skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> has a massive latency.

The trade-off for latency in PA is lower power usage. I think most consume users are pretty happy that their sound system does not suck tons of energy just to offer sub-10ms of audio latency.

> JACK

AFAIK, PulseAudio and Jack 2 can work pretty seamlessly together thanks to a new dbus API (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Pul...).
Asian Countries Are Eating More Wheat
I know it's Pi day, and the title uses the word for the greek letter, but my mind read the domain and immediately thought Google was offering an API for automated pie delivery.

Now I really want this.
It's worse for men
> Check out theredpill on reddit and never look back

Yea. As in once you check it out, you never want to see it again...
Ugh, well, if the roles were reversed here and the author were a man speaking for women this article would be derided. I think there's even a word for this, "mansplaining", no? Isn't that exactly what is happening here?

I'm just one man and don't pretend to speak for every man in the world but my experience with online dating was much better than what she describes. I don't recall what my "success" rate was but it had to of been at least 33%? Maybe more?

Maybe the author should talk to men about their experiences rather than assuming that her own behavior is the norm.
Don't confuse accreditation with education.

John Bear wrote a few books about the subject that I highly recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bear
Yes. Check out theredpill, laugh and/or cry that such a thing is real, and then close it and never look back.
Male here. I did online dating for a couple of years. Based on my narrow experience, it seems the odds are indeed dramatically stacked against men—I ended up generally not expecting a response from anyone.

When I changed my profile to “bisexual” (which I am), I saw one reason why—scads of creepy, low-effort messages from men, sometimes with their profile set to “female” to attract more responses. The imbalance leads to slimy game tactics and drives down the quality of experience for everybody.

The only real women who ever messaged me first had qualities that I guess some people consider dealbreakers, such as being big, disabled, trans, non-white, or just not “conventionally pretty”. Curiously, for me and most of my male friends, none of those things would even be a problem, as long as there were basic chemistry and lifestyle compatibility.

In the end, I made a few good friends, and I think that’s actually a very good use case—OkCupid’s “match percentage” for example is a pretty good metric of how much you agree on basic politics, demeanour, and so on. It just falls short of predicting a “spark” in real life—I went on dates with “99% match” women who turned out to share many of what I consider my worst qualities.

Ironically, soon after I gave up on online dating, I met my lovely partner at an internet meetup—so you really never know!
Is there a service that makes it trivially easy to simulate colour blindness on an image or document? Heck, why's it not built into data publishing applications?
Your advice on picture is dead-on, too. Obviously be in your photos but doing something interesting and don't take the picture yourself. I think mine were: cuddling a stray cat, on a hike, and biking in Seattle on vacation.
The issue of primitive performance seems to be in the background of how algorithms are implemented, which BLAS is running, compilation to server architecture, etc. One might measure the performance of 'very specific language primitives' directly for those language primitives. Stripping out confounding factors feels fundamental.

Of course, such a benchmark it might not have the same marketing hue as claiming that Julia is 553 times faster than Matlab at parsing an integer, for example.
For USA salaries, that is. Junior devs average $62k in San Diego, California and would lose about 26% of that to tax, assuming they're single and without children.
I think that hypothetical you describe at the end is very unlikely. Assuredly most CS majors had interest in computers that manifested in writing a simple app in C or building a web app or an IOS app prior to college.
This seems to be good advice. The more you know about a person, before you can properly meet them, the more likely you are to find out something that seems massively off-putting and shatters your impression of you.

I know a sample of 1 is nothing etc. but I read an article [1] a while back about a woman who tracked everything she could about every date she went on for two years, and one of the most interesting things I felt was that if she met someone through a dating site, it meant that she knew a lot more about them up-front, and thus didn't like them as much.

[1](http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/what-you-can-lea...)
If you refuse to update, you should at least be on their ESR branch, which is 45. Don't run an insecure, out of date version just because of a single feature.
Unfortunately, logic and sanity fall apart when you talk to hardcore Linux users and they get on their tirade about FREEDOM!!!! Check out absolutely any systemd thread for more evidence.

Freedom has a high cost - attention, maintenance, and constant vigilance. This is something we are learning all too well in this current political climate in the US. It's something Open Source maintainers are learning as they climb in years and experience and their time becomes more and more precious.

We used to tell people like these folk "Patches welcome," but then we learned that they give us those patches... and literally never maintain any aspect of them, so now we're stuck supporting their useless, broken, out of date features for years on end.

Worse, some of them come with baked in security vulnerabilities, and still get left on by default because next to nobody knows what it actually does. But we sure as hell get yelled at when we try to remove those broken features - it becomes an uphill battle, every time. We've seen it for Linux device drivers for super obscure hardware, we've seen it for features in desktop applications and entire desktop environments, we're seeing it again in web browsers.

If you aren't using PulseAudio, you have fully accepted that you are willing to be on the fringe <0.01% of Linux installs[1], and so you get to keep all of the pieces of your special configuration. Feel free to maintain your patches out of tree, and stop robbing the vast majority of users progress and the maintainer's time. It's your freedom to have the code and do what you want with it - they don't have to merge it into their code and support you for free. Forks welcome.

Mozilla made the right call. Freedom has a price.

[1]: by measure of software that I maintain on Linux - last I checked less than 100 installs reporting usage information use the non-Pulse backend, albeit I accept those same folk are likely the folk that would disable usage reporting, so we can never know with absolute certainty. I can't imagine Mozilla's numbers are greatly different than what I'm seeing.
> not being massaged out of the blue is survivable

I can confirm this is true.
I found my wife in a chat that was mostly used for dating. I won her because I was the only guy in the virtual room that did not start the conversation in the line "nice shoes, wanna fuck?".

Yes, online dating may be a bad experience for average-looking guys, but sometimes it is so easy to stand out.
Reading up on market design made me realize:

A) Tinder et al should probably be some sort of "sort the people you're interested in and run Gale-Shapley to figure out who you're meeting with on Friday Night"

B) The actual design of the app hardly matters for success, only your ability to market it and get people to adopt it. Oh, and I don't have any advantage here, so the entire thing is a mess not worth fixing.

I miiight have an out by making the Gale-Shapley version of Tinder, writing a bunch of content marketing aimed at programmers/nerds, aggressively promoting it at meetups. That only really gets the male side of the matching market, which means I'd want funding and a marketing position for women-who-are-into-nerds.
The trolley problem is an interesting frame.

For the sake of an unfamiliar reader, in the problem, we have a man standing by the buffers and an out of control trolley car. We're asked to choose between pulling a lever, which will divert the car to the buffers, thus killing the man but saving the people on board the car, or not pulling the lever, which results in the deaths of the trolley passengers but allows the man to live.

Choice one:

The out of control car is 'not your fault' but deliberately choosing to kill the man would be. You couldn't live with yourself knowing you'd been the cause of his death. You opt not to pull the lever.

Choice two:

That's crazy. None of this is your fault but it's your 'responsibility' to choose now. It's a simple utilitarian calculus - more lives = better. You pull the lever.

My problem with all this is that either response (and people split on the response) is nothing more than a reflection of the unconscious biases of the respondent. This is revealed when we discover that by changing the framing slightly - e.g. asking the question in another language (a different part of the brain is engaged = more utilitarians) or making the killing of the innocent man a direct act (you push him off an overpass = more 'not my faults') - changes the balance of responses in statistically significant ways.

The right answer, of course, is to toss a coin and do what it tells you.
I don't understand some of this advice like "keep your profile short. You'll offend someone and miss out on a date."

Unless you're just looking for hookups, the goal isn't dating, it's long term matching. I probably have gone on dates with 1 in 20 matches and aside from my ego, I'd be better off being more selective.
As someone who just moved to a big city and has been waiting for an excuse to ditch Tinder, what activities or events would you recommend to do to meet people?
I thought it was someone with a large array of raspberry pi computers for rent. It would be like an itty bitty AWS with adorable APIs at cute as a button prices.
+1
While living in a 55+ coop. All of us polled together a list of what opening statements lead to a date on various chatting apps. The #1 opening statement was, "You look like trouble...". The #2 was, "Backstreet boys or Nsyc".

Turns out blasting a simple message to as many girls as possible is the best way of online dating.
I believe that the general public does not understand the term computer science. I also don't believe that any CS grad is better off in the job market as a result of the courses taken, but rather is only highly sought after as a job candidate because of the degree's title. I often wonder if HR/hiring-managers will eventual wake up to the fact that a large part of the work that is typically required for such jobs can be accomplished by any dedicated individual willing to put in the time building a portfolio (aka ~10,000 hours) and then learn on the job.
Great idea... or maybe I think that because I'm a photo 5 but a video 7.
How is this different from the default state of Western culture for the past century?

It's not, but the author is considering how her actions have hitherto been perpetuating this state.
OkC was around ten years ago. I'm 31.
I am an Indian man with distasteful dating experience. I am 31, above average by American means and very much in shape. I weigh 150 lbs having height of 5'7".

I think premature baldness killed it for me in my 20s. I had low confidence for a long time. I have been shaving my head for 2 yrs now. But, 9 out 10 women here in SF/Seattle/Portland prefer either white or black men.

I haven't been on a date for 2 yrs now. I think TINDER and alike hookup apps pretty much killed it for men like me. Women used to depend on men for resources. We have reverse situation now with women outnumering men in terms of employment rate and graduation rate.

What's worst, Indian women prefer white men if they are in US and master's degree and 100k or more salary is must for Indian/Asian women. I have first hand experience of Indian/Asian women telling me that if I don't have masters then don't bother talking to us.

I deleted tinder profile 3 months back. Nowadays, I spend time just by myself. I felt bad for a long time, but then I realized nobody cares. Like it or not, women care about looks, status and resources most. Miss 2 out 3 and you are done.

I used to blame myself but now I don't. I know I am a competent man, i contribute to the society in my capacity and this is only life I have. I now spend Fridays and Saturdays being very relaxed and doing nothing virtually.

Hookup culture is real. That's all I can say.
Even without pairing off, simple age dynamics skews it in favour of women first and then men. Young women statistically want to date older men (even if only by a few years) since older men are more capable, confident, and have far more resources. Men want to date younger women (usually again by only a few years).The end result is that men have a much tougher time competing up until mid-20s, and then roles suddenly reverse and women in their late 20s and beyond are left wondering 'where all the men went'.
Yea, none of this true. The best application of the numbers game is to message a dozen girls a day online, and it works.
My point isn't so much text vs binary. It's text==1D vs much of VR content which is multi-dimensional. And the more multi-dimensional, the more the most human readable format becomes the non-text version (text -> trees -> images -> models/videos/animations).

Honestly even html suffers from the translation between linear-text and the tree-like DOM. Many of the pain points of webdev are dealing with this boundary. Go even farther to scenarios where you'd want to interact with the 2D rep of a webpage and you're completely off the reservation. Imagine using javascript/dom to ask the question "what letter is below the 17th character of this this paragraph", the question almost comes across as absurd! "What about different fonts? What about phones? What if there's an image below, is that 'null' or should I skip to the text?" The question is meaningless! Then again, text selection is exactly this question... On the web we've found some very reasonable boundaries between webpage responsibilities, browser responsibilities, and accepted a large swath of functionality as impossible.

In VR those boundaries are still in flux. VR scenes are a combination of all sorts of content, of all sorts of dimensionality, often including temporal components as well. Certainly for storage and transmission 'linear' is the only option, but what is the best working representation? Is it a tree with rich nodes? Well maybe, but that's going to make it that much harder for those nodes to interact. On the other extreme is it a 4d array of temporal-voxels? Probably not until we have petabyte DSL. Imo this is why this is a hard problem, why VRML has never really caught on, why after 25 years of making 3d games/movies there's still no standard scene description, why Facebook is taking a stab at this with this project, and why VR is a pretty exciting place to work :)
Look I'm very happy you succeeded and made it. I don't envy you, or covet your success.

I do disparage your lack of information on developmental statistics and societal behavior.

Matter of fact the most regret is not having a reading/article list ready at short notice, to help with this discussion.

It would help by showing, for example:

1) Even people who argue for welfare are arguing for actual fairness.

1.1) studies show that child development (which relates to scores) is influenced by maternal and grand maternal nutrition levels, and so poverty results in disadvantaged kids without any fault on their part.

This kills the fair concept you hold. Which is why I'm for fairness in this area. I want it to be fair, and I don't think kids who are suffering through no fault of their own, should be disadvantaged by unfairness masquerading as "fairness"

2) reduction in social mobility means that yes, even if you work hard, you will tread water. So not all entrepreneurs make it. Many many more fail.

And lots of people work 18 hour days, 7 days a week and still tread water.

3) evidence for the American dream, other than the fact that large chunks of my family made it and lived in an America where this was accepted and the reason people were attracted

4) bias, systemic, gender, age and racial, and how they persist despite laws, despite efforts to rub it out (and it has improved since this fight stil started.

The world is inherently unfair. People are losing even after putting in as much effort as you.

The fair, is in that someone gets to compete on the same platform as you. That they enter the court without handicaps.
Agreeing with zaccus here, but from a different angle:

"Striving to be cultured" is not the same as "social climbing" and ultimately is not an end in itself.

Cultivating oneself is a way of using one's limited lifetime well and wisely. Ultimately, this offers the best shot at a satisfying life, and the most chance to benefit others.
Web Cache – Everything you need to know
Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy
Motion activated camera controlled in C# (Windows)
It almost sounds like it's pre-recorded speech actually. But I agree, very relaxing.
Disagreed, BPG (better portable graphics) is based on H265, but aimed at animated/nonanimated pictures. From my tests it runs really well.
"Be yourself" is absolutely the worst dating advice a man can ever receive. Seriously, don't take dating advice from women. They give you bad advice not because they don't care for you (they genuinely do want to help and their intentions are good and pure), but their advice is bad because they don't understand what it's actually like to date women. It's not their fault either. Before everyone jumps on me for hating women, I don't. I love the women, they're wonderful. I'm not making a moral judgment, just stating a practical fact.

To see why this is bad advice, consider if you weren't very good at basketball and asked a friend on how to improve. If they said "be yourself", that would be crazy. Clearly, whatever you've been doing hasn't been working, so doing more of that isn't going to improve anything.

If you actually want tips to meaningfully improve your dating life, feel free to email me (email in profile). Happy to chat more offline.
It sucks for everyone. For women, it sucks because they're being bombarded and spammed. For men, it sucks because it can be nearly impossible to break through the noise.

I'm a guy. I'm extraordinarily serious about relationships. I never spam women because I'd hate to have it done to me, and I hate anything that makes humans dread talking to each other, anything that degrades the glue that allows humans to get along with empathy. Before I write to anyone, I've read everything they provided, and genuinely think we could get along.

But writing to women is an absolute tightrope. Do too much to demonstrate literacy and general quality as a human being, and the message may come off as weird or boring. The vast majority of the time, you won't receive feedback of any kind, so you tend to start trying to anticipate their reservations -- but if you write anything about your guesses as to why they might not be interested, you start sounding weird. And you get one chance per person. Writing again would be weird.

Get nothing back ten times? Twenty? Fifty? You can never ever let it get to you. You can never get a chip on your shoulder or allow any resentment to show through.

I accept a lot of this as just The Way It Is. The one thing I would hope to change in the minds of women, the one memo to women I would send, if I could, is: we have the internet and airplanes. Please don't write me off because I don't happen to be in the same city right now! A lot of women seem to want to cripple OKCupid to be, e.g., OKCupid NYC.

In my last successful relationship, we met on OKC, talked there, and then on another online chatting thing, and then in calls and texts and emails, and then I drove several hundred miles to see her. We knew we loved each other before I left. We were together for a few years. We have internet and airplanes! This could be a good thing for women.

Every time I disable my OKC account, I feel like it's for the last time, and the amount of time before I try again gets longer and longer. I feel like I'm being trained in a bad way.

I'm OK with how things are, but I wish things were better, because the world would be better if it were filled with people in healthy relationships that allow them to love and be loved.
>when better instruction is available for free online?

Have you watched khan academy videos? Or online lectures in general?

90% of it is complete garbage. You can listen to Sal repeat every sentence 5 times if you really want to, but are you actually learning?
I was on OKCupid for something like 10 years. 5 years ago a girl messaged me first. Probably the 3rd time that happened in the ten years. I am now happily married to that girl. She's on the couch a few feet from me.
She really didn't get it. I"ve seen plenty of young men spend swiping through dating apps and messaging girls for hours, because it works and works well.
LOL, true enough, and even then... I have a button-down shirt, my only pattern shirt (other than stitch patterns) with cars on it... no woman I've dated likes that shirt. So taste will still account for a lot.

Also, if you're a bigger guy, spring for at least getting a collar lift (assuming you don't have a matching big neck), makes all the difference in the world but does about double the price of a button down shirt, and will piss you off when you have to get a new tailor, or one gets messed up.... I've had mostly good luck, one mess up out of the last 6-7 I've had done. Also, don't let dun-lap happen, just buy the right sized pants to cover your actual stomach up to near (just below) your belly button, and wear a shirt that covers it. Nothing looks worse than ill-fitting clothes when you're a big guy. A little loose is okay, but don't go for a tent either.
OKCupid's match percentage is highly gameable. You've got two kinds of people - those that might work out, and the "oh hell no". Answer anything that has an obvious answer for the first kind as highly important, decline to answer questions with high variance, repeat until enough people have high enough percentages.
That exists (or at least it did). I think the name of the app is Flutter, I know Jason Calcanis invested in it and they presented at Launch Fest last year.
Australia is going to ban unvaccinated children from attending childcare centers
Name really needs to change.
Go on Lambda https://github.com/eawsy/aws-lambda-go
Rust on Lambda http://julienblanchard.com/2015/rust-on-aws-lambda/

etc. etc.
> At least they would be trying to use more data points and be competitive.

Are you familiar with Actural science?
To what extent should the CTO be responsible for Uber's engineering culture?
I haven't read the article, but around 5 years ago I had a great experience with OkCupid. I've never had trouble meeting girls in real life though, and I guess that carried over to the internet. I almost never initiated the conversation with girls but just responded when they sent me a message. I met lots of terrific women (and some not-so-terrific women), including my girlfriend who I'm still with. I had a lot more fun meeting girls with OkCupid than I did at bars/parties/etc.
It's underspecified for what others want. If it didn't do what Gruber needed it to do, surely he would extend it, no?
While the browser vendors haven't done this - some of the image hosting sites (who are far more directly affected) have.

Imgur automatically converts larger GIF files to "GIFV" (WebM or MP4). The size difference is nuts: their example is a 50MB gif being reduced to 3.5MB

Their announcement post about it:
http://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/