skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember times when online dating was not broken.

Times where it was not organized by a third party trying to make a profit out of it.

It happened on IRC which was quite different: it happened in real time, it was text based (no pictures until you had proven yourself worthy). Though it already featured the too many messages towards women issue but it was easy enough to put the offenders on ignore and as once disconnected there was no way of messaging you they didn't pile up in your absence.

Online dating sucks but to me the main reason is that online dating is mostly governed by businesses trying to build a profitable business model for them, putting their own interest before those of the people using the service.

First comes the somewhat innovative idea, then the launch of the service with the accompanying marketing in order to gather a comfortable bunch of profiles and it's monetizing time in a stupid way usually by putting artificial barriers effectively killing its usefulness. From there it is inertia for a while, then the cycle starts again.

Hollywood may have some responsibility in shaping some people expectation of love but I don't think this is much related to online dating being broken. Actually I failed to find any link in your article which seemed to be a shameless marketing attempt at driving more people to your dating profile service, as is expected during the launch phase.

Then I would not touch anything facebook related with a 10 foot pole, let alone a dating profiles website where facebook friends, a.k.a. not actual friends, are in control without me knowing about it.

IANAL but I wonder about the legality of this, I'm not sure one is entitled to fill an online profile for someone else, it may be considered a form of identity theft.
I'd work at a startup if the amount of work expected was reasonable.
Putting people in boxes
LivingSocial Co-Founder And CTO Aaron Batalion To Leave The Company
We do some global inferencing in GWT, but we don't do range check elimination. There was a 20% contributor who added it at one point, but it never landed. We tighten types by looking at flow into and out of methods globally and locally (e.g. if you method says it return Object, but you return new Foo(), we consider the method as actually returning Foo). We also do nullability analysis, so for example, we can short circuit an if(x instanceof Foo) if x is known to be null, or Foo is a null type (never instantiated anywhere)
Related reading: The Codeless Code http://thecodelesscode.com/contents and ESR's Rootless Root http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
My first computer was also a TI-99/4a which was bought for me in 1983 when I was 4. I have many fond memories of that computer.
Not really though. Does finding that many religious people in the US are insanely intolerant really prove anything?
I'm sure there's an interesting story behind "the GitHub interview got me kicked out of a bar."

That's actually a pretty good heuristic. If you go to an interview and end up getting kicked out of a bar or waking up with your head shaved, you are pretty much guaranteed an offer. And you should totally accept it.
Many smartphones have HDMI out, and usb for a controller. It seems inevitable that they'll replace consoles (and desktops/laptops). Especially with wireless controllers and HDMI.

But I think the significant thing is price: you cannot buy a comparable smartphone for $99. This will always be true, because the smartphone needs a display, a battery, be compact, light, and not drain that battery too fast. What will change is that, eventually, smartphones that are good enough for games will be cheaper than $99 (or whatever price-point is then relevant). Although batteries are not improving at Moore's Law rates, this point will probably be reached surprisingly soon.

Bold prediction: the next generation of xbox/playstation/wii will fail for this reason. (smartphone GPUs will likely reach xbox360 levels this year; and the mainstream hasn't been demanding the more powerful GPUs of PCs, unlike previous generations).
It should be "if I had only known". Grammar is important.
Well, if a nuke does land in Austin, I guess my YC s2013 app will be moot!
Feedback is great, but I wouldn't rely on any potential sales numbers you gather without first getting commitments in writing, or even a deposit. Someone saying they will buy is a lot different than doing. A friend of mine recently had less 10 commitments out of 100 come through with cash, and that was with written commitments-- they basically said "then sue me."
I agree with all the suggestions but as I stated, only me and my friend have downloaded the game so far. In order to get user feedback and rating to improve the game, I need users to download it. I was just wondering if any other Windows 8 app/game developers are experiencing the same issue. Like I said with the iPhone/iPad game, you usually get a few hundreds if not more downloads on your first day of release without any advertising.
Microsoft Concedes The Battle To Flash
INFOGRAPHIC: HOW PEOPLE DIED IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Exactly my thoughts reading the post, reeks and relents of heteronormativity and heterosexism. Using facebook for a dating site is plain wrong (what happens the day facebook opens a dating service and shuts your website access to facebook down ?) but only using facebook is definitely a tell to go away.
yes, because I can usually read the text fine, even if the site is not optimized for mobile.
Wait what does Zach Holman actually do besides blog and make funny faces? Honestly...
hey, thanks for the slides and the talk, they are stunning.

What tools did you use to create the presentation slides? What fonts are these? How did you decide upon this color scheme?
Thanks. But I don't mean it as a horn tooting. In many many pivotal moments it came down to dumb luck that things worked out. There are many many people who have it harder than I ever did and manage to make it. A couple wrong choices one way or the other and we wouldn't have made it.

Those that tried and didn't, shouldn't be looked down upon.

Crawling up from a poor rural kid to working professional with a degree (or two or three) is hard. I'm the fourth person in my family to ever attend college, the third to graduate with an undergrad and the first with a graduate degree. I was helped by many uncountable people along the way.
The 16th century computer and the book that kills
The point isn't where you started, it's where you are leaving from. Leaving from CodeIgniter says a lot.
The general complaint I've heard is that there really is no mature, stable adapter for MySQL on Python 3. Which causes a cascade of problems with supporting it in other tools.
Perhaps he believed that platitudes wouldn't have helped, but that giving the permission was enough (as it so obviously was for this person). I couldn't imagine it was a particularly easy request to receive and he could have just ignored it.
Open eBay account. Contact sellers. Tell them about how product will make them more money. Offer free trial. Rinse and repeat.
I was expecting the page to be cached in RAM. Assembling a page from a database for every request is wasteful of limited computing resources. And doesn't work, as the error message mentions.
Yes, that much is obvious! what I meant, but it seems wasn't very clear about is that I wish they'd said this in the title of this blog / HN post.
MIT Files Court Papers “Partially” Opposing Release Of Aaron Swartz Documents
I agree that there are some things they could have done wrong that aren't explicitly ruled out in http://www.atheistberlin.com/study:

Were the packages the same weight or were some of them heavier? Were the packages given over to the same post office, or were some packages given to one office and some to another? What order were the packages handed over to the post office?

Assuming that there were no errors like that, this does appear to be a well designed experiment, and they are using rigorous statistical methods that are appropriate to carry out the tests, so it is entirely valid to draw causal inference that packages of that weight delivered on that day to that post office were caused to be delivered later if they had the atheist tape on them.

It would be hard to generalise that more to say that every package delivered from anywhere to the US on any day will be delayed.

It is also not necessarily possible to jump from the valid causal inference above to "USPS employs bigots" without further experimentation - perhaps the difference occurred before the packages reached USPS? Perhaps USPS employees occasionally have to make a judgement call about the last packages to go into a crate, and they are more likely to put in a package that might be time sensitive than one with tape that implies it probably isn't (it would be interesting to see the impact of other labelled tapes, like Christian, Muslim, Toys, Business Documents, Baby Formula, Shoes and so on).
I don't think so...at least not all. One thing the open source model has not been able to do is lead in many areas. End-user facing software and easy-to-use guis is a notable example.
Exactly, I'm actually mostly confused by this. At first it seemed like a good talk. I didn't agree with everything, but I don't have to, it was still a good talk... Now having read all, I'm more confused than anything else.
What do you mean? It's Feedburner, isn't that all normal stuff that Feedburner adds to the URL?
Zach from pogoseat here. You guys bring up a great point about connectivity and it certainly is something worth noting. To help address we do our best to make the app as lightweight as possible. Additionally we look to partner with venues that have solid connectivity and thus far have had no issues in this area with our deployments at Stanford and the GS Warriors.

Cisco is helping improve the situation as well although it is expensive as was noted earlier. http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/sports/stadium_wifi.html
you can teach yourself to be confident and comfortable around women. I used to HORRIBLE back in the day.
In the long run, powerful governments with an interest in disrupting the trust in Bitcoin will amass the computing power needed to attack the system. Bitcoin is a system for which the attacker's effort scales linearly with the work done by honest parties. This is not the kind of security a cryptosystem should provide.
The fractions are supposed to represent partial degrees of truth. 0.5 is just an example, could be 0.4, 0.6 - anything other than absolute true or false. There are examples of probability systems that try to factor in uncertainty, beyond truth belief or false belief. I think it was possibility theory that was talking about a 0.5 value assigned to "the cat is alive", a 0.2 value assigned to "the cat is dead", and a 0.3 uncertainty - then it would be 0.8 plausibility/possibility of alive, but only 0.5 probability.

The main distinction I saw about subjectivist vs objectivist is that the objectivist still communicates in terms of degree of belief, but the belief is that it is based on objective empirical data and so therefore it's not an expression of personal belief - more a measure of belief for the entire system or knowledge base. More relevant for things like machine learning rather than updating ones own personal beliefs. (Maybe this just assumes common priors.)

I've gone round and round on fuzzy because some people talk about fuzzy as if it is degrees-of-belief, like the bayesian interpretation. But I think it's different - I mean, if I'm partly correct on describing a concept, you wouldn't say that I am right 50 times out of 100, or that you're 50% certain I'm right, right? You'd say I'm half-right.

I'll have to think about probability combined with utility function. I'm not sure how to make it square with fuzzy math. It seems you'd be 16% right whether the bottle was half-full, quarter-full, or empty.
I don't mind it too much. Sure we could get all the details from a 30 minute talk video/mp3, but I'm a lot less likely to view/listen to that than I am to read a presentation in big writing that I can read in < 5 minutes, and which I will still probably get the gist from anyway.
"If money does not originate as a decentralized system, then how can we explain the fact that Bitcoin has become so successful?"

Quick thought experiment for you: if Bitcoin exchanges were to disappear overnight, what would happen to Bitcoin?
I've always wondered what it was with publicizing sheets instead of a talk. Didn't I get taught in school every year for the past decade that sheets are supposed to support the material I'm talking about and should not say much on their own? When designing new presentations lately, it made me doubt a lot how much text should be on. Even my teachers publish sheets only nowadays, which are good reminders if they ever talked about it, but not good to read only on your own.

A structured article instead of a talk would also be fine. It's quicker than watching a video or listening to the talk and still conveys all the information or perhaps more.
The facebook reputation barrier is a good idea - should set a bar for the low end of quality.

I see your point about the reciprocity, makes sense and I wouldn't worry about the stigma - if your site catches on the stigma will just die faster.

I'm not sure I'd be more receptive to what a friend has to say about someone, but that's generally because what anyone says doesn't matter when the sent/received message ratio is so bad (which is what I tried to fix with the marking idea).

Cool though - will definitely keep following it to see how it goes.
That worked great for me, thanks!
Not sure if you're joking or didn't make it to the "Don't be an Asshole" slide...
> They come in the mail, toss them in the trash.

That's some of the worst advice I've seen. Toss them in the trash and the debt will keep growing, whether through interest or collection fees etc., and you will keep garnering ill will to a point where resolving the problem later will become substantially harder.

On the other hand, most creditors will be prepared to cut your bills substantially if you demonstrate to them that you genuinely can't pay. Generally you can negotiate frozen interests, substantial cuts in the bills and payment plans very easily. This applies both to your personal circumstances, and your business. You have substantial leverage because they know they risk getting peanuts in a bankruptcy.

My first company had a really tough period due in part to changing market circumstances, and in part due to our lack of financial control in the beginning (none of us had business experience when we started... Hard learning curve). When I started cleaning house, one of the first things I did was to establish a list of all our debts, and call each and every creditor to describe the exact situation - how much we owed in total, our current revenues and projections and expenses, and made them an offer:

They'd cut their debt to 25% of the original claim, and freeze interest, and we'd resume payments. In some cases we'd convert assets we'd bought into leases with the same company, but at similar rates. Some argued. Some were angry - for good reason (some had been subjected to the "toss them in the trash" idea by guy who looked after the finances before I took that task on too, on top of managing our servers, and were furious they'd heard nothing). Some tried to get preferential treatment.

But in the end every single one accepted, because they could see from the numbers that it was the most we could afford and because they knew we were treating them fairly from our insistence on , and they also all knew that a customer in a tough spot that cleans house and makes a best effort offer like that will be damn grateful, and if they make it through, will keep bringing them business.

(We did make it through, and most of those creditors made a good chunk of money on us in the long run.)
I think this can be summed up as: The startup I work at was successful, therefore starts ups are great.

Where is the speech from the burnt out entrepreneur who lost all their savings... They might have a little bit different perspective.
For Android, there are some remote-control applications which stream the device screen to your computer using wireless or USB. Maybe check this out?
Which means that it's susceptible to the wild fluctuations of any other financial security and is not the almighty digital currency that it's backers try to make it out to be.
I'd guess SICStus: http://sicstus.sics.se/
Does it use the Muni API for real-time next bus/train tracking? Or is it, like Google Maps, based off of the published (aka, worthless) schedule?
gz5, great thinking. This is something we are working on doing soon for both corporate seats as well as individual fan seats. Venues of course want to push their unsold inventory first and so there are still some details to be hashed out here.

love the line "put real fans in the best seats".
How do you evaluate the quality of the outsourced work?

I find that silly. I'm not a chef but I can taste food.

Increasingly I have the tendency to believe that all this technical/non-technical is a really unfortunate simplification. I think especially when it comes to a startup tackling really big problems whether you've programmed before might be a rounding error in the equation toward succeeding.
What Is The Purpose Of Foreign Language Education?
I do hope the next iteration of QR codes involves steganography in beautiful images instead of these monstrously ugly and impersonal eye sores.

Who's up for the challenge?
The thing that amazes me the most is that Jobs responded within a couple of minutes.
I'm the opposite - I find video/audio so inefficient. I get impatient and I can feel my blood pressure rising. :-) Wish there were better ways to skim audio/video. I like the videos/audios with auto-scrolling transcripts but those UIs have a lot of room for improvement.
"Yes it's interesting application of cryptography"

Only as a way to illustrate that using cryptographic primitives like hashes and digital signatures does not make a system secure. If Bitcoin were a security system, the effort required to successfully double-spend the currency would be exponential in the effort required to use Bitcoin; as things are, the required effort scales linearly with the number of parties. Bitcoin may utilize secure cryptosystems, but as a cryptosystem Bitcoin is not secure under any accepted notion of "security."
I'm not an asshole, and I'm also not bound by a page of a dressed up graduation speech (:
What about economics? How many months of service would it cost me to replace my most valued possession? For that matter, we're talking some percentage of that amount since you can't guarantee I'll get anything back at all.

For the money, I think I would rather just insure anything of value I can't afford to replace and be careful about misplacing other things.
The on-boarding flow needs some work -- I got a "FBCDN image is not allowed in stream" error in both the ask friends to comment and share with <friend> pop-ups.

http://imgur.com/J1isKcl
Amazon Video is down
I find his hyper-self-deprecating tone at the beginning of the talk to be a little off-putting. He's obviously fairly qualified considering that he managed to secure a job at Github (which is a very well respected company that is, at least anecdotally, incredibly selective with their employees) and was invited to speak at a school. He obviously must have inordinate tallent or we wouldn't be reading these slides.

In addition, the slides were pretty unsubstantive. He took ~70 slides to convey 1) startups are fun; and 2) don't be a sociopath and/or a recluse.
I think the thought process is that if you're going to be a wing person for your friend, you're going to know if they're interested in women or men. I the same idea of whether or not you would invite a friend that's in a relationships. I think the point is very valid though.
I've dealt with busy people. In person, 1-on-1, they're great, absolutely focussed on you. And I've received emails from them like this.

I concluded that it was not arrogance or a lack of empathy but rather that their time had gotten constrained. If they wanted to preserve themselves for other things than email, they HAD to email like this.

If I had received this reply, I would have been thrilled too. Probably more thrilled to receive some other comment, but I wouldn't have been miffed by the terseness.
I can copy my zsh config neary as simple as you to a new server. But i dont need to, because my ~ is under VCS and i just clone it to every server.

But OTH, i dont need zsh. I feel very comfortable within a bash. But, why not. ZSH is awesome.
At the risk of hater downvotes, that screenshot looks eerily similar to the situation I always find myself in while in SF. Lyft and Sidecar have nothing available or have ungodly wait times (6-15 minutes while standing in a busy part of the city), while an Uber can pick me up in under 2-3 minutes every time. Additionally, a lot of Lyft/Sidecar drivers will just pass on rides that are too far away and wait until someone closer makes a request. They can do this because the demand is significantly greater than supply, so it has little impact on them. This is very obvious by just watching the display while you're trying to flag down a ride (note: true even with 5* rating).

This makes me wonder if they should even be included as they're incredibly unreliable. It'd be interesting to see Corral run some analytics on the data they're gathering to see which options have severe availability issues, and when/where.
Sometimes it feels like the Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE
Did you even read the conclusion on that amateur blog you cite to attack a widely-acknowledged scientific study?

It says: "At least for the short term, it looks as if more expensive and more hazardous chemical inputs will continue to increase in use for corn, soybeans, and cotton because of pesticide resistance which is growing at an alarming rate."
> perhaps the difference occurred before the packages reached USPS?

Or after. If we're searching for bigots, it's not hard to imagine that packages could have been placed in plain view and illegally removed by people unrelated to USPS.
Depending on what ticketing system the venue is using we either have fans input their seat location manually or input their ticket barcode (scan feature to be released shortly).
Don't know if I'm the only one in this boat, but I often feel pretty conflicted about upgrading to a newer version of a tool where I have had a lot of configuration and shortcuts defined for ages. If any of them break, you'll have to go back and dig through the arcane tmux config file, figure out what changed.
Almost as witty as the article headline announcing British politician Michael Foot being placed in charge of a committee on decommissioning nuclear weapons

"Foot heads arms body"
One thing I notice on Eharmony's website is that they have a different Eharmony site for blacks, asians, latinos, homosexuals, seniors, etc.
Didn't I get taught in school every year for the past decade that sheets are supposed to support the material I'm talking about and should not say much on their own?

If so, you were taught wrong, IMHO. If I have time to sit through a (decent) talk, the slides don't matter. If I don't, the slides are very important.
To give a realistic impression, I wanted to show my fingers too, not just the device screen. One other way I could think of is to use two phones, one for running the app to demo, the other shooting the video and projecting it via the HDMI cable... But it's a bit difficult to setup - switching projector cables is often quite painful.

The problem with my original approach is that I couldn't find a good webcam that records videos as well as the phone.﻿
Yep. I'm running into the realization that I'm actively enjoying watching this storm build.
When you're a co-founder of a business, and someone rags on it, they take it very personally. They might not make it apparent to the public, but they care, a lot.