skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These points are good, esp. the aided detection of spammers. But what you are proposing is basically some amendments to classic dating sites, nothing about the very premise of this startup helps.

And honestly, I believe the idea of having friends writing your profile is very flawed. Maybe it's my own personality, but I cannot see that happening to me or any of my friends.

Online dating is never going to be perfect because no dating is ever going to be perfect. But roughly speaking, everything is already invented. Dare I say, pay sites do the bulk of the filtering by having people pay (mostly us males), and that just works and finances the site. As simple as it is. And this is why they still exist.

So yeah, you can add a few elements, maybe some enhancements to traditional dating sites but the basic mechanics are just that: everybody self-promoting and looking for other people, following their basic instincts. How much can you direct that to be more effective? probably not that much more.
You're talking about the actual user-generated lists. Amazon also has the data on what all of their users have actually bought over time. (Hundreds of millions vs Goodreads millions.) That's what they use to create purchase recommendations, because it's higher value data than manual user-generated collections.
How to tackle big projects
The reason people are hesitant is because other people are writing breathless comments like this.
It sounds like a metric that would satisfy the parent post more is some sort of consumer price index in Bitcoins? Perhaps that would be useful to have side-by-side with a Bitcoin-to-USD metric.
Ask HN: how to do market research in the markets that you are new to?
I'm in customer discovery phase, building a product for eBay sellers, both professional and not.

However, I'm struggling to reach out to them - very few of my friends do it.

How do you reach out to markets that you are not in and/or very new to?

P.S. And if you are an eBay seller, please, please! let me talk to you for 15 minutes - I just need your Skype or phone # http://bit.ly/X2vIMA
Two Letters from Steve
The key thing missing from the fiat section is that the main way that governments give a currency value is by demanding that taxes are paid in it.

I don't believe that any government of a significantly sized economy will ever accept taxes in bitcoin.

I wrote about why here http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/195k4o/the_case_for....

The short version is that the mining aspect of bitcoin is just too big of liability for reasonable people to accept due to the energy requirements.

I'm bearish on bitcoin and bullish on crypto currencies, if a low energy crypto currency comes along, possibly based on proof of stake rather than proof of work, then it will be unstoppable.
What remains of an irradiated, damaged, and abandoned Japanese town
I got my first real computer around 1982 as well, a Heathkit/Zenith Z-100. Thinking back, I'm amazed at the amount of high quality documentation that came with it. Full schematics, lengthy component level trouble shooting workflows, s-100 bus signaling documentation, component sources, multiple manuals for dos, 8086 and 8085 assembly, qbasic, cp/m, ande each compiler's docs took 2 or 3 3 ring binders.

One time we had trouble with it and had to take it to the dealer, who after discussing the problem with us showed us how he tracked down a poor solder joint and taught me (at 9 years old) how to use a wick to remove the solder and replace it.

There was also a local user group that drew 50-100 folks a month and always had 1-2 technical talks, and at least a dozen local bulletin boards that were frequented by well educated users and engineers.

My most recent computer came with a tiny brochure about how to power it on, and the user forums primarily contain copypasta about repairing disk permissions or resetting the SMC.

So, you know, there are plusses and minuses.
It's fraud. No if, ands or buts.

The client hired you to do X then you should do X. You can suggest to do Y and if the client clears it then you do Y, but only if the client tells you to do Y. If I was the client I would be furious. If the client or I want to shoot ourselves in the foot by building the project on framework A or language B then it is our right to do that.

One thing that separates a good programmer from a great programmer is to recommend technologies and explain why, but no matter what you build what your told to. A great programmer will warn me and explain why, but if that programmer is told to do it anyways then they damn well better do it as they were told.
Lean fashion. Startup takes fashion brands head on & offers 'Ethical Knockoffs'.
...this is exactly why it will fail.
>Would you assume causation in the case of cereal consumption typically increasing 30% on the first Tuesday after a heavy rainfall? //

I can't really conjure an imaginary causation because for your imagined one [?] I'm not sure what your claim is - do you mean 30% more breakfast cereal is eaten (as opposed to purchased) on the Tuesday following heavy rain, in all areas (globally??). If it were a local statistic to the USA then one could argue that when the weather is bad people stay in at the weekends and drink more, then they miss breakfast on a Monday because they're hungover, then on Tuesday they resolve to better health and so eat breakfast cereals, they of course give up on Wednesday on the whole and the cycle repeats.

There are no real causes for imagined realities so there is no gain in asking - or answering - the question if it is indeed made up.

It's entirely plausible that there is an explanation for a similarly absurd sounding but real statistic that relies on causation.

>you wouldn't be so quick to assume //

You're right, I try not assume much but FWIW I only asked if it were sound or not, not if one were likely to do it.

You say it's "biased", I don't understand what you mean. If you always assumed a causative chain when first encountering [direct, gross, longitudinal] correlation where would the bias lie?
> We can't easily know the state of the code, but we can easily read the number that you have assigned it.

Exactly. To those who have been using 0.6.0_rc*, version 0.6.1 conveys the meaning "go ahead and upgrade, here's the stable release with no backward compatibility issue".

You will get your version 1.0 after several pre-1.0 RC releases. That's the proper release management.
Online dating sites are, in fact, aimed at setting up dates.
Women will still be over messaged and men are still under messaged. People still ignore profiles in favor of photos - what does this change?

Aren't you more interested in reading what somebody's friend has to say about them rather than what they're saying about themselves? Also, we have Facebook accounts (100+ friends required to join) which are not easy to replicate and we can rate limit. On OkCupid, the worst that happens is they ban you for spamming, and then you come back under a different username. Sure, girls might recognize the same photos, but you're fundamentally a free radical in the system.

Now you need your friends to create a profile for you (granted at least it's not of the essay variety) and you need your friends to try and find people for you? I have a hard time seeing anyone doing that considering it's a relatively boring process with little return (the problem with the current sites).

It relies on reciprocity, and it's actually fun when you try it out. If you're commenting on your friends' profiles, they'll naturally want to comment on yours. All of the comments on my profile happened not because I asked my friends to do that, but because I started out by commenting on theirs.

With the stigma, it's largely an issue skewed by age. More women in their 30s using dating sites socially, the sites just aren't designed to be social.
Hmm, good to know. I don't write web stuff so production environment = generic linux distro, most likely to be ubuntu.
Bad, but mostly because it's incredibly hard to get in regardless of whether you have a stellar application or not.
"At some point people will lose all trust in the currency and start to use a more solid one, this can mean currencies from neighbouring countries, or stable ones from far away like the dollar, euro or yuan."

Sometimes people don't have the choice: in Argentina you cannot exchange your money for other currencies if you're not a tourist and you have to live with 23% inflation per year or so. Not exactly great for the economy.

More recently, a few days ago, people in Cyprus cannot exchange their money anymore in other currencies: there are effectively two different euros in the eurozone now. One on which there are restriction and one on which there aren't. If you have a shitload of euro bills with a 'Y' (the code for Chyprus) on them I'd fastly change them to something else because there's a very high risk to lose everything.

Also, I can't help but laugh at you describing the euro as "stable". The eurozone is on the verge of gigantic collapse: the situation is very concerning. France just announced that they ran in 2012 at a deficit of 4,5% (!) and that in 2013 they won't be able to reach 3%. France getting out of the eurozone in 2014 is hardly unthinkable.

Actually, the probability that before the end of the year the entire eurozone will announce several bank failures and up to 40% confiscation (like in Cyprus) on all the eurozone citizen accounts above 100 K Euros is not zero.
I agree, in terms of the science in question. However, I will still give you 5:1 odds that this particular phenomenon is real and not due to a small sample size. Let me know if you want to take that action. :)
I didn't find it strange; the fact that you do is surprising, and therefore potentially interesting. Would you care to elaborate?
If you don't think statistics apply to you as an individual, you are essentially claiming to be different from the statistical average in some meaningful way. It may help to articulate what that is.

So maybe most people fail this class, but I think I'm smarter or more determined than the average person, so I shouldn't be discouraged from trying.

I say this because if you don't actually believe you're above average in some meaningful way, you very much should be discouraged by statistics. I don't think myself stronger, more determined, or more desperate than the average navy seal candidate, so even though I'm an individual I shouldn't actually expect to pass the special training that most fail. Similarly, I should expect to pass basic training because most do and I don't think myself any worse.
since pg hasn't replied, my guess is it didn't work.
Me too. That was the plan for this one, but it didn't work out.

Sorry you're pissed.
So what happens if you don't have a lot of friends, or in my case, if all your friends are engaged or married and have no reason to be on a dating site?

I think what happens is, this model falls flat on its face. It's a good idea though, for a group of single friends.
If you live in America, just sue them.
Before others vote this down, many activists have been arrested by the pairs of shoes they're wearing, and many an attendee of an action has been deemed suspicious because of their shoes.
"In 100 years the US dollar won't be around, but bitcoin will be."

Two claims, no justification.

I'll leave the bitcoin issue to the side, since while I don't believe bitcoin itself will be around in a century, I have no trouble with the idea that /some/ crypto-currency will. Claiming the US dollar won't be around is kind of weak, though. It's too easy and too popular to predict doomsday, with little to no evidence, for these sorts of claims to be taken seriously.
She became a girlfriend after she broke it off with the guy from Match.
How much of a line of text do we need to be able to read it?
North Korea Enters 'STATE OF WAR' with South -State Media
Gore Video: Brutal Truck Accident - Dying Man Bathed in Blood With Severed Limbs
Sadly there isn't enough data for a consumer price index, because Bitcoin isn't a currency (in the extent that its main use is exchange for commercial goods), it's a financial sandbox.
But also, I find it pretty hard to imagine building a successful technical startup in this manner. Not saying there's no value to non-technical founders, but alone? How do you evaluate the quality of the outsourced work?
Make a list of the people who changed the world the most in the last couple of generations. There were many paths, most of which did not involve those people spending billions of dollars. No one ever became the best at anything because they were motivated by money.
It was creepy the moment it wanted to authorize so much information from Facebook. Got creepier the moment the site asked me to start involving my friends without me knowing whether or not they wanted to be involved. Got super frustrating that my ability to even see how this site worked required me to drag my friends into this mess without their consent.

And from what I can see, there's no way for me to specify which genders I'm actually interested in meeting. (Yes, I know if I make profiles from my friends I can filter the people I'm looking for, but do you give me filters to let people know I'm not straight and therefore not interested in them?) If you're not straight, this type of thing is really critical. I'm not interested in messages from men and on OKC, I use the wonderful checkbox that makes it so that straight people can't even see my profile. That checkbox alone plays a big role in turning online dating from a lousy situation into a bearable one. Your writeup makes it sound like you only considered the dating patterns of straight people and your site doesn't appear to even bother to think about anything else. You appear to have mostly made a better dating site for you and people like you without realizing that dating is complicated and a bunch of people involved in a good dating ecosystem aren't going to be you, or anything like you.

I'll stick with OKC. (Which, by the way, I think is mostly great.)
That's actually a common problem, for Jewish people or other people in inward-focused culture X

X person meets a non-X, they get along, and then X's parents turn the screws, ruining the relationship.
Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric
This seems like an excessive number of slides considering the content of each slide. I gave up around slide 70.
As student. Thank you.
I tested this with child art on the key tags and the tags were recognized well before the present tags are. I guess the next step is to get people to upload their own art and design their own tag. Like it.
This feels like a tacky advertisement for Bitnami, doesn't belong on HN.
Yeah, just be tall, good looking, confident, and comfortable conversing in contrived situations like bar/cafe meetings with strangers.

Wonder why guys can't figure that out?
Or you can do what c++ and rust did which is neither reference counting or GC ( yes I know rust has a GC just stay with me for a little). Its a strong and distinct message about what you plan on doing with the memory your getting. When I run across a int* i don't know what your doing with it just by seeing its type, but if I run across a shared_ptr<int> I know its reference counted and will stick around until I am done with it and if I am the last one it will be free'd. In the same manner If i see a unique_ptr<int> I know that if i need it I must take it from someplace and the compiler will be kind enough to tell me if I messed it up somehow.
How about you lie to us too buddy?

The problem is men don't read online dating profiles,
they only look at the pictures. It's not just a difficult
and repetitive task, but it's wasted time.

I am a man, and I read every word of ~90% of the profiles I'm interested in enough to visit, and 100% of the profiles I send a message to. So what does that say about your statement? The study you linked to didn't even use OKC, it used two other sites that are structurally very different.

I really like OKC. I thought it was way better than any other dating site I looked at. I also found a wonderful woman on it whom I love dearly and who loves me, so I'm perfectly happy.

From your post, it sounds to me like you have a rather narrow viewpoint of what people think about online dating. There are many points of view, and if you want to focus on a niche of people who believe what you believe, that's perfectly fine. But don't go making objective statements like "men don't read online dating profiles" when that's simply not true. "A study that used X number of men and Y number women, looked at eHarmony and match.com and found that ... blah blah blah" is way better and way closer to the truth.

(I'm not a shill for OKC btw, I don't work for them, or know anyone who works for them. I'm just really really happy with their site and the results.)
"Github got me kicked out of the bar"

These headline is super intriguing. Too bad this is only a set of topic title slides with no context or elaboration.

Nice slideshow I guess?
... Except the splits are inside the terminal session, so if you connect from another machine, you'll have access to all your panes
Yes — Amazon certainly has significantly more data, but Goodreads' data is deeper, because it's not restricted to items bought from Amazon. Goodreads has a much better picture of what I read than Amazon could ever get simply from my purchase history (even if they cross-match with bookdepository). Being able to mine the Goodreads data too should enable them to make even higher value recommendations. (Note: I'm not claiming this is why Amazon bought them!)
these are awesome slides and a great embodiment of presentation zen. thanks for sharing
According to http://www.atheistberlin.com/study they got a significant Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test at p < 0.01. The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test is nonparametric (i.e. sacrifices some statistical power in order to not make assumptions about the underlying distribution of the data) so is meaningful even if there is a long tail of packages that take longer due to circumstances outside of the study variable.
North Korea: 'outbreak of war hours away' as Kim Jong-un plans US strike
The MP3 patent isn't a numerical algorithm, it's a description of using a certain algorithm to store sound (to my understanding). Yes, that seems like a silly distinction, but that's basically what patent law is.
I don't see a basis for Suing them. They are no SLAs in the EULA
I thought I got the bulk of the content in less than 4 minutes. I actually preferred this to a video... where the first 4 minutes are frequently just introduction and fluff.
Mostly it's confusing when advices of the type "do this" and "don't do this" are mixed together. For example, slide 64 and second line of 89 seems to contradict each other, or the "don't be an asshole" but "it's alright to be a dick" one.
poor experimental design/interpretation. great PR. if only the shoes themselves somehow harkened back to the rebellious brand image that this press created...
What I gathered from some previous testers:

562 points
501 points x2
461 points
410 points
401 points x2

It seems we could save almost half the line height and everyone would still get it!
Completely agree. I only read the post. I didn't check out the guy's dating site because I'm in a relationship and I'm still working on trying to make it more open.

The one habit I think still needs to be taught to people on dating sites is the value of publicness and openness. About two years ago I got my mom to sign up for OkCupid (a few years after her divorce) and the biggest problem I encountered was her reluctance to be open. People are afraid to put any identifying information or any information that deviates from the public image they maintain at work and in social circles. This basically sets themselves up for failure because connecting with the right people for you really is dependent on both parties being open enough to find real connections. Jeff Jarvis I think has given one of the best talks on the value of openness. If you've never seen it, definitely check it out.

[0] http://buzzmachine.com/2010/04/22/privacy-publicness-penises...
Which big companies or any examples of them who are using node.js, any highly scalable applications, high performance sites ?
Dermis in Easy Steps
Check out all the utm junk in the URL, the purpose of its presence here lies elsewhere.
The heels responsible should foot the bill and be given the boot.
It's OK. Most Hanks/Ryan movies are the same story with different set dressing.
No, why would I? He and I both knew that she was going on dates with more than one person. There's no scandal. In fact, I'd be a bit worried about immediate overcommitment otherwise.
I know this accompanied an in-person presentation, but I still feel that it should be repurposed in a way that summarizes all the main points - of which it makes a lot, albeit spread over way too many slides.
Descriptive complexity theory
2013 Canadian Budget has Cyprus-Style Bank Account Confiscation in it.
According to the ALGOL 68 page at Wikipedia: "Steve Bourne, who was on the Algol 68 revision committee, took some of its ideas to his Bourne shell (and thereby, to descendant shells such as Bash) and to C (and thereby to descendants such as C++)."
Wow - this thread is full of good advice. I have not touched my dot files in about four years, and today they're all getting an upgrade. Thanks!
If one had several thousand dollars to waste it'd be interesting to run a larger test with a range of deities as well as "atheist", "flying spaghetti monster", the little fish symbol and other religious and non-religious words and symbology. I'd throw in stuff like Mickey Mouse, Obama and George Bush images in there to have some fun.

The results could be very interesting.
Commenters on the blog pointed out a pretty glaring problem in the experimental setup; their control boxes contained tape with no writing on it at all, which opens up the possibility that package handlers were responding to the presence of text, rather than the content of it. A human handler might be concerned about terrorism or something, and an OCR might just get confused. Commenters suggested labeling controls with a neutral word, and also trying labels such as "Allah" for comparison.
Ask HN: how do you demo apps running on an actual phone in presentations?
I want to demo apps running on the actual phone in presentations. No emulators please since that doesn't feel real at all. I want to show the live view of my fingers touching the phone.
Most venues would only have a projector -- no luxury of a separate video camera like the guys at Google I/O.

So my requirements are:
1. It has to be portable - the equipment should nicely fit into a bag that can be carried around.
2. It shouldn't take more than a few seconds to set up and switch from slides to live view
3. The video needs to be clear enough for the audience to read the text on the phone when being projected.

My best solution so far is WebCam + desktop Tripod + Quicktime Player + Webcam Settings app on Mac (to enable manual focus). However, I tried a few high-end webcams (e.g. Logitech C920) and couldn't really find one with good enough quality.

I'm pretty sure that I'm not alone here in this situation. What are your gears?
Sounds like you should add another slide. :P
Study: Controversy is 10 times more likely to sell shoes