skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming OKC's target market is the relative majority in English-speaking countries it really doesn't take much crazy math to find matches, as in the matching facility is not going to be as important as the random number generator (or trained monkey) that is filling in the matches. All that really needs to be taken into account are features of the prospective match that the two individuals WANT to be taken into account(age/height/race/income level/political/religious). It isn't that complicated, especially since one of OKC's tactics is to use quizzes/'looking for friends' to break the stigma of online dating.

What is the stigma of online dating?

Obviously the implied answer is that if you are using online dating then you cannot find a date IRL. Or perhaps a kinder answer would be that you have too much going on to find a date IRL. This is the same principle as a meat-market nightclub/singles bar where the bouncer lets the guy with the two attractive women in, but the pack of forever-alones get locked out. Then the slightly wealthier gentleman pays $ to the nightclub to get in, for the opportunity to pay $ to one of the attractive women (in the form of a drink) for the chance to talk to her and (hopefully) get sex/affection/phone #.

Of course this is all crazy, but it is a way in which many bars/nightclubs/online dating works. If OKC can attract attractive women with quizzes/validation/'looking for friends' and associated kitsch, they have it made.
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Torrentfreak does not feel shame.
Yes, I am aware of git add -p but if you deal file with 500 lines of code, it's easier to have a UI to select lines you want to commit.
Invisible UI: Features and Intent
The privacy concern should be on the part of the cell phone holder. Blaming the mall for using data that you are transmitting is like firing someone for finding a security hole in the corporate web site. If you don't want anyone to know your top secret phone id, stop transmitting it. You should be much more worried about the people who aren't telling you that they are collecting it than the mall that's announcing the fact that it is.
> unprepared is a pretty well defined thing

Okay - provide the definition and we'll see how well it works. Note that we're not as good at this sort of thing as tax lawyers.

If you go with/retreat to "we'll get experts to define it" ....
adCenter blocks non-IE browsers, but ludicrously doesn't actually use any proprietary MSIE code - a simple user-agent spoof gets it working 100% in Firefox.
The user gets to use the site for free. How is that nothing?
There's a timing game being played here that YouTube already won, and which I think GrooveShark are about to lose.

Both YouTube and GrooveShark bet that they'd be able to (quasi-illegally) host major production content without the owners' consent until some derivative (in YouTube's case, raw audience combined with ad revenue and in GrooveShark's case apparently metrics) gave them enough value and/or capital to strike deals with legitimate content owners.

YouTube won; they were able to push enough traffic to entice labels into partnering with them for a revenue-generating service (VEVO), and were subsequently able to begin enforcing the DMCA aggressively via automated tooling combined with an easy takedown process for labels.

I think GrooveShark are about to lose. So far, labels seem less interested in making deals with them than in destroying them, and I highly doubt they have enough legitimate content to survive. They didn't make it past the "host infringing content for long enough to generate value" inflection point quickly enough.

It's also worth noting that it's possible to host a much wider variety of independent / user-generated content which is actually interesting on a "video site" than a "music site." "Video" encompasses an incredible range of content (including music!), while "music" is a single content type with a much narrower range of producers. Many more people have cute kids, athletic talent, cool cars, funny pets, and so on than have musical talent.
This is the kind of attitude that's bad for the Internet overall. Take someone like me, I probably spend more online than most 'casual' users. Yet I use noscript and adblock, so I don't see any ads or SEO crap. I spend money wisely on sites that deserve it by providing good content. The SEO people lose out on the bigger share of the pie, and instead they all go 'dark side' over trying to get as much of the tiny slice as they can.
The speed improvements are immediately noticeable and make a world of difference!
It would be nice if you could at least enter your own OpenID URL.
Note to google, amazon, paypal, anyone with a feature that can freeze, ban, hold, or otherwise disable accounts containing things that are valuable and especially paid for by customers:

You need a department that can take responsibility for account lockouts and resolve them! STAT! It is not acceptable for no one in the company to know why an account was disabled or how to go about reinstating it!

If piracy can be called "stealing" and no one bats an eye, I'm going to go ahead and call account lockouts with resolution refusal stealing as well. $1000 is well within the bounds of small claims courts in most jurisdictions.
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I could install AdBlock, but I choose not to. I don't particularly like most ads, but I recognize that my attention is the price that the website owner asks of me in return for providing the service.

If the price is too high, I can find an alternative, walk away, or negotiate, but I don't have the right to not pay the asking price for a product or service and still get the benefits.
Amusingly, you could. Create a new account, answer just those questions as "mandatory", and see who your matches are. That's a bit effort-intensive, obviously.
I'd certainly like to see less pirated stuff in search results that aren't explicitly asking for it. Several times I've been trying to find reviews or discussion of relatively obscure math books, and the top several pages of search results have all been for pirated copies of the book.

The funny thing is most of those don't even actually work. The sights are often just directories linking to the alleged downloads and the links are bad.
Any chance Linux had in overtaking Windows on the Desktop was ended by Apple.

UI on mobile is even more difficult to get right than on the desktop. This is where Linux has always struggled. Even Ubuntu (Linux's best attempt to date) is several years behind everyone else.

I love that they're putting forth a serious effort but I don't see it making a meaningful dent.
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Einstein

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If our wave lengths match and we are comfortable with work ethics etc then we can speak about money.

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My favorite is 'JavaScript Patterns' (http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp...).
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GitX supports that. I mainly use the command line for working with git, but I use GitX for committing because it has a great UI for seeing diffs and staging individual chunks.
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You can split the hunks into smaller ones.
the spectre of creepiness was probably incompatible with google health.
> Apparently Script# is quite mature now, and is being used to compile very large apps to JavaScript. This is a big vote of confidence from Microsoft regarding JavaScript as a compilation target.

I'd say the same thing about Google's own Closure, which they oddly enough don't mention alongside CoffeeScript et al.

I see Dart as a rethinking of much of Closure so I don't quite get what Microsoft thinks the difference between their Script# and Dart/Closure is.
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So if they had included an already existing language, Perl would probably have been the best bet.

Embedding Perl was (and is) painful. Tcl would have been easier.

Sandboxing would have been more difficult. Auditing all of Perl 5's operations for the possibility of escaping that sandbox is a huge task.
They do it on their own site, not on someone else's site, which is what Patrick is doing here. Edit: have read that this ad was approved by the publisher.
I don't agree with the terminology, it's not "censorship", the sites in question are still indexed the keywords don't get autocompleted is all.
There is a clear distinction between what Google is doing and what Patrick is doing. Respect diminished.
Books sold on the Kindle Store don't require DRM. You can sell creative commons licenced works using "Kindle Direct Publishing" on the Kindle Store with no DRM at all.
The only online dating site that was worth a moment's time was Facebook, and then they removed the search facility.

OKCupid was interesting, but not a magic bullet. It was then bought by Match, which consists primarily of marketing and poor website construction.

Online 'dating' is a social problem more than a computing problem and, as such, no good solution will ever exist. Anyone male thinking of sinking time into one would be better served by simply getting out more, taking classes, adopt a dog and walk it, etc.
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I don't see the problem. They're only blocking the terms from suggestions and requiring you to hit return to finish your search for these. As long as you can still get the same results, I'm happy.

This post should probably be retitled to "Google no longer suggests or instantly searches for..." or some variant.
Seems like this is something like P = ((N * M) - (N + M - 1))/K but haven't tried out too many cases.
Are phones the new cars when it comes to analogies?

Also, I take exception to the idea that old rotary phones were in any way shape form or fashion simpler than a more modern landline phone. In particular, a modern phone is able to take a lot of what you as a person used to have to remember about its state, and instead echo it back to you. (Specifically, what were the last X buttons I pressed? How did you do this in the rotary days, you hung up and started over.)
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I used to do that a lot with my math books and computer science books (I have a degree in math and work as a programmer), but I eventually found that while I prefer to use a book to learn new material, I virtually always use the Internet for a quick reference and only rarely refer back to them.
I am not sure if people will be interested in hiring you for free. The reason is its not actually free. Once you join a firm even if its part time a certain amount of time and energy goes towards the employee too. And if you are working for free there is always a doubt in the commitment level you will have.

If learning is your primary motive, instead spend time coding and working on some simple projects. Lot of folks will recommend you to build your github profile. Build anything, it can be a webapp, an iphone app etc. Pick a technology that excites you, a field that you find interesting.

Once you have a small portfolio ready, try approaching firms you would like to work for.

All the best
Git also has much more efficient storage mechanism.
> Similar to developing in GWT, I doubt the JS will really be looked by the developers at once Dart's compiler is optimized more.

Readable, debuggable JS is a high priority for Dart's Dart->JS compiler.
So would I need to (learn and) use PG9's replication with this? Or is one ephemeral-stored database plus shipped logs sufficient, assuming I can live with some downtime if the instance disappears?

As an experienced techie but a PG novice, what do I need to go learn about PG recovery procedures to safely use this?
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See, but if you made that question mandatory, you'd weed out me, because I was taught in a different school in (probably) different country, and my set of default continents is different.

OTOH, I think I marked this question as irrelevant.
It's not even backwards compatibility though. Incorporating common mistakes into the spec is just plain silly (as in the &amp without the semicolon).

I don't understand why HTML maintains its relaxed attitude. Back in the day, it was understandable since humans wrote HTML pages one by one but nowadays it's all written once and then generated through templates. Thus, we can afford to have a strict standard that just breaks when it sees nonconforming markup. If you don't want your customers to see the "page broken" sign, fix your damn website! Losing money and customers is a very good incentive to conform to a standard.

The reason I support stricter markup is because it makes parsing and rendering way simpler. As it is, browsers have "quirks mode" to guess at what the author really ment when they wrote their markup, and no two browser guesses the same. Then there are specialized "html parsers" like beautifulsoup that deal with the bad markup. Away with all that!
Actually, the most important thing to increases sales is "it must not suck".

It seems like we are parsing "simplicity" too much lately. It is not "simplicity"; it is "it works".

Starbucks is not successful primary because their coffee does not give you diarrhea.

Oracle DB is not successful because they were the fastest or more features: it actually worked better than other RDBMS on the market.

I can also mention SAP (super complex - but it works), etc.

Please don't think your customers are stupid. They can handle complexity if your thing does the job well.
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Did you mean Google Web Toolkit? That compiles Java to JS, and is similar to Script# (which compiles C# to JS). Whereas Closure Compiler is an optimizing compiler for JS, it compiles JS to (better) JS. (The Microsoft article did mention Google Web Toolkit, which was nice of them.)

GWT and Script# are both quite mature at this point, it looks like. Very interesting stuff. (However, GWT is probably losing focus inside Google to Dart, so I am not sure of its long-term prospects. It's open source though so anyone can continue it if they want.)
Stop using these bloody things. What's wrong with a checkbox?
Rotary phones were simple in that their implementation was fairly clear and self-contained. Though I'll grant you, that didn't often make them simpler to use.

Also "there's a way to do that, even if you have to hunt for it and it's weird" isn't necessarily simpler than "don't do that."
1. Metaphors are to mechanisms as transvestites are to my mother

2. You simply have a different idea of “simple” than other people, which is why I said that the rotary phone AND the modern handset AND the iPhone are all simple, just simple in different ways.

And that’s the premise of the OP: There is more than one kind of simple, therefore yes, a handset is simpler than a rotary phone but also yes, a rotary phone is simpler than a handset.
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Not all editorial action is "censorship", the sites in question are still indexed. And I think you are aware why they are doing it considering the pressure on them from politicians and harmful laws introduced all the time. The title is link-bait.
Actually, a lot of people use the "what's more directly relevant to me" metric. Thus, you have a lot of people who pick "earth" as an answer even though they are not delusional. At least not in this specific way.
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Do you remember what Google's ad strategy was a reaction to?
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Usually, when you defend a flawed approach for years and spend millions of dollars on it, it's surprising to see you attack a competitor for following a very similar but slightly less flawed approach, weeks after you partially and not very publicly acknowledge your mistake.
Who said anything about 125lbs, thats a far way away from 280... I joined but only got recommendations for people my size, but when I go out in public my choices are always varied. Its not just an algorhythm, a feature for random suggestion should be added.
Yeah, if you just start typing "isohunt " and watch the Instant suggestions, you can see what they mean. Try typing "youtube " or "yahoo " and Google knows just what you mean, right away. Isohunt? Not so much. Typing "torren" gives me suggestions for the Torrens system, apparently a system of land titles in Australia. Who knew? But I'm guessing the number of people who complete that word with a "t" rather than a "s" is in the ratio of tens of thousands to 1. Unless the Torrens system is a lot more popular than I think it is.

Oh, Google. Do we have to fight about every little thing?

Here's what's best for users and arguably, best for Google in the long run:

"Google search tries to find what the user wants to find"

Here's what best for Google in the short run:

"Google search tries to find what is most profitable for Google, Inc."

I'm pretty sure you want to do the first one, not the second one, to maximize the long-term advantage to your company. Companies that intentionally make their product shittier do not actually do well in the long run. None of them. And frankly, trying to "compromise" with the RIAA/MPAA/etc. is foolish. They're paid to push toward a position which is untenable for Google. No matter how much you compromise, they'll be back next year with a further demand. In the end the RIAA/MPAA do not want to co-exist with you; they want the internet to consist of two buttons, one labeled "Buy Music" and one labeled "Buy Movies". So in the end you can't satisfy them. Why try? Nobody at the MPAA will thank you for this.
I think, as respectfully as I can be on what I think is a thoroughly stupid thread, you are "defiantly" naive about what it is that black hat SEOs actually do. "Tricking visitors into thinking ads are organic content". Heh.

Black hat SEO is so much worse than anything we ever talk about on HN threads about advertising.
I personally consider Facebook, etc. to be lame wastes of time and consider those buttons tacky and unneeded.

It seems a simple browser plugin could still allow Facebookers and Diggers and whomever else the ability to poop back and forth as much as they like while not polluting the web for the rest of us.

As it is now we have to pray that some of these sites don't make it...imagine how many buttons there will be in 50 years!

EDIT: Just wanted to point out this was not a personal attack. I was just trying to raise awareness that not everyone has the same interests.
I'm not so sure. Road-side billboards are typically pretty obvious ads. They stand out by shape, colour and presentation generally. What patio11 is doing is more like putting up a billboard styled with police colours or reminiscent of a "Bingo Fun - 12 miles" in white text on a green background, copying distance and direction signs. I believe signs emulating the blue-white checked police signs we get here in Australia are illegal or at least very heavily discouraged.

I'm sure there's a discrepancy relating to a public space and a private site, but at best this is a grey area and I'm surprised that patio11 would do this as anything other than a discussion point or temporary experiment.
I think the most jarring part of this ad is something that isn't patio11's fault: it's juxtaposed against an ad that completely stands out as an ad, which makes the 'blending' that much more 'blendy'. Without that other ad in the adjoining slot, I think the visual difference between patio11's ad and regular site content would be more stark, putting it at about the same shade of moral gray as a Google search ad.
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> Also, the VM wouldn't be required, it would just provide performance improvements.

I'm curious, is this true? Last I heard, Dart-in-JS didn't enforce types, so integer math could overflow into doubles for example, but the Dart VM did use native types (so ints would not overflow). So the semantics of the language differ in JS and in the native VM, which means the VM doesn't just provide speed, it provides different behavior.

Is this no longer the case - are the semantics of Dart-in-JS and in the VM exactly the same?
"But the curation part of this effort is key. Though there will be a “Wild West part that someone can dig through if they’re in the mood,” he said the designated subjects will be heavily curated"

I am very interested in how they will pull this off. This quote suggests that he'll divide the site into two chunks: curated and uncurated (with overlaps I would assume).

It's a daunting task. I am especially curious how they will select which videos to upload and which to reject (or will they accept anything into the uncurated section?).

I wish Khan the best. Education desperately needs to be disrupted. We are paying way to much for way too little.
Sadly, also effective are having an ugly site and not fully solving the problems of your audience.
As long as there continues to be very little cost for switching from Google, they will always be vulnerable to a competitor who does search significantly better, mindshare or not.

The good thing for Google is that no one is providing a compelling case for switching. Bing and Google look like the same product and return similar results. So why should anyone switch?
That's strange, because whenever I propose wealth taxes to self-identified libertarians they complain about "double taxation" or somesuch. This is probably why my answer gets voted up by neither libertarians nor, uh, non-libertarians.

The proposal I provided was given in the context of "Let's say I own a corporation ...". Not "Let's say I'm a manager of a large corporation". When the person owns the inefficient corporation, then wealth taxation seems like a viable approach.

I think crappy management is a genuine problem at large companies, but I'm not sure that any kind of corporate taxation will fix it.
I own and read both books. Mark Pilgrim has a more straightforward approach and his book seems to be more about getting things done. I usually use it to get ideas whilst working on an implementation or use it as a reference.

Whereas Introducing HTML5 is a great read and gives a lot of background information about certain design choices. It also covers almost everything. It's my favourite HTML5 book.

As for one last comparison, I think a newcomer would find it harder to follow Dive Into HTML5 but you get sucked into Introducing HTML5 really fast. In a couple of chapters, it gives you enough to start playing with this new thing you've learnt.
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Google gets sued by organizations all the time. They don't censor the results -- except when commanded to by law enforcement. They can't "compromise" with the police. And note that this filtering applies only to suggestions, not to actual results.

Google wants to make the internet free. Organizations like the RIAA/MPAA/BSA want it to be their own private AOL.
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In principle I doubt anybody thinks that "trick you into paying for books, close your account, and run away with your money" is Amazon's new business model. Obviously it is some sort of mistake/miscommunication and they will eventially sort it out.

It's the details that make the story interesting.