skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had my first dating experiences in life online, and then I met a couple of girls "normally". (Relationships are few and far between for me, and I have to work at getting one and it takes a year or two and finding one is by far the hardest problem I've ever had to solve in my life).

I'm trying online again, and the contrast is extremely stark. There is nothing in any other experience in life that has made me think of myself as an unwanted commodity item quite so much as this. As a man in my thirties who is below average in height (5'8) I fight against about 25% to 75% numbers, and the women seem almost universally to be working extra carefully to exclude me and almost always come across as extremely entitled, both in written and in unwritten ways. And I can't blame them for it! They just understand the economics of scarcity, apparently. Despite being reasonably successful in life and being in the best physical shape I've ever been (10% bodyfat or so, can barely see my abs, can bench press 185 for 8 reps at bodyweight of 155), I seem completely uninteresting to women in a nearly universal way without much I can do to change this.

There are no doubt some men who succeed fantastically in this environment, but it seems that for someone like me to do so, I would need to, very much, be conscious of playing the game and pretty much doing anything but presenting an unashamed and straightforward version of self-expression. Since I consider it to be the core of my character to neither accept or deal out bullshit from anyone, but to seek the direct truth, this is a problem.

This is in contrast to where I've actually had success with women in the past - amateur classical singing and opera. There the population is about 75% women, with many of the men being gay. There, I can get a taste of what dating is like for the rest of the world - I didn't have to play some stupid hyper-masculinized pursuer who throws semi-sincere interest at a hundred women until one of them returns a peep, but situations actually can develop somewhat symmetrically and organically. Clearly the answer for me is to get back into a world like that, despite not being very interested anymore for any other reason. (My passion these days is programming and development.)

Anyway, this turned into a big rant, but I've been single for a year, face the prospect of a few more, and it does get to me.
Be careful not to ascribe your own narrative onto this. They're not calling you to the site because they want you to use it or buy into it. It's a progress report / unveiling of an experimental project.

The primary author (Graydon Hoare) is IMO a frickin' genius, but even so he is at pains to reduce expectations for Rust at this time. So, go easy on Rust for now.
Ironically, I quit playing RPG's because there's too much errand-running and chores in them. I guess you can swing that lever the other way, though.
Ask HN: Anybody have any ideas for Twittermania and Twittercharts
I have received 4 buy offers on twittermania.com and twittercharts.com but I don't have any interest in selling them.

And even worse, I dont have the time to do anything with them.

If anybody has ideas or interest in building it out...Id love to hear and am open to anything. Contact username at gmail.
Wouldn't the teacher adapt to the smartness of the kids?
A patent is only good for 20yrs from submittal, on September 29, 2024 this patent is voided, what a waste of $500, assuming he publish this patent.
I think GP had it right - now that it's landed and I've read the new article, I see it mentioned that they set a record specifically for manned solar-powered aircraft.
Or in Musk's case, are married and then strike it rich.
Of course! In that case she wouldn't be long-term material, but it'd be nice to have had the experience just once.
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Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby

Freely available:
http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby...
Better to have people using it and cheating, than nobody using it at all.
Yes, there will be Startup School this year. We'll announce soon in fact.
The "module" would still suffer from monkeypatching-related collisions (e.g. think document.getElementsByClassName in old versions of Prototype.js).

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm thinking you would annotate the beginning of foo.xjs (extended JavaScript) with

/*macros: modules.jsm*/

Then run the preprocessor, which will generate foo.js - a plain old JavaScript file.

The `s' in `defs' stands for "statement", so your example would throw the same error as "var a = if (x==4) ..."

var a = module A {}
^

error: expected expression
Firstly, the conclusion is probably a fair inditement on IBM compared to many other service providers. But two things bugged me, and one thing made me think.

Comparing IBM to companies like Fog Creek and then objecting to their vastly different processes (as if it were a surprise) comes across as a little naive. Yes, IBM have subject matter experts, pricing experts, sales reps and developers who don't talk to each other much. Because IBM is freakin' huge. They need to specialise, and while they likely suffer from corporate bloat in that regard, IBM have almost as many offices in one Australia state (NSW - 12) than Altassian (3), Fog Creek (1), and CollabNet (10) seem to have collectively globally.

Obviously the OP has never come across the SME acronym either - I can assure you it's not nearly as silly sounding in the business world as discussing an Agile Scrum. It also reflects the segmentation and specialisation of companies like IBM (and many much, much smaller). Most SMEs I know identify themselves as such because it ensures they get the support they need - if you're going to talk to IBM you want them to know quickly that you're not the next $3M sale, and knowing you're a SME helps you communicate as much. So the OP's treatment of that acronym seemed to expose his experience in this area (limited) which damaged the credibility of his conclusion (IBM sucks).

Enough of what annoyed me - what made me think? I want the HN consensus on the topic raised by XKCD and observed is this quote from the OP -

(thanks alot guys ;)

No, it's not me observing that "alot" isn't a word. It's wondering what to do with a smiley face at the end of parentheses - http://www.xkcd.com/541/

I personally think it is worthy of a TED talk, though maybe only a 3 minute one.
Buying a beer is a figure of speech. It doesn't actually have to mean beer, it just shows that you have a stronger relationship with them than "You gave me money and I gave you equity".
Theories on Why College Kids Are Studying Less
Get a small squirt bottle and rubbing alcohol, and call it a salt stick. Works great, not kidding! :)
The problem I see is that the appeal of leveling up in RPGs is that your character becomes more powerful and capable. I don't think that applies with chores; if you grind ironing for five hours straight you're unlikely to enjoy any benefits apart from pressed shirts.
Australian government delays Internet filter for a year
One thing that's positive about online dating is that it takes away a lot of the mysterious parameters.

Mysterious parameters: you meet a girl (or guy, but let's say girl) at a party, hit it off, exchange phone numbers, call a few days later a get the cold shoulder. Or you go on one or two dates, things still going well and then you never hear back from that person.

What probably happened: she had a hang up, she wasn't ready, she met someone else, she wasn't really looking, she was just interested in a few free meals, she was set up by friends but she wasn't really into it, etc...

The advantage of online dating is that people who commit to it are usually a bit more ready to get involved with someone else. I found that there is less playing game and more straight-to-the-point "I'm looking for someone, so are you, let's see if this can work".
I absolutely love it (seriously). I can honestly see myself using this very often. Good job to the team!
Your attitude towards math/"timeless" cs is correct. Today's infrastructure, if you want to build something awesome four years in the future, is of little interest to you. Focus on learning general-purpose algorithms, maths, language concepts, and design sensibilities. When the time comes to pick up the technologies of the day you want to build in, you'll have an abstraction of those technologies ready to give you the context to totally own it.

This is not to say that you should totally neglect concrete tools. The strategy that I've followed in this case has served me well, and I'll outline it below:

First, learn a few "immortal tools" really well: emacs, some kind of revision control, and how to be fluent in a UNIX shell. This includes understanding the "unix philosophy," and shell scripting. None of these things are going anywhere anytime soon, and a deep understanding and fluency with them will boost your productivity by quite a lot.

Second, learn an orthogonal basis of programming languages to reasonable fluency. That is, identify the major families of programming languages, pick the one that most appeals to you in each family, and learn it. Do some project euler stuff, or hack out that application you wanted, or implement one of your favorite algorithms. The first thing I always write in a new programming language is a nondeterministic finite automaton description language and execution engine, for instance. Not only will this be fun, but it will prepare you to learn whatever is in vogue when you sit down to make your product by giving you broad context for programming languages in general.

Good luck. You have a good attitude and you're starting in the right place; linear algebra is great stuff, and so is CLRS.

Oh, and finally: for the love of god take a class that uses SICP. Or just work through it yourself with the online lecture videos. It teaches programming by giving you a series of ever-more-elaborate models of program evaluation. It will give you a deep understanding of how programming languages work, in general, which it sounds like you'd really enjoy.
I don't think I'd want to flood my social network with the truth about what I'm actually doing either; someone who finds the fact that I've cleaned my toilets or vacuumed my lounge interesting is probably not the sort of person I'd want to be social with.
Both Chrome on OSX and Chromium on Linux are rock solid for me. On 5.0.375.99 x86_64.
Hm, you're right; sorry. In hindsight, this post would have been better suited to Reddit, as I posted it simply because I thought the patent's content would be fun to analyze, plus it was funny.

I didn't mean to say anything about the patent system itself, just this patent.
Women say they want money, which one study found to be true, only to find no correlation between that preference and the men they actually ended up dating: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-prof...
> This link says 1 inch = $30000.

Good to know.

Do you have a similar number for tallness?
Rust was in the works years before Go was made public.

I happen to know some of the authors and I can assure you it's not about corporate politics. The authors of Rust are just interested in exploring different concepts from the Go people.
What can we do?

Abandon the institution of marriage entirely. Nuke it from orbit, as it were. It's the only way to be sure.

The legal end of it is a mere wealth-redistribution mechanism. The social end of it is made of community who loves to witness people getting into marriages, but they scatter during the demise. So what function does it perform? From my perspective, it only serves to weaken commitment by trying to offload the responsibility of staying together to a legal framework.

Can anybody make a good case for continuing the charade?
looks interesting, but serial should be the default mode.
Locker numbers aren't entirely randoom - while it seems unlikely there'd be a correlation, I'm surprised they didn't just use real random numbers to rule that out.

Maybe walking further between classes makes people more likely to be late and less prepared to pay attention?
You'd think someone as smart as Elon Musk would have followed the advice of Felix Dennis: "If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it’s cheaper in the long run."
I think hatred is a strong word. Most advertising is simply brain-dead. Most marketers are Internet-clueless. Mainstream sites (who ought to know better) are the worst offenders. The people handling ad inventory for mainstream sites (cough cough NYT YouTube Huffington CNN cough cough) should simply be fired and repeatedly beaten with a rubber chicken.

Encourage people to:

- Use an adblocker (always). Never turn it off for any reason.

- Use plugins like Readability.

- Prefer RSS feeds to front pages (less ads)

- Shun and avoid sites that carry obnoxious advertising

- When you come across a piece of advertising obnoxious enough to make you angry, send the site owner an email. These emails matter. Site owners obsess over them.

We want to get to a point where the ads-for-content business model is broken. If your company (let alone your personal blog) can't figure out how to create useful, compelling content with tasteful advertising, your company doesn't deserve a place in the new market.

One more thing: if you ever see a site that uses double-underlined hyperlinks that spawn an obnoxious floating popup dialog from hell on hover, simply navigate away without reading another word. No legitimate content provider uses this hellishly offensive advertising form, and authors who use it deserve not to be read.
What companies are offering comparable services?
Online Dating is Unsatisfying because people suck at communicating.

They need to write good profiles by not talking about themselves so much: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/how-to-write-an-online...

They need to write clear and compelling opening messages: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/match-messages/

They need to speak in specifics to get a conversation flowing: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/conversation-nuggets-i...
A few we use for a variety of things are.

Mailchimp
Google Apps
SurveyMonkey
This is exactly what made me put money on my account, actually.
Unless you are Karate Kid.
Comment by David Dunning (if he is actually him) on the blog post - "The blog author is correct in describing what the original effect is poor performers are overly confident relative to their actual performance. They are not more confident than high performers"

It seems that really smart/intelligent people actually have a much higher estimation of their ability then the less intelligent people (just that the discrepancy between their actual ability and the estimated ability are smaller than less smart people). So opp to what jgg mentioned, those who learn of this study should be inflating their estimation of their own intelligence to put themselves up there with the smartest quartile.

Those who run around saying they are dumb are actually.... dumb =)
I can see the pitch now: it's like Chatroulette, only in real life!
Please don't flame me, but that's the kind of post doesn't really interest me on hacker news. (There are really few of them thought). If all news were like this, I would stop using HN.
Thanks for the advice. In your section about getting to know vc's you mention a few methods. What method have you found to be most successful? Do you believe coming out of ycombinator gave you an instant "in" with VC's?
What does a build tool (Maven) really have to do with using any of the app servers?
Here's one I didn't expect: HN loads 5.5x faster than reddit.
First NASA, now this. Come on!
When you use a credit card, you pay to give someone else money. When you use PayPal, you pay to give someone else money.

Just because it's a hidden cost that the merchant rolls into the price doesn't mean it isn't true.
It's posts like this that make think "forget women". I mean seriously. I would want a relationship where I can be myself, and don't have to craft every bit of what I say according to some stupid protocol when it annoys the fuck out of me to see other people following when I can tell they're not being who they want but just following the rules. Yes I'm single, yes I have been for a long time, yes I will be for a long time further, most likely.
You're right about the women doing the choosing. There was a study about how when women did the approaching in speed-dating, they became more interested. (PDF: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://faculty.wcas.north...) So you're at an advantage if they make the first move.

So, online, just getting into their sphere of awareness by viewing their profile can help elicit a wink (and using a call-to-action in your profile): http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/match-whos-viewed-me/

When you do finally send a message, it's best to keep it short, specific, and include ONE question: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/match-messages/
I wasn't going to flood them with updates for every task, but whenever you get an achievement or level up.

In http://kuwest.com you have more quantifiable tasks, so you can complete a quest when you, say, run 100 miles or read 1000 pages.
Here's hoping this is Conroy trying to let this scheme fade away without the need for a humiliating backdown.

Can it be coincidence that this means nothing will happen until after the next election? I think not. I also think that it will only come up after the election if they still want Fielding onside.
I hope they don't. If it gets more flexible, I won't use it. When this was brought up on Reddit months ago, everyone wanted to see sliders that controlled the percentage of amount that went to different people... it's the definition of a useless power feature.

The simplicity is the entire point. "More flexible" == more complicated, and then I won't want to use it anymore.
The "protocol" isn't really for the sake of being someone other than yourself - it's for letting your personality be displayed through the limitations of the medium.
There are basically three choices:

1) space significant (Python, Esterel)
2) braces or other one character delimiters
3) begin/end or other word delimiters

I find 3) very noisy and while I like 1) (even though I dislike Python), I find that 2) is a pretty good compromise, one where I don't find myself having to visually parse classes ending in "end end end end end".
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In all fairness, I think doubling up on the parenthesis is just a no-brainer. I mean, let's examine the syntax and break down what we have to deal with:

1) We are executing an optional piece of text in a sentence such that we'd like it to be read but not spoken aloud.

2) Often, these parenthetical statements are in themselves sentences that just lack a piece of a full sentence, but can sometimes act as sentences in themselves.

3) We want to express ourselves using an emoticon strictly concerning this additional piece of information that is within the parenthesis.

4) Sometimes, parenthetical statements can contain an entire sentence. (For example, this is one of those sentences :).) If we were to transform that into an optional piece of a sentence, we would get something that drops the "for example" and also drops the period which leaves us with two closing parenthesis.

I hope that we can quickly adopt this new formatting and stick to it asap.
There are no doubt some men who succeed fantastically in this environment, but it seems that for someone like me to do so, I would need to, very much, be conscious of playing the game and pretty much doing anything but presenting an unashamed and straightforward version of self-expression. Since I consider it to be the core of my character to neither accept or deal out bullshit from anyone, but to seek the direct truth, this is a problem.

If you have attitude that you're not going to make any changes to yourself in order to land women, than you're not going to land women. And why should women want to date you if your not willing to make the step?

Women don't want direct and straightforward. They want charm, mystery, excitement. For one trite example, When I'm commenting on some nerdy web forum, and my girlfriend asks me what I'm doing, I don't say, "I'm chatting on a web forum." I say, "I'm engaging in correspondence" and paint the air of some sophisticated 19th century aristocrat. Or I say, "the same thing I do every night, sweetie, try and take over the world". When you can learn to dress up the mundane aspects of life with fun and charm, you'll find women enjoy being around you a lot more.

I used to think "game" was just something for cad's and those who wanted only numbers and notches. But even the most cultured, educated, women wants to be charmed, she wants that psychologically dominant rogue to game her. If you want a great, long term affectionate companion, you need to develop both the personal rapport and shared interests, but also the romantic game/charm that makes her tingle for you.
Any reform involving private schools in the US needs to be wary of its effect on ideological and cultural divides. We already prefer to live near like-minded people, it's not a stretch to assume we'd send our kids to like-minded schools.

To be more specific, we don't want our school system to become a proxy for culture wars - individual schools marketing themselves to parents as a place which builds proper (liberals|conservatives|tea partiers|greens|etc).

No matter what shape reform takes, society needs to make sure its people get a well rounded education.
Doing a simple task me meditative. Its doing complex but boring tasks - like writing crud code... now that... should count for ridiculous amounts of exp
This is what you get for voluntarily involving the government in your personal matters.

What bugs me most about the entire gay marriage debate is that it implies that the government should have control over the institution of marriage. The solution to the gay marriage debate is not to make it legal for gay people to get married, but to make it so that the government doesn't decide who can get married.
Potential Unicorn? : biology
Can someone tell me, definitively, why we are trying to reduce NOx?

Yes, it comes out of tailpipes, and the stuff that comes out of tailpipes has always been deadly.

Yes, in high concentrations, it probably plays a part in LA's smogscape of the late 1900's.

Yes, my first car which made excessive NOx had a distinct smell and made me feel happy...

But did you know that NOx uses sunlight to produce free oxygen in a catalytic cycle? This free oxygen then reacts to produce ozone. Aren't we kind of having an ozone shortage right now?
totally not appropriate for HN

political news plus spun propaganda with an agenda
If your comment could be worked verbatim into a Miss America contestant on stage answer, it probably doesn't belong on HN. Especially when it's not really on topic except in the broadest of terms. Even choirs get bored getting preached to after a while.
Dude. I think 3 mentions in the same thread is a bit much.
Ask HN: Why does my online dating blog not show up on HN?
I've submitted things from it before, only to find that later they display only to me, not to other users. See? Nothing here, right? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1305427

The site is at http://onlinedatingmatchmaker.com and it has quality content on it. Is there a filter that bans sites with "onlinedating" in the URL?
Heh, I thought it seemed off. For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you (the comment didn't bother me either way). I just couldn't help being a smartass.
Rather, that each strain has so much variation as the term to be nearly meaningless other than for taxonomic purposes and tracking infection origins and spreading patterns.
I'm in the US but I guess the process would be similar.

Would a small cabin be much harder to build, more expensive, less eco-friendly? It seems like there would be less planning approval stuff?
It hit 200 today, which is a little lower than I had hoped... but I think once the first couple newsletters go out people will have a better idea if it fits their needs or not.