skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I founded a company that did this. Despite our best efforts and aggressive marketing campaigns, it turned into a dating site. For example, messaging almost entirely stopped when we only matched same sexes. We found that even if the app is used for making friends, people look for someone they're attracted to first, since it's just more fun.

During our market research, nearly everyone wanted to meet new friends and liked the idea. However, in practice noone thinks of using an app/website to make friends, and there's no driving motivator like with dating or employment.

We all know it's exciting to meet people serendipitously in person. However, being exposed to lots of profiles online that look similar and tell you everything up front takes the magic away.
Between this and their main rival reaching a trillion dollar valuation would someone explain to me what the EU fine was for?
There are box clubs, amateur soccer clubs, boardgames meetups, tech meetups etc. They are not male only, but mostly males go there. I have also seen craft classes with appeal to men or with 50-50 split among members. A community tends to form around it.

Yoga and pilates attracts mostly women, but they won't kick out males either (as in, I seen guys there, but like 1-2 for full class of women).
> I compared them all at one time. Encrypted by default was a must, the rest were excluded.

> ...

> Telegram - Not encrypted by default, and controversial encryption

Here's what I see.

Encrypted by default seems to be what you wrote, not e2e.

There's enough problems with Telegram that we don't need to lie to create new ones ;-)
> Years ago there was a "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" episode on recycling that did a decent job of looking into the psychology and economics of recycling.

I watched that episode and it was hardly a decent job. Penn is a staunch libertarian and that colors his presentation of the facts. Also, it is an entertainment show so they love to have something to yell "bullshit" at. There is no nuance.

For sure, in the zeal to increase recycling percentage, it was a huge mistake for cities which used to collect sorted recyclables to have a "single stream" recycling flow to make it easier for people to "recycle". No argument there.

Something that shouldn't be discounted is that it seems like a relatively simple problem to have NN image classifiers to sort the stream of waste. It doesn't need to be 99% accurate at all -- it is better that it can classify 90% of the items with near 100% accuracy and just throw away the 10% it isn't sure about, resulting in more pure recycling streams.
Hopefully Google won't start disallowing the sideloading of apps- I could very much see them doing this given the recent European fines.
I've tried going up to women that look my age and asking if they want to play or arrange a playtime, but they keep turning me down :-(
What about people with compromised immune systems from disease treatments or other? Do you think it should be banned for them?

A better solution would probably be to mandate 70% alcohol concentration in all sanitize containers.
I've had my eye on the Erle-copter (https://erlerobotics.com/blog/erle-copter/) for a while, but have held off due to price and the fact that I'll likely crash/lose the thing playing around with autopilot. I'd be interested to see if anyone knows any very affordable options
Not all Android vendors are the same (like not all Wintel laptops were the same).

I'm on my 5th Android, and I've had awful, mediocre and very good experiences.

I currently own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and it's a fantastic device and will continue buying Xiaomi in the future.

I also have a company-issued Samsung Galaxy S8 for work and it's also pretty good (though I don't use it nearly as much as the Xiaomi). I was burned by the Samsung Galaxy Ace though (very crappy).

If you have enough money and like the best out of the box experience and don't like tweaking, iPhones are probably your best bet.
You can build very simple 100 lines benchmark e.g. doing IMDB dataset classification, and use ELMO and your embeddings, and see who will perform better..
As someone who does home dialysis and relies on alcohol hand sanitizers this kind of worries me.
I dislike code blocks when they make me scroll sideways on my phone.
Most people don't use it correctly anyway. You're supposed to soak your hands so they're dripping, rub together and let it evaporate. You see most people just using a small dot on their palms.

I've also read about a certain rare bacteria that thrives on a food additive. I cant recall what it was but I remember it was really expensive to make the suddenly a new methods made it cheap. The bacteria rose as the cost of the additive went down.
You're much more likely to find a fake Fortnite app by searching for "fortnite" on Google Play than going to fortnite.com where the only downloads are legitimate.

"Untrusted sources" has always been a bit of a scare tactic to get people not to use Google's competitors, like Amazon.
I don't see the difference in the connector and how that can determine how waterproof the phone is. In the end, lightning/usb-c and 3.5 are just sending electron via a connection, how would the format determine how waterproof you can make it?
How do you install the Epic Launcher? Seems unlikely that Google will allow an app designed to work around their store rules in the Play store.
Conversely, it can be useful to take a look at your parents' habits and realize what terrible habits you've accidentally copied so you can avoid them, especially when around family.
With that logic you could argue that almost nothing should be regulated, as the "work" nowadays is always done by someone else, what is the different between this and a credit score?
Because of the high sugar content?
Worst printer decision I've ever made was to buy a Brother laser printer. The fusing roller deteriorated within a year and the warranty replacement process was more trouble than it was worth. I gave up after several back-and-forth interactions with their customer support that weren't going anywhere.

The best printer decision I've ever made is my current printer, an HP OfficeJet 8620 with an ink subscription program. This HP has printed 9620 trouble-free pages since I purchased it a bit over two years ago (May, 2016). Yes, the per-page cost is relatively expensive, but it's the least hassle I've ever had with a printer. New ink just magically shows up in the mail shortly before I need it and I mail the old cartridges back for recycling. I haven't heard "honey/dad, the printer is broken/jammed/out-of-ink/won't-print again" since I purchased it.

My first printer was an Apple thermal printer, my second an Epson MX 100, so I've dealt with _a lot_ of printers over the years, from Apple, Epson, Canon, Brother, HP, and maybe other brands I'm forgetting.

I previously tried things like bulk ink tanks and refilling toner cartridges. Not worth the hassle.

I'm glad you're happy with your Brother. Mine had great initial reviews, but then when I checked back on Amazon a year later other folks has the same fuser roller issue:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R16HGOAIYLS1IJ/re...

Maybe it was specific to that model (HL-3170CDW). I don't know.
What is a console?

Definition:

Console: (verb)
To comfort someone in a time of grief because they are forced to use the command line.

Oh, wait. You thought console was a noun?
It reminded me of this interesting behavior of keyservers, that is by design but still surprising - anyone can add UIDs to any key: https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/41/w...
Tesla Model 3 sales surge
Solanine is not degraded much by cooking. It isn't the rawness of the potato that can be dangerous, but exposure to light, particularly when significant enough to cause greening of the skin.

Don't eat green potato skins, or sprouted eyes.
They don't. You can go buy a different phone.
> Does a user "own" security footage in a store that they enter? Definitely not.

Why not? Data is everywhere these days. You won't be able just quit e.g. social media in the future to avoid being tracked. One of your friends will tag you, your face will be indexed, your name will be correlated to your phone number, your phone number to your ip address and now they know everything you read anyway. If that isn't the future you want you can either come up with all sorts of rules for when and where you can and can't take pictures and collect data, which all the companies will try to avoid anyways. Or you can say that people own their own data and only reasonable usage is granted automatically.

Presumably reasonable usage of a security camera would be to, you know, ensure security. Maybe you can opt in to some consumer behavior survey. But they shouldn't just be able to sell the data to a data mining company for face recognition, location tracking and consumer intelligence.
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And then a few years later X don't wanna play with Y because Z don't like them etc etc etc...
I finally get an opportunity to vent about Schwab.

Schwab is the worst.
Well, "dangerous" is relative. And some do drink water.

Still, I don't care for dietary guidelines mandated by religious bodies.
Last year's discussion when it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13733777
Thing about meetup.com which messes up touches on your point.

Even though you may feel down... you get those small 'silces' of energy... even if they are brief.... You need to hit that 30 minute window of feeling pumped to go out and socialize.

Feeling pumped? Yeah ! lets do this! goes on meetup.com.... F* the next cool thing is Sept 2. 89 hours away.....
30 minute window of feeling pumped to go socialize fades away...

A better solution would be a queueing system like a video game a-la league of legends.... Want to socialize NOW.?!?! Did you just read an awesome book by Brandon Sanderson, or want to talk about FIFA ? Browse the dream app / Meetup 3.0 to see queue up spots nearby (hopefully situated at starbucks , mcdonalds, libraries or any other form of public space (that is shrinking in cities)).

I'd do it myself but the legalities of a startup just seem like a truck-ton of work here in Canada (harder to setup the equivalent of a LLC).
No formal logic debate here; I was explaining colloquial use.
I mean, some percentage of people using any service which matches people up for social activities will not have platonic intentions, whether knowingly or not. I think the point of the feature is to minimise the chances of this being the case, right?
This and requiring all disposable 'plastic' materials to be made of plant-based product. No more plastic clam-shells for example.
Thanks for pointing this out. It’s been awhile since I tried to setup rsync with Photos library file.
I’m upvoting and agree in the realistic point you are making, but feel this isn’t the most popular point of view right now? I personally believe info just shouldn’t be captured period, beyond reasons for authentication protection purposes/identifying malicious/off pattern use of my login/auth token. We are releasing a new business/info mgmt product soon that has no GA/full story/user tracking whatsoever. It’s not clear why everyone enables a floodgate of tracking just ‘cause. We are implementing better feedback/reporting channels instead.
Terminals on windows still suck though
How would you approach trying to determine a good approach to healthy eating for most people then? Even breaking it down into 27 different groups requires an average of each particular group.
Which makes it ironic that there are still no open source printers. There are even open source 3D printers, but putting ink on paper is still annoyingly out of reach.
What about encoding? Are you doing that on the device or in the cloud? Curious if there were any latency challenges you had to dig into.
Soap and water should work better every time.
This made my day, it looks like a proposal Gavin Benson would buy.
118 hungry goats descend on shocked Boise, Idaho neighborhood
I've noticed that most people have headphones on when they are out and about. It's a lot harder to strike up casual conversations with people that have headphones on.
I think your personal experience might be more specific to your location. For example, I live in a town where neither one of those things (marketing or homelessness) is a problem and, yet, it's still hard to meet people.
No, he just transcends spacetime like the prairies whence he hails.
Interesting. And the FDA banned antibacterial soap?

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/say-goodbye-antibacte...
If the team is truly a team, that kind of goal-oriented facilitation really isn't necessary. While it's good to have some sort of institutions within a team, good quality teams tend to be self-organizing. If employers focused more on creating quality teams, they wouldn't need tools like Scrum to mitigate problems that might not even exist (the fact of which can easily be swept under the rug by rigid adherence to such systems).

Sometimes I run into a really tough problem, and good team members don't need to have a system to force this behavior. In fact, I'd say it's within the prerogative of a developer to withhold problems they believe they can work through so that other cooks don't jump in to crowd the kitchen, and so that managers don't make a counterproductive decision to dislodge a perceived roadblock.

As you say, some programmers are proud and don't want to seek out help. Does this reflect in their work? If it doesn't, then who cares? And if it does, then management should resolve the issue by whatever means necessary. Trying to force "I'm facing a tough bug" out of people is not the way. Creating a culture that fosters collaboration, on the other hand, seems more effective in getting people to seek genuine help.

Just make standups about the people. Hire good engineers or engineers with potential and invest in them, and allow their team to function naturally. Remove the goal-orientation from standups and just give teams 10 to 15 minutes out of the day to just shoot the shit. Having to make it about going person-by-person and saying "Yesterday, I did X...", "Today, I'm doing Y...", or "I ran into some issues with X-thing", is really just like being back in elementary school where the teacher picks on students. I know some people don't seem to feel this way, but I'm really not that interested in going back to the 3rd grade.
The way this was explained to me, and this is fourth-hand knowledge by now, is: In japan, foreigners are treated like cute puppies. Mostly everyone wants to play with you, and people don’t mind you in their everyday lifes.

If you learn to speak japanese, you become a dog that can talk. Even cuter! People who know this talking dog for some time might start to accept that it has human-like intelligence, and actually treat you as a fellow human being.

However, as soon as you meet new people, you’re moved back to square dog.
That doesn't sound anticompetitive in the least. Alternative stores are allowed on Android; Google just isn't going to bend over backwards to do everything for you.
It’s not unusual to have a “discovery” phase in a contract. Since usually you won’t know the scope of work well enough before the discovery phase, it’s also not out of the ordinary to wait until discovery is complete to add the statement of work and dollar amounts to the main contract - or to have separate discovery and implementation contracts. Note that the latter allows the client to take the work done in discovery and hire someone else to implement; but at least you get paid for the work done on discovery.
All people have defense mechanisms that cause this. They judge the very things they wish they themselves had the courage to do. It's overwhelmingly natural and very hard to realize in the moment.
IRC in particular was great for this, as it was rooms not P2P, and quite often one could find quite local rooms. ICQ and IM in general ruined that, IMO, as it was more invite based.
Sure, simple JSON you can view in browsers.

But with CSV you can just use spreadsheets. Are there n00b-friendly apps based on R, Python, etc?

And can't you always convert JSON to multiple CSV files?
Net Neutrality in Brazil in Jeopardy
I don't think anyone has a short TTL for a record in the root zone.
Tim Sweeney has always been a very outspoken critic of app stores. He's famously rattled his saber about the Windows Store every chance he gets, despite the fact that outside Store installations will never realistically, ever go away.

So an opposition to the Play Store on moral grounds is pretty much what I'd expect here from him. I'm guessing the 30% cut is just the cash incentive he needed to convince the rest of his team that this was the right way to go.
> If you could copy Apple's tech, you could (theoretically) make an iPhone-clone

Apple's competitive edge isn't just its hardware, just as Google's competitive edge isn't just its software. Apple has decades of user research, hoards of talent, piles and piles of IP (patents etc.), mountains of cash and, yep, you bet they have data, huge warehouses of it. We haven't even mentioned the app-store ecosystem.

You are about as able to compete with Apple as you are with Google et al. It's a different kind game, but make no mistake, taking on Apple isn't as simple as cloning their hardware.
> This argument is a red herring. People like new things. People like things that work all the time without modification. Almost no one actually wants a phone or computer that lasts twice as long but is bulky and requires maintenance.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel like throwing $1000 once a year to have latest and greatest. I did went through several phones but that's only because they became unusable with time as applications required more and more resources.

We eventually got phones that are powerful enough to last for longer and even the mid range phones are no longer crappy.

This is why the revenue of companies producing phones dropped recently. Most people don't want to change their device that often.
I was listening to a podcast recently where this topic came up with regards to the social pastime of jury duty. A man was being interviewed who lived during a time before smartphones, and he retold that he really enjoyed going to jury duty because it was a chance for him to get to meet people in his city from all different backgrounds. There was a lot of waiting around, so people always talked to each other out of boredom.

Now, whenever you go to jury duty and there's a waiting period of some sort, everyone is of course on their smartphones. The reason for this isn't just for the fact that there might be more interesting things happening on the web than in the quiet courtroom, but instead it's because the smartphone generation can "hang out" with people exactly like them 24/7. To me it seems like a cold optimization of your social graph aided by technology. It does some wonders for loneliness (it's amazing that I can hang out with my friends anywhere in the world at any time and they all have the same interests as me), but it's also causing a lot of deep societal problems. Echo chambers, de-emphasis on local affairs, an ever-widening gap of political viewpoints, and a horrible "grass is always greener" psychological effect.
I like my iPhone, I just wish I could install software not approved by Apple censors.
Reducing tax paid is the duty of every person who cares about efficiency. It is not at our expense.
I think you'll find most people are sick of dating, and are completely open to something platonic. Maybe I'm just really, really, ridiculously good looking though.
Not buttering the right toast.
Milk it while you look for a new job.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=635017716
> Tim Sweeney, Fornite CEO

Just to clarify, he is the CEO of Epic Games (company that created Fortnite)
I'd guess this is mostly an urban/rural divide, though maybe there's a Northern/Southern divide as well. People who live in large cities have to put up with a bunch of bullshit on a daily basis. Panhandlers, crazy people, perverts, etc. Plus you tend not to get to know your neighbors too well.
Thanks, I remember it used to cost money but I couldn't remember if it still did.
They have a monopoly on what can be installed on my phone, and censor what gets into the app store, so they are therefore censoring me.
I had a Xperia Z5 and every time water touched the headphone jack the phone would go crazy thinking that I was plugging and unplugging something repeatedly.
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You made the mistake of not being George Clooney.
> We need a reboot. We need toolkits that produce interfaces that are fast, consistent, bug free, and composable by default

I would add to this list "programmable" so that automation is possible without being too disconnected from the GUI. Imagine clicking on an element in the page and being able to see (and use) the API behind it. This is one of the premises behind our project (shameless plug alert: https://membrane.io)

"Bug free" though...
It displays the name of bluetooth headphones in the app as a useful feature to help you pick where you want the audio to go.
Everyone has different ways of getting healthy. You're right, you can get fit for exactly $0. But if you're the type of person that dreads the gym and puts it off, an upbeat fun workout with friends can make a difference.

Having a cheaper alternative is moot if you don't actually bring yourself to do it. There's something to be said for saving money, sure, but there's also something to be said for acknowledging what actually works for you rather than fighting it.
Oh, yeah, I absolutely agree. Generally, as I become familiar with older populations, the general rule seems has been that the older people get, the harder it is for them to break out of the shell of loneliness.

When I left college and started meeting young professionals, they seemed far more lonely than college students. Then when I started meeting older people in their 30s, they seemed lonelier still. Now the loneliest people I know are singles in their 40s.

The only exception seems to be that often people in their 30s get married, and then they typically seem less lonely, at least while the marriage is working.

For singles, though, there seems to be simple linear correlation between age and loneliness. So I'm sure when I get to know people in their 50s and 60s, they'll be even lonelier than the 40 year old singles I know now.
Another sad downside to people fetishizing work...and the wealth that apparently results.

Right now people are just alone and grumbling, but give it another ten years and you will see this morph into alcoholism and/or drug abuse. Only a very few will be happy in a society where every interaction is a dick-measuring contest or chance to argue.

It's not too late to move to a hick town, find a spouse, pop out some kids and go to church/temple/mosque (no one gives a shit if you actually believe, it's about being around your neighbors). You will probably end up doing just as well financially as tech workers in SF who are doomed to be lifelong renters. You will definitely be happier.
True. I was thinking about food products.

I've read that a major aspect of product packaging is to make shoplifting harder ;)