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Membership fees are possible, but I get the sense that users would balk at paying "entry fees" for their dates.

It's also possible that local restaurants/attractions could sponsor certain dates (i.e offer kickbacks), but the site would have to be sending a LOT of dates per week to any given place for those kickbacks to materialize.

A third idea might be to take the community of active daters you have created and host paid events periodically. For example, for users who enjoy nightlife, you could have a blowout bash with a cover charge. For users who enjoy classic movies, you could have a wine tasting and a screening of a classic movie.

I'm sure there are better ideas out there for paid events, but you get the idea.
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You could monetize by creating "packages" that those setting up the date could buy, straight from the site. You could also set up deals with venues and restaurants for sponsored dates.
> About 665 million people in India -- about half the population -- lack access to latrines.

I stay in India, but I didn't know it is this severe :-(
Direct link here:

http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf

Again, anything Tim Gowers writes is worth reading - highly recommended.
Reminds me of something happend to a friend.

Friend: Sir, my hard disk partition crashed and the project files are all gone.

Lecturer: Don't you have a back up?

Friend: The backup was on the same partition.
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UK laws do not apply over here

In actual practice US and UK courts routinely enforce each other's judgments ("comity"), which is why libel tourism works.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121599561708449643.html?mod=...
Carter-Ruck, "London's best-known and most feared libel lawyers", obviously still have a thing or two to learn about PR in the internet age. If Trafigura are trying to shy away from their their bad guy image, this isn't helping.
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She doesn't want to be identified, except by her nickname "Sze," and she has a secret past. Her father doesn't know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out. But Sze, now 19, wants young girls to hear her story so they never make the same mistake."My first customer was an ordinary man in his 40s. We skipped the dinner part and went straight to the guest house for sex," Sze recalled. "Actually, I was a bit scared, but I knew this was the only way I could get money. This customer wasn't bad, though. We just had sex, he paid, and then he left. I thought this was easy money, and that's why I continued doing this kind of thing."
A "secure phone line" is a line with compatible encryption hardware on either end. The physical line itself is no more secure than any other. In any event, there is no indication that ERDS has been using secure lines.
Probably.

Nevertheless, the library section has a bunch of good stuff on computer virii and related topics:
http://vx.netlux.org/lib/
Still, it's good to see how modern technology has allowed ordinary people a) to access to such censored documents, and b) to gain access to those who are willing to do the research to obtain a, and advertise such. Without it I'd just be reading the Guardian, getting fairly outraged. In fact, I probably wouldn't have heard about it, as I wouldn't have flicked through the Guardian had it not been online (I don't like it so much to spend one pound on a paper when I'm generally only interested in a couple of articles, on average).

It's a step in the right direction. Not the whole solution, just yet.
I would think so -- If you can figure out how to effectively put it on your resume.

I did lots and lots of volunteer work while I was a homemaker. I have a great many accomplishments to my name. But I have a lot of difficulty figuring out how to package it so it is taken seriously in a work environment. I am reminded of a comment made somewhere on HN about a member here volunteering on a project and not getting taken seriously because they were unpaid and saying they will never do that again because being unpaid so badly hurt their credibility.
The article was saying that luck was down to mindset, not psychic ability!

Richard Wiseman's claims are in no way affected by the experiment you just mentioned, because games of pure chance are not affected by mindset. Most of life is affected by mindset.
To me, seeing articles like this only serves to remind myself I need to work on my information diet more.
But libel is a crime in both places, whereas reporting on Parliament is only a crime in one.
You conflate two separate things there – 'noticing' and 'deciding it was a nice opportunity'.

The article claimed that noticing opportunities was a characteristic of lucky people. It did not say that lucky people were any more likely to be more risk-taking or credulous than other people.
I'm not so sure. I've found a certain level of anxiety can make me perform better at things. Complacency can be dangerous too in my experience.
Antiquated == "Well Tested" in many cases. They don't run stuff like the space shuttle on the very latest AMD chips, for instance.
I'm not very fond of advertising as a practice in general. I'm not trying to say all those practices are ok, just because a lot of people carry them out.

Is the pilot with the flying banner evil?

Is my low-volume, efficient, targeted, semi-automated marketing evil?

How many of you have cold called people? Are you evil?

Is Google evil, trying to cut into every online (and offline) publisher's profit?
Quick fix for such a problem. Dreamhost support is pretty impressive, but sites can be a bit slow.
There was a startup posted here a couple of weeks ago... can someone remind me?
I recall someone posting their startup which offered a free temporary phone number or something similar in a very minimalist, slick interface.
Does anyone remember the name/url of the startup? I've tried searching for it via Google to no avail. Thanks!
> Anything evaluating lambda expressions then has to deal with that or you'd have to expand the syntax of the calculus to contain a termination function which 'magically' decides that enough is enough.

This isn't so magic. I don't know all the details, but it has been proved that:

* If some expression can be reduced to normal form, this normal form is unique (modulo variable naming —alpha conversion).

* There is a systematic (mechanic) strategy which guarantee to reach normal form, if it exist at all : normal order reduction.

Normal order reduction reduces the outer-most redex in an expression (instead of the inner-most one when you do eager evaluation —call by name). This is why you don't need `if`.

A small example:

true = \t f. t
false = \t f. f

if = \b t f. b t f

nt = something_that_doesn't_reduce_to_normal_form
id = \x. x

Now, trying to reduce this expression (in normal order):

if false nt id -- outer redex = if X X X
false nt id -- outer redex = false X X
id -- normal form = \x. x

Now, without using definitions (except for `nt`):

(\b t f. b t f) (\t f. f) nt (\x. x)
(\t f. f) nt (\x. x)
(\x. x)

Finally, the outer-most thing may not be a redex. (but you can still reduce inner-redexes). This is the weak head normal form. For example:

\x. ((\x. x) x) -- weak head normal form. Outer redex = (\x. x) X
\x. x -- plain normal form

You can decide whether weak head normal form is enough, or go to normal form.
You've got it. Call IBM and ask them about managed hosting. You can use the Dreamhost prices as a reference, just add 3-5 zeroes on the end.

If you buy a $500 car, never service it, and it breaks down unexpectedly, do you call for a new paradigm of personal transportation, or do you say "rats, well it was cheap and served me well while it lasted"?

Is avoiding 33 minutes of downtime worth tens of thousands of dollars to your business? Didn't think so.
Why do they refer to Sir Tim as "Mr" throughout the article.
Every year from 1994 through 2001, I read a minimum of 107 to a maximum of 159 new books per year, that does not include books I reread or that I didn't finish. The main thing I learned is that you need to take time to think about what you are reading and draw connections with other things for it to be very valuable.
I am someone who seems to often have phenomenal "good luck". My subjective experience is that it also relates to how you treat other people. Just being consistently polite and having good boundaries opens up opportunities in a big way -- often to a degree that astonishes me.
Hmmm. I don't think that a completely profile-less site would work. Users would be too worried about meeting a weirdo, someone they found deeply unattractive, or someone with highly different creed. Er, think of a strongly Christian person "dating" a staunch Atheist. Users would want at least some way of weeding out dates that would be time-wasters.

But if the profile and the date were intermingled somehow, then yeah, that might work.
So they get the stuff you want them to pay for for free. Then, they pay to pitch.

What am I missing?
actually technically it's not a crime here (UK) either. ;)

would be interesting to see if they could uphold a gag order in the US. I would hope not
There seems like there is a story why this only lasted a year, but I cannot glean it from the website. What's the deal?
As an entrepreneur, I don't want to meet more entrepreneurs. I know tons of them. We chat, we email, we hang out, and we bump into each other at social gatherings.

Entrepreneurs don't need other entrepreneurs, because we already knows tons of them. What we have in short supply is advisors, investors, customers, and employees.

You don't need a hacker apartment to meet hackers.
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Not sure they should've let Patrick Bateman narrate the video.

"This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite."
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"Supposedly this new design not only eliminates the need for fan blades"

No idea what a "mixed flow impeller" is, but on the picture it very much looks like it's just a fan in the base of the device.

But hey, it's the same technology used in jets. Effectively, you can put your own jet in your house for less than 2000$.
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Why would a laudable social initiative like this be titled as "hack" in HN submission. I don't mean that "hack" here has a negative connotation, but the title here stretches the definition of "hack" too far.
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Yes, the messaging syntax (which is very expressive) makes it hard to use other languages with Cocoa, but not all. Your example in F-Script gives:

notificationCenter addObserver:notificationHandler
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The Spectator's press too - it's more or less Time with a PhD and a serious crush on Thatcherism.
I read plenty of research papers. They don't usually have a gee-isn't-this-cool narration and annoying background music. Also, if an academic paper's background material is familiar and boring then you can easily skim it and see where the new stuff begins. That's not so easy with a video.
Have a professional program that runs alongside the basic program.
When people apply, they have to offer something the place. Anything from a quiz, to a magazine, cooking, to lectures, to a strategy sharing night (where confidentiality agreements are signed and startups can reveal themselves to others).
Maybe run a consulting company within the location.
Make sure everyone has something to offer.
Have some type of policy where new people and potential new people are shown in a public place.
Also have some type of complaints box.
One huge issue: zoning.

How many people per house? Unless it is zoned for apartments, you are going to have a rough time. Many places have rules against N unrelated people living in the same building. I think in my township it is 2, or some really low number.

That said, there was once a block of cheap apartments in NYC for musicians only. Lots of great talent and big names came out of it. It can work, but I'd read up more on this major precedence. (Arg, google is failing me. I know it is hard to find good old apartments in NYC, but this is just silly.)

You should have a pay-extra-rent-to-retain-your-company option.
Do you mean huddle.im?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848640
I wrote a pipe for Hacker News RSS (so that the main link would go to the comments page rather than the original site). It worked perfectly when it worked. And then would spend weeks not updating, or saying that the gateway wasn't found, or some other bizarre error that was beyond my control.

At which point I gave up.
In which case pointing the story link at wikileaks which carries the report, the MPs question and a link to the Guardian "we're gagged" story would have been best.
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Wonderfully entertaining analogy.
I wonder if they could combine the keyboard with the touch surface. Not by having the surface be the keyboard, but by overlaying a traditional keyboard with touch sensitive key-sized tiles that together make a touch-sensitive area. Keys should still be pressable, but when you treat it like a touch surface it should behave so. If the gaps between keys are snall enough it should work for fingers. (not styluses though)
Not necessarily evil or bastards, but opportunistic parasites who make their living by making the world worse rather than better. That doesn't make them evil; perhaps they don't see the harm in what they're doing, or perhaps the only alternative is starvation. But it does mean that the world would be better off without what they do.
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Places 2-n would be a great success for many of us

But there are markets where natural monopolies are ... natural. What that means is that the winner will eat all the pie, and it will be difficult to survive, nevertheless prosper, as number 2. The desktop OS market comes to mind. There isn't and there will never be a second place commercial OS. The market is structured like that. Note that Mac OS, even if superficially a desktop OS, is actually in a different market segment, where it is actually well protected and the segment leader. Conflating it with Windows is based on technological similarity, not market similarity.
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It reminds me of one of PG's lines about hardware now being mostly software. I think we are seeing the first wave of computerization of retail. Think about how backward going to Barnes & Noble or Borders is compared to Amazon.com. There is no cross sell or upsell, no way to easily get reviews, find inventory. I am excited to see Jobs help move a massive company like Disney into this direction. One more way to keep hackers in high demand.
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You mean rather like this blog does... ;)

Sorry I don't mean to "fight" over it but the Spectator is press as well.
True, I would still count them after ssing the message
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No problem. Shoot me an e-mail, I have a couple other ideas for you.

My startup isn't open for business yet but I'll definitely post here when we get to beta.
I'm almost imagining Disneyland for Entrepreneurs here. It could be awesome. And getting guest speakers etc in, both local and not-so-local, is a great way to get a profile and beat the isolation.
luck, by its meaning of definition, cannot be determined or manupilated.You can either define the situation as your luck or your willingness, it just depends on how you see the context.
Luck, fate and willingness.How all those are related to each other is best examined in the Kieslowski's movie Blind Chance.

I was just thinking about this issue today because the house that i wanted to rent was just rented to someone else. It was depressing & important for several reasons. I keep asking myself: "what if i called the broker earlier, just a day before? Could i have the chance to rent the house?" Well, i might be act earlier but i didn't know about the house earlier, the reason that i didn't know, well i had to do something that day..and this goes and goes and goes...Its like the Feyman video that i watched from here, some very simple things can branches into very complicated and sophisticated manners.
This also partly mentioned in the funeral monologue from Synecdoche, NY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0
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it is called social engineering. "Business" types enforce the split, because "managing" engineers gives social power far easier than sweating yourself through the actual process of creating something for real.

The only catch is, you need to remember to give ribbons away and to make sure that your mushrooms are exchangeable/disposable: otherwise you get locked in and loose leverage.
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> I also don't understand why you can't automate things like saving and restoring settings.

Because of C++ :)
More seriously, it's the actual design of the options screen. Different variables are hooked to different controls, and I have to make sure that eg. when a frequency (in Hz) is loaded from the registry, it is converted to GHz and the control is set to the appropriate value. Little things like this. I use Qt which is very good and abstracts the actual registry/config file access, but it cannot guess things for me.

GUI design isn't always easy and boring, but I work on physics data acquisition apps that have 2 or 3 users in total, so literally nobody cares about the UI as long as the experiment data is fine. It could take 10 minutes to figure out the controls and the user would still be happy. Physicists are used to making and using GUIs that would make you weep!

In my case the GUI is a very easy to solve problem compared to the rest of the code. Of course things would be different if I made an app with millions of users, a web app, etc.
I don't think you can make your proposal work in a way that's a good use of your time (and other resources) as you've originally proposed.

If I were you I'd tweak this around a bit.

There might be an interesting niche for apartment-complex/executive-suite hybrids.

Basically an apartment complex but with a reasonable # of "conference rooms" and/or mini-workspaces.

The ground floor would be given over to conference rooms / work cubbies / etc. and the upper floors mainly apartments (with perhaps some more workspace thrown in).

The appeal to young contractor / freelancer types would be pretty obvious, if the price is right: convenient to their needs and cheaper than renting a proper office + an apartment would be.

There's probably a bit of a trade-off -- every square foot given over to workspace is a square foot you're not renting out -- but with enough research and input from experts in this area you would be able to figure out if it worked.

I'm not sure Richmond is the right place for it but if there's enough in the vicinity you could possibly make it work.

If you got enough of a good thing going you might then branch out into letting tenants stay for free (or reduced rent, etc.) in exchange for equity if they were starting up their own thing.
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His contrived example of "atomically creating a file" is kind of strange. If you would want to see which of several processes wins at creating a file, just use
if(-1 != (fd=open("filename",0666,O_CREAT|O_EXCL)){ .. }
which is guaranteed to suceed only for one program.
Or you'd open it without O_EXCL and try locking it. Creating several file and atomically renaming it "over" the old file yields you nothing, because whenver you try to access it afterwards, you have no guarantee that it's not being overwritten just afterwards by another one of the processes.
yep that was it, thanks
I think 'someone famous' would want to live someplace nice. This place is probably cheap for a reason. It may not be bad, but it's likely not somewhere you'd live if you had the money to choose.

Still though, I think it's a really cool idea!
First of all, your house if flippin' beautiful. And your blog is awesome. I think this is a great idea, and I think you should ignore all of the reasons not to do it. There are only a couple of things you need to be fairly certain of- 1) are there enough young entrepreneurs in the area to make this worthwhile, and 2) do you have the skills and time to make this happen. You may want to consider raising some money from local rich people and a small board of experts who can help make this happen. I think it's an awesome idea.
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If he is a 30+ guy, let him join as Co-founder.
They're still a secondary source, regardless of how well they happen to be credentialed.
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It's nice that more Indian homes will be getting toilets, but it's weird that Indian women had to basically stop putting out to get it done.
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if you look at the issues too there's a lot of "this server had to have an fsck to resolve something" and "theses servers were slow so we fixed them".

99.9% uptime is still something like 8 hours downtime - this big outage was about 40 mins so they've some leeway yet.