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Every time I pitch startup ideas to my gf, she always tells me it sucks and gives me great reasons.. but the other day, I had this idea about dating website and she kinda liked it even though she would never want me to work on something like that.

Instead of trying to use the Internet to solve a problem that is better solved in real-life (i.e. meet people and talk), why not create a whole fiction world where you can be anything you want. Basically, it's a game where you put the profile picture you'd like to have, and the 'about me' you'd like to be. So, you talk with lots of strangers and avoid the awkard thingy while still having fun and meeting people. Of course, after some time, it will naturally start to be more intimate and it'd be possible to share more real stuff.. but that's not even necessary.

Think about all the guys and girls in couple who'd like to have fun dating again but can't because they're already in relationship? Or single players who just want to have fun?

Here it is. It's rough around the edges but I hope it inspire someone.
I think it's a little early to say that Windows 8 will only make for an adequate tablet interface. Windows Phone shows they know what they're doing when they put their heart into it.

I don't think Apple wants to sell desktops at all. I think they'd like OS X gone in 5-10 years.
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While some games just add tedium at higher difficulties, many good games require you to come up with different strategies and use features you wouldn't otherwise use. And for many games, being on edge because you are close to losing is part of the atmosphere.
That's only the first portion of the problem, and in my opinion not the most difficult. Anyone can write a web crawler since its essentially,

while(links) {
get(link)
}

With a little xargs or parallel magic + wget you can suck down billions of pages with little effort.

There is more to it then that to keep things fresh but its not that hard to just kick it off now and then. The thing that's difficult is taking that data and turning it into an index able to span multiple machines.

If it was that easy DuckDuckGo or someone else would have taken that data and done something with it by now.
Can I only use Ubuntu when the phone is connected to a large monitor?

Even having access to some command line packages on the phone would be a big improvement over the minimal busybox stuff that comes with Android.
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Have you heard of a little cash-calf called the "app store"? that's what is being referred to here.
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Some interesting ideas, for sure.

I agree with the concept of streamlining things. But I strongly oppose the requirement of real-names-only. It should be possible to use FB for authentication/etc, but still maintain anonymity within the "matching pool".

I think that this is the main issue with any online-based communication: it is an awful attempt to approximate talking to a person in real life. As a middle-ground solution, I think match sites should basically arrange for online games/experiences that show a person's reactions to things. That's how one truly shows their personality.

I don't mean games in a traditional sense, either. Maybe rounds of some kind of live trivia with a twist, or whatever. So basically, nothing new. Just usual meet-market ideas, translated better into online-only experience.

And of course the overall thing, too, is that it should be fun. The real goal is to enjoy the process, just like with meeting people in real life. It's so much better to just have fun with the overall journey of social interaction, rather than labour towards an abstract goal of filling a "mate" placeholder slot.
Almost every answer emphasizes security, but what about convenience? Where is your dumb terminal when you climb in the Alps and wish too take a short at Mount Blank? In a taxi will you have to log in a machine before checking your friend'a address? Where is your dumb terminal in the washroom (probably the place where smartphones are most used)?
1. I think the author calls DEFLATE an LZW algorithm. It isn't.

2. Has the author looked at Google Snappy? It does 500MB/sec.
http://code.google.com/p/snappy/source/browse/trunk/format_d...

There is a pure-C implementation that might be easier to port:
https://github.com/zeevt/csnappy
Are you kidding? Engineers are one of the most privacy-conscious demos out there, especially under 30.

Just read any post on HN about any site that uses Facebook Connect. Half the comments will be about how they refuse to so much as look at that button.

I disagree that going full-on-public is the right approach.

For women, especially, they get bombarded with all kinds of creepiness. I think it'd be hard to get people to waive their right to hand out information at the pace they feel comfortable.

Anything that alienates women from a dating site is a deal-breaker, IMO. The dating sites that do well are the ones that can attract and retain female users.

That said, there's a kernel of an interesting idea here. The process of dating is revealing increasingly intimate details about ones life. If you reach a point where it feels uncomfortable, you break up.

For the "online" portion of online dating, e.g., sending messages back and forth on OKC, this is very explicit. Guy sends girl a message. Girl responds. Guy reveals name. Girl reveals name. etc. Until eventually contact information is exchanged, and then you arrange an offline date.

So the "core" problem of online dating is one of building comfort.

One Facebook-powered feature that could build comfort might be to show how many friends you have in common (but not who). Another might be to show where your Facebook likes intersect.

But forcing people to reveal all their information immediately really runs against the grain of the whole idea of dating.
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Maybe it would integrate with the central device already in your pocket, your Android phone, over bluetooth.
This app connects to my facebook to check my friends and stuff, then I tell this app the stuff I am into sexually and romantically, and then it connects me to others on facebook who have the same interests, I get that. But the simple fact is, well, keep my romantic life out of my social life.

If I want my romantic life and social life to intermix that will be my decision, not that of some webapp. There is a reason Dating Sites exist separated from Social Sites, and it is not because no one has thought of the idea before.

Personal Preference: Ne'er the twain shall meet.

Just to be clear, it is a good idea, but I personally would not trust that small a level of separation between social and romantic life. There may be a market in it, I am not a member of that demographic.
The biggest drawback to nginx is that changing modules requires a recompile. This is especially annoying as nginx doesn't support HTTP chunked uploads (downloads are fine). Chunked uploads are used when you don't know the size of something in advance. There is a module that hacks a solution, but very annoying to have to do the recompile.
It's nice, but they still need someone to keep an eye on the backup machine.

Also S3 is expensive because it keeps many copies of your data (though they appear as one) and check them for corruption, so it would be more reliable than a single backup machine.
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Well, you don't need a Yahoo! account for flickr. Hell, you can sign in using your google or facebook account if you prefer. Only way to make it even easier would be to also support open id i suppose...
Real names? Never. It's way too easy to get a stalker even if you're initially anonymous. It would be just dangerous to use a dating site like that, especially once you add that location function into it.

Messages are a pretty important part of the online dating thing. Same thing with profiles. How someone reacted to your profile, how someone presents themselves, all that is really important when looking for people you'd like to talk with. And, personally, I have written quite a few messages on OKC, and never a canned one. Even if someone didn't answer, I hope I provided a bit of entertainment or amusement.

Now, the fact that OKC does thing like showing you profiles of people across the globe even if they're not interested with interacting with someone they might never meet – that's annoying.
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I remembering reading somewhere that they might actually test this like they did with Chromebooks (Cr-48) and distribute them to people to get feedback.
I don't know you from Adam and the stakes of having my Facebook account tied to an online dating profile -- which is still an embarrassing activity for a lot of people, or at least one they want to keep quiet -- are very high if you're dishonest. I will never trust a dating service to connect to my Facebook account in any way. I mean, my real name alone is not something I want associated with online dating.

C'mon, Facebook is not the missing link.
I looked into backup options for my company and ended up rolling our own solution using an open-source program called Duplicity: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ . I've been really impressed with Duplicity. Incremental backups are fast, the data is encrypted and you can target many different source/destination types (local file system, ssh, Amazon S3, ftp).
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App Sumo has extremely limited utility to me, a potential founder. Statistical fallacy aside, do we really need Groupon for Kissmetrics?
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Hate that idea. I don't want to have to share my email address, in fact that's a primary reason why I always use my open ID (which is unrelated) when possible. Providing email as a credential creates an implicit, if not explicit, invitation "Here, spam me." This is why I'm generally against using email as an identifier.

Other examples that all suck for this reason:
Apple IDs.
Windows Live ID.
Jabber.
To me, it seems like this question should more often be posed in its inverse. Most people don't have a problem with using Facebook for everything. In my experience, at least, it's engineers who are most likely to have a problem with using Facebook for any given task.
My best advice is to reword the filtering section. The fact that you need to outline in red that it might work differently than people expect is a good clue that it is too hard to understand.

Other than that I think this is really nicely done and a great idea. However, apparently there are no 20-40 year old girls in Seattle yet. :)
Absolutely. Trolling isn't some new phenomena that suddenly sprung up because of the internet, it is just a name that was slapped on an existing behaviour. Trolls before the internet often lurked in the Letters section of newspapers or in face-to-face social mediums. You could easily argue that ancient Roman graffiti was mostly trolling (drawing a phallus on a public figure is still common behaviour today). Anonymous trolling isn't new and it isn't going away.
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That's also my experience. Also, the older the person the less likely they are to want to connect with Facebook.

But non-technical people under 30? No problemo.
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More are on the way. My company is actually working on JS games exclusively, and I'm doing a talk on this very subject (I actually briefly mention EntityJS) at SXSW next month. The title of my talk is "Do Gamers Dream of HTML5 Sheep" if anyone is interested.
How is the reading experience? Can you get 80 chars into it?

I hope there isn't a good one hand keyboard interface (chording?) so you can write email/code while bicycling/driving/etc -- with my simultaneous capacity, it would be my death...
From the linked previous post about wearables:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/wearing-your-comput...

"Kids will play virtual games with their friends, where they meet in a park and run around chasing virtual creatures for points."

Lucky kids. I suddenly feel like Old Man Luddite because I grew up playing with sticks and crap.

Related:

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/01/the-5-best-toys-of-all-...
For Windows, Duplicati is a good option: http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/

For Linux, try Duplicity (which I mentioned in another comment): http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

Both are open source and have similar features to Arq (including Amazon S3 support).
Your ignorance of something can cause that thing to violate causality? That's some pretty impressive ignorance.
>Tough.

It's not my job to look out for Google's interests. "You're the product, not the customer," remember? Why should I concern myself with the quality of Google's product?
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Maybe this was the site you heard about: http://www.howaboutwe.com/

They've been doing a significant blast of advertising lately.
Sounds like secondlife.
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Its always been my goto for working out if a search engine has any credibility or not. You do get odd looks when you have 5+ windows open all searching for viagra in the office though!
Normally I'd 100% agree. However, in this case the use of Facebook is what offers the benefits. Want to filter out all your friends so that they cannot see your dating profile? How do you do that on a normal dating site? Even if you could preemptively block your friends by username, your friends might be in the same boat where they don't want you knowing their username.

If you aren't interested in those benefits, I would argue you're essentially not interested in the site and should use any of the myriad other sites.
Unless I've missed a big recent announcement, wireless energy transfer, even over a short distance like pocket-to-glasses, is a long way off from being feasible. My money is on a tiny battery built into the glasses themselves, and a screen/CPU optimized for using miniscule amounts of energy. The problem is that wireless data transfer still requires quite a bit of power, so they will either need to do lots of optimization to only transfer data when absolutely necessary (and turn the transceiver off the rest of the time), or come up with a system in which the glasses talk to a central device in your pocket using a low-energy data transfer scheme, and the central device talks to the network over WiFi/3G.

(On second thought, maybe that's what you meant by "bluetooth to a central pack")
Pressure is nothing other than gravity pulling down everything that lies above you. So if you go deep enough, there will be enough gas above you to create enough pressure to make water liquid, or even solid.

I wonder whether it will be possible to build a floating city somewhere in the middle of that massive atmosphere. Air conditioning will probably take up the majority of the city's energy consumption, but hey, if you've got water, you can get oxygen, and if you've got boiling water, you can make electricity. Actually, it might be easier to live on this planet than to live on Venus (450C, all CO2).
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I remember reading an article before which stated that the bots are able to charge a higher price because they have a good reputation. I guess it depends on how much you want to make. Maybe the bot would pay $1 extra, but not $20 extra?
This problem is tough to imagine with jabber where you control access through your roster.

That is. They would then have to ask you permission to spam you.
Both make my Core i7 CPU go to 100% for a simple animation of 100 small circles.

I thought HTML5 was going to solve all performance problems and make me breakfast too. Wonder if this will even run on mobile.
And the US government's attempt to intimidate a foreign national in the name of piracy fails again. Maybe they'll eventually get the idea and stop worrying about file sharing and start spending money on schools again.
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That sounds like a pretty cool idea, create a whole fiction world where you can be anything you want.

People have implemented that in meat-space as the city of San Francisco.

If people find that the rest of their life tugs on them, perhaps you could sell an all-in-one escape month? It'd be perfect for the baby boomer who wants to try one month at not being the same person. Just take care of all necessary daily/weekly/monthly chores for a month.

(Obvious expansion into doing people's chores for them, pairing with tourism boards, etc.)
The rash of online dating startups always strikes me as a misguided use of people's efforts. I can appreciate that people think there's something they can contribute to it, and that they see it as a really positive win for social interaction (and I think people should work on what they want to work on).

But the thing is, dating sucks. Full stop. And online dating is merely trying to slightly reduce the friction for the very tiniest part at the very beginning of it. It seems to miss the whole fundamental reason why online dating is hard, which is that dating is hard, and not easily abstracted.

Online dating is a misnomer, it's basically just online meeting of people.
I have only seen the problem of the home button becoming unresponsive on the iPhone 4. I didn't have that problem on any of the previous generations. Try taking the phone into an Apple Store and see if they will replace it for you.
Please, please, please make the mobile version use the full screen width for photos. I can't believe that it's been like this for so long.
I don't think the Internet is a relevant part of the equation. There are plenty of trolls in the real world. Remember the "Don't taze me, bro!" guy?

(Also: Bill O'Reilly)
Wait, seriously? I didn't know that. Thanks for the link!

Guess it's time for me to stop relying on that behavior...
I kid, I kid. :D I probably qualify as a tattooed hipster myself.
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That's the wrong mindset to have, IMO. Just because the incumbent sysadmins have gotten used to the eccentricities of Apache doesn't mean having something easier to configure is not necessary. This is similar to what people said when the iPhone was announced.
What are some examples of events and mentorship activities sponsored during this period?
Huh, two days ago Gabe Newell was talking about Valve maybe going into the hardware business to do wearable displays:

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/valves-gabe...

Well timed.
You can get away with smaller screens if you're just doing a HUD instead of a full immersive environment.
If people misbehave to get attention, and when they misbehave they get a ton of attention, aren't we the real problem?
Because this won't be valuable until there is serious data that they can statistically infer different things on (like how Google Translate and other services get better over time). It also sounds like (perhaps wishful thinking) that it would be an open experiment, i.e. with open software and APIs for third-person development.
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While that would result in decreased entropy that a decent general-purpose compression algorithm like LZ77 could take advantage of, this preprocessing step is lossy and probably not worth the bytes it would save you.
Fun, intelligent articles, but both glorify essentially dumb "algorithms" by garage entrepreneurs that end up generating offers that will never sell.
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Relevant: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/
Aren't they the same? It says "Startpage by ixquick" for example on the Startpage About page.
The Nintendo 3DS does AR overlays with mostly tolerable lag, though I wouldn't want to be looking at the world through it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkbWZiZ01G0
Create an "alter ego" account on Facebook. http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-random-us-us.php if you need fake name and address ideas, or just use whatever you wish your name was. If you get too funny with the name though, FB's filter won't believe your name.

Then, keep a separate Chrome profile that's logged into the fake facebook, and your identity is safe. Probably best to lock down all privacy settings on the fake user to absolute maximum lockdown, to avoid information leaking onto Facebook's public layer that may tie you to it.

That was the strategy I used when I worked for a company that did business with Facebook games. Those things were so spammy, I would never want my actual friends to be spammed with all the viral content. To this day I keep my fake account for any and all untrusted FB-related things.
Very nice. The only problem I have is the choice of the pinch gesture to go back. This completely ruins using the app with one hand.
> You see real names

This would be a complete dealbreaker for me, even without all the other things that this service would share from my profile. I would never want there to be an easy way for people from the dating site to be able to find me on another site - you can shut down a dating profile or discontinuing using the service if someone's bothering you, but with this it sounds like complete strangers would be able to find/message me on Facebook outside of the site's control, and I wouldn't want to stop using Facebook because of some creeper. And if it's using publicly available Facebook data, it means I need to make a ton of my information public and accessible for the service to be useful.

That's not really worth the risk of using the service to me, and is probably why you don't frequently see dating sites that reveal full names/near-exact locations as you're suggesting. If you can find a way to display Facebook profile details without revealing the person's full name, you'd probably have more luck recruiting people.
Great, soon it won't be enough to block browser cookies. I'll have to avoid glancing at actual cookies lest my search results start filling up with Snackwells coupons and special offers from the local gym.
Isn't the beauty of open source the ability to write your own modules? If it's needed, write it.
Yet the HTML5 app ends up being multi-platform, whereas the iOS version can only run on an iPhone.
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Well, the interactive novel game genre does exist. I'd say the biggest exponent of it is the Visual Novel, which is in general purely interactive dialog. Very popular in Japan. Still, these games are more popular among men than women.

The other genre that eschews most non-story-driven gameplay is the graphic adventure. But the thing is, the genre has basically been non-existing since the 90s. The last AAA adventure game was Grim Fandango in 1998. There's a recent resurgence, but mostly as indie games or remakes of time tested classics.

My point being that it doesn't seem like game without strong gameplay elements are selling a lot, neither to men nor to women. I think it's important to find a balance between history and gameplay if you want to have broad appeal.