skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just despise the bad kind of sprawl :) (i.e. where you need a car)

It’s also more of an aesthetic judgement. I want to be able to get to work with a bike. I want many nice restaurants and coffeehouse within walking distance. I want to able to do all my shopping with my bike.

I’m more than happy to give up huge cheap living spaces and big malls and all the other little convenient things which make living in suburbia easy. I can see how others might have different opinions. Convenience vs. all the nice things. I pick all the nice things :)
I'm not Jewish, so her willingness to date me would indicate that she's fairly open-minded.

However, I think it's different when it's a "white people only" site because "white" isn't really an ethnicity or a single culture, so a person who would sign up for such a site is indicating an interest in skin color/race on its own, which is a bit crass. I don't have a problem with someone who is Jewish who wants to date only people who grew up in the same tradition (although I'm obviously not a match for her). For contrast, "white" isn't a culture or ethnicity; it's just a skin color. I have nothing in common with most people who would be identified as "white".
Fantastic idea. Basically a TLDR version of Mixergy interviews.
Just what I needed.
When writing code for both client and server, it's difficult to mentally "switch".
E.g. after writing some code in client, I'm starting placing curly braces in python's code :)

It would be nice to write both client and server in one language.
There is another explanation of OkCupid's conclusions which is not discussed in that blog. The author of the blog even censored a comment pointing this fact out.

39% of black women are obese, compared to 23% of white women. Men prefer to date non-obese women.

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=6456
It sounds like most people are driving cars instead of walking or cycling and small businesses are virtually nonexistant. This seems like a problem to me.
I knew it. I'm getting rid of that little beast right now!
How do I get my website reviewed on HN?
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It is to Morgan Freeman, as he explained to Mike Wallace:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1131418n

"You're going to relegate my history to a month? What about White History Month? Black History is American History. I'm going to stop calling you a white man, and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Yes, but the name of the product is "Browsarity," which is a portmanteau of browser and charity. And the positioning on the landing page is about giving, donating, etc.

So I guess my question is, is this actually a charity?

Well, ok, I should be fair. That's a rhetorical question, because I'm 99% sure the answer is "no." So I suppose my real questions are:

1. Isn't that a conflict of interest?
2. How do I know the money is going where you say it's going?
3. If you're donating this revenue to charities via the affiliate fees you pocket, are you getting the tax benefits of that? i.e., Amazon credits your affiliate account via the activity of your users. You then "donate" that to the Red Cross (or whomever), which comes with tax benefits.
I guess we can keep on refining this. I know secular Jews who were raised by secular parents, who have jdate profiles.

What if, e.g., you're Norwegian and she's Polish, and she joins PoleDate.com. She obviously wants to date white people, but she's also open-minded enough to date a strange Northern barbarian.

If people who identify as various shades of not-white all have something in common, it would be unlikely for people who identify as white not to. Stuffwhitepeoplelike isn't Stuffblackpeopleandhispanicpeopleandasiansdontlike.
Is that because it's not nice, or it's not accurate?
Yes. I'm just saying why people do that. Some people don't irrationally hate disagreement and instead see it as a learning opportunity.
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First, if race-specific dating sites aren't offensive to you (and to me, they ARE) then why not race-specific bars? Or race-specific public transport?

But there are plenty of dating sites that are exclusively targeted to gay men or lesbian women. If you think that race segregating dating sites are bad, then what are dating sites that segregate on sexual orientation? Are they also bad?

No, because dating is entirely about sexual orientation. Straight men date straight women. Gay men date gay men. And so on. When it comes to race, however, that argument doesn't hold up.

There's no biological reason for a straight man to date a gay man. There's also no biological reason, however, for a straight white man to avoid non-white women. If one has a personal preference, that's OK to exercise passively, but holing yourself up in a segregated community is rather anachronistic.

If there should be racially based dating sites, should there be bars/leisure facilities/supermarkets for white/black people to hang out who don't like being in the company of people of other races? My opinion is "hell no", but if you disagree, well that's your opinion.

(I'm sure people have dated folks with incompatible sexual preferences in the past, but that's pretty much incompatible with the whole idea of dating.)
Who says email is dead?

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I strongly doubt that will ever happen due to fears of additional antitrust complaints. What I think eventually will happen, however, is that they put their support behind Webkit. Wishful thinking perhaps, but I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibilities.
For a lot of great videos about what new urbanism is all about (mostly for walking/biking/transit infrastructure), check out the excellent:

http://www.streetfilms.org/

They're part of the Livable Streets organization..
This simple exercise is more than just a trapping of mutualistic discourse. It actually forces you to think about their point, and leads to a greater understanding of what they are trying to say... which, in turn, allows you to waste less time by explaining a counterpoint to an argument that they didn't make.

I try to make myself do this even when I'm not arguing with someone. If a task comes to me from my boss, I will do my best to rephrase it in my own words (not verbatim, unless it's something really simple) to make sure we're on the same page.
Ugh. I wish this myth would go away. I've encountered so many people that have heard of this and have no idea how credible it is.
I think a lot of it was explained away for me when I took it as a logical datum that people have illogical preferences and form illogical habits.

I still hold my fork in my right hand when my parents aren't looking, though, dammit.
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Glad to see the BuccheitTimer made it :)
congrats! Fantastic service.
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Since we're vaguely on the topic of 'identity', and hopefully deeply enough in a thread not to be in anyone else's way, I'll toss in an offtopic reaction to 'pw0ncakes'.

In this thread and others, your comments are solid and intelligent. I want to vote them up. But your username throws me: it's probably intended as parody, but for me it still signifies irreverent 'script-kiddie', whether ironic or not.

So while you're welcome to choose your own online identity, and while other people might be better able to disassociate your content from your username, you might want to consider whether your chosen name sends the message you want to be sending.

If it already does, well, more power to you! Apologies for the impropriety.
Easy fix: Audit a random selection of affiliate referrers by checking for the affiliate code in the actual source of the page. If it isn't there, either disable that affiliate account or check more of that account's referrers, denying credit for any pages that don't contain the affiliate code.
A: "She's not my type."
B: "Why not?"
A: "I think redheads are ugly."
B: "My wife's a redhead."
A: "So?"
B: "Well..."
A: "Do you think she's ugly?"
B: "No."
A: "So, no problem!"
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I don't undersand why google bought them only to open-source it. I get suspicious when companies are nice. Any ideas?
I think you should give a little bit of credit to a representative sample of the mainstream media for playing along.
"Every time this page is displayed, our server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use"

This is comedy gold.
How does Posterous make money?
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Good question. As a server programming language its newish, and all the growing pains (bugs, security holes, standardizations of processes, training documentation) have yet to be realized. Meanwhile mature languages are pushing the envelope in distributed and multi-core programming ...
2. (there is a reason)

Ok, so explain to me what's so rude about holding my fork in my right hand?
I work under DOI and works for me.
Where is it written that people should be spoken to a certain way? I feel like you are exhibiting some signs of the very hubris that this article cautions against. Beware the conviction you feel so strongly that there is no possibility you could be wrong, and anyone who takes offense at your stance is simply getting what they deserve. That way lies anger and estrangement.

Everyone has different expectations about how they will be communicated with. It depends largely on how they were brought up, and what their brains learned to expect from certain verbal cues. If you really care about whether someone else understands what you are saying, it makes sense to meet in the middle.

I doubt it is your intention to offend people when you communicate honestly with them. Perhaps it would be constructive to respond to someone taking umbrage at your words by gently mentioning what you wrote in your second paragraph: "I'm sorry I offended you... it is not my intention to suggest that your opinions are worth less than mine. I know that I might be wrong, but it is far more efficient and honest to simply state my beliefs and opinions without cluttering my sentences with lots of extra fluff." At that point, the ball is in their court: they can choose to do the work and remind themselves that you are not trying to clobber their opinions, or they can decide that it isn't worth the effort.

At that point, it is your turn to decide whether it's worth the effort to change your speech patterns, or if you do not care about communicating with them enough to bother.
I work for a gov agency and both linode and hosted sites work for me.
Er, stuffwhitepeoplelike is supposed to be funny precisely because there is no stereotype of what white people really like, isn't it?
If I understand this correctly, it doesn't overwrite existing affiliate links. I feel it should though, its my browser after all.
I just launched on android after having great success with a golf instructional iphone app. While my professionl golf partner got hot and that helped sales, it exploded when iphone made the app new and noteworthy. It came out of nowhere. i guess i'll have to get lucky with android although i do lots of one on one marketing and contacting bloggers
Great article! I agree with the idea that we need to make products easier to use for the mainstream market.
all that can be pointed to is some minor errors that are bound to happen in a large scale undertaking

Ahem. Conspiring to thwart freedom of information laws is something that is bound to happen in large scale undertakings? Either you're propagandizing yourself, or you're someone that I really don't want working for my company.

The glacier thing was characterized as a "typographical error", which itself is clearly intended to minimize the ethical breach. A "typographical error" is one related to the typography -- maybe transposing digits, or accidently chopping off the bottom of a page or something. It clearly does not apply to errors of judgment, including non-reviewed sources as if they're factual.

None of this refutes AGW, which is actually my point. It makes us all wary. And the cure for that is openness and transparency. A battle of ad hominem attacks doesn't do anything for either side of the debate. But in the long run, building a case that we can all trust because we watched it being erected is to the benefit of all -- tree huggers and denialists alike.
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That's what you think ... :)
Personal - Tried some multithreaded problems for the fun of it.

Professional - Had to write a program which reads multiple files simultaniously and shoves all the data into multiple sockets which go to different machines to process the data in parallel, after which the data is queried from multiple machines into one result set.

Or

Having multiple machines open a socket to a central server, send information to it via sockets. The server then reads all sockets whenever data is available and shove status updates into a single in-memory data model which is queried once a second by each client connected to the server.

In any case, multithreaded programming is cool. Where else do you get to write test cases that start 1000 threads in a loop 100 times to ensure that funky race conditions have a high probability of occurring.

What's worse is right now I have to write non-multi threaded code which is multi threaded. A wierd thing. Basically there is no way for me to write multithreaded code BUT my events get triggered in parallel so any framework I write that can be accessed by multiple requests all of which can happen at once require a sort of setup, store in session, clone, modify, execute methodology.

Edit: I tried some multithreading in ruby, when porting between different VMs (1.8 vs 1.9 vs jruby) the code started going into deadlocks. Strangely my code was written to be deadlock proof. Anyone know any really good reading on RUBY multithreading / multiprocessing?
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That makes sense in the context of history, but not in the broader scope of our social interactions. As long as outward appearances are significantly predictive of one's culture, humans aren't going to just disregard that predictive value unless they're making an effort to do so.

I doubt that there are many people who are purely racist and judge people solely on their skin color. However, when you combine skin color with other outward indicators of class, you have a fairly valuable predictor of behavior.
I take this attitude, but for things like arbitrary table manners. I have a friend who doesn't understand the idea of wearing a suit to interviews. Or to some degree, button down shirts ("the buttonless kind covers me just fine"). So it varies.
Usually people just post a link to their website saying "Ask HN: Please review my website". I'm guessing your title will have the same end effect...
they would be hounded or sued out of business

Evidence for this? What would be the legal basis for a lawsuit?
It is such a cool service that VCs will keep it free forever!
I don't think so. In some conservative circles "SWPLs" is a shorthand for "White people who like sushi and NPR (and decry racism despite living in gated communities)".
If you take economic status into account, I'd bet that the difference is much smaller. I'd also bet that the distribution of economic status on OkCupid is more uniform among races than it is in society as a whole.
It was almost certainly a talent acquisition. They don't want the product: they want the people behind it. This is pretty similar to what happened with Etherpad.
If he's trying to sell his start-up, then maybe he should pick a different name (and even then, it really wouldn't bother me)

But he hasn't got a link in his profile, nor is he self-posting, so why should he care what message he's sending?
I'm trying posterous right now for the first time.

First impressions:

* It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".)

* I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn't difficult so ok.

* Regging was really quick. Quickest I have ever had.

* Had a dot in the first post's title, it got deleted in the URL. Would have liked if it was rather replaced by a dash.

I like it overall. I am not going to use it actively as I already have a blog but I would if I hadn't as it gets you blogging in no time.
I think you might be disregarding the part where he said the lack of a qualifier implies an invite to disagree.

It's actually a striking thought that hadn't occurred to me. Your prototypical geek enjoys discourse to refine a point. Inclusion of qualifiers such as "I think..." are antithetical _not because the implication of uncertainty invites argument, but because it dissuades discussion_. In short, if I say that I think something, I imply that I already know someone disagrees and yet I think it anyway. Further dialogue on that topic is dissuaded, because the first author implies that they're possibly already aware of your opinion.
I think that anyone who wants to use OkCupid's data as an example of the dating market as a whole, needs to show that OKCupid is representative of the dating market as a whole, not the other way around.
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Right, but you can't accurately gauge things just by its appearance on reddit et al. Reddit caters to a specific niche and only a very small percentage of internet users use reddit (or slashdot, or HN, or...).

Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette.

However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it.

For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.
Sadly, you think the Mainstream Media would realize that viewers are not as afraid of the internets as they were back in the 90s. There is a reason why more people watch the Daily Show for their news these days.

On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
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> The commercial speech argument is that folks who gather together for commercial activity have the same free speech rights as other folks in other circumstances. That argument doesn't imply anything about stopping other people from saying things.

I think the argument is simpler, it is that "Congress shall make no law" actually means Congress shall make no law.

If people don't like what the 1st says, they should propose a new amendment, not try to pretend they can ignore what it currently says.
That statement was oversimplified. Its funny I've actually hit head on people who didnt understand "critical sections" and such and just added synchronized everywhere and even that didnt help because they were locking an independent object vs a shared object that had to be locked in order to create a critical section.

So yea read up on multithreading, its extremely important to know, but hey my friend worked 4 yrs in .net and just started learning multithreading. So its not always needed.
I'm pretty sure the apache license v2 is pretty liberal on what you can do with it. I think if someone were to re release it, they will make some nice change from it.
I have to agree here. Rewriting links in the browser probably violates the spirit of affiliation.

A related question: does it re-write links that already have an affiliate id in them? That would be really gauche.

[EDIT] Here's another way of thinking about it: what if they just kept the money and didn't donate to charity? I'm almost sure they'd be shut down. So why does donating to charity make it acceptable?
True, last I checked MSBuild support for VC++ projects was lacking. I think their solution was to run the build through the visual studio command interface...hopefully it's gotten better.
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They're starting to make some from sites for corporations, but the only one I know of is this:

http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com/

http://blog.posterous.com/advertising-agency-crispin-porter-...

There was a TechCrunch story that referred to it as "jumping on the revenue wagon", so they're definitely getting money out of it, but it was written by Daniel Brusilovsky, the 17-year-old intern that extorted startups, and they deleted all of his articles when they terminated him.

Edit: Google cache of the TechCrunch article: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:bi6GJIQbFY0J:www.techcr...
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Ask HN: Idea for improvement on HN reading.
I've been toying around with this idea lately, that would really increase my participation with Hacker News and benefit all who used it.

In a nutshell:
Sort by being able to disallow keywords, usernames, dates, etc. to get the stories you'll like the most first when you check.

In my my brief research (i.e. Google search) it doesn't look like HN has an API. Possibly scraping the data using scRUBYt! (for ROR) or a similar technique would be effective enough. Then, you would re-weight the data based on additional specifications.

If you took the last x00 submissions (or top x00 in current popularity) and then taught the application what you did and didn't like, it could remove, raise or lower results as they came in.

As an example:
In my case, Look at HN about twice a day. I generally like submissions with "Ask HN", "Tell HN" and "SASS" in the title. I don't like submissions discussing "Clojure" or "iPad" in the title. They aren't relevant to me. With my example, after scraping the data, the application could bump anything with a keyword I like up the list by 20%, and anything I don't like down the list by 50% (or 100% if I really hate everything on such a subject). There's so much more that could be said, but it seems quite simple.

I'm a designer mainly, and wannabe hacker. Any thoughts? Is this frowned upon by HN in general? Want to make it a reality (you hack, I design)?
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Well, unless you're terribly interested in moving on to things like differential geometry, I'd put analysis off a bit longer were I you. If you'd like something stimulating and potentially useful, more advanced combinatorics, number theory, or algebraic geometry might all be good choices. The first two tend to overlap a bit when they are presented in textbooks (with some group theory tossed in as well). If you do crazy graphics programming, or if you program robots' spatial reasoning, algebraic geometry might pay off - though, AG doesn't have as easy an entry. (One exception might be via the book Computational Algebraic Geometry by Hal Schenck).

As far as number theory "paying off": 1) Many proofs in number theory are algorithmic in nature; 2) Computers understand integers with greater facility than they do the psuedo-reals we call floats - often times efficient integer approximations will be more appropriate than slower floating point solutions, and knowing the integers will help you develop/understand these approximations; 3) If cryptography is your bag, number theory is a must; 4) Martin Davis, Yuri Matiyasevich, Julia Robinson, Hilbert's 10th problem, Turing Machines, computability theory, and (the number theory bit) diophantine equations (sorry to be cryptic, this is getting rather long winded).