skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or are you saying that you've simply been on the site for 6 months before connecting with someone for a first date? this.

I've been sending out a lot of messages. I get replies quite often. I had two girls setup dates with me and we had exchanged phone numbers and SMSes. But the dates never happened and I lost interest. I had one old female friend reconnect with me and we went out, but that doesn't really count. The girl I'm going on a date with tomorrow I've been talking to for less than a week. Unless G20 turns into a convenient excuse to bail on the date, it'll be my first one through OKCupid.

Girls tell me I have a good profile. It's funny and I have good photos. I had a really crappy profile at first and definitely had to revamp it. But honestly, I found that photos make the biggest difference.

I might be doing it wrong. I have pretty high standards looks wise. I know... shoot me. So often I'm doing the rejecting/ignoring of messages. I live in a big city but I also go to a gym which has a lot of really attractive girls. I would say most of the girls on OKCupid in my area are a little less physically attractive, and are no better/worse in the personality department than ones I meet through traditional offline methods.
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Europe is not the "rest of the world".

In Taiwan, which has the highest cell phone penetration in the world (106 phones per 100 people), the market is vastly different from described in the article. LG is doing extremely well, leading the touch panels, Samsung, a number of Japanese companies, HTC (a local company) and recently Apple are the other major players.

AFIK, the story in Hong Kong is relatively similar and Korea has been even harder for Nokia.
3.1.3 is a largely unnecessary update that doesn't do much besides fixing certain jailbreak exploits. I would recommend sticking with 3.1.2 - that's what I'm doing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#3.1.2
Yeah, I remember telling my increasingly wall-eyed girlfriend about all the data facebook collects and what they do with it and why this means we and everyone we know should switch to the first viable alternative. Her response: "So what? How does it change my life one bit if every company in the world knows exactly what I buy on the internet and what's on my facebook profile? It's not like there are naked or even particularly embarassing pictures there. I just want to see if someone I used to go to school with is fat/a skank/ugly/got religion and then check back in a month or two to see if it's still true. If I can do that, I don't care what Facebook knows about me or who they sell it to."
I've been playing around with Hackintoshes since the original leaked 10.4 developer build from 2005. It's really no worse than the type of upkeep and headaches you get from using Linux on the desktop in my opinion. The quality of available applications for OSX makes it worth doing if you can put up with some tinkering.
My 3G seems to be the same in terms of speed. iBooks has pretty lousy performance on it though.

The new mailboxes make it worth it for me.

Jailbroken? Don't enable wallpapers and multitasking. You'll find out why it isn't supported officially by Apple. Absolute shit performance if you do.
I used it to make an RSS feed which only shows stories that make it into the top 10 on HN. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=91d82e993e4607b9f...
To drag this thread further off topic...

My wife and I hunted around for a while, and bought a frickin' awesome mattress. It does wonders to your attitude to not wake up sore and stiff. And I like that my toes finally don't hold up the end of the sheets (california king FTW, though finding sheets for it is a PITA).

And, personally, I think people pay far too little attention to their feet. Good shoes are worth the money (unless you're a barefooter, in which case no shoes is worth the money (or Vibrams)).
Wow - I love mine (FeedDemon: http://www.feeddemon.com/). So great - does almost everything I've ever wanted
If scientists want to educate the public, they should start by listening
Your "explanation" is wrong, even if you have more upvotes than philwelch. Decimation was a form of military punishment in the roman army where one soldier on ten was killed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army) )
Or, I might just be incredibly picky. See my reply here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466098. I guess that brings up another point. Some people might not have found someone offline because they're just picky. So don't presume that people "lower their standards" when they date online.

I have 16 conversations dating back to May in my inbox. Let me know if that's par for the course. The problem is, of these 16, 8 were girls that initiated contact with me and that I didn't find very attractive. Of the remaining 8, I had a date lined up with 1 that fell through, and a date currently lined up with another.

EDIT: Another stat. I sent out 39 messages from May until now. Of the 39 messages, 8 got replies. So that's about 1 in 5.
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Hooray-hooray, my fellow human siblings. If you haven't been following things for the last twenty years then you missed out on some seriously freaky shit.

We finally reached the age where magic bursts from fiction and hallucinations of insane into the real world, for everyone to touch and see. We were dreaming of teleportation and now we can IM each other and video-chat. We were dreaming of telekinesis and now we can lift things without any physical contact with them (thanks science for wifi and bluetooth). We were dreaming of remote viewing and now we have webcams. There is probably more, but for now, this freaks me out enough.

We: engineers, programmers, designers, testers are nothing but wizards. Let's be proud of what we do, for we direct forces of the universe into inanimate objects to make them feel emotions and think.

[1] http://boards.cannabis.com/books-literature/132697-real-telepathy.html -- because everyone should know that writing _is_ a form of slow telepathy.
I married my ex-wife from eharmony. (thanks for the compatibility match guys!) I married my current wife, and the mother of my two children, using yahoo personals. I also dated using match.com

In my opinion, dating sites are still extremely efficient ways of meeting people. I exclude eharmony, both from personal bias, and from the fact that they don't allow you to really search the database.

After you leave college, real life meetings become much more complicated. The bar scene is a lottery. How likely is it that you'll actually coincide in time and space with somebody who you would be happy with, and then how likely is it that you'll even get to talk to them if they are there when you're there? Grocery stores and other non-traditional meeting places, I personally avoided bothering women in, assuming there should be some neutral ground where a woman might wish to be left alone.

For me, I wanted college educated women who had opinions about politics and whose opinions I shared. I wanted women with no children, who lived within 50 miles of me and didn't smoke or do drugs, but who did drink socially, wanted children, had traveled the world some, and were not strongly religious. I wanted women who enjoyed outdoor sports such as scuba, skydiving, and rock climbing. I wanted women who didn't own small yap dogs.

Can you imagine bumping into women like this randomly? But with a dating site, it became so much easier.

I still went out on a lot of dates that were bad matches, but I definitely skewed my chances of finding somebody I could respect and have fun with by taking the random chance aspect out of the equation.

EDIT: The article doesn't actually disagree with this. It's saying that paid dating sites will lose out to unpaid. I was responding to the HN title which derides all dating sites.
I like how for some of them the "before" was a male and "after" was a female--especially with the girls. There's always an uproar about how there's a distinct lack of women in science and tech, so it's good that this trip helped them alter their ideas about what and who a scientist could be.

We still live in an age, though, where kids can go for a while through school with only hearing about Madame Curie and a few others (Magaret Meade, Jane Goodall, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, etc.) as women scientists. Not taking anything away from them, but efforts to change that are always nice (both for boys and girls). I can remember being in quiz bowl at that age and knowing that anytime the moderator asked a question mentioning a female scientist, the ladies above were the likely answers.
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A "Genius" told me the same thing yesterday. Said I should wait to upgrade.
> The problem is, of these 16, 8 were girls that initiated contact with me and that I didn't find very attractive.

Do you mean that it's unattractive for a girl to initiate contact with you?
He was also ignored totally by all the main stream publications, it was later alleged they had close ties to Glaxo and the editors were fully aware of the significance the impact would have had on Glaxo.

http://www.orc.ru/~yur77/pylori.htm
I've always said I think the iPad is more a bet on the future than it is on the present. I wrote a post on my blog a while back that I think makes the point pretty well(if I might be so conceited): http://tomstechblog.com/post/What-People-Donrsquo3bt-ldquo3b...

The gist of that post is that the "Pad" form factor will succeed for two reasons...

Reason #1 - Once documents start moving to the cloud people are going to want a way to view those documents on the go. In the same way that people carry a notepad to meetings now they’ll want to pull up documents in the future. They need a device that focuses on being a "viewing device" (as opposed to PCs, laptops and netbooks which make huge concessions for data entry). The same is true of paper media like books and newspapers. People need a way to carry around these digital representations.

Reason #2 - People aren’t going to redefine the page. Digital documents will continue to be based around 8.5” by 11” dimensions just as Roman Chariots defined the Space Shuttle’s booster rockets. So paper will be the form factor that defines the mobile devices we carry around with us in the future.

To me that's the point. The "Pad" form factor is something we all know is appealing (they were appearing in Star Trek back in the 60s). It was just a matter of waiting for the right time and producing a quality device. I think Apple's done both of those things with the iPad
Yeah I upgraded mainly for the new Mail features (grouped conversations and archiving for gmail). The phone isn't jailbroken, but I'm going to try a full restore and see what happens.
"The stereotype gives the impression of a geek with glasses or someone who is bald. Actually, they are just people who ask and answer questions."

Nice!
While that post is interesting and some points apply only to paid dating sites, they didn't mention how likely you are getting married though okcupid.
I didn't look at the code. If that's all it takes to get it working for Gecko as well then yes, shame on them for not doing so.
I updated my 3G to iOS4 and noticed a serious performance hit along the same lines as the original poster. Rebooting the phone brought things back up to speed though, with some functions seeming snappier than they were under 3.x (Safari being the stand-out example). The phone has been running fine over the past couple of days since the reboot, so I'm not sure if there's a problem with how the upgrade is carried out on the phone that causes the slowness, or if there are some memory issues in iOS4 that will necessitate periodic rebooting of 3G models.
RSS readers are fine, Google Reader is better. The problem is in user experience and how they use it. If you do not prioritize and constantly worry about missed or unread items, you will only end up blaming your reader. The trick is in organizing, prioritizing and ignoring the unread/missed items. With these three strategies, you can effectively absorb unbelievable amount of data on daily basis.
That could also be true, those were mostly just some of the things I had learned. I also have a decent amount of girls initiate contact with me, but I'm rarely interested in them.

Since about May 20th I've initiated contact with about 40 girls. Sounds like the problem is you just aren't sending enough messages. 1 out of 8 is pretty close to what I'd expect if you have a good profile.
Think of it like a bar at closing time. Most of those people are not looking for true love -- they just want a casual hookup.
Bookwise, some places to start for general overviews of economics are:

"New Ideas from Dead Economists" by Todd Buchholtz

"Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan

Blogwise:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/ is entertaining and filled with good insights from a libertarian point of view.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/ has more centrist/liberal views on a variety of economic issues and has a good set of links to daily economic-related blog posts from various points of view.

The above blogs have enough links to other blogs to get you started, and they will give you different points of view on current topics.
If you have data on the phone, like texts, emails, etc. your iPhone 3G will be unusable. Mine is also terrible, but I'll live with it until I make a fresh install when I buy an iPhone 4.
No, you should re-read my comment, since my "incorrect" statement says exactly the same thing that you said. Or do you feel that there is a substantive difference between what I said ("strike down 1 in 10" and "reduces it by 10%") and what you said ("one soldier on [sic] ten was killed").

My guess is that you misread my statement and thought I said that it reduces the signal to 10%. But I didn't say that, and in fact I gave the correct explanation in two ways to make sure I would be interpreted clearly.
I'm not sure if the question is aimed at geeks (ie HN crowd) or in general, but my own observations from previously working at a leading news website indicates that people find the lack of visual aesthetic disappointing in News Readers.

Images are often not included in RSS feeds, and if they are are then they are only shown once you are viewing an item.

When we are triaging which stories to read on a news/blog site, imagery plays an important as we scroll and select - and I don't think I've seen any RSS readers which show you a feed item's images at the story selection level.

The lack of site aesthetic/look and feel maybe less important to geeks but end-consumers also miss that when they are viewing news stories in a reader. In other-words, when I read CNN's feed in my reader I don't get any of CNN's site aesthetic.

Finally, don't forget comments and also the serendipity of suggested related content -- both of which are also missed out when we read stories in a news reader.
Bluehost CEO blog hacked (and many other sites at Bluehost)
Just because he gave the definition as it is applicable rather than the historical etymology doesn't make it wrong...
Here's some more, many of you probably still believe those:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_seigneur
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This seems to be a mass infection at Bluehost where even their CEO's blog got hacked.
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Still works fine here.
May be it worths making it something simple and easy to use :)
Dataflow languages are certainly great for many application domains for which they aren't currently used.

Alternative visual layouts remain to be proven in practice. This is another of a long line of experiments in alternative ways of editing source code. They always tend to work great for smallish examples, then start to quickly become unwieldy. I mean at the end of the second video you can already see that table becoming huge even with just three types of attacks. Imagine a real game with dozens of them and more complicated logic. Your computation is now spread out over meters horizontally and you'd find yourself dizzily scrolling back and forth to try to understand it all. Yes, being able to focus the table can help alot and if you got good at it maybe it'd be fine, but it remains to be proven in a real system. I'd like to see a major application built atop the system first.

What'd be really great is if you could also see/edit a textual (or pseudo-textual) representation and go back and forth.
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Tethering's working for me fine under iOS 4, although I'm also seeing the general app slowness which is really frustrating.
Ask HN: Is the new Hotmail available only in the US?
I live in India, and I was quite interested in checking out the new Hotmail features. Yet, I've been logging in over the last week and I've got the same old interface.

Was the update not rolled out worldwide?

This doesn't affect me much, since I am primarily a Gmail user, but it does surprise me that in 2010 a company like Microsoft is not able to upgrade their web based mail app across the world.
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Probably worth more than a mention. What if there was a new social network exclusive to college students (i.e. no parents or future bosses or people from high school)? It might not supplant facebook, but it is a model that has been proven to work.
Net financial assets are zero. Human and physical capital are obviously another thing. The original post wasn't about that.
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This story seems to have at least the air of exaggeration around it. See http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bacteria_ulcers_and_ostracism_... for the history around the adoption of H. Pylori hypothesis.
My phone simply forgot the mobile internet configuration after the upgrade. Annoying, but (probably) pretty easy to look up on your carrier's website.
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I think the new thing will be social networking sites that facilitate "meetups" in small groups. "Hey who wants to go rafting down the Rio today!?" type things. That will naturally lead to people meeting one another and even better, facilitating new friendships, which seems even harder to do.
"Facebook could die a slow death when the world figures out how to create an open, federated version of Facebook."

So my whole career in this industry is helping companies 'get open' and embrace 'open'... and I can tell you this is not what will kill Facebook.

Being 'open' isn't a feature consumers directly care about. The teenager on the street corner, the mom in the grocery store, the middle-aged office worker... they are not going to use Service X over Facebook "because it is open".

That means nothing to them. There's nothing in there which explains to a normal person why there is any problem in making their tweets, likes, groups, etc on Facebook.

Further more, disparate services which rely on users having their own control of their node (Dispora, DiSo) make no sense when 99% of most normal people have no web hosting or other way of hosting such a node.

If there's one thing we've learnt from recent Facebook debacles, it is that people appreciate a level of privacy and control around their profile data. Now, open doesn't equate to no privacy - but you have to expect and assume that all nodes will treat privacy the same, otherwise the system fails. With a closed system you simply have to trust one actor with your privacy - the host network.

Finally, the 'dartboard of advertising' is what gives companies like Facebook the resource to outcompete their rivals. If an alternative service doesn't have that kind of advertising strategy then it's going to find it hard to compete with the might of FB.

Open may form part of the ultimate successor to Facebook, but it is just as likely to be something totally closed as Facebook. Open/closed is [sadly] not what consumers care about.
The other advantage to Google Reader is that the processing is offloaded. I have many active feeds, and when performing an update my local client on my 8GB quad-core raid-0 system would grind away - no matter what client I used. With Google Reader, it's Google that is doing the data collection and processing, making it light-weight enough for anything that can run a browser.
"Misfortune Shows Those Who Are Not Really Friends."
Ask HN: How to write great headlines
"According to David Ogilvy (one of the greatest ad men ever), five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy of your advertisement. It may be the only chance you get to make a statement." Source: urbachletter.com

The statement is right for any business. Knowing how to write great headlines for your articles and post is as important as the content.

How do you become good in this "art" ? Do you have any book recommendation, blog posts, tips ?
Not at all. The most annoying thing on OKCupid is seeing a repeat visitor that will not strike up a conversation with me until I initiate it. I actually find take-charge girls really attractive. What I meant is that I didn't find the girls who initiated contact with me so far, to be attractive. A few had very poor self esteem that I could tell just from the message they gave me. Many would say they have mutual hobbies/interests but when I probed further I realized they were lying and were the kinds of people that actually don't do much, which is also a turn off. Somewhere along the line I learned to overcome my introvert tendencies for periods of time. And I want to enjoy life with somebody who has similar interests. I go to the gym, play sports, have an active social life. I don't necessarily want somebody who is the same as me, but I also don't want somebody who's going to loaf around on the couch at home for an entire weekend. So far, girls like that seem to be initiating contact :-/
In a similar sense, I look forward to the day Neil deGrasse Tyson replaces George Washington Carver in grade school.
Yeah, except that Windows and Office is as popular (if not more popular) than ever.

I'm also not sure how 'people socializing with their friends' has had any impact on the Operating System and Office Productivity space either way?
You can do this with Femtoo.com (it's already listed on the Notifo homepage as a recommended service). Try it - it's cool!
How is the gender split on HN, roughly?
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I might be a complete failure (after 8 years of work)
Myth of the nines
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"Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc." - it's interesting to see Arrington so narrowly define successful entrepreneur stories.

Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of RedBull, was in his mid-40s when he started the company and it wasn’t until he was in his mid-50s that it really took off.

In my experience the 40s seems to be a sweet spot – resources, contacts, and experience all come together at that point . . .
Ask HN:  What's the status of Diaspora?
Any news since the Kickstarter funding hype ended? Their last blog post was 4 weeks ago, nothing at all about what they've done since getting funding far past their expectations.

The Kickstarter approach seemed interesting, but it seems like massively public funding would best benefit from public communication of progress.

I'm mostly curious about how they've modified their plan based on their funding, though something more techy in the way of specs would be welcome too.
The source of the video: http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/dan-pink-d...
The article claims, without evidence, that Nature and Science didn't publish Marshall because of ties with Glaxo. Even if that's true, there are a lot of other journals out there. Are they ALL in Glaxos pocket?

I doubt it. But they're all reviewed by his peers, who made a living by giving endoscopies and prescriptions to patients every year or so.