skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... you will probably not meet, and be happy with, someone you meet in a dive bar, or online dating. it's just common sense, or you may call it stigma.

One of my best friends got married with a girl he met online dating. Another one met his wife on an online forum we both frequented. I met my last girlfriend (3 years) and my fiancée (getting married this summer) in bars/clubs.
shell mode + emacs --daemon + emacsclient = all the multiplexing a growing engineer might need.
Relevant discussion of the perfect mate myth, in hilarious song form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZMIgheZro
The important part is the controller and potentially a market of games for it.

While it sounds nice to run the same game on a console and a touchscreen I don't see that working too well in reality.
Correct, a laptop is the endgame.

Our initial release will however be software that you can run on your current system.

> I don't understand how this is different? Option 1 sounds like MSFT SkyDrive and option 2 sounds like Dropbox. Just looking for what's different.

The cases being described in the post are _not_ the primary use case. Those cases describe users who aren't sure whether they wont to commit their entire system to project meadow integration.
http://youtu.be/2C2W_O9BX4g
We're smack in the middle of an uncanny valley between two economic periods. The industrial era gave everyone a mediocre income through repetitive work. The technological era brings much more income volatility and (when it reaches maturity, probably late in this century) will inevitably require a Basic Income. It's about concavity versus convexity: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/gervais-macle...

Concave work is that where the difference between top-notch stuff and mediocrity is small-- maybe 1.2x or 1.5x. Convex work means that excellence is so far superior over mediocrity (10x, maybe more) that mediocre work has almost no value.

What we do is convex because we automate all the concave processes. If the work can be commoditized, a good programmer will automate it away. That leaves the hard, creative stuff. So we have a convex input-output profile. That's part of the fun-- you can add 20% more value by being just a little better-- but it's also pretty terrifying to realize how close we are to a "natural" celebrity economy where a few stars are extremely well-paid and most get nothing.

We, however, have a few things that play differently. First, no one except a superior programmer (who become rare as one moves along) can evaluate us. Most CEOs are not only in the dark themselves, but unable to evaluate a CTO, who's unable to evaluate VP/Eng, who's unable to evaluate programmers. It's a classic Design Paradox. I think it's pretty random whether a non-technical CEO gets a decent CTO. Second, even we are in the dark about what makes a great programmer. Is it talent, or experience? Obviously, it's a mix of both... but the rarity of great programmers suggests that either few have the talent, or quality work experience is thin on the ground. We're unlike most people in the corporate world in that we deeply want to get better at our jobs (independent of being more rewarded) and yet the path to that is very opaque. How do you become a great programmer? Get great projects. How does one do that? It's not easy.

The complete opacity of programmer skill and development helps and hurts us. No one knows what we're worth. We don't even know.
So you would say company stock is a pyramid scheme as well? There is usually a set amount and it benefits you to recruit others to buy the stock.
I'd love to know what the distribution of this is. If you pick a realtor at random it appears to be "worse" than not using a realtor, but what is the variance? I suspect that a good realtor is probably going to get you a better price, I'm pretty certain that a bad one won't!

When I bought my current property the seller used a listing only service and pretty much screwed up every part of the transaction that was possible to screw up (missed deadlines, filed the wrong papers, failed to show up for closing for 3 days...) - I nearly walked away, in retrospect I should have, this is basic stuff that even a sucky realtor will get right.
I'm not sure what to make of this… More precisely, I'm not sure what your fractions on the left actually mean. Personally, I'm tempted to throw "undefined" at each row that does not sum to 1, leaving only "1/0", ".5/.5", and "0/1".

I haven't heard about any distinction between "subjectivists" and "objectivists" Bayesians. I'd say my own position is a little bit of both:

First, background knowledge fully constraint the world view. That means that two rational agents whose knowledges are the same must hold the same beliefs. More practically, two persons having the same relevant knowledge about any given question should believe the same answer (the difficulty here is to sort out what's relevant). Second, agents generally don't have the same background knowledge. Nothing stops us for knowing different relevant information about any given subject. So of course we won't hold the same beliefs.

Fuzzy. Ah, fuzzy… the more I look at it, the less sense it makes. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as "half truth". A proposition is binary: either true or false. Beliefs on the other hand are not binary: a belief is a proposition plus a probability. If I say the bottle is more than 75% full with probability 84%, then I'm 16% right if it really is only half full. Quite wrong, but not hopelessly so.

With probability functions and utility function, we can make the same set of decisions we could have made with fuzzy logic, which looks like it mixes the two. I personally prefer the modular approach.
It's always the clean shoes at 5am which give the game away.
Apple: The Mind-Blowing Steve Wozniak Interview No One is Talking About
For an actual, sound reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Just as with employers looking for employees, some of the people who are looking just haven't found the right fit yet. The rest are people nobody wants. The former churn (or dwindle if the market isn't being replenished), while the latter remain constant.

The game-theoretic optimum in a market for lemons--whatever you might think of it--is to avoid "dating" to begin with, and instead just find someone desirable and seduce them away from whoever they're currently with. In employment, this is called "headhunting." :)
Tell HN:  Why I think responsive design sucks
Most sites jumping on the responsive design wagon are doing it wrong, in my opinion. When I'm browsing sites on my iphone or ipad, I would much rather be browsing on sites optimized for 1080px.

I HATE having to scroll down a long page that's optimized for 400 pixels and everything has been snapped vertically on top of each other. The iphone and other smart phones can easily show 1080px. I'd rather zoom if I want to see things bigger.

I think responsive design should have a minimum width of around 1,000 pixels. Does anyone agree?
So you've never actually used any online dating service the past 20 years, but you still think you are qualified to dismiss it all as a farce?

I have several friends who met their significant others online, and are now happily married with children. But you just laugh...?
Honestly, I am not sure I like this story or hate it. I like that you shared it, but my reaction to Jobs only saying "OK", my read on that is that he was too busy to say much more and therefor a jerk or if he, in a Jobs-like minimalist way just though that in a serious situation like that, less is more and not much more needed to be said. Either way, thank you for sharing an interesting and thought provoking story.
Not undemocratic at all, because Cyprus has had the democratic option not to accept EU/IMF bailout money (which is being withdrawn from others bank accounts, typically others, who receive much lower interest rates on their savings than Cypriots did in the past, and who's government finances have been eroded by the dodgy money laundering that was Cyprus' main business model). The parliament of Cyprus has democratically decided to accept that money. Nothing undemocratic about it.
I think Roku is closer than AppleTV. It has "wiimote" that can be turned sideways as a gamepad or used as a motion capture remote. Not to mention they actually let people develop for the platform, they just need to offer something other than that terrible Basic clone, BrightScript.
I guess I'm being too strong. I think what I mean is that if the world had followed RMS in keeping away from non free software we'd all be surfing the web through daemon that scrape a URL and then emails us the results.

You don't think massive adoption of open source software would not at all imply that all the R&D effort spent on everything else over the last decades would have shifted to that instead?
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I think you're missing the point of responsive design. Zooming on a smart phone is not a good user experience, its much better that content is displayed in a way that suits the device better
So instead of scrolling down, you'd rather pinch and zoom?
I picked my girlfriend[1] of four years up at a bar. After a few dates, she broke it off with a guy she'd been dating casually who she met through Match.com.

[1] Ivy-educated, Ph.D.-holding, tenured professor girlfriend.
I think you're right about a lot of the problems with dating websites - I wrote about this recently too here (http://www.zacharyalberico.net/blog/dating-websites/).

I remember checking your site out when you posted it and it's nice to see someone trying something actually new, but I feel like this concept doesn't solve the common problems and adds some new ones.

Women will still be over messaged and men are still under messaged. People still ignore profiles in favor of photos - what does this change?

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).

I also think women are even less likely to use it considering your own point about them not wanting to involve their own friends. I would think people would also want to play a role in the selection considering it's a pretty subjective/personal thing.

Definitely awesome to see something new though and hopefully you prove me wrong and it works better than I suspect.
That's assuming the Zimbabwean government actually survives. 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.
If it that point the Zimbabwean government would still print money it can't back it would go bankrupt, and not be able to pay its staff and cease to be.
WW3 UN HAS NO INTENTION OF GOING INTO SYRIA
You sound like you're 19. I'll take my downvotes just to point that out.
1959 vintage portable analog computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Code_of_Silence

For anyone else who might not have heard of it (by name).
I realize some are, but there lack of pickup by pretty much everyone else is concerning. It makes bitcoin basically useless at this point. Maybe it will pick up, but it hasn't been happening.
Actually I believe the main driver of the recent price increase is several high-profile (in the tech world at least) organisations starting to accept it.
I had it done over 10 years ago when it was fairly new. It's been absolutely great for me. When it was done, I had 20/15. After about 6 months it settled at 20/20 where it is still today. I'm glad I don't have to deal with the glasses or contacts anymore. I really didn't do anything to prepare for it. Just have someone drive you home.
When the browser window is relatively narrow, the scrollbars only scroll the text area, not the humongous left-hand pane with nothing of interest except your "about me".

Verified on Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
He is a user and he defines what is a good user experience.
North Korea at a state of war with the South.
One theory on why the author might be having a little trouble with OkCupid comes down to this sentence:

"Unless your parents are Jewish and they threaten to disown you for not having a Jewish boyfriend...yea, you may not want to message me in that case."

I mean, I laughed, it's a funny profile, but ultimately it implies bitterness over your last relationship, which, in my experience, is a turn off for both sexes. Don't get me wrong, everyone's bitter after getting dumped, but your next significant other doesn't want to know about it (at least not at first). In fact, they don't want to know anything about your previous relationship, good or bad, period.

EDIT: This actually adds some merit to his idea...his friends would be objective and wouldn't make the same mistake.

I'll second the confusion over people thinking there's a stigma to online dating. I thought that was a 90's thing.
Does this release have better performance than previous releases? I enjoy using tmux, but for some applications (i.e. with large amounts of text spewing to the console) it just hasn't (historically) performed as well as GNU screen.
This isn't very useful if what you want to run in your terminal buffer needs to constantly update its screen while you're working in a different buffer (e.g. irc, tailing log files, etc)
US to regulate Bitcoin currency at its all-time high
They can already matchmake you without you knowing it offline; what's the difference if it's online?

Presumably they wouldn't be allowed to use your real name or super-identifying photos or anything, so this "dating persona" they set up from you is divorced from the rest of your identity, and nobody will find it by looking for you.
At first I thought this had to be a parody comment, but I think you're actually for real. Amazing.
If Only I Knew This Shit in College
My website uses PHP and a persistent MySQL connection, one for each parallel request. This held up perfectly when a post of mine came on the HN homepage (server is an Asus EEE PC with a low-end Intel Atom). This makes me think the problem is not in connecting to a database, it's in Wordpress somehow. A static page with comments would probably not work any better for high traffic websites, sooner or later there'll be an access violation: cache update while someone was loading the page.
Hmm, makes me think of making an ex libris [1] stamp with a QR code on it...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookplate
I'd like to see the actual survey data. I'm not even sure how to interpret this:

"Thus the ad hoc study: The company says it sent two packages each to 89 people (178 packages total) canvassing nearly every U.S. state — one package with the Atheist-branded tape, one without. And this is where the results suggest something fishy: According to Atheist Shoes, company-branded packages took on average three days longer to reach their destination and were 10 times more likely to disappear outright."

What does "10 times more likely to disappear outright" mean? Are they saying that 10 of the 89 Atheist packages disappeared, and only 1 of the 89 non-atheist packages disappeared?
Good information is still scarce. That is why self R&D is the best method to collect quality data. Building a search engine has reay opened my eyes to this. There is a lot of bad data. Nowadays, I think the effort is more on understanding which data is valuable and trustworthy. Which simply takes more effort than findings things out by yourself. Reason why I don't search github for good python code, but rather read/view videos about python directly and learn how to write good code by myself.
So what is the path to changing the world, if not by spending billions of dollars? And how does one get access to billions of dollars, if not by starting a massively-profitable company?

Are you saying that if my "meaning" is derived from, say, extending the human lifespan, then starting a company that tries to do that--and fails (because extending the human lifespan is a public good nobody wants to pay for)--is more meaningful than creating some kind of SocialMobileLocal juggernaut, and then spending the money it generates to fix the problem for real?

To me, that just sounds like impatience and an unwillingness to look at the big picture. A startup itself can be a schlep, to achieve something greater.
I unbind M-Space from my window manager and use that for my prefix as well as for jumping to last window.
Don't forget the chianti.
This post is very, very strange.
The largest Bitcoin exchange in Brazil gets hacked
This is David Graeber's theory, it's not a bald statement of fact like "the US went off the gold standard in 1971". Graeber even admits this:

So really, rather than the standard story – first there’s
barter, then money, then finally credit comes out of that
– if anything its precisely the other way around.

So he knows he's pushing something counterintuitive here. Where's the evidence he's marshalled? He also identifies the "standard story" with "free market economists" and tacitly identifies himself as a chartalist. Now, I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater - there is something interesting about the idea of a general sense of indebtedness as important to the origins of economics - but it does seem like we've parachuted in two different modes of behavior from central casting. On the one hand, the chartalists/Graeber types who are in favor of consumption, debt, inflation, and the state. On the other the Austrians/Nakamoto types who are in favor of production, savings, deflation, and the individual.

I really just want the people in favor of infinite debt and bailouts to hold their own currency and transact amongst themselves, while we do the converse. I don't want to be part of a group of people who think of debt as more fundamental than production, and/or who favor (and historically stress) vaguer gift/debt economies over more quantifiable barter/money economies.
Myers Briggs: http://www.skepdic.com/myersb
There's always mechanical turk.
I don't think that's a particularly apt analogy, for the simple reason that people break up for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with one or the other person being a "lemon." Relationships are based on idiosyncratic compatibility, unlike cars where "lemon" is a well-defined, universal concept. E.g. it's rare that one person's lemon will be another person's dream car, but that's often the case for relationships.

A more apt economic analogy is that dating is a market where deals are hard to match up, transaction costs are high, and the repetition rate of testing compatibility to lead to a possible deal is low. Online dating reduces transaction costs, in the same way EBay does.
Yeah, a sarcastic comment totally lacking in substance that's a cut and paste of something that's been bouncing around the libertarian internets totally deserves upvotes.

For context: Graeber got into a spat with some dude at the Mises Institute, which kicked up a hornets nest of people who never read the book to go nuclear on it, posting nasty reviews on Amazon etc.

SilasX, have you read the book? If not, why are you commenting on it?
I largely agree. Sites that are 'optimized for mobile' are usually worse. I really hate trying to consult Wikipedia on my phone, for example, and that isn't even a particularly new or high-resolution device.
Hinting Postgres and MySQL with OFFSET and LIMIT
Some others I've come across include:

https://github.com/oazabir/Droptiles & https://github.com/Anephenix/dashku
Agreed - the sample size is also really small to be interpreting slower arrival times as well, if only 1 or 2 packages took a long time it's likely they just found an outlier.
I agree that the style guide they link is pretty short and leaves a lot out. Although there were a few nice bits, I think.

The really laughable bit in the article was "One of the reasons the Doom code is so readable is because ... Carmack set up a Coding Style document". Oh god, if only this was all it took.

Actually, pretty near the entire article is a joke to anyone who's written more than 100 lines of professional code, and I'm astonished it's getting upvotes on HN.

Also, why would anyone take seriously the opinions of professional educators on this? I happen to agree with all of their comments, but, unless they have maintenance experience, they are precisely the people least qualified to speak on this subject. Maybe get those quotes from tech leads or engineering managers at respected corporations that hire interns, that would mean something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

Very first sentence: "In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time."

Yeah, it's Wikipedia, but if this definition was as obviously wrong as you portray it, don't you think someone would have fixed it? Or is Wikipedia also part of the grand conspiracy to take your money?

You're communicating a classic conspiracy theory, and like most conspiracy theories, it seems so compelling because it contains the truth. If a central bank expands the money supply in excess of demand, they will create inflation--true. The Fed has management goal of producing and maintaining mild, consistent inflation--true. The value of a dollar has declined greatly since the Fed was created--true.

But like most conspiracy theories it's not the whole truth, and thus leads to an inaccurate view of the world, one in which the importance of currency is greatly overemphasized. Is money supply the only factor that causes inflation? No. Has the inflation produced by the Fed harmed the economy? No. Living standards today are far higher than they were 100 years ago. Dollars are worth a lot less, but we have a lot more of them, and wealth (which is not the same thing as currency) has increased dramatically.

There is more to economics than money.
Actually there are plenty of people who would do something like that for their friends. I don't know much about the dating scene but I have a number of friends who do dedicate time and money to arrange dates for their friends. I'd say the benefit you get is the satisfaction you gain from helping out a friend.
Yep pretty much. In the original article (not from time.com) it was 9 and 1. So I am not sure where the number came from.
Grindr fixed the problem in the article about requiring lengthy descriptions, and it fixed the keywords/attributes/searching problem, by reducing profiles to an image and a geolocation. When I worked with online dating over a decade ago, we figured out that matchmaking is essentially worthless, and what you need to do is to throw profiles at people until they see something they like and can start messaging each other.

But what Grindr does, is it creates a virtual space of people around you, which makes it a lot more like real life bar dating, where you just have faces, and yet the straight version of it - I forgot what it's called - is not as respected as OKCupid, so there's still some way to go.
I'm surprised at how bulky the app is. I feel like it should be relatively portable, and be able to run without too much memory (I have to bump my VPS to at least 1GB just to precompile the assets). Looking at the codebase, it strikes me as odd. Is there really that much going on?
Flass: [taking a bribe] Don't suppose you want a taste? I just keep offering, thinking maybe some day you'll get wise.

Gordon: There's nothing wise in what you do, Flass.

Flass: Well, Jimbo, you don't take the taste... makes us guys nervous.

Gordon: I'm no rat! In a town this bent, who's there to rat to anyway?
IMessage dos ‘prank’ spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app
How would you disallow them to use your name or identifying pictures ?

Funny thing is IINM this is probably illegal in several countries around the world, both setting up an online profile for someone else, without his/her knowledge being aggravating, and not providing exact personal information.

If my friends did this to me, it would probably put a definitive end to that friendship.