skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he doesn't know what the women he's interested in are interested in, i'd seriously question whether he's the person the people he's looking for, are looking for.

I think a large number of essentially useless dates bears this out
> females will almost never initiate a flirt sequence themselves

POTENTIAL ROMANTIC PARTNER DETECTED

FEMALE FLIRT SEQUENCE INITIATED

EXCEPTION: HUMAN EMOTION FOUND

ABORT, RETRY, FAIL?
I'm pretty sure it's you that's misunderstanding the letter, actually.

"Starting 9:00 AM EST on 2/4/2014 all of your domains will be protected via our WebLock Program. In order to make changes to your Domain Name's configuration settings you must be pre-registered as a Certified User. [...] To establish Certified Users and pre-register authorized phone numbers and email addresses please call 1-888-642-0265 Monday to Friday between 8:00AM and 5:00PM EST. Please make sure to establish Certified Users with authorized phone numbers and email addresses before launch date. To establish Certified Users and pre-register authorized phone numbers and email addresses please call 1-888-642-0265 Monday to Friday between 8:00AM and 5:00PM EST. Please make sure to establish Certified Users with authorized phone numbers and email addresses before launch date. [...] To help recapture the costs of maintaining this extra level of security for your account, your credit card will be billed $1,850 for the first year of service on the date your program goes live. After that you will be billed $1,350 on every subsequent year from that date. If you wish to opt out of this program you may do so by calling us at 1-888-642-0265."

That makes it very clear. As of 2/4/2014 his domains WILL be protected, any changes will require him to be registed as a Certified User, that will require a call, and he better make sure to register as a Certified User before the launch date (which is given; 2/4/2014). And after this launch date he will be billed $1,850, and he has to call in order to opt out of the program. There is no ambiguity in any of this. He WILL be protected, he WILL need to be a certified user, they WILL charge his card, and he WILL need to opt out if he chooses.

The only ambiguous phrase is this, right at the end:

"We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this security program and register Certified Users before the program launch date. "

Now, you could interpret that to mean "if you don't register Certified Users you will not be protected". But you could also interpret that to mean "if you don't register Certified Users you'll be fucked, because your domain will be protected anyhow but you can't make changes". So it's ambigious. But the proceeding paragraphs explicitly state that you will be protected anyhow but can't make changes, so I think that, in contet, it clearly means that the program is opt-out, not opt-in.

More charitably, it's possible NetSol managed to copy-paste a few paragraphs from the "thanks for opting in, your protections start {{ date }}" email into their "have you considered opting in, it's awesome" email; the general rambling and incoherent nature of the email would certainly support this. But while we can guess as to what insanity led them to send the email, and if they actually meant it, I maintain that the plain meaning of the email is jut what it said: That protection WILL start on 2/4/2014, unless he calls to stop it.
How do you ask the right Lean questions?
There are a number of time-tracking tools that interface with GitHub via it's API.
AMD Kaveri Review: hUMA architecture arrives for desktop PCs
One reason AIDS has been so successful as a pathogen is that it takes a long time to kill the host. The infection has plenty of time to spread.

Ebola, on the other hand, never spreads very far because it kills so quickly, as described above.

I wonder if we'll see a "slow-kill" social service emerge in the next few years; one that slows your roll, prevents you from blitzing through the experience all at once.
I know you're going to get (and have already gotten) flak for your response, but I appreciate your honesty. It definitely sounds like you're trying to be responsible financially and cost of living is extremely high in the Bay Area for sure (as I've experienced myself).

Like others have mentioned though, it's very easy to get in the mindset of "When I have $x, I'll be able to give". Financial security and piece of mind for your family is obviously very important, but generally, getting to a point where you can give is more about a mindset than actual numbers. If you don't feel you have enough now to give, it's unlikely like you ever will. Not everyone can have Bill Gates money :).

I recently was in a class that taught economic discipleship at my church that worked on transforming both mind and heart to be responsible financially. This means not only giving more, but also being responsible with budgeting (accountability for own finances), giving responsibly (to responsible charities), and spending happily (being grateful for one's own wealth). One "homework" we did was to start by cutting some of the excess in our life to save money. These were very simple things like cutting out a latte a week, eating in more, driving less, etc. The actual amount itself may not have been significant to start, but it keeps you very conscientious of where money leaks, and how that money could benefit others. We then researched charities to find ones doing the most impactful work and gave some of that money we saved. We also gave a larger contribution over a longer term by designating different percentages of our salaries/bonuses as not our own, but for others.

These little steps help make giving and being aware of the need elsewhere in the world a daily part of your life rather than something that seems like a distant dream or something you do before the end of the tax year. I am by no means some giving expert, but I've been working on these very things myself with my family and hope it can help make a dent on the poverty and inequities in the world. Gates's letter gives us great hope and motivation that our efforts today and not tomorrow can and will have enormous implications for the well-being of the world's population.
Oh, I'd love for you to just dump this somewhere with a CC-BY (attribution required, free use/mix/share) -- wonderful way of marketing Backblaze to up-and-comming statisticians and students everywhere ;-)

(Just put a "this attribution (blah, blah) include text: backblaze is a service that provides unlimited backup (link) ... etc)

I can't see it harming you in any way -- your business is already wonderfully transparent -- if any mystery remains to be figured out by would-be competitors it would be in the data center/bandwidth area, not the price of hard disks. But it would be really interesting to play around with such data.
They are good for some things. They ask you about for example your views on religion and drug use, potential deal breakers you want to filter out from the get go. Thats what they are best for.
Is there a maintained version of Sparkle?
Thanks for replying.

> My post did not propose any form of socialism. In fact, it didn't propose any solution at all.

Looks like I read too much into your post I suppose and you're right that you didn't propose a solution. In that case I think I reacted to the idea I projected into your comment that the "solution" to the problem you're referencing was external resource allocation (rather than that determined by the market) - which is something I disagree with but maybe there's something there I should analyze about myself.

> I don't see how your desires relate to the shortsightedness of the plan I never proposed.

Again, you're correct here. It's obvious to me at this point that I was too emotionally involved in my interpretation of what you wrote.

> Is that a base rate fallacy ...

There was "screw you" content in there because I was projecting on to you something to resist and push against but I'm aware now of where my fault was. I'm intelligent enough to know that it is indeed a base rate fallacy so I have no excuse.

Thanks for taking the time to reply and thank you, also, for your candor.
First, we already have such 'free income' in forms of various welfare programs and SSDI. This creates a whole number of issues, however.

The problem to the perverse incentive problem, however, is not to remove the income when they get another source of income (as effectively it ammounts to a 100% tax!) -- while this may prove difficult to pass through any legislature, another approach could be to frame it as a progressive negative income tax.

That said, this is a different problem than homelessness: the two causes are usually extremely expensive housing and mental illness rather than lack of work. Mental illness means the jobs aren't stable, but extremely expensive housing means that even if they have a job, they won't be able to have a normal home: I've noticed this pattern a lot in San Jose, there are many cases of people living in their cars, used RVs, using work/gym to shower, and so on... They actually have jobs but are unable to go through a credit check and come up with an initial deposit.

This kind of housing solves both problems: the mentally ill have a stable address which makes it easier to follow through with a treatment problem; those who don't earn enough to get a place, can stay long enough to be able to save more, get a better paying job, and/or find roommates.
Telecoms usually a natural monopoly and relatively fixed demand: you probably don't want to dramatically increase your services so the easiest way to increase their per-customer profit is to play games with fees or bundling and cut their costs to the bone, relying on the inconvenience of switching to keep you from leaving. This ensures that you have a reason to call and that the person you reach will be the end result of multiple rounds of lowest-bidder call center deals.
> or women go home wondering why no one responded to their cues

Same reason they ignore certain men - lack of attraction.
"Fiat currency is sustained by our obligation to pay taxes in it..."

I often see this argument, but it neatly ignores, for example, the Argentine Peso, which is losing 46% of its purchasing power (last few months, annualized) vs. US Dollars (or tomatoes, or cars, or whatever you want, on average), yet taxes are just as high as they ever been (higher, in fact: 35% tax just implemented on all cars above a certain threshold, for example). So where is that value-sustaining-tax effect I hear so much about?

Come to think of it, in 1989 when the Argentine Austral's value went to essentially zero (1-1 with the USD to 1-10,000 in a little over a year), taxes weren't low... so what happened? In fact, you could still pay taxes just fine with all that worthless paper with a bunch of zeros on it. Why didn't taxes and legal tender give it value?
Jakob's Law – “Users spend most of their time on other websites.”

Would be great if you could mention how to insert a new node in the front page itself. Don't expect people to RTFM.

Very good work though.
I read that Nevada was busing their homeless into California to get them off the books; clearly they were doing it wrong and should have sent them to Utah instead.
I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of their service but if $5 wasn't working out they wouldn't be able to solve it by simply increasing the price.
To add to what Holman said, at most companies the receptionist is considered unimportant, and is treated as such.

GitHub turns that on its head. Haley sits at the president's desk and is entrusted with people's first experience with GitHub's HQ. She's an important part of our culture. It's an big responsibility and a position deserving respect (as all positions are).
If they trade labor for food, they can move out of the drought stricken areas into more food productive ones.
I spent a year and a half with 1.5Mb DSL because it still beat the alternative of paying Comcast and having to call monthly to get an honest bill.
Computational Geometry in Python: From Theory to Implementation
I've scanned this thread and the other [1] and my reaction is this. In the Western world we are free to assemble in groups of like minded interests - publicly and privately.

If private organisations wish to have conferences or meetings aimed specifically at certain groups then that is their right, as is the case with YC's FFC. It's YC's money, they can spend it how they like, and decide who gets to attend or not.

I see plenty of veiled and not so veiled accusations of positive discrimination, but you forget YC/pg already "discriminates" against sole founder startups. He also pretty much insists you move to SF if you accept a place on his/their startup treadmill. Annoying? Discrimination? Yes/No/Maybe, but it's his company, and I guess statistically for him sole/remote founders are much harder and costlier to work with than startups who are local and have 2+ founders. That's YC's choice as a private company operating in an interference free capitalist democracy such as the US.

I might, if I was bloody minded, take issue at government trying to fund and run these Special Interest Group meetings without demanding an equivalent "man only" conference. But to be honest I don't, for various common sense reasons, and the obvious fact that in industry the number of males sitting at the top tables of companies far outweigh the number of women. The recent thirty to forty years of equality enshrined in law does not eradicate hundreds of years of inequality, we still have years of work to do with regards to gender and race equality.

I think what the "outraged" HN crowd (which I liken to the UK Daily Mail "outraged of Little Upper Bottomly" types) forgets is that these special interest group conferences don't affect existing hiring practices. I'm heavily involved in hiring staff for our company, I do the technical screening calls and assess how well a candidate might or might not fit with our company, staff and goals. I don't really care if the person I'm hiring is in a "special interest group" and has been attending or promoting "Women Only" conferences or classes, all I care about is hiring staff based on the merits of skill, ability and commitment.

There is a huge amount of "Reductio ad absurdum" in both these threads (and please note I am not accusing anyone of sexism), but I really wish some members of our community would try to gain a bit of perspective. Privately run conferences, focusing on particular gender or social groups are not the same as active positive discrimination (which I am vehemently against) when it comes to hiring/promotion in the workplace.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097326
Network Solutions auto enrolls customers into $1,850 “WebLock” service
> pay for a nanny

Are you serious, or are you joking?

You are basically a 1% and you can't even give anything to charity.

It's your choice like all 1% but a least own the fact you are selfish.
I used to work for one of the Commercial Mail Receiving Agencies (CMRA) as defined by the Form 1583. Here's a non-comprehensive list:

myus.com, earthclassmail.com, usglobalmail.com, bongous.com, usamail1.com, maillinkplus.com, usa2me.com, usabox.com, reship.com and probably 50 or so other.

The google keywords you want to search with are "mail forwarding" or "international mail forwarding" or "virtual mailbox" to get started. Not all of them offer pictures of the mail or scanning, but some of them definitely do.

It's a REALLY fractured industry because there's essentially zero M&A activity. The Form 1583 is a giant pain to fill out and it ties you to a specific both company and address. Furthermore if you decide to switch from one to another you can't take advantage of the USPS' normal "fill out this form to get your mail forwarded" feature because as far as the USPS is concerned that's the CMRA's problem, not theirs.

In fairness to the USPS it's a really tough task to determine not only what address mail is going to but what person's name (and box/suite/apt/whatever number) it's going to at that address. Then once you figure that out, you have to figure out if that's one of the probably 500 people who are on the "forward" list at any given time. I know because I built a system to that and more for the company I worked at and it wasn't foolproof. So if it can't be automated easily the only alternative is to have the postal worker on the route do it. Where I worked we got many thousands of letters a day, it would have taken our mailman/woman half a day or longer to go through everything trying to match recipients up against the list of 500 people who want forwarding.
Not with a real operating system like linux, no. I have never truly solved a computer problem by rebooting a computer.

I sure hope that's not the modus operandi at BB.
Yeah, the code's on GitHub: https://github.com/zacharydenton/hackernews

p.s. thanks for posting this, gerrys0
I host two sites on the same IP. The first site declared in my nginx conf file got A+. The second one got A with a note that it doesn't work in browsers without SNI.

Identical SSL configurations otherwise.

Is this expected? Or am I doing something wrong?
I have been working on my Google Map Gps Cell Phone Tracker for several years now. Recently, I updated the project to include tracking for Android, IOS, Windows Phone and Java Me/J2ME phones. The project allows you to track a phone periodically (every 1, 5 or however number of minutes) and display them in real time on Google maps.

You can also save routes and display them later. I use google adsense on my website and also on youtube. I have been averaging about $600 per month in revenue. Now that I have done this update (which took a few months), I suspect that my adsense income is going to increase dramatically. If you want to learn more about my project, here is the landing page:

http://www.websmithing.com/gps-tracker/

I'm 53 now and I've been a software contractor for the past 17 years. Because of the economy and my age, I was having an increasingly difficult time getting contracts. It's hard to compete with young programmers who can work a lot faster than you and at a much cheaper rate. So I decided it was time to step out on my own. It has been very challenging, a little frightening (ok, a lot frightening), but I am making slow progress.

Today, I was very happy to find out that my project was nominated for "Project of the Month" on Sourceforge. It's been downloaded about 8000 times in the past 4 days and has gotten 24 5-star reviews. If you have an account with Sourceforge and have the time to look at my project, would you please vote for me if you feel it's worth it?

https://sourceforge.net/p/potm/discussion/vote/thread/7d5229...

Thank you. I appreciate the help and let me know if you have any questions.
Yup, that I have. Everything is so very subjective though, even pictures!
If only they could hire another 2^11+2^6+2^3 (2144) employees and make it an even 2^19.
Sorry, but this is just bullshit.
It's what guys tell themselves because they can't write reasonable profiles or write non-creepy messages to women.

I've read what most guys send my female friends on okcupid. Not just the random idiots, but what i would think would be otherwise intelligent people. It often comes off as desperate or creepy.

It's certainly true that it helps to be attractive. But I'm an average looking guy, but i have no problem finding dates on okcupid.

I've summarized the average guy profile here:
http://www.okcupid.com/profile/RegularOKCGuy?disable_mobile=...

(humorously, this profile gets almost as many likes as my real profile)

Realistically, have someone of the opposite sex that is the type of person you want to attract, read your profile.
Ask them questions about what they like and don't.

That will solve your profile problems.
As for messages, this is harder.
Argentina is now the primary candidate for Bitcoin adoption.

High GDP.

Crazy inflation.

Corrupt stupid government.

Totalitarian-style financial laws.

Easy widespread internet and mobile access.

Not enough dollars.
This is my nightmare story with Network Solutions. We were running our business on a domain with Register.com back in ~2002. Network Solutions sent a "bill" for renewal, which our office manager paid without telling anyone. That triggered a transfer from register.com to Network Solutions, blasting all our DNS entries along the way. I was at E3 in Los Angeles and got the call that the site was down, and no email was coming in. I remember sitting on the floor of the convention center trying to troubleshoot over the phone what happened... I'm still angry at Network Solutions for engaging in something awfully close to a phishing scam.
Not in startupland it isn't. pg's hockey stick growth and all that.
Why is Sing# out there by itself? It's a direct descendent of C#.
Network Solution Is Hemorrhaging Customers With Their $1850 Auto-Enroll Program
If only one out of 55 first dates ended up in a 3rd date, sorry buddy, sounds like he may be the problem, not his profile.
I thought HN of all places would celebrate this - a growth hack by a down and out mathematician. He just increased his inbound funnel by many multiples. He's now "killing it" and has been acquihired by his target. ;)
This is true, but the end of your post implies that recessions have become rarer and less pronounced in a fiat system. They haven't. In other words, sure, central banks "flooded the markets with capital and blunted the impact of the crisis and avoided panic", but what system was in place that allowed the manic colossal 1995-2008 housing bubble to take place? Did it not have anything to do with central banking policies, say, I dunno, incredibly low interest rates for a decade?

The interesting part about your post is that it is in response to OP asking if people would be willing to buy BTC at any price (to which you responded no). But you gave the perfect example of mass psychology encouraging people to hoard an asset they believe to be safe: in this case, in 2008, it was the USD. Despite 'printing' (yes, I get it, it's not literally printing) massive amounts of USD, the world ate it up because the USD it the world's reserve currency and they (correctly) assumed that if the US is in trouble, every one else's currencies were in waaaaay worse shape. Thus the insatiable demand for something that was becoming 5x less scarce.

Now, if Bitcoin ever reaches that level of belief in its capacity as a store of value (for example, based on the fact that for the first time ever you have a currency/scrip/asset/commodity whose entire supply is predetermined, fixed and immutable politically, could you not conceive that it might to have buyers flock to it? (not asking if it's probable, only if it's possible; I'd agree that at this stage this isn't the case)
Women generally don't go up to men and start talking or flirting. Glancing/maneuvering isn't overt initiation.