skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on what you mean by spamming. If you mean getting a bunch of bad messages from people, guys typically don't have that problem. A lot of girls on dating sites do though, which is one of the biggest ways they are broken. However, I've personally started to notice a lot of fake profiles on OkCupid. I know they're fake because I keep seeing the same pictures of girls with different written profiles or the same profile description (word for word) on profiles with different pictures. In my mind, this is a form of spam too, and it could get to be a problem that OkCupid needs to solve.
but the side-effect is that everything has to manually be uploaded instead of automated.

What's the difference between dragging from one folder to another and dragging from one folder into the browser page?
Same amount of effort.

There's a definite use-case for this type of service.
Even if you use Dropbox, there are times when you want to transfer files from someone else's machine and they don't use Dropbox.
Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good
Flashblock would probably not save you. It doesn't actually prevent Flash content from being downloaded and run; it just hides it with CSS.

I use NoScript myself, but that tends to break too much by default for most people. When I set up a flash blocker for other people, I give them NoScript in "Allow Scripts Globally" mode.
Startup America needs to look more like America
Urm - Collaborative writing experiment on Twitter
> 1) When you activate the service, you get a list of ten OTP codes that you should print and store in a safe place.

The main problem with having a list of randomly generated OTP codes is, it very obviously looks like a list of randomly generated OTP codes!

A far better approach is to use the lines of a poem, prayer or even a list of motivational slogans or a grocery shopping list. You can even get more tricky with things like not using the first character or word of the lines. You always need to assume your list of OTP's will fall into the wrong hands, so your list should be protected by at least obfuscation and plausible deniability.
Apple Is Said to Work on Cheaper, Smaller iPhones
SYSPRO USA President named "Thought Leader" by Leading Publication
COSTA MESA, Calif. - February 3, 2011 - SYSPRO, the leading provider of visionary, pragmatic ERP software, today announced that SYSPRO USA President Joey Benadretti has once again been selected as a "Pro to Know" in the Provider category by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine. This marks the third consecutive year that Benadretti has been so honored. The Provider Pros to Know is a listing of individuals from a software firm or service provider, consultancy or academia who have helped their Supply Chain clients or the Supply Chain community at large prepare to meet the significant challenges in the year ahead.
Your analogy appears to break down, and forgive me if my analysis is poor, when one considers the bandwidth.

Concerning oneself with HTML is different to fussing over optimising assembler in a regular computer because the mark-up is being pushed along many pipelines which are handling other data traffic, limiting the speed of data transfer limits processes involved in the presentation of the page.

I guess it's like optimising machine code to be run on a massively parallel computer in which real-time operation is desired.

In your analogy the compiler isn't [generally] producing the same assembly as if the code were hand-optimised. Clearly there's a play-off but if you could cut your transport across a data bus significantly with a couple of cheap and simple optimisations (either direct to the compiler or to it's output) then it's quite likely that you would, isn't it?

The main thing for me anyway was the surprise of finding this here. To add to my other poor analogy it's like going round to dinner at a famous chef's house and finding that they ordered the food in and just reheated it; just not what you expect. Sure you get a hot meal at the end of it, sure it might be nice, it's just you expected more.
Completely offtopic, thank you for referring me to GetPunchd. That's a great idea if I've ever heard of one.
Apple Working on iPhone Nano?
States really are drooling at the prospect of collecting sales tax from online vendors.

Here's to hoping Amazon can continue to fight them off.
Wow. I don't mean this as negative towards Dropbox at all but I never thought I'd see that level of decadence again. I mean, the Phelan Building (where they're located) is massively expensive (its a 105 year old historic landmark). Custom art on the wall, band rooms, arcade games, free food and all the amenities.

Again no slight intended. If they have the money they might as well enjoy it (I did when I was young and in the same situation). But for a company that had its first release what about 2 years ago they're living large.

The 90s are back after all.
CUDA over Remote Desktop now available for Tesla GPUs
"Successful VCs have to both identify trends and determine the intrinsic value of the business opportunities the trend gives rise to. Many can do the former, fewer can do the latter."

How are VCs supposed to determine the 'intrinsic value' of a startup? There's no track record to go on!

According to the book 'Buffetology', part of Buffett's research involves looking at earnings for 10+ years of any company he is thinking of investing in.

http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=wikipedia&q=isbn:97806...

For this reason I think this article is flawed as the author doesn't really appear to know what value investing really entails.
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Is it really massively expensive?

When I left SF all those old buildings off Market were the cheapest options in The City. Also, you could usually take over the lease for cheap from some other startup wipeout.
If you always want tab completion to work, just turn it on.

" Command/TAB Completion
"set wildchar=<number>	" Character typed to start wildcard expansion
set wildmenu
set wildmode=longest,list,full " use ksh/tcsh autolist TAB completion

EDIT: removed my stupid condescending remark about knowing how to configure vim. sorry.
haha, I like the end.
try http://gemedit.rubyforge.org/

lets you type

gem edit <gem>

and it opens the gem dir in your $EDITOR
India have 2 standard domain [.co.in, .in].

Facebook owns facebook.in, it was common sense that they own facebook.co.in too. I in fact assumed it. Now I know they do not own it.
Neither of which are in use with the US gov't! If you fools haven't figured it out, the US gov't is not a futuristic entity with all gadgets 10 years before they come out. Leading up to and shortly after 9/11 you couldn't search for multi word strings on FBI computers, and you think they have nano bots? HAH!
You have access until the session times out, then you'll need to make the attack again.

Granted, you can do a lot of damage before the timeout, but it's not quite as "game over" as if you got the password of a one-key system.
I haven't deleted mine, but ignoring it in favor of real life activities whenever possible has served me well so far.
An aggressive article -- it starts off quite reasonably and becomes strident towards the end.

Nevertheless it's a thought-provoking article that ought to be upvoted more.
"The next day, February 6, the attacks turned serious, and Barr realized the extent of what Anonymous had done to him and to his company, which was currently in negotiations to sell itself to a pair of interested buyers."

Oops.
Wow! The link to the "new" PowerBook 1400 models is quite interesting. You can get:

* 133MHz 128K L2 Processor
* 16MB RAM
* 1.0GB Drive
* 6X-CD/Floppy

For only $4000.00!

Who still thinks macbooks are expensive now?
“There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob” - Ayn Rand
I guess expensive is relative but last I checked it was about $1,100 for a 300sq ft office (and they clearly have a lot more than 300sq ft). That was a few years ago when I had a friend who moved his offices out of there because the location wasn't worth the cost to him.
Hi Jason, I appreciate the response. You're right that a video of people coding with their head down would be pretty dull, but that's not exactly what I was getting at. Digging deeper than that, nobody you interacted with showed any enthusiasm or charisma. In my mind (and maybe I'm overly optimistic/idealistic), startups are generally the most enjoyable and satisfying jobs out there - and it's not because of arcade games in the office. Undoubtedly it's nice (and practically essential) to have outlets for releasing stress, but the satisfaction comes from doing real, valuable work, and I guess I just expected some of the passion and enthusiasm to come through in the personalities of the employees. I'm not saying they don't love what they do - I'm just saying I didn't see it, which is slightly disappointing. At any rate, I appreciate the perspective of the videos and look forward to seeing more.
I actually think a dating site would do best if it connected people and then forced them to meet each other. One of the reasons that they aren't great is that girls get swamped with hundreds of messages and are afraid of meeting most of the guys in public without XY number of messages. By the time everybody has jumped through these hoops everybody is bored by the process.

And the thing is you can't really know what somebody is like without meeting them in person.

Why not organise 'fun' group events for people that are interested in each other online and want to meet?
I thought maybe it was shenanigans like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4198883/exposing-any-ruby...

where you were suppose to add your handle to GITHUB_HANDLES list, but alas didn't work.
Good And Bad Reasons For Believing (Dawkins letter to his daughter)
I guess you like to be told what you can do and what you can like on your device. Nothing wrong with that...
It appear's we're in opposite camps. :)

I don't object to the sound or dust so much as how much of a pain in the bum they are to write on. Whiteboard lets you write pretty accurately when you want to, whereas chalkboards and sticks of chalk seem to reduce anything other than large sweeps to painful scratchings.

They look very trendy / counter-corporate, but I'd hate having to use the things.
Definitely agree with you I'd hate to see Anonymous individuals restricted from actions that HBGary, its subsidiaries, its employees, and clients take.
Nothing! Dependency injection is just programming. You don't need a "framework" for it, even in Java.

Java is crufty in other ways that may make various objects more painful to use than in Python; where you need a zoo of classes in Java you often don't in Python. But this isn't one of those places.

The term does nothing but create confusion for no good reason.
Makes you wonder what kind of security company has such a sophomoric SQL exploit on their website + someone in a power position who claims to be able to locate and identify the actual owners of a social network profile solely by guess.
I didn't say that; I said that it's hard to attach attributes to them since they're not a coherent organization, but a number of people claiming the same name.
It's very hard to make online dating site that can transfer real life situations and personal characteristic. Many variables had to be considered. But it is not impossible, chemistry can work even through line : )
I wrote that article, and it is true I don't know anything about configuring vim that I didn't learn by wanting it to do something it wasn't doing.

However, I am not sure

:e **/

does what you are talking about.

Tab completion has always worked for me "out of the box" (though without that wildmenu which is cool); but only in one directory at a time.

This allows me to open vim in /home/eof
and type

:e **/foo<tab>

and tab between

/home/eof/somefolder/deeper/food.gif

and

/home/eof/something/very/deep/foolsinlove.mp3

This is really useful, obviously, if you are jumping around a larger project.
I get that the person just assumed that it was owned by Facebook, but Facebook doesn't own facebook.cc for example. I wouldn't try to go to facebook.cc, see "this domain is for sale" and immediately assume that Facebook is down, hacked, or forgot to renew their domain registration.

I guess my thinking is that if I went to a domain that I had never visited before and got that Apache index page, I would assume that I had done something wrong (mis-typed the domain, used the wrong domain, etc) rather than assuming that I was right and Facebook was weird. This is also why I asked where the link came from. Had l0nwlf visited that same link before and it worked? Was it in an email? etc.

This isn't a judgement or anything of the poster (and I hope that it doesn't come off that way), just an explanation of my reaction and thought process here.
Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
iOS Debugging Magic - Exploring iPhone view hierarchies
> On pharmaceutical companies: Neither good or bad, but they do a great deal for society.

I've begun to wonder if the bad rap that pharma companies get is actually a result of hiring so many people out of academia.

The complaints I've heard from a few people in pharma seemed pretty ordinary, but I guess if your previous work experience is entirely within academic circles the issues seem more pertinent.
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 79
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 79 : At El Triunfo del Amor capitulo 79 - 80 tells Victoria that remained silent when Juan Pablo (Diego Olivera) asked about the news of the existence of their daughter. Even at Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 79 - 80 we can see the anger Juan Pablo to Victoria.
A DMCA take-down notice only covers copyrighted material. What copyrighted material is being hosted there?
To essentially paraphrase "the trouble with genius" from Malcolm Gladwell's outliers, IQ is correlated with success but only up to a point. When two individuals have an IQ above roughly 125, practical intelligence ("socia skills") is often more predictive of success (and I am sure, especially of social success) than raw intelligence.

Good news, however, is that practical intelligence can be learned (with few exceptions such as Asperger's syndrome, but even in that case, there are coping strategies).
the red-black tree reference is amazing
Aussie banks expose credit card details
Australia's biggest banks are posting credit card numbers in clear view on mailed customer statements in a direct violation of credit card security regulations.
They have a strange way of sprinting into the future without telling everyone how to keep up. They've been saying to stop using FBML for months, and only now do we have the ability to create iframe tab apps. Pretty obnoxious.

However, I don't mind about <fb:editor> and <fb:wall> and some of the others. They have obvious analogs in HTML.
The First Known Robot Was Created Around 400 BC
I actually appreciate that response ... why can't they be more upfront about stuff like this especially with developers?
Watson doesn't have internet access. It has just learned from thousands of sources and thousands of Jeopardy! questions. Just like human Jeopardy! contestants.
A sneak peak at Flow, MetaLab's new collaborative task app
Sorry, that is not a shotgun. It is a 22 rifle.

You can get cartridges that have birdshot in them, but from looking at the closeup of the holes, those would be .22 caliber holes.
I strongly support the points this article makes about what the online dating space currently has to offer.

Ultimately, I believe that people are better matchmakers or judges of compatibility than a survey or a machine. Drawing from my own personal experience, I have played cupid and matched 4 of my friends that have ended up getting married. Seeing the lack of personal touch in online dating, I started SocialHack (socialhacks.me) as an attempt to bridge that gap between daily social interactions and the "social" interactions we have on the web.

Online dating has become a 1B/year business, and SocialHack compliments online dating by adding that personal touch. Individuals go to online dating sites to find a date, but don't know where to ask advice about what to wear, how to respond to a text, where to make reservations, etc. Ideally, I would like to build out this MVP into a peer-to-peer social advice platform, I believe that this sort of a platform would naturally disrupt online dating as it exists now because consultants will want to match their clients with friends from their own local network.
Our female SocialHackers provide online and offline services ranging from fashion consulting/personal shopping, date planning/advising, in-field "wing-women" services, and providing feedback for online dating profiles.

I created SocialHack during the Lean Startup Machine weekend in SF, winning runner-up and making $100 (per our proof of concept on Skyara.com) via our MVP socialhacks.me all in less than 2 days. Our success in proving the concept convinced me that there is a true need for this sort of service. More interestingly, female enthusiasm for the concept suggests that a chicken and egg problem wouldn't exist here.

I'd love to hear feedback on the idea and would love to work with anyone interested in developing SocialHack further.
Well if they are "going" to Google for hard queries then wouldn't they try the queries on Bing first?

Or are you saying that people spend time deciding a query is simple or hard and then choose appropriate search engine for that?
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I am expressing marvel that a computer can respond to many Jeopardy! clues in 3 seconds. That is marvelous, amazing, and awesome. Don't infer that I am undervaluing that achievement.

The additional fact that this computer can beat human players is not impressive to me, because I know how Jeopardy! works. To sum everything up: it's a great feat of artificial intelligence and computer performance for Watson to generate correct responses so quickly; it's not a great feat for Watson to be able to buzz in faster than human competitors. I think IBM could have chosen a better sort of competition to truly show off Watson's abilities than a competition with reflexes as the final layer of competition.
Does someone have a link to the information on how Experian's data was gathered?

It looks to me like 'success' is defined as actually clicking a result - not the ridiculous things like switching to google - but their explanation on the report page is fairly nebulous.
I think a smaller version is a good idea. Its funny how new/more advanced cellphones used to mean smaller, thinner and sleeker, but now with smart-phones they are increasing in size again. The Droid X is freakin' huge! The iphone is still a reasonable size, but some of these new phones are just too big for my liking (ended up getting the incredible). Plus cheaper never hurt...
The Startup Visa
Humans Have a Lot More Than Five Senses
I initially assumed that everyone around here would have tried Bing, then I realized that may not be true. Have you guys given it a try? When Bing came out I switched my browsers to Bing for a couple of weeks and noticed essentially no difference in usability or results quality. Alas, after reinstalling operating systems and browsers, Google gradually defaulted back to the browser I use, and it's just not worth the effort to change again. I really don't prefer one over the other.
They might try the query on Bing, fail, and then try the same query on Google. A large portion of those are likely to fail as well, just because the queries are hard.

It's less likely that someone will try a query on Google, fail, and then think "Maybe Bing will do a better job with this."
New England College Hackathon
Root molecular cause of declining health in the old found by scientists
So Google's using hash bang URLs, too?
If Google corrects a spelling mistake for a user: did you mean x? than that is counted as a bad user experience. If a user gives up on Bing and goes to Google to refine her search, than that is counted a good user experience for Bing.
Something slightly screwy in the workflow for me.

I drag and drop and upload (in Kubuntu, from Dolphin to FF4.0b12pre) without a problem but then I'm presented with this page, http://lts.cr/i/7a78c5.

The page shows me an address and a sign up form ... but aren't I trying to share the file, isn't that the raison d'etre? I was expecting the main action then to be emailing, tweeting, facebooking or otherwise sending the link on to whomever I'm sharing the file with. It even says underneath 1-visit, 2-upload, 3-share ... not 3-login. Just seems odd and disruptive to the flow.

Apart from that I'm mighty impressed, despite initially thinking (as others have) it has nothing over Dropbox I think that it is something that I'll use. Not sure if I'd pay for it though ...
More that they have certain problem domains where they might pick a given search engine, and that those problem domains are biased toward using Bing for easy searches and Google for hard ones.

I'll frequently search for airplane tickets on Bing, for example, while I won't even go to Google for that. But when it comes to looking up obscure programming stuff, I'm not going to bother searching on Bing, I know it'll suck.
Here's the gist of Matt's reply:
1. Hitwise's definition of a successful search doesn't actually involve clicking on result.

2. MSN has pages that generate bing search while masquerading as regular pages.
I work with some nontechnical users who occasionally need help getting too-big-for-email files to somebody. Thinking of them, I tried this out.

Dragged a 280MB file onto the big orange box, and got a Mac-style indeterminate progress indicator. OK. Make coffee, check the weather, type this post up to here, and still all I see is the same spinning indeterminate progress indicator. No actual indication of progress, what is happening, or when/if it will be done.

I'm pretty sure those users I mentioned would by now have, a.) created another browser window and tried again, b.) clicked on the spinning wheel a few times to try to elicit some kind of feedback from the app, and then c.) closed the windows and given up.
This is pretty much what startups are like. The unique feature of this office is actual instruments in the music room. Usually there's just a Rock Band setup somewhere.
If you make an exact copy of me at time t, then until the original and the copy part ways and have distinct thoughts and experiences, they're both just me_t, one no more so than the other. At t+1, me_t doesn't exist any more; this is true regardless of how many copies of me_t once existed.
"the opposite of anything ayn rand says" -me
As an AI grad student, this kind of sensationalism is somewhere between a minor irritation and a serious threat. AI always has had a severe problem with over-promising and under-delivering, and I'm of the humble opinion that until you're actually shipping the most awesome thing in the world you should keep your mouth shut. If the first thing people associate "AI research" with is "disappointment", that hurts everybody (particularly, NSF funding).

"Brain-based" AI should stay in the dark ages. Optimization-based AI is the present and the future.

(That said, if you want to talk about your sweet computer vision system that's "coming soon", go right ahead. Just don't call it AI.)
The only thing that irks me is: If his methods were so off, then how did he have the Facebook profile of 'CommanderX' to be able to have the conversation in the logs? Did he determine that through his methods, or was that a proxy profile that CommanderX uses that is not hidden (i.e. freely given)? Just something that doesn't seem to fit with the idea that his methods were not able to identify anyone associated w/ Anonymous.
After a confirmation message that will be unclear to most users

i.e. it requests permission?