skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the places covered by those enormous ranges can be fairly comfortably assumed to almost all be close to 91 and 108.

As for a 9:10 ratio, it all depends on the rate of committed relationships. Remember that this is all people, married, committed, and single. If they're all single, 9:10 is probably pretty good. If 95% of people are in a committed relationship (ignoring homosexuality, which probably cancels out) then you have no hope at all. If we pick a more sane number like, say, 75% (not sure how sane, but...) then that results in about the singles scene having about a 2:3 ratio, which is not so great for the people on the 3 side.
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Blaming people who develop algorithms for purposes of gambling (also called investing) for decade of market crashes is just silly.

All markets have crashes. Faster markets have crashes more often. Markets are getting faster due to computer technology not trading algorithms.

Even if algorithms were really simple it would still lead to more frequent market crashes just because dumbest algorithm can trade faster than humans previously could.

And blaming physicists for 2007-08 worldwide financial collapse is just silly. It's not them that hid the risk in convoluted instruments and then sold them as if they were as solid as cash in the bank.
Useless blog post: "X is a dumb idea, when we tried it Y happened which is bad."

Useful blog post: "We tried X expecting Z, but instead Y happened. I wonder what's going on, please chime in."

The mistake here isn't "negativity", it's Z-blindness. It's missing out on an opportunity to revise your model of how the world works, by noting that there is a discrepancy between your expectations and how things actually turned out.

(Of course, the "useful" approach results in less sensational titles, which may be why we see fewer of those.)
You know, I had this same exact problem with TI-BASIC on the TI-99/4A. Try as I might to follow the documentation's examples, I couldn't open files. (Keep in mind these files were on tape!) 20 years on I never did figure it out…
I would say its like starting with Python and moving to JavaScript. It really isn't that much more difficult.
Server Core does have a GUI as its primary UI. What confuses people is hearing that the interface is a command line. You still have a window (unless you're remote) and a handful of utilities, but they just don't run under the Explorer desktop or include a lot of what you might have come to expect with Windows or Windows Server.
The images are in the current public Facebook.app, you can confirm this yourself.
> Also, I have a fair number of straight friends, a lot of them appreciate OKC a lot and use it regularly with good results.

+1 for OkCupid working just fine for straight people.

I have had great success (just hit 1 year with someone I met on OkCupid, truly a great girl).

I know two marriages which were a result of OkCupid, one couple got married in France (not that it matters, they're just really cool). Most of the couples that met online that I know are quite good matches (IMHO quality > quantity anyway).

> The people I hear complaining about it most often are usually people who are just angry about the fact that they can't get dates... online or offline.

This is exactly it, in my opinion. OkCupid, and other dating sites, will help you meet more people. They will not magically improve your dating life. That's up to you, and it starts with improving yourself and your social skills outside of the dating world.

You need to be an attractive person before you expect someone to want to be with you, and you have complete control over that; it has nothing to do with your looks and predestined characteristics, and everything to do with your attitude and personality. That may sound hokey, but it's entirely true.

I think the site is a cool and fun way to meet people in a different way. I don't think it's ground-breaking or magically going to fix any dating problems, straight or gay. You might meet a few more people, but you'll still have to be actually interesting and good at dating if you want to go anywhere from there.

In other words, it's like someone complaining about not being able to get anywhere in a car because they don't have a map, and making a car with five wheels and a musical horn instead. If you still don't have a map, it ain't gonna help you.
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It all started downhill when the GDI was integrated into the kernel.
That is misleading. Pound coins from 500 years ago are not fiat currency now.
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Guys, seriously, spend a few years on the East coast. The girls are nice, down to earth, educated, and plentiful. And the winters will make you tough.
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Great explanation! I have a much clearer understanding of it now. Cheers :)
Which part of it is supposed to be incorrect? The map has basically the western half of the country blue and the eastern half red.

Is the contention the word "huge" because the disparity is only ~103:100 in a lot of places? Because that's actually pretty big when it comes to dating, because of the "available pool" problem: Most members of both genders are paired up already, and each pair removes one member from each pool. Those with a different sexual orientation from you or those not actively seeking a relationship come out of the pool too. So you go from 103:100 to something like 13:10, which is pretty huge.
One of the most telling things I've ever heard about the daily standup was its a way to get introverted people to speak just once a day...
Normally, this would be 60 minutes for homework, five minutes in TeX, eight hours, fifty-five minutes trying to get that effing figure in the right place.

Of course, it never helps that the 8:55 is usually after midnight.

If your department required TeX, they should have had a template as well.
Even in that case, it's easier to understand the exception if you have a meaningful stack trace. A good promise implementation gives you that.

Also, I guarantee you will always get exceptions in production that you didn't see in development. Browsers are different, users do things you didn't think to test. If you care about quality, you need a system in place for reporting those exceptions back to the mothership, again including meaningful traces.
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This title could be nicely used as a mirror for personal prejudice. If you manage to see through the lazy dust of anthropocentrism, you'll read it as full of horror and pain.
I'm happy for you. When you take something on like this it is a great asset to have someone for emotional support. After your girlfriend dropped the bomb this must have been harder to come by, which could explain why you were fooling around trying to fill a void.

You can still surround yourself with smart people while freelancing. It is just a little harder to do. You also appear to be scarred by the experience which is why you never want to do it again. Good luck with the new job.
Basic error is that you think you can predict fully random process. You develop a model that seems to work excellent until it doesn't.

It doesn't matter whether it's sophisticated algorithm running on big iron or hunch running on wetware. You will fail because nobody knows the future. Trying to reliably squeeze money out of the market by better predicting its behavior is like trying to build perpetum mobile by trying more and more convoluted designs.

All the smarts of traders ... they do nothing: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/24/buffett-hedge-fund...

There is money that can be reliably extracted from investing though. If you can trade faster than others, you can drain some money from them. That's why algorithmic trading yields returns. Your strength comes not from predicting future better, but from acting and reacting faster.
no. do not be yourself if being yourself has not netted you success. men need to do the research and then put in the practice in what women actually want.

there are thousands of articles and dozens of discussion sites out there related to self-improvement and success with women. there is a huge spectrum from bad PUA stuff all the way to general fitness and nutrition focus, avoid the ones that turn you off and read the ones that appeal to your common sense.

i repeat - do NOT just "be yourself". tall fit white guy's advice does not apply to you if you are not tall and fit and white. you need to put in the work to improve yourself if you are not the hollywood marketed image of 'perfect guy'

ignore this guy and improve yourself in other more meaningful ways. attractive women do not exclusively go for good looking tall guys, not by FAR. women are not actually that shallow. it's more about personality and fitness.
Do you know of a way to make this appear on any Facebook iOS app?
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I wrote a post titled "How I Fired Myself" a month ago. It really resonated with the community, and I'm glad to see someone else take up the mantle. I think it's healthy to air-out these kind of dark moments. You have my sympathies for what happened, and I'm excited that things are looking up.

Original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5292591
Wanted to subscribe, no RSS :/
Perhaps the injected mice had less appetite from side effects of the human brain cells, therefore not crazy about the idea of getting hurt for food. Mice are already smart. They can steal and transport cat food in their mouths and stash it for later out of sight. That's not the actions of a stupid mouse.
Right, I see. My instincts about the US are non-existent, but your explanation combined with some googling of the populations and land sizes of those areas has made it much clearer. Thanks!
Do we really need at least one troll in every discussion about either Angular or Ember?
I wouldn't bother. Have them handle their own hosting. There are multiple possible traps with offering any sort of hosting services.

1. Look at the business model. Web hosting providers make a seriously small margin on their sales and their profits come from high volumes. It's difficult to add any value there.

2. You can't offer the support that the hosting company can offer. The hosting company may or may not have good support, but they can provide it 24 / 7. You have your own life and it's not worth having to respond to emergencies when you are normally unavailable. Sure, you may be able to charge for that time, but the host can probably offer that same support for no extra charge.

3. Problems with hosting can pop up at the worst times. Imagine that you have overbooked yourself, you have multiple deadlines that are just around the corner and then all of a sudden you have to deal with a hosting problem. It's bad that you have to take time away from urgent and probably better paying work to deal with that issue, but it's even worse to have to do a mental switch away from one project, deal with the hosting issue and then have to do another mental switch to get back into the project you were distracted from.

4. You could be a world class developer but a hosting issue can reflect negatively on you from the perspective of the client. A bad hosting issue can sour the overall experience that the client has with your services. Again, it's just not worth it.

5. Many developers don't have the expertise to deal with hosting issues, which means you will probably provide a worse service than the hosting company can provide.

6. Hosting is a commitment that you may not want to make. If you decide to get out of client work, then you will have to deal with migrating your clients into different hosting situations. I have seen this turn out bad for the client.

As the application developer, offer to setup the application on their hosting and offer some sort of maintenance plan for the application, not the hosting. Set the expectation for the client that the hosting provider should be the point of contact for hosting issues and that maintenance issues with the application may have a 24 - 48 hour turn-around (or whatever you feel comfortable with.) Don't even recommend a provider, or if you do, then compile a short list of good providers and have the client make the decision on which one to choose.
You realize that vim also uses a mouse?
If that is the only reason, one could just use dtach instead.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/
It's interesting that I've never seriously encountered "you have zero control over who you end up with in life, and any attempt you make at dating is futile" in the wild where I live.

Online dating is still shunned upon, but for the opposite reason that you're not working hard enough on finding your match if you're "just" tapping buttons in the internet.
Right, the group I'm in often will have "coordinating members" join as well, from designers, QA, the PM, even the VP will stop by to see whats going on, and sometimes we get 10-15 people. The only times it takes more than 10 minutes are when there are tons of announcements being made.

Most folks just state what they're doing today, and announce significant deliveries. But not everyone has the instinct to keep it short, especially when asked questions.

Doing this takes some minor training. Someone does need to be active in "gently reminding" people to move the debate/discussion somewhere. (This usually takes the form of, "maybe you should meet at X to hash that out in 15".) Whenever there are new people, you have to get them comfortable asking "I'd like to talk to you about XYZ after the standup". A lot of folks are rather timid at first, and often need to get used to it.
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It's not that I'm scarred, it's just that I don't want to take on the burden of going freelance again. There's more important things to do right now, like hanging out with friends, connecting with new friends, taking on hobbies and travelling the world.

Thanks for the kind words. :-)
I remember that post, it's what inspired me to write one of my own. It just took some time to 'get my shit together' as they say. Thanks for the kind words. :-)
Just finished that book last night. It was a good read, but deeply unsettling for some strange reason. His intelligence decline at the end makes the reader feel like retardation is a very near threat to all of us. It's one of those threats that seems worse than death, too.
'you make a big investment (upwards of $2000) and it motivates you not to give up'

I've been playing semi-pro for quite a while, and In My Opinion, this is just as likely to fail as help. Also, I've never owned a guitar that cost more than 700 (except my Tom Anderson Tele which I inherited). And I have a lot of guitars and play quite a bit.

I've seen guys do that -- buy a really expensive Taylor or Larivee or some Guitar Center Shiny and then stare at it with guilt for the next five years, unable to part with it and admit defeat, nor pick it up and practice because it reminds them how much time they've wasted not working with this beautiful neglected instrument.

My advice: buy a serviceable, good acoustic. Find a real musician friend if you have one, a real guitar nut and take him/her to the pawn shops, and as a last resort even Guitar Center (LAST resort) and have him pick something out for you. And stay under 600 bucks for the love of God.

Then a year or two later, when you've decided that you love this guitar thing and want to get serious, you'll spend that 2K+ far, far better -- you'll know to avoid the glossy Taylor-ish nonsense and get a nice LG-1 or LG-2 (I've seen 60s models pop up at pawns shops for < 1500$, seriously twice in the last year) or a nice 70s Martin with creamy-sparkly high ends, warm and well-defined lows, and a gorgeous, aged-in finish that you will sit and stare at with pride for the next 25 years.
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This is exactly what I did. I think to be really beneficial to a startup, you need to have at least a little experience in the industry. Big corporations are a good place to learn the ropes, since they usually have lots people to cover for you while you learn. Once you've become a productive part of a team, it's also a great place to discover that the corporate model can kill your spirit. :)
Hopefully there's a twist in the article, but I'm not going to be able to find out.

I'm going to point out that any good university has a wide range of factors they consider for accepting applicants - there's no reason you should be able to expect that just because you hit the standard high marks (all a's, high sats, college prep -- yawn, step into line with the other 30,000 of those please, we have 200 spots).

And frankly, if the author is blaming external factors like they didn't have better parents and/or were not willing to commit fraud to get accepted, there may be another factor the author is blind to, but that others can see.

Just saying.
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Yes, cash is synchronous.

But, 1) Bitcoin isn't cash, and 2) you're not paying in-app with cash.

Any time you need to rely on external systems (which is always the case, with electronic payment), as much of that reliance as feasible should be made asynchronous.
I think you're a little confused. I'm replying to someone who stated an assumption that the male:female ratio is very close to 1:1 everywhere in the US. I said that is incorrect, and demonstrated with a map of gender ratios. Your apparently-disagreeing reply to me is actually saying what I'm saying.
The point is that the attacker watches from a distance, and using the rough hand movements he/she has seen can reduce that 24 combinations significantly.
Yeah, there are a lot of determining factors which really boost the probability of success, and that is certainly one of them.

I'd say most people think they have a huge market though. How do you separate out the ones who are right (and thus the special person for whom the statistic didn't apply) from the failure cases (who believed in essentially the same preconditions but were incorrect/implemented wrong/didn't move quick enough/had some extenuating circumstance/didn't get funding/had the wrong partner/hired the wrong dev/didn't pivot/failed).

That's why experience is such a key factor—if you've already done it 3 times you have a lot higher chance of making the right decisions along the way.

I'm not saying it's entirely luck, but it's not deterministic either.
People often mix the words sentience and sapience to mean the same thing. Mice clearly can perceive and feel things but they do not show the intelligence we call sapience.
I've been running continuously for the past 16 years and have the feeling that it made me a happier and healthier person and contributed strongly to my endurance. I would recommend running to everyone.

Sidenote, in the past years I've had a bit of knee pain after longer runs and I was already afraid that soon I'd need to stop running altogether. However, recently I bought the new adidas 'boost' which incorporate several running innovations but most notably I read that many people reported less knee pain after using them. After one week of usage, I can confirm this. So if anybody has similar knee pain from time to time, you may want to give the boost a try.
Judging by the photo at the end the reason the author's locking code was defeated so quickly is that although the input mechanism used doesn't work quite like a traditional keyboard it is a common keyboard pattern. Keyboard patterns in passwords are an actual research subject [1], and a pretty interesting one at that. There's at least one practical JavaScript-based password quality meter that can find spatial patterns in QWERTY passwords [2] like "bgtyujmnh", which the author's code is similar to. The meter is actually quite interesting to play with.

On a related note, it's nice to see Pascal still used for fun but the fact that it's a version from almost 20 years ago doesn't help the language's image. If are curious about Pascal and think you might want to write some code in it today I'd suggest you try Free Pascal [3], a modern, FOSS, object-oriented 32/64-bit Pascal compiler based largely on Borland's own dialect that even has a good recreation of Borland/Turbo Pascal's Turbo Vision IDE [4] if you want one.

[1] See http://www.usafa.edu/df/dfe/dfer/centers/accr/docs/schweitze..., http://www.ijicic.org/ijicic-10-09032.pdf, etc.

[2] https://www.cygnius.net/snippets/passtest.html

[3] http://www.freepascal.org/

[4] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/FPIDE_1....
What baggage does ZFS have?
No latter than yesterday I did a search and replace in Emacs doing Lisp substitution to create the replacement string. Actually it was better than that: I did record a macro who switched back & forth with another buffer, executing something in another REPL, then doing the substitution. It was quite an hack but it worked perfectly. Can you do such things in Sublime?

What about MuMaMo (Multi-Major-Mode)? Can you write something like Emacs' MuMaMo in Sublime? (basically it switched major mode depending on context inside a single file)

What about org-mode, Magit and semi-structural editing with Paredit? Can you do all this with Sublime?

And is Sublime open source?

If you can do all this I may take a look. How easy is Sublime easy to extend and in which language do you code it?
I've been teaching my oldest kid (14) programming. By far the toughest problem is finding or developing motivation. Kids have too many interesting things pulling at them these days. Programming can be very dull and confusing until you have a good arsenal of tools and patterns in your head. That also works against developing motivation. It's simply not interesting.

Thankfully we do other things. I was able to use the example of when he learned to fly model airplanes to show why he had to push through the stuff that's just not fun to be able to reach for the good stuff. I reminded him of the work we had to do for him to be able to fly and land solo before he could start on fun aerobatics.

This is why I would suggest simply converting something like this to a tutorial might not guarantee engagement. You need to really think through the "fun and interesting" factor both during and after the course. Not easy.
Imagine if you could grow yourself a huge brain. I'm finding more and more that the biggest bottleneck in my awesome plans is me.

Or maybe you could grow a second brain and switch them out while one sleeps/defrags.
Except it wasn't just two letters, given how ballistic they went when the iPhone got leaked allowing him to carry the iPad with him was actually a significant risk.

Steve Jobs was an arsehole. But the brevity of that message does not make it any less special to the one receiving it.
It's really not. Scala is a very interesting language, and it incorporates many functional features, but it's not at all ML-like. In particular, type annotations are needed in many, many places where they would be superfluous in an ML-derived language.
There's an internal settings package which, among other things, enables these features.
What I'm saying is if that makes the US worse than the USSR, then the US was always worse than the USSR. If the legality of urban house shows is your key metric for freedom, then maybe reconsider using the USSR as your baseline.
Religious differences can sometimes be a convenient excuse to end a relationship, speaking from experience.