skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any particular reason to become demotivated about statistics. Statistics are simply a tool, useful in developing an evidence-based understanding of the world. You can accurately generalize about many things, and there are even statistical tools to help you determine how accurate your generalizations are and what kinds of variability in outcomes there are. It's not like the field was just invented yesterday and nobody has thought about these issues.

If you're making decisions, evidence-based decision making can help you decide between different courses of action (A/B testing is an extremely simple example of statistics in action). Statistics can even give you some information about which factors can impact the likelihood of different outcomes. Maybe you think factor Y about your current situation (or your personality, or your product, or whatever) makes some outcome particularly likely. Is that actually true? Sometimes the honest answer is we don't have any way of knowing, because it's a unique situation. But I think people jump to that conclusion far too quickly. Often there is actually considerable information available, if you want to use it. I'd rather use existing data than cultivate some kind of "everything is my decision and I'm in control" mindset, when that would just be delusion in many cases: many things are beyond my control, but some are within it, and I think making effective decisions requires figuring out which is which.
My main hesitation is if someone only gives positive feedback, especially without varying the intensity, that person's feedback can become just noise. If you are relying on a signal in that type of feedback, it certainly can be damaging due to omission or overstating.
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Good luck with the endeavour. Some thoughts:

Requiring 100+ Facebook "friends" to join may serve as decent "this is a real person" filter for college educated urban 20 somethings, but you are likely filtering out lots of potential customers older than 30, people who never left their small town, etc. Is there a better way you can accomplish the same goal?

Also, I'm not sure that one can ascertain that "men don't read profiles" from a study that 21 men in a coffee shop spent half the time looking at picture as 18 women similarly accosted by market researchers. That's a pretty thin read to make a decision on. Have you a/b tested how profiles might work for your users?

I'm wondering how the "I was looking on behalf of a friend, but stumbled across someone really appealing." thing plays out.

Again, good luck.
From the bottom of the email Heroku sent out about this feature:

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If you ever read The Wealth of Nations, it has a long history of the value of silver(commonly used for money at the time), and the effect new mines had on the value (overnight 1/3 value loss not unheard of). There is essentially nothing in the world guaranteed to hold or increase in value that we use or have ever used as money.

If you are lucky enough to have money over the limit, at least in the US, you can open accounts at different banks to try and have more insurance. For the native Cypriot running a legit business, yes, it's unfortunate, but that's what has led to a central banking system. If you look back a hundred years, bank runs were much more common, but people still had to use banks.

I don't offer financial advice, but it certainly would seem that maintaining bank accounts above the insured limit in any of the countries you listed is very high risk at the moment.
Came here to say this -- I got that email too.

Seriously, what a dick move.
I'd firmly advice against being open about your personal information on the internet, especially on a dating site.

I understand every big internet corporation is pushing the idea that privacy is dead and that you ought to put every thing about you online for every one to see. But what made the internet great is its pseudonymous nature.

Don't lie on your profile, but don't put up identifying personal info either.
Too late to edit now, but this line:

and me having committed suicide out of despair and depression 20+ years ago

Obviously should have a "not" insert in there. That or I'm posting from The Other Side... :-)
But the takeaway here will not be "this is something that Steve Jobs did that was nice," it will be "OH WOW STEVE JOBS WAS A SAINT."

And that, sir, is what we call the fundamental attribution error. But I feel it applies more to everyone than just Jobs. If you showcase a positive action, it'll be assumed as part of a personality. And I seriously doubt anyone would be spreading bad things about Steve Jobs, because he actually was very intelligent and all that lot. The only person I'm aware who was appreciated during life and hated afterwards is Edison, and that's only 100 years after the fact.
The spirit of that is most likely: "You won't resell or grant your access to the API to other people, or allow someone else to to resell or grant access to the API."

Not generally the content you're getting from the API (although you wouldn't be selling or providing that to others, either, you'd be creating some derivative of it).
"Put your money where your mouth is"
Paying online dating will always have better results because of this.

Also you take under consideration almost exclusively OkCupid.

OkCupid != Online Dating.

Because of how it works, OkCupid is full of needy girls (and starving guys).

They go there, put three pics, play the dumb-ass matching game (understand answer 30 questions) and then enjoy receiving 4000 messages the first day.
Deep down, they feel "woa I'm that good!" and they wine about guys being lame (and their pick up lines).

But here is the cold truth (from what I saw in the silicon valley)
1/ most girls are gold diggers OR what-have-you-done-for-me-lately (Eddie Murphy-style) - including your ex.
2/ most guys just want to hook up.

You can't sort this out with friends or anything.
Even if people have a tendency to protect themselves from bad-people by closing their circles that is a negative reflex when trying to do online dating.

And online dating, especially when free, is the perfect fuckable-meat-supermarket. (excuse my french, I am... French)
So you can come up with any pickup line, as long as the quality stays the same, it's the looks that matters. With the few exceptions based on luck OR coincidences.

This is also why a lot of people have a negative image of online-dating.
There is of course the geeky-desperate, you're-not-capable-otherwise image.

For at least some time, people will still have this image. If you try to educate the world about online-dating, you're screwed.
You should try to kick ass at your website, and make it feel like it's _not_ online dating. Take distance from this image.

And it won't work if it is free or if you try to involve friends.
It will work by solving the question: "how to raise the quality of the members commitment to the idea".

I think good leads could be:
1/ pure and guaranteed balance in girls/guys (for straight websites) - It can be extremely repulsive.
2/ remove un-active accounts.
3/ Push people to open themselves - more privacy, different layers, many technical ways.
4/ force them out of the website. (you provide the first contact, but try setting up the date, suggestions is a great step already)
5/ limited amount of members (increased by periods, without some elitist bs)

The issue is, it's all about quantity not quality.
The big problem I foresee is that might go against a juicy business plan - at least at first, and definitely when raising money. (better have 200M people poking each-others virtual a-holes than 10k people doing something and paying for it).

As for Hollywood's lie, it's always the same bitching. Hollywood's lie is only as valuable as the number of people who believes it.
The truth is, people want to believe in Hollywood-dreamy-love but they tend to take everything too seriously to actually catch it. But hopefully, they will one day get tired of it and get down to earth.

Good luck in your adventure.
Contacting them is your best option. Find some one to talk to, explain what you'd like to do, and how the terms restrict you, and see if you can't find a way to have an exception, clarification, or some other way around it.
Stanford's 2017 acceptance rate hits record low: 5.7%
Depending on the talk, the elocution and delivery can be a valuable part of the work.
Good idea.

That said, I think Heroku is leaving some money on the table by not offering a 1 Dino paid for plan, the only difference being that it would not get unloaded if no requests were received for a while. Nothing serious can be run on a 1 Dino free plan (and maybe that is by design) because of the loading request times after an app,is unloaded. I have several small projects that I would run on a $15-$20/month plan.

Actually, I think it would be a good idea for them to scuttle the free plans altogether.
pageguide.js - http://tracelytics.github.com/pageguide/
Same here ;)
Good luck to you too!
I've read summaries of the critical arguments and their critiques. I can't honestly be expected to ready every single page before identifying what I find to be errors in it. We need to get over ourselves -- the Kolmogorov complexity of the substantive points Graeber brings to the discussion with his book is certainly less than the amount of text contained in 1000+ pages.

Do you want to tackle the problem of why the "temple units" happened to be silver?

Also, even if my post was genuinely deserving of a downvote, I hope you recognize that you should leave that job to someone else, as you have too much invested in this topic to be objective (as does anyone replying in a similar position).
The maximum number of BTC is fixed.
I'd love to see this from someone outside the project- it's pretty clear from blog posts, etc that Titan was made to handle larger graphs, but what are the tradeoffs, and where are the pain points?
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I don't really consider this an issue. If you really need an app with a single dyno and no idling, you could always use the Heroku scheduler addon, and tell it to ping your web app once every 10 minutes.

With the amount of free hours you get per month, per app, that would still allow you to run your dyno uninterrupted for no extra cost.
Considering that YC startups sometimes pivot after getting accepted, wouldn't being able to come up with at least one good idea be a requirement for getting accepted.
Perhaps the whole idea of the noidea app set the stage for the disaster that was S12. Even though only one noidea app was accepted strictly speaking perhaps both a signal sent that the 'idea bar' was lowered and and a lowering of standards. This seems to me to hold a lot of explanatory power, much more so than the idea that multiplying 66 by 1.27 would be the key thing in turning something that works into something unmanageable.

I read the post S12 (post noidea) essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) as a (if unacknowledged) reaction of someone trying to understand and elucidate why ideas are actually very important (going against the common refrain that 'execution' is all that matters) after having recently seen poor ideas get by a selective process.
One thing that I really want is the ability to set different background colors for panes and windows. Sadly, it is a feature of a terminal app, not tmux. One can only imagine tmux would integrate tightly with various terminal applications to accomplish that.
Sorry -- didn't notice that (it's on Heroku's public website).
I doubt I'm the only one who read the article with the hope of finding
some new technique to remove light pollution from images to show off the
stars... and was mildly disappointed to find out the beautiful images
were just cut-n-paste jobs (albeit outstanding ones).

I'm wondering what kinds of techniques exist for removing light
pollution?

Spectrum sensitivity? Spectrum filtering on exposure? Post processing?
you wouldn't know how long it takes to make a basic CRUD app

-- Not to nitpick, but you are implying the technical team is untrustworthy or incompetent, unless they are co-founders. While I (would like to) think all founders are trustworthy and competent, being a non-founder should not be a contra-indication.
Good to see Scoble endorse this, one of the great developers of our time.
Wooh! More firebase. Good to see Scoble endorse this, one of the great developers of our time. Hope we get more firebase news every day, can't wait to party with those dudes. Also can't wait to get down with that ja lockin. Cometh the down votes.
I don't know how you figured "most of us use it". Most of us have probably created a dummy account and quickly said "to hell with this." I won't go near those things, not because of "predestined love" but because 90% of the girls on there aren't attractive and the ones who are I assume are screwed up in some way. And if it makes you uncomfortable reading something so cold and dismissive as what I just said it's just as uncomfortable thinking it, so to hell with it.

I can go up to the bar, have a beer, see a live band, talk to a pretty girl and know in 30 seconds if I like her and if she thinks I'm grotesque. Mother Nature is very efficient. No need to over-complicate things.
I don't see how someone could possibly write a tool like this without being aware of YAMLs potential complexity.

Well, I suppose it's possible, but it seems extremely unlikely.
I think this is done deliberately -- as to not show up on as many google searches as the site would be showing up otherwise.
You can give human-readable text to links in a Google Doc - that lets you choose your own title, which would undoubtedly be more readable than a url-safe string.

Ironically, I find this would be most useful when including links to previous HN discussions on Hacker News itself, because this is one of the few sites that doesn't let you put in human-readable text for the links you include.
Dart's biggest selling point is that it's very nice to use and that it's free of nasty surprises.

Have you ever written a somewhat bigger JavaScript application with a few thousands lines of code spread across dozens of files? It's horrible.

With Dart, the experience is similar to Java or C# (just with terser syntax). There are classes/packages, and you can simply import things. In the IDE you get call-tips, auto-complete, and sanity checks (based on type annotations or inferred types). There is very little friction in general.

There is also block scope, a lexically scoped `this`, built-in classes/inheritance, mixins, lambdas, and things like that.
Seems to be premium content we can't access without a login.
If you try to regress people closer to the norm you're going to lose those star performers - the ones who have outsized, convex effects on the company.

A fictional example. If you squeeze everyone into a narrow band, you'll loose your patio11 star A/B tester. and with him, millions of dollars of easy profit.
Project selection is much more limited at the SF office, since it's smaller.
Typo: "log- runtime-metrics Labs flag" but the flag is log-runtime-metrics (no space) https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/log-runtime-metrics
My cofounder spent an entire year with this exact problem. He worked with one developer who dropped off the face of the earth, payed a designer for work, and otherwise busted his ass for an entire year after graduating undergrad. He worked at a pool while his peers went to work for the likes of McKinsey and Goldman.

Now, I and another technical cofounder are working with him. We also have designers and a potential new technical employee.

You are still in school. You have time.
And the book is $7.20 on Amazon for the Kindle, FYI. I just bought it (versus $14something @ pragprog)
This isn't a limitation of WordPress. It's a limitation in the stack.

The average WordPress (or any other CMS for that matter) stack doesn't serve pages from RAM.

And even if it did, it could expire, it could be updated, it could become corrupt, the caching server could go down, or have a number of other things go wrong. There would be a call to the DB, the DB could fail and there would STILL be a static html page returned providing information on the error.
The United States' State Department recognizes 195 independent countries around the world. People rant about how terrable the US education system is but the United States places 17th in the developed world for education, according to a global report by education firm Pearson. That's well into the 90th percentile.

The US is often in the top 20 for metrics like CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 2012 http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/ and historically corruption was even more of an issue. Just think back to things like the Magna Carta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta. Rome, was considered the height of civilization in there day and yet corruption was rampant and rulers would have people killed on a whim etc. Not to mention extremes like the Inca civilization practiced mass ritual human sacrifice.

Even our somewhat tarnished free speech is worlds better than most areas.

Not to mention having the #1 most powerful military of all time. People look down on the space program as we have not landed on the moon in a while, but we still send more probes than anyone else. Ditto for infrastructure, there is little point to replacing infrastructure early so while Japan spends more on infrastructure that's not a good sign.

PS: I think people really have the mindset that we should be #1 in all things forgetting that there are almost 200 other countries out there.
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Funny this got posted. These same thoughts have been passing through my mind for the past few days. I'm also a senior and have been getting decision letters over the past few months. I also got accepted to many great schools but the best ones (my dream schools) sent me that same letter.

The same feeling is also present for me. After years of taking a very hard class load and working hard on college applications, it is heart crushing to get that letter telling you that you aren't good enough. It's funny that they always make sure to say 'We had so many good applicants that we had to reject many quality applicants' but it just feels like I'm not good enough.

I know I'm using that feeling as motivation in the future to push myself harder than other students from more elite schools to prove to them, and to myself really, that I am good enough. It's a tough feeling to get over but it'll get better, I know it.
Not sure if this is a marketing gimmick by a big corporate. And in a way is kind of sad state of affairs.

With that said we already have ice packs that are used for the transport of vaccines in developing countries. Not sure if we necessarily need to use cola bottles.
Really? Classes never made source more readable? How on earth is `Vector<Int64>` or whatever less readable than rolling a custom struct and functions?
It would seem to me that the only difference between a "1 dyno paid for plan" and the existing "2 dyno paid for plan" is that you get an extra dyno for the same price. Am I missing something?
http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-...

It's also preemptive too. I don't believe JVM have this nor any other languages.
Holman makes good looking slide decks.
Voicegem was one of the no idea companies in the first YC class it was offered. They've already joined Palantir, it seems: http://www.voicegem.com
If I looked this up after finding someone's keys, I have to admit that I would be somewhat annoyed at them trying to acquire me as a customer and pretend like they are giving me a gift. I think it would be much better to offer a flat $25 reward to anyone who is willing to return the lost keys. Since people lose their keys only extremely rarely, I find it hard to believe this would "break the bank."
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Whenever you use statistics you are generalizing and likewise the statistics typically don't apply exactly to most people. Everybody is above or below the mean in some way there are almost always data points two standard deviations from the mean... They help us simplify how we think about large populations.

So many little differences can have huge effects on us as individuals that its really only necessary you are different. Failure can only truly be found in seeking to be the same.
> That's a little tricky

Ahh, the enthusiasm of a new startup. :)

Relationships are such a spectrum that this part is actually really, really hard. OKC gets it mostly correct, which is one of the reasons they're really popular with that crowd.
We don't think this would hurt Discourse or any of the projects that we package, but rather we are helping the project by simultaneously enlarging the number of users that can install Discourse (by making it easier) and reducing technical support (by preventing common installation issues). The reason why WordPress is so popular is that anybody can download and install it and is offered by nearly every shared hosting provider, VPS provider, etc. But when people want a hosted version, or professional services, etc. the majority will still go to wordpress.com Discourse is aiming to do the same and become synonymous with forum software by creating high-quality forum software and giving it away. Given the dismal state of forum software I, for one, hope they succeed and will try to help them in all I can.
You've written a lot of comments on this, but I'm reminded of a quote from Steve Jobs: "Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"
This is not a particularly accurate title. MIT could release the records at any point (they are MITs to do with whatever they please), and in fact already committed to do so once redaction had occurred.

MIT actually expressly opposes in this document the Keker & Van Nest LLP proposed modification of the protective order, without redaction. And in fact brings up a serious procedural misconduct of Keker & Van Nest LLP (they should have already destroyed any copies they possessed already because the criminal case was fully concluded).
This is the core problem of a dating site:

1. Forging connections between pairs of strangers where they will fall in love,

2. …under conditions of oppressive patriarchy.

Number 1 is a pretty easy numbers game. for each person, a subset of people match them algorithmically. Another subset will be good matches. If your algorithm doesn't suck, some of the first set overlaps the second.

Number 2 is the problem. If you are asking why women are being swamped with textual street harassment such that the noise quite drowns the signal, why women need pseudonymity and ignorable messaging and no-appeal blocklists, why women get shamed for taking an active role in seeking a date (such as OKC) and don't want to admit it, why Mills & Boon nonsense holds so much cultural sway, and why social proof is the most effective way to get dates, the answer to all of the above is patriarchy. Rapey, commoditizing attitudes to sex are patriarchy. Passive, romance-movie, pedestal-putting, shaming, antisexual attitudes to love are patriarchy.