production, market and compensation, it's not a question of if, but when.
> Still, it makes sense to optimise severely, if not for anything else to boast better battery life.

No doubt about 10.0-10.5/10.6. But that seems to have been an afterthought for the last two OS X releases:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/os-x-battery-life-ana...

And has there ever been an iOS update that has made things faster on the same hardware?

I don't think that Apple is intentionally making things slower, which is what I'm trying to say with the JSON parser (it is easy to write a wasteful implementation). But in the big picture, they're not optimising much either.
>To suggest that low-skill workers are hopeless and cannot improve themselves is paternalistic and insulting.

the question is, though, whether there will be jobs for them even if they do improve themselves. there are lots of over-educated people who end up working menial jobs because there is limited demand for most types of skills. they chose the wrong types of skills and selecting the right types of skills may be increasingly difficult if change continues to accelerate.
Is there a consulting market for fixing these kinds of examples? I quite enjoy optimizing these kinds of issues, but perhaps the value is too implicit or too low for them to bother.
here you have mine, http://www.victordiazbarrales.com, still working on it but its getting there! :)
Imagine my parents back in 1989 when I asked them "What does 'cXXt' mean?" (I'd found it having opened up a text adventure I was stuck on in a hex editor, they had some naughty commands in there..!)
I just made the jump from todo.txt to Workflowy and paid for pro service within a week. Project hierarchies really seal the deal for me, while todo.txt has a flat layout, even if you organize items by project or context.
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> ... how could you get rid of the placebo effect in the placebo experiment?

That's easy -- give one group a real placebo, give the other an imitation.
Except, bizarrely, not till tomorrow, especially given they say:

But if you feel that piracy is, in Gabe Newell's words, "a service problem," please consider that we are selling DRM free digital downloads that you can watch in whatever manner you please.

Ironically, this situation is a perfect example of a service problem, since I wanted to pay for and watch the film but have instead been presented with The Pirate Bay as an immediate solution. Oops.
It will be within our lifetime, and unfortunately there is not a damn thing the human species can do about it. The machines will be our producers, and our destroyers.

We make them in our image, and they will do just as we did.

Fail.
Someone probably bought him a parrot or asked about breakfast.
They have mobile offerings. Theverge, in particular, Loads in about a second on my iPhone5.
you assumed that putting their torrent on TPB is the same as giving you permission to download without paying.
A friend worked on the CMS construction; he had some rather interesting stories -- always was a good story-teller.

I'll have to remember to bring this up.

As an aside, I wish Lego would introduce some kits like this (although maybe a bit smaller in scale/price; $2300 is a bit beyond the holiday budget). I want my kids dreaming of ray guns they may actually construct, one day.
In the language of the current top comment, rent seeking is looking to increase your own share of the total pie (and implicitly, other people's share less), rather than making the pie bigger. So the "profits" are more about redistributing things into your own pocket through structural advantages (like control of capital or co-opting the state), rather than wealth creation.

The implication is that this is inefficient because the same resources and intelligent people could have been doing productive things that created wealth, like creating startups, rather than e.g. creating financial products that return big bonuses today but blow up a few years down the line, where the state or other people are left holding the can, with no net gain in the system.
Absolutely, I got one without .edu email.
I feel like such an uber goober! I was installing a package that relied on a github file, which for obvious reasons failed....little did i realize that that was the problem, all I saw was such and such python error callback....doh!
More analysis on Point #3 in this article was also covered by Paul Krugman (liberal economist columnist at the NY Times):

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/human-versus-phy...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/technology-and-w...

Basically it's simple: as more wealth creation is driven by technology, the wealth shifts to whoever owns the technology or can operate it. Why is the payoff for founding a successful technology company so potentially lucrative? It's because you're basically both. If you think acqui-hires that pay something like $1 million per engineer is a lot, that's basically why.

In the US, we should have two political parties mitigating this by figuring out the balance between helping low-skilled workers become high-skilled (e.g. education funding and reform) versus making sure those unemployed low-skilled workers don't get sick and starve to death on the street in the meantime (e.g. unemployment and health insurance). Instead we have two political parties arguing to the death about whether or not to raise taxes by 4.9%.
"High-skill workers, given extra income, may choose to increase their leisure and savings rather than work extra hours. Meanwhile, low-skill workers lose their jobs, go on disability, or otherwise drop out of the labor force. Both groups work less than before, so overall output falls."

This seems to neglect the greater revenue or decreased costs the employer also enjoys as a result. "Fewer total hours are worked = a less productive economy" looks transparently wrong.