skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Making people happy" is hard to define, but you can pick better concrete metrics than RMSE, and this article offers suggestions on how. An important part of solving any problem is defining success correctly.
The good ones do often go early, because they don't have the "issues" to begin with or have parental help to work them out.

As I am married to someone not originally from the USA I would emphasize that there are societal issues you will have to deal with, but they can be worked around. Living overseas is actually a great idea in any case.
Here's an introduction to the Tonido Platform:
http://www.tonido.com/what_tonido_platform.html

Here's a more in-depth look
http://www.codelathe.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/05/tonido-pl...
http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/

the license is http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Some skepticism is fair, but notice that - because non-monogamous relationships are somewhat socially unacceptable - we'll perceive them to be less common than they are, because people don't talk about them. So randomwalker's situation might be more common than you might think.
http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/ shows attribution. Maybe the boys at StackOverflow will need to talk to the writer of this new project to firm up details on how and where he shows such attributions.
Well, which comes first, chicken or the egg? The language support or the community?

Without the community there's no need to support the language. But without the language you cannot support the community.

Part of the problem is that localization can be expensive (especially for non-Western languages) and there is no easy way for community driven sites to gauge potential returns of investing in a new language. But the fact that someone took the trouble of cloning the whole site probably indicates that there's interest out there.
I'm glad to see that you've resorted to personal attacks. Perhaps it's because you secretly know that you're doing something wrong, and I'm striking a nerve.

If it matters, I actually have had a fairly satisfying love life. However, I've never saw fit to fill my single spells with the heartless and self-serving debasement of women. Not that my personal life is any of your business, but I thought you should know.

Your behavior (if it's anything like what you espouse online) is digging you into a deep hole. Enjoy being unable to find a worthwhile partner for the long term, and dying alone.
Facebook's "Democracy Theatre"
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The big problem is that American women are prone to "groupthink", and judge a man's desirability based on how attractive they presume other women to find him...Women in the rest of the world are a lot more independent-minded and don't fall to this.

No, I think that might be human nature.
in my experience, relationships improve creativity and reduce productivity :-)
The position that an English based community can serve the world shows you do not understand that the Chinese community

This issue is absolutely NOT about an "English based community" or a "French based community" or an "Arabic based community" or any other language based community, it's about conducting business in the global marketplace. My first startup was based in both Hong Kong and the US, so I'm saying this from a perspective of already dealing with both markets and with an understanding product development patterns in emerging markets.

The biggest question here is that some people in the global web startup world want to pretend they can hide behind language on the internet, as if it mimics geographic borders, which it increasingly doesn't. You operate in a global marketplace and if you clone a site or app using labels with mandarin or arabic it's no different than cloning it in a language that the application supports.
define "not too expensive"
I've never saw fit to fill my single spells with the heartless and self-serving debasement of women.

Groan. Your stupid off-topic comments about this are really messing up my /newcomments page. Has anyone made a HN killfile greasemonkey type thing for kooks like you?

I do have one bit of advice... You could drive your camaro from Long Island down to Alabama, and hang out in the parking lot of the high schools where they are having a "purity ball." There you may find the women you have been dreaming of.
If someone else's "Collaborative Shell Client" takes off and mine doesn't...

There's a massive difference between a competitor and a clone.
A local radio station where I live did something similar to this. They started following everyone with a connection to either radio or the area. It started out as a decent account--someone at the station replied to tweets, followed new people and so on. In return, they garnered a good few hundred followers.

Then suddenly, their "following" count decreased to zero--they unfollowed everyone they'd been following. Now it's just a one-way broadcast, a few promotional slogans and plugs for programmes getting sent out every day. Weird.
> Facebook bet heavily on engineering talent and it's paying off.

It's paying off in spades--tons more unmonetizable foreign traffic. Facebook is bleeding cash, MySpace is actually in the green. Facebook needs to start making money or they simply won't be around to celebrate "beating" MySpace.
6 hours later...

Wow, I didn't expect this thing to fly so far off-topic. That was not my intention.
There is a huge difference between saying someone isn't a good cofounder for yourself, and saying they aren't a suitable founder in general. Same goes for the original argument.

(it was also primarily in response to other comments like 'The saying comes to mind about how, in the US, it's very easy to find a great job and very hard to find a decent woman, as opposed to the other way around in most of the world.')
While the title of the post seems to indicate a prediction for change in the default relationship semantics, the author does suggest that Facebook will probably maintain both models.
It wasn't my intention for this topic to spread from the original topic to this.

I'm surprised that there is such hatred for a not-out-of-the-ordinary viewpoint.
yes. yourself.

honestly, its not terribly difficult to come up with something simple yet elegant. or, find a template from a service.

once you're ready for the big time, then you can invest in a good designer.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "not too expensive" and what you require... Are you talking PSD of artwork for you to slice up, or complete HTML + CSS?
And that's what they would have to do..."copy it to China"

Which is basically all the clone is at this point.

I still think your focusing too much on "language" rather than "community".

I'm focused on language because that's the justification being given for cloning web apps. No matter what language you want to deal with, claiming that you can't build a community without entirely cloning another team's web app is asinine.
ahhh...but you see the "software" as 100% of the product. There is so much more to it..especially in the case of community content sites.

In this case, they didn't copy the software. They rewrote it from the ground up with different tools. They did copy almost 100% the look and feel. But that is not 100% of the "product"...far from it.
Women's tastes in men, in most of the world, are a lot more refined than they are in the US. Women overseas tend to make their own decisions about whom they consider attractive, rather than conferring with their friends.

I have traveled enough to have observed this distinction, and it's striking. The cultures are very different. In most of the world, nerds are not unpopular; nerds are cool.
Define not to expensive, how should I define it? I want something as good as the unity3d site, in fact I based the information I created on the information they give about their software (Because the framework is really excellent)
if I want a good webdesigner what would be realistic for a site in that direction? 1k, 2k, 3k? 5k?
in that direction of quality (www.unity3d.com)
Obama administration to tighten regulation on VCs?
From the intro:

"PLOT sports a more conventional-looking syntax than classic Lisp."

Must... not... dismiss out-of-hand!

(Historically, attempts to give Lisp a more conventional syntax have been made of fail)
get a cardboard box or something, and use it to cover up your keyboard. make sure to cut a hole or area for your hands to go in. put an image of a keyboard next to your monitor, so that if you need to look at something, you look at that instead of the keyboard itself.

type away.
He has a good point though.

I certainly would not want my wife/serious gf to have been "around" a lot (i.e. knowing the football team). Maybe casual sexual encounters is American culture, but respectfully I think it is a bad thing.
It wasn't my intention for this topic to spread from the original topic to this.

bullshit. this is exactly what you wanted to happen. a soapbox for your insecurity.

I'm surprised that there is such hatred for a not-out-of-the-ordinary viewpoint.

rather than hatred for your viewpoint, maybe people think you suck because you're making posts about penis size on "hacker news."
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You clearly have missed everything since it's exactly the opposite. The internal software architecture is not the issue here, the cloned result presented to users/customers is.
Community Review - Share Your Thoughts
We are currently toying with the idea to create a new program, if you will, to get everyone involved and get more people to contribute to the future of open source. The idea is basically as follows
Is there an implementation available anywhere to play with? Or is this still in the design and discussion phase? I'd love to play around with this, it seems like a clear, solid distillation of a lot of ideas.
These are all very good tips. I don't recommend using CSS hacks for per-IE-versioning. You can just as easily use(and should!) conditional stylesheets. You can specify versions for different versions of IE if you need to. Non-IE browsers will ignore them, and you can tailor them to the versions of IE you care to support.
I agree with PG and MA and many others that a startup, especially a good one, has a much better shot in a startup hub.
Both the SV infrastructure and mentality value those that build great technology. While it is true that there exist other pockets of this (NYC, Boston, Austin, etc).
SV is not a pocket, it's the entirety of the community and that has massive value.
For me it was phone and internet over TV-lines.
bullshit. this is exactly what you wanted to happen. a soapbox for your insecurity.

No. I wanted to see an honest discussion about handling relationships in a way that improves, rather than diminishes, one's productivity.

rather than hatred for your viewpoint, maybe people think you suck because you're making posts about penis size on "hacker news."

The conversation didn't start out that way. However, I felt like a lot of people didn't "get" why large volumes of casual sex are bad, so I got explicit in my description of the harmful effects.
Usually, over the course of a relationship, you get a rough picture of what the number is.

There is a certain type of woman who will look down on you if you have a lower number, namely the status-seeking type of girl. Avoiding this type is probably a good idea regardless of whether your number is bigger or smaller.
I certainly don't think you're a fool or don't have enough global experience. Clearly you do. I just, in this specific case, disagree with you.

In general, I do not believe there is agreement on rules for a global marketplace. You play in China, you play in that market. You play in the U.S., there are different legal and cultural rules. You want to play in both, you get two sets of rules. Despite a desire by owners of intellectual property to see a convergent gobal marketplace with one set of rules, it does not exist.

Further, I do not believe that global "monopolistic" attitude is healthy. It does not create enough room for fragmentation. Fragmentation and boundaries (physical or otherwise) enables evolution and economic growth.

People complain all the time about China not being inventive enough and copying things. How do you expect this to change without going through this process. A process that clearly is just a repeat of what many established countries did to bootstrap themselves.
Yeah, now it's time to start investing in marketing/sales talent!
Too bad you weren't looking 2 years ago. I high-tailed it out of Coral Springs and am quite happy in San Francisco. We do need more startups in South Florida though. I looked around for several years for a decent job and there was basically nothing. I moved out to SF and in a matter of a couple months had a job making 3x as much as I was in Florida, doing basically the same work.
Right. My observation is also completely different. How could a woman be a "quality" partner/wife if she doesn't have enough experience in the art of love? It's like telling that "quality" hackers are pretty much opposed to hacks/casual projects.

Edit: I use the word "love" as in "Aphrodite is the classical Greek goddess of love, sex, and beauty", not love of Jesus as preached by mainstream Christianity.
Casual sex is not "the art of love". It has nothing to do with love.
No-one claimed that. And as pointed out elsewhere, an update to the sites' CSS is imminent; the copying of SO's CSS seems to have been a simple matter of expediency.

I'm not sure what your point is, actually. Cloning successful products is hardly new or even frowned upon. Indeed, the computer you are using is most likely a descendant of a cloned IBM PC. Why argue?
Ask HN: Mechanical Turk & user testing data?
We use Mechanical Turk a lot when adding a new feature. Before releasing it we want to know if the UI clearly defines this new feature.

Turk is great overall and usually 7 out 10 Turk testers are able to figure through our UI the new feature. Though I wonder should I worry about the 3 (various tests) in which our UI failed them?

Would you not release an update until your UI passed the 10 out 10 test?
> Please be careful though to not brand people as immoral simply because their past is different than yours.

> From my perspective, I do not find a strong correlation between "sexual history" and "morality".

I doubt that your definition of “niceness” is right. Morals (to me at least) is the basic rules that you live your life by – so it is inherently a personal concept.

So whatever morals you live by – he may live by a different set of morals and feel that excessive intercourse may be immoral. There is no reason for you to blankly dismiss his moral values (just because your personal morals are not the same as his). Whether you agree with his morals or not – the fact remains that it is real to him and he chose to live his life by them.

> Bringing up the topic of sexual history with a woman is generally a huge turnoff.

In every relationship you must discuss several things that may or may not be a turn-off (e.g. religion, politics, views on certain things such as abortion – basically everything that we do not discuss on HN). This may not be always pleasant – but it still is important.

> When you do so, you are clearly judging her and telling her she must fit some predetermined notion of what you, a man, thinks a woman's place is in the world.

No. It is important to discuss all of those things in a serious relationship. If you have a notion of a girl that differs from reality it is important that you know that. If the relationship ends because your notion of her is different than reality then it is ultimately a good thing.

If you have ever been in a relationship and your partner did or said something and you thought “WTF??” you will know this to be important.

> My only training on this matter is from living my own life and having to grow out of some of these issues myself. To put is bluntly, this is the common story of the geek who didn't get laid in high school and has evolved a blanket of morality around the reasons why.

Maybe. My take on this is as follows (I am not a US citizen): The USA became sexually liberal extremely quickly – and even now there is huge encouragement from media to engage in casual sexual intercourse (+). IMHO I don't think that this is the right approach – and sexual intercourse should preferably go hand in hand with stable monogamous relationships.

I don't know what this USA view is that you 'have to get laid' in high school and that it is a shame to be a virgin. It is stupid (Paris Hilton stupid).

Even if the past was too conservative, I think the pendulum swung to much to the liberal side – and the good position is somewhere in the middle.

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(+) If I sound like your father/grandfather forgive me – it was not the intent.
If there are companies you feel you have to reach out and don't know anyone that can introduce you, call or email.

Keep it short, reference why your product would be useful, ask who you should get in touch with for a call/meeting.
Do you know what users struggle with your UI?

Do you log which turkers can and can't use your app (eg, are they old ladies or comp sci nerds?)

Turk is ok for small traction. It's better if you simply post a link here and we'll review it. Quality testers are hard to come by.
> When did I make this argument?

All of these discussions are in a context of "what do we do?" with "more regulation" being one of the options.
It has everything to do with love. And since by your own admission you have no experience with it, who are you to say, anyway?

Next you'll be announcing that anyone who has more than 1 friend doesn't understand friendship.
When David presented this during the ILC last week at MIT, he said this is simply a hobby and experiment and that he doesn't have plans to release an implementation.
False. People don't have drunken hookups because they love each other. They do it because the alcohol has obliterated what little self-control they had in the first place.
Thou art looking too hard for logical fallacies. "Pretty much universally" is pretty much clear.
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and StackOverflow was unabashedly a derivative of Digg or Reddit. The creators have said so themselves.

How closely to a pre-existing design or market space does a product need to be before it offends you? Do you have a methodology to measure this?

How much time have you spent trying to woo venture capital? In my experience, one of the first questions I get hit with is "is there anyone else doing something similar?" If the answer is no, this is a red flag.

A typical and expected elevator pitch is "its like X but for Y". Hybridization is the game here. It is common and quite acceptable to say "its like X but for China".

The creator of this new product did change something...something critical... "its like StackOverflow but for China".
Creating a competing product or service is absolutely not the same thing as cloning a product or service. With web applications, this is even more true since they are literally operating side by side on the internet.
Oh no, mild misogynism. What would my kindergarten teacher say?

Groups differ. If you can't deal with people noting imperfections with the opposite gender, then close your ears.
So let me get this straight. A woman who's had experience with better men than yourself isn't satisfied with your "assets", or lack of them, anymore. So you wish that women wouldn't shop around, that way they wouldn't know there was something better out there.

Sound about right?
> Further, AIG was under no obligation whatsoever to sell CDS contracts; this was a fully voluntary activity!

That's not how regulated industries work. If a regulator says "you should produce a {type of product}", you do so or pay a significant price.

For example, Wells Fargo took a huge hit for years because it wasn't as aggressive wrt subprime mortages as other banks. It wasn't allowed to open branches, make acquisitions, and so on in situations where institutions that did "play ball" were given the green light.

Assets are one of the key regulatory constraint on banks. By giving banks favorable asset and tax treatment for holding Fannie and Freddie stock, not to mention "you really need to support them" advice from regulators, banks who didn't hold far more fannie and freddie stock than would otherwise be justified took a huge hit.

In short, it wasn't a "voluntary" choice.
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I don't buy it. On twitter, you use a handle and your page is just your tweet history. Facebook is way more personal - asymmetric relationships would lead to hurt feelings.
Looks interesting. Any good ruby alternatives?
I haven't been doing cold email...but it's pretty close. I have Google alerts setup for the names of our Open Source products. When a hosting provider is using Webmin, and advertises that fact, I send them an email offering to set them up as a Virtualmin reseller, and listing a few of the benefits they'd get from offering Virtualmin GPL, with the option to upgrade at any time to Virtualmin Professional. I've only done this four times, so far (still refining the reseller experience, so moving slowly), but it's been very effective. At least a 50% success rate (and I wouldn't rule out the other two signing on later, as neither was negative on the idea...just hesitant to change or commit to anything).
I'm going to be honest here since this is a shill account. Calling out sexism at any opportunity is getting old and it destroys any discourse.

These labels are a way to destroy a conversation – which may have very valid points. Another example – you cried racism in a previous post that was drawn a bit far. Racism has become an extremely loaded word and a blunt tool to basically hit anyone even though he may say something a 100% correct.
If you want to disagree with what I said, cool. I love to learn. It's not cool though to setup and attack a straw man.

That said.. why would someone even mention their degree if they weren't hoping the reader/listener would generalize about it?

Imagine if PhDs became the next protected class. That's at least an order of magnitude crazier than smoking being on most states' lists.

Oh, also, if you get tired of working @ Justin.TV... I could use a Computational Biology PhD :)

... especially if you're good with R.
You're misanthropic, you know that?

People are not sex-crazed, ravenous beasts out to rape each other to death the instant the gate drops. Maybe the reason people go out and get drunk together is because they love people, love others, love the world. They sleep with each other; express that love personally - sometimes it ends up lasting a lifetime; sometimes, like a sakura blossom, it falls away.

This is what people want, it's nothing to do with self-control. Why would anyone want to control such a joyous thing?
> But that's what it takes to please a woman who's had 20 partners, because she's taken a lot of huge dicks and is "stretched out".

I haven't heard anything so ludicrous since I used to frequent teen sex ed forums (to dispense advice) at 14.

Gentlemen, the true character of this discussion, revealed.
"Which is basically all the clone is at this point."

At this point its more than a clone. He published the source with a permissible license (Apache) on a well adopted platform (django).

StackOverflow gave something to the world with its licensing. The creator of this new product followed the rules and even added the bonus of immediately giving something back to the world.
I'm glad this made its way onto the main page. I suppose timing and headlines matter more than I thought: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530710
It's not about "better" or "worse". It's about the fact that a woman who's been with too many guys starts wanting to "have it all", even on traits that are contradictory (e.g. she wants the brutish alpha and the sensitive guy, even though they never occur in the same person) and can never be satisfied by one man, no matter how good he is.