skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree that dating is hard, but the web should at least make it easier to connect with people initially. If your future partner lives across the street, doesn't go to bars, has different hours than you (leaves the house at different times), and has a different social circle, how would you possibly ever meet that person?

Often, the only way would be online. My idea with this app was to reduce the stigma by relying more on Facebook, which is more legitimate and more "real," and to find a way to filter out our existing social circles.

Dating is certainly tough, but so are many parts of life. Meeting people and enabling the process doesn't have to be so tough, and that's where the web can fill a void.
HP just released the source code for their Isis browser for webOS on GitHub and their comments about it all trumpet its use of Javascriptcore (and QtWebKit). They appear to be using code from around r104935 and it's likely they'll want to pull in the LLInt/three-tier VM.

It's newer than anything they've shipped (actually just about everything is, which is a nice change of pace) and we're all waiting like kids on a sugar buzz for the HP-supported effort by the homebrew community to get all the new pieces out through Preware. I will be amused if this hits webOS as an official release before any of the other tablet OSes, but HP seems to be taking the Dadaist approach to the platform.

http://isis-project.org/projects.html
https://github.com/isis-project/
https://github.com/isis-project/WebKit/commit/3c619797d896fd...
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The reason this doesn't work is that it isn't like eBay. You are not required, as a seller, to complete a transaction.
You really think desktop computers in an ATX case, with a full ATX-motherboard, and 5" hard drives are going to be around in 10 years? Seriously? They're becoming rare even today.
Show HN: Seddit.com, a chat site based around Reddit
A similar project is Saiku ( http://saikuanalytics.com/ ), for the front-end they use saiku-ui. https://github.com/OSBI/saiku-ui It's one of the most popular niche-sounding areas to be in right now.
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Essentially, the only data available given the "basic" settings on Facebook is name and friends.

Your name is already out there all over Facebook - friends of friends, random people in groups you're part of, people going to your events - they can all see it... why is it different to give your real name to a (real) person who matches very specific criteria that you set yourself, and which basically just signifies "I'm Single, and you may be a match" ?
I learned about why De Bruijn indices are awesome just a couple of days after his death--very unfortunate timing. I only learned about it after I started appreciating them...

(Basically, they are neat because they let you represent a lambda as just a body and an environment as just a list of values, elegantly avoiding the pitfalls of using named variables.)
What kind of insane argument is that. You can't just start a new MegaUpload and have the big crime profits flow in instantaneously. It takes time to build a new user (and data) base.
Here are some high-quality sf books you can use to imagine the possibilities of this technology.

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State
A friend and I have been using de Bruijn sequences to test regular expression search engines on [many] different patterns. It's very heartening knowing the text always contains a submatch.
Good point, but I would have said the big win with Tarsnap is the zero-effort encryption. It means that everything you send is safe, so you don't have to worry about whether there is sensitive data in some particular DB / directory / logfile / whatever.
I believe Ixquick blends results from several search engines, like an aggregator. Startpage is by the same people but only includes Google results. It also has some Google-specific features like date search. The difference is pretty small though.
The dating space is interesting. I think it's ripe for disruption. But thus far I haven't been able to figure out how to attack it, let alone where to start.

I think YC was right when it said you have to concentrate on solving the chicken-and-egg problem.

"...anyone who wants to start a dating startup has to answer two questions: in addition to the usual question about how you're going to approach dating differently, you have to answer the even more important question of how to overcome the huge chicken and egg problem every dating site faces. A site like Reddit is interesting when there are only 20 users. But no one wants to use a dating site with only 20 users—which of course becomes a self-perpetuating problem. So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that you're going to offer. That's the easy half. Focus on novel ways to get around the chicken and egg problem."

If you're passionate about building an online dating site, I'd spend all of my time iterating ways to get users. Try a bunch of different ideas. And fail fast.

#8 http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
oh no it's not worth discussing. The discussion is pointless including Yegge's diatribe. Great software is written by great software engineers. (period) end of story. And there is no amount of management that can be thrown in that can make sucky programmers better at their job.
It's working now, so I guess it was the capitalization, thanks.
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Because I had a brain fart and though "reduce" was "scan", and I didn't want to initialize an array.
> Or at least don't do password reset via HTTP.

Huh?
I mean... depending on big the frames are... maybe the state of the art being advanced is designing really, really skinny and long high-end ARM chips down the arms.

Only about 20% serious.
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How do people operate in the 21st Century internet treating their email address as private? I've never been reserved about giving out my email address and I've never had a spam or harassment problem. Ever.
Very nice, but the demo doesn't work on Firefox 10. Chrome is fine
Online dating does more than reduce "Hi, my name is" friction, it also allows you to find people who have rare attributes and personality traits you desire in a partner, before you make the commitment to spend money/time on a first date. Lists of interests and questionnaires are exactly what online dating does right and moving to Facebook would be a step backwards.

EDIT: In other words, my Facebook profile is not a dating profile.
I'm sure they were - one visit to almost any /r/gaming thread, /v/ post, or Xbox Live session will inevitably yield plenty of racial and sexual slurs.

However, what I liked about the linked article is that it tried its best to avoid discussing those concerns in favor of the more novel controversy about a game writer who doesn't like playing games. Hence, to me, the submission's title seemed disingenuous as it framed the article as one about gender, rather than something different.
I agree, but you can actually get away with never using the pinch gesture with Clear - all you need to do is drag the list down far enough for it to go up one level.
https://news.ycombinator.com/ is available! https HN links come up in Google results (at least from memory).
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And require you to set up a new account if your other one is a Mail for Domains account.
As a note, the "safe" filter is completely off for these searches. Results may not be as intended. Consult a doctor for details.
Of those, I've only read Halting State, but it is a really cool novel (although written in something of an odd perspective). I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet, and who generally likes cyberpunk'ish fiction.
Not just IP address but also browser signature, screen size and resolution, javascript settings and anything else in the HTTP header. See http://browserspy.dk/ for details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Yeah so everything I look at is going to go through Google's servers, and be processed and display Google ads constantly no matter where I'm looking. Yeah right. Google is flat-out lunatic if they think consumers want this level of invasion into their lives. They're taking the Orwellian computing idea, big brother always on everywhere, to the absolute extreme here.
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Pro: Candy eating robot mascots.

Con: You show your friend the cool notification bar and they say "looks like they just took it from iOS 5"

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I hate the idea of living in a love/hate culture. If given five options, does anyone NOT agree that the middle option is indifference (or adequate, or good with problems, etc), with one removed being like/dislike, and the extreme being love/hate?

Is that complicated or confusing?

I genuinely don't understand the need for "simplifying" further. It seems double plus not good.
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Why "Seddit"? Isn't that r/seduction?
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This is a very neat idea. I highly doubt that Google will accept it over ChromeOS. In my opinion this will get Ubuntu to get crazy popularity if they manage to make it as an app for non-rooted devices.
https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1716253541617008...

"""A HMD without head tracking is counter-productive – the view feels like it swims opposite every tiny head motion."""

This guy knows his pixels. :-) Tweet was just this week, I believe. He's had a few others w.r.t. head tracking, FOV / display issues with fancy new displays. Definitely interesting to see his challenges.
Have Google figured out a way to solve the accomodation/vergence problems inherent in screen based 3D displays (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6402...)? Because if not, these things are going to suffer from the same dismal failure that every other 3D display product has over the last 30 years.
regarding "forcing people to reveal all their information immediately really runs against the grain of the whole idea of dating" -- in most cases, the public Facebook profile is hardly "all my information," and sites like OKCupid that do online dating the "traditional" way are already out there. this is an alternative - for people who want to try going against the grain.
My favorite part about it is that most sites I register for do NOT reject the mailinator.com email address. I always think "I'll probably get rejected and have to hunt down an alternate", but 80-90% of the time my mailinator address is accepted.
That seems like less of an argument for Bioware letting you skip combat in Mass Effect games and more of an argument for Bioware making combat in Mass Effect games not suck.
You should do that - though I doubt it'd be an exponential decay. You're going to get a series of bumps every time a post about it pops up on HN (or similar site), and those bumps will probably be positively correlated with one another (note how top posts on HN are oftentimes top posts on related subreddits on Reddit, for example).

Would be interesting to see, though - let me know if you do it.
>but the answer is not a hack like Scroogle

You sir, are an astroturfer.

Scroogle was a proxy, that is all it was. Scroogle performed nothing more than many other firewalls, content filters and proxies, including TOR, do by default.

>If you disagree with Google, don't use their services

And how exactly do you do that when all Android phones, gmail, doubleclick, and several dozen other services you don't even know you use send your information to Google?

Where is the EFF when you need them?
This makes me kind of nervous.

Honestly, I couldn't care less about the social aspects of Flickr or the quality of the search, or most of the other things people here are complaining about.

I don't use Flickr for random people to see/find my pics. I use it so that I can organize and find my pics, so I can share them with my friends and people I know, and every once in a while post links to them in some of the forums I frequent. It's easier to use Flickr than it is to host it myself. All of my pictures are creative commons licensed and open to the public, but my primary concern is my ability to organize them and view them.

The current interface isn't the best, but it's "good enough," and I've been satisfied with it. It's nice to know it's not being killed off, but I'm worried they'll screw it up.
I can't imagine them not looking hideous, but i want them. i've wanted them for pretty much two decades now. I'm sure they will suck. I will happily give google a pile of money for the few weeks of usage i'm guaranteed to get out of them. It's just a bonus if they're actually useful.
Am I missing anything?

You're missing at least two things. Assuming (as is reasonable) that you're principally aiming at the heterosexual market, you face these issues:

1. Men and women are different. How do you address gender imbalances?

2. Not all women are equally appealing. How do you address attractive women being overwhelmed with male attention?

Some may object that I didn't include "attractive men" in #2. See #1. In particular, even the most attractive men are virtually never overwhelmed with female attention on online dating sites. (Those who are probably enjoy it.)
> Online dating is a misnomer, it's basically just online meeting of people.

Bingo. Now, here's an interesting question. If you're a profit seeking entity that charges monthly rates for introducing people and you want to increase your take, how do you do it?

You need to keep them wanting to meet more people. As in, you do not want them to find somebody they really like or they'll no longer want to meet other people.

In other words, there is a huge profit motive for you to keep the experience mediocre. Not terrible enough for you to leave, but also not great enough for you to leave with someone you like. There is a huge motive for mediocrity.

BTW I met my wife who is sitting next to me, pregnant with our first kid, on an online dating site. It took me two years and about a hundred first dates. That's after using every filtering mechanism provided to me by the site. It was an avalanche of mediocrity. Good enough to keep you going, but bad enough to keep going.
The issue is that, at least for me, a lot of the most interesting articles get to fifth or six place and then lose steam and start slowly falling off the page. A lot of the time the articles that get to the very top are about boring subjects like Apple so they worry me less.
http://dudmail.com is my site. (@scatmail.com and @trayna.com addresses will also end up there)

I made a submission here about it a few months back: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3026892

In terms of mailinator being blocked . . . if that's the case, he's probably in the database http://www.block-disposable-email.com (as are my domains). The guy is pretty quick at finding at adding new disposable email domains.

I plan to add a few new domains on every now and then to see if I can at least keep some getting past his filter...
Fair enough, but I'm reacting to the unbased claim that you can just divide it by "orders of magnitude" when the original post does not contain enough information to claim that, and indeed enough information that it's probably not true. If you have 100GB of server-type service data, you're not looking at "orders [plural] of magnitude" less space taken up on the backup service. The huge multipliers that dedupe is sometimes cited as giving are for certain datasets, you do not get "orders of magnitude" shrinking in the general case.
Correct. I've heard conflicting accounts on how much of the original Dynamo was/is used by S3.

(Also, if you like S3, keep your eyes on Basho over the next few weeks).
So instead of a notebook and phone you're going to have a phone, notebook, keyboard, mouse, headset and a screen. Also in case you've an external DVD drive that is burning a disc and somebody calls you, you'll throw it out and start again?

I'm getting old
Synthetic Serendipity is free online: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/synthetic-serend...

It's a short story in the same universe as Rainbow's End, and deals extensively with wearable computers.
It's ironic that a lot of gamers would be raging on what Jennifer had to say. If you compare Bioware's masterpiece Baldur's Gate II with its more recent games, there is a lot more dialog and story in the former. Aside from the dialog alone, there are books and manuscripts you can read, and almost every weapon had its own special story to tell.

Having said that it's a shame that Jennifer hasn't tried more indie video games as opposed to the mainstream console games. There's actually some games on iPhone that are pretty much interactive 'Choose your own adventure' games that are the size of a novella in content.
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Restricting access to the Internet? I agree with the defense - in this day and age, that's absolutely ludicrous.
Here's the real reason why online dating sucks:

1. The only good sites are the ones your potential mate is on. Size is a bigger feature than any you can design.

2. If your site sucks, then people get frustrated and everyone leaves. If your site is great, then people get paired off and everyone leaves.

Online dating doesn't just suffer from network effects, it suffers from second order network effects. Unless you're getting a constant stream of new customers into your site every day, your site will fail.

All innovation in online dating comes from the customer acquisition side, not the product side. If you manage to figure out an innovative new form of customer acquisition, you can make a go at creating a viable new entrant to the market. If you can't, it doesn't matter how good your product is, you will fail.
I wonder how they shut it down in the first place. They obviously can take the .com domain, but MU should have been online on a different domain on the same day.

They were not prepared i assume, what is an argument against then doing something really illegal.
ah you're one of the sites I'm trying to catch in page rank =)

I'm currently floating in google near the top of page two =/
I can't help but feel that you're ignoring what people are saying here.

Nobody is claiming it's illegal†; we're saying it's bad. You can repeat that the law is on your side till the cows come home, but it won't make a difference because nobody is arguing that. I agree that it's legal, but that doesn't mean it isn't harmful to the Web at large. Some forms of predatory lending are legal (and even more were legal in the past), but they are nonetheless seen as a slimy business. Nobody other than a prosecutor cares if a loan shark can legally justify what he does — people dislike loan sharks because they take advantage of others and act in a way that is generally harmful to society, not because the law happens to be against them at some particular point in time.

And to be clear, I am not trying to attack you or Jacques personally here. I know that even if you weren't doing it, there are plenty of others who still would. Regardless, I feel very strongly that this industry hurts the Web as a whole. It functions in a way that's reminiscent of a protection racket, or the kind of corruption that's endemic in the Chinese government.

† Granted, in the "thug with a gun" analogy, that act was illegal, but the point was that a confused old lady trespassing is also illegal. It's not the binary state of legal or illegal that makes the big difference there, but the ill intent and the harm done. The people being robbed wouldn't feel better if the thug with a gun were working for a loan shark who happened to be operating under a legal technicality.
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It's not clear they're going for a 3d experience. My guess is it's just a hud without eye tracking. A camera for labeling the world a'la virtual light would be cool, but still laggy. Does not matter. I would insert the picture of a kitten with the text "want" but this is not reddit.
Another great Javascript game library is Akihabara - http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/
Having just tried ScreenLeap, it's a bit more convenient than Skype because you can share your screen with people using other devices. I'm not sure if Skype can do that. In other words, I started a session, and opened up another window with my iPhone and was able to see my Desktop's screen.
> Your name is already out there all over Facebook - friends of friends, random people in groups you're part of

Yeah, and even that exposure can be a pile of hurt when it comes to stalkers, creeps and weirdos. I have to say I don't see the value in real names being visible to people on the dating site unless I choose to share that. The site should let you choose a pseudonym, full stop.

This said, I don't rule out the idea of signing up for this site. But I'm a male, so I don't have nearly the level of concern as women do, and rightfully so. There are creeps who devote way too much effort to tracking down chicks and harassing them--or worse. It's sickening.
This is exactly the product I need. I teach evening MBA students business statistics and decision making and I've just spent the last three days trying to debug why someone's t test wouldn't work over email. I emailed everyone saying I'm willing to watch a skype screen share and the response I got back was "I'm not on Skype". I really doubt I would have had more than one or two takers with that solution, but with screen leap I can put the link on my Blackboard page with the instructions "click the giant share my screen now button and text me the code" and forget about it. I'm so glad this exists, right when I need it.
Redditor explains why we see ads on the TV channels we already pay for
Reminds me of http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2008/08/23/the-frustration-of...

Basically: I wanted to buy a song. It wasn't available. I ended up pirating it and donating money directly to the lead singer of the band.

Or in other words: windowing strategies cause others to make up for the deficiencies of the market reach. If you don't offer a free or paid option, someone is just going to infill it.
fascinating, thanks for this insight. this rings very true. do you have any good ideas for customer acquisition?

my only devil's advocate response would be that if a site delivers very well and people start hearing about people who successfully met on that site (and there isn't a stigma admitting it), then this could drive new users....
Yeah but on a dating site with 20 users you could conceivably bang EVERY GIRL ON THE SITE! Achievement Unlocked! ;)
My startup is tackling what my former employer attempted to do, but I'm going to do it much better and sell a far superior product. I interfaced with customers and users at my last company. They failed to address the pain points that were brought up. Additionally they failed to pay attention to how the needs of users were evolving. I took it upon myself to address these customers and build something better.
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Slightly unrelated but why is there a dock in the images:

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

It's 2012 you guys, I think we can do away with cables now.
On a site with 20 users, they'd probably all be male.
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