skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the idea is... no worse than any other dating site I guess but the pitch here is absolutely "stop looking for love. Join our site and love will happen to you" it's just it's supposed "happen to you" because ¡friends! instead of lazy scriptwriters.
> Sometimes there's no shame in folding.

Actually, a correct fold is one of the most skillful things you can do in poker. That's why James Bond will never be a good poker player.
> I just wish it were easier to use it on my local machine in a terminal but still maintain a GUI version as well.

Emacs? I use a nice GUI build from http://emacsformacosx.com/. It runs great in both the GUI and shell.
Yes. What I'm saying is I didn't realize it had entered that namespace.
V8 has quite a ways to go against state of the art 1990s technology: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

What's crazy to me is that SBCL still stands up toe-to-toe with say Mono (3.x, using LLVM) (or GHC or the JVM): http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te....

This is a compiler that hasn't even heard of SSA, nor any other advance in low-level optimizations in the last 15-20 years. It also achieves parity with Java on binary-trees, even though that's basically a GC benchmark and SBCL has a fairly primitive one.

It's a testament to the power of a well-tuned compiler using relatively simple algorithms and a language that is pretty amenable to optimization despite being highly dynamic.
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Can you explain what makes you believe my explanation fails to account for systemic conditions? Are they not accounted for by the beliefs and preferences of the person saying yes?
Did they say things would get unruly? Did they say minors would be drinking? Did they say the neighbors would complain because the music is too loud? Did they say they would be breaking fire codes? What crime did they publicly announce? The police are making a lot of assumptions (right or wrong) before the fact.
You're probably giving him too much credit. I've seen interviews with people before they embark on these kinds of courses, and every single one of them said that they really wanted it, that it was the most important thing in their lives, and that the group statistic didn't apply to them.

Some of them made it. Many of them didn't.
I dont think OP meant burn all your personal relationships. I think he may have meant to make the jump to working for yourself fulltime, rather than having the cushion of a salary job.
It is a good and interesting observation, but as the benchmarks approach real-world scenarios, the difference is more than a millisecond or two.

For instance, if you're running on EC2 hardware (which is common enough) and you're executing ~20 DB queries/request (which is probably, unfortunately, common enough), the difference between Java servlets and Rails is more like 10ms.

Then what happens when more than 89 real-world users start to hit your Rails server each second?

(Note: I really like Ruby and Rails. Much more so than Java and its offerings.)
The details here are a little off-topic for this HN thread. Could you open a thread on Stack Overflow and tag it "Firebase", or shoot us an email (support@...)? We support all of these use cases.
On that's cool. Could we implement one like that for hacker news?
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100 "friends"? I've been on the facebook for seven years and I don't have that many, because I only fried my actual, uh, friends.
Well - it's my tool of choice for editing Makefiles. :) But that's all I use it for. My vim setup automatically hammers tabs to spaces, and make doesn't like that.

Shell users who use emacs mode (most ppl) may be annoyed by ctrl+a missing.
I'd find it more than a little creepy if my friends were setting up a dating profile for me without my consent.
Yep ... you beat me to it, but I hope someone fixes up the misleading title.
This reminds me of a time when the 6.5536mhz crystal was perennially out of stock at radio shack because because of an easy tone dialer hack to make a redbox.
So rather than believe that Dart wasn't anywhere near done when it was announced, as evidenced by the massive changes, 20000+ commits since then, and the time it's taken to get close to version 1.0, you prefer to think that the engineers are just slacking off.

Right.

Big disclaimer: I work on that slacker team.
Spending some time learning C, ML and Scheme is well worth it. Virtually all modern languages derive from these three languages - and all 3 of them are internally consistent enough to be beautiful.
The issue I have with the soul mate theory is that people can and do change when they want to, when that happens your "soul mate" would also change, basically nullifying the entire concept.

Edit: I should say though I completely agree (about everything except the predestined part), people need to keep an eye out and know what they want, and not just physical qualities.
Hey Paul! Couldn't see an email address in your profile but you can reach me on joss@openexchangerates.org :)
So if I try to break into your house, you won't be calling the cops? Wouldn't you be supporting 'agents of state violence' by relying on them to come to your aid?
here's a novel idea dude. go interact with real people. in person.
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I wish I could put more of a point on it, but getting into a discussion on meta.discourse.org dramatically changed my view of Discourse. It just feels right when you use it.
I know I have two previous computers that crashed with close to 15 BC each. (Which is a small number, clearly, but how many others like me have small sums of BC that will be gone forever?)
I don't see anyone making negative comments about this guy as an individual, just Living Social as a business.

Personally, I couldn't find much positive to say about them when they started laying people off back in November[1] and I don't see much positive now.

You're right, I can't claim to have created anything with "near as much reach as LS" or as the same "massive consumer impact".

However, I can't see what reach or impact LS had that fellow failing business Groupon didn't.

As I said back in November, it sure looks like they just copied a momentarily hot, yet broken business model, snagged a bunch of fancy office space and sought tax breaks [2] while posting huge loses.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4845253

2: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/07/10/living...
You really don't have to go back that far. There was no Stack Overflow in my VB and C days (1995/1996). You bought a huge reference book.
When you were working with .NET before, I assume that means you were writing C# (or maybe VB.NET)? You might consider learning F# -- it's a fantastic language to work with and might even change your mind about working with .NET. (Plus, you'll already have a head start given your previous experience.)

http://tryfsharp.org

Also, salaries for experienced F#/C# developers are somewhat higher than those of experienced C# developers. Do some research if you don't believe me.
A monthly subscription? Are you kidding me?
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waze is the most obnoxiously intrusive interfaces for open maps, but sadly the only one for mobile phones.
No, to be clear, I don't want to suggest that they did that at all. I'm sure they went into it with legitimate intentions.
I'm sure DAs around NYC will be prosecuting this with the full force of the law. /sarcasm
"It's not just notebooks that get stolen."

Very good point. I guess I've been working in environments with datacenters too long. :)

"I'm also considering the corporate or government espionage vector, where you have a reasonably skilled on-site attacker trying to read or modify the disk contents."

Again though, that only protects you if the disks are out or the machine is down. If you have someone with that level of skill within your organization, they'll likely gain access to the running computer where the data has already been made accessible in decrypted form.
Another option is to use a version of Pyglet from the main repository on googlecode. Thats been updated to avoid the Avbin problems and add OSX 64 bit support.
This is exactly the reason why pretty much every house show no longer gets its location listed on Facebook or on flyers where I live. Instead we just put "ask a punk" for the address. You have to be in the know or you won't find out. Unfortunately it's a bit of a turn-off for younger people and anyone who isn't good friends with someone already involved in the scene. The alternative is to have every show busted before it can even start.
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Green addresses allow instant confirmation. There is also verified escrow. This problem was solved long ago.

Anyone can keep spending money in a "Green Address" which is guaranteed by the eWallet provider.

There are no problems without solutions. We have an over abundance of solutions just begging for problems. This is the age of abundance.
This seems reasonable to me. Police are under an obligation to uphold the law, their presence at a less than legal event is at best a significant liability to all those involved. What kind of punk becomes a cop anyway? What's next, punks voting republican? Punks wearing designer clothes? Oh wait...
Wait, what? My friends might be setting up a profile for me without even knowing it? I sure hope that's qualified by "if I'm signed up", because otherwise I might need to engage in some rage.
http://www.erowid.org/freedom/police/police_info6.shtml
Too loud. (But if drugs were involved, that certainly wouldn't help.)
We have to use iSCSI. Not all our kit talks NFS plus we use SAN block replication between DCs which really doesn't play nice with NFS (we did test it and discovered that not all NFS implementations are good).

This whole thing has to play nice with a windows DFS cluster as well.
I think the lie told is not one of predestined love, but of perfect love. That you'll find the person of your dreams, they will sweep you off your feet, and you'll never have a negative feeling about them. It will all end storybook.

Of course the next 20 chapters are ones of compromise, empathy, regret, and apologies, with happiness and perfection in between.
So when can we have a java binding?I mean if I recall your backend is done on Netty. Really want to use Firebase in my mobile app.
Well, for money if it gives advantage for the issuer it's called seigniorage, it's not different than a central banking printing money and reaping the benefits of a hike in the exchange rate.

It's very different than IP ranges (which is regulated by continent, you have ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, etc.) or domains (although it's truth that a guy could buy a desirable domain earlier, like photos.com, photo.com or photography.com), in wither case domains and ranges are not designed to be a mean of exchange.

The fact that most until the early 2010 did not moved means nothing to my question, it can be that a owner of a large block sold some, and they waited and then sold some more until he cash out.

That study by Adi Shamir did not claim that by using statistics he could determine that there are not many owners with more than 10,000 Bitcoins? What if a guy in this situation keeps selling or has sold a substantial percentage of what he have? (I do not know how Mt. Gox or whatever works, so I just apply how I know stock exchange works).

To summarize I do not understand your point, your tone appeared confrontational and answering simply a question I did not asked.

EDIT: I see that some guys wrote on the other thread that someone yesterday sold 5,000 bitcoins, although I believe it was a speculative move, could it not be some early adopter cashing out? This is what my question was, in a general setting, asking.
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It's not "predestined love" alone - it's also willingness to actually work on that relationship. I've got 23 years so far, and it's been awesome. But it required talking about things, occasionally compromising, being willing to listen, and paying attention to what's going on. And sometimes sticking it out, even when you thought "This really isn't fun right now".

And congrats on 25+ years - you're obviously doing it right :)
If only this had been discussed thousands of times in hundreds of different forums...

Whether you want to talk about damage to local businesses or another company that VCs poured millions into with no return, its pretty hard to argue that this company did much good. You getting good deals and ignoring what was necessary to get them isn't really the metric by which we decide if a business is doing good or not. If you're comparing it to the Yellow Pages than that says it all really.
Not much to report... but an incredible love of ellipses. Maybe I burned a few periods, but, man, you have no idea what kinds of grammatical innovation are yet to come. Always remember... punctuate to live don't live to punctuate.
You care about the language SO MUCH that you would be willing to risk developing the app for free, or worse free + real damages + punitive damages (for fraud)?

There's no language that I love so much that I would risk a lawsuit over it.
Maybe it's my social circle (busy pushing-30 professionals) but I think there is almost zero stigma among my friends over online dating. In fact, less so among women than among men. Men for some reason feel they have to play the bar scene even if they don't like it or aren't good at it, but women feel no such need. Indeed, for a lot of my women friends, online dating offers the very real advantage that it's socially acceptable for women to actively choose in an online context, while in meat space the social convention involves their waiting for the loudest, drunkest guy to come up and hit on them.
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I totally agree. I come from a country which used to be one of the Soviet republics and remained communist for almost 50 years, and really,the communist government could never pull some shit the US is doing right now. And they say that have "freedom".....yeahhhh sure.
I think this may be solving a legitimate problem, but I think you are incorrect that the source of the problem is hollywood.

Online dating follows historically from personals classifieds. Personals ads contained very little information (in part because they had to be so short). This meant you were going on a date with someone you knew nothing about. It was worse than just a blind date... because you didn't even have any common friends to validate the person wasn't a psycho. People (esp. women) who valued their safety tended not to use personals ads, and there was a definite stigma that people who did use it likely had problems.

Though online dating is popular now, I think it was previously viewed as the high-tech version of printed personals ads. So the stigma carried over. It's certainly decreased over time, but I think that history is part of the stigma.

Again, I think you have a potentially viable solution to a problem people care about... even if I disagree on the source of them problem.
Yes, my .NET experience has primarily been with C#. I'll checkout F#. Thanks!
"Store owners, starting with online store owners, have to at least start accepting the currency, which they have shown no signs of doing."

Actually, that is happening. Namecheap now accepts bitcoins.
I know that you could some async stuff all the way back with 2.0, but I have never been fortunate enough to be on an enterprise project that uses it. As a result of that and watching questions on StackOverflow I didn't think that such development behavior was common.
Its one thing for neighbors to complain about loud and obnoxious people around them. Its a whole other thing for the police to preemptively break up shows. Some of the house spots that have been shut down in the past 6 months have been operating without complaint from neighbors for years.

Beyond that, the crackdown has been felt the most in the shutting down of art and show spaces in Allston warehouses which are zoned appropriately. Granted, the proprietors of these spots don't bother with permits from the city / following fire code, and often encourage or engage in illegal activity beyond simply hosting loud music, but these venues are definitely NOT disturbing neighbors (the neighbors in this case are generally rehearsal spaces for punk bands and other similar performance spaces).
I think these are good advises about the mindset you need to be a successfull entrepreneur. But I do believe you need even more luck if passion if your main driver. I admit you need to like what you do but if you want to create something big you need to have a business focused approach and constantly analyse/test how technology can transform your product into the best fit for your clients. To stick to this methodology you need more ambition than passion.
Don't worry about it until your thing gets big enough for anyone to care. Then hire a lawyer. See: YouTube, Pinterest.

This is not legal advice.
What's the incentive for my friends to do all this work for me for free? Why would I bother setting up a profile for a friend? It seems like a lot of work for no benefit.

The OkCupid profiles make more sense: you make them so that you look good and you get dates. Work -> reward.
I'm still working on the privacy policy, but until then please check http://www.whereareyou-app.com

I don't track where the app itself is being used. But I have to store the locations of the reactions to share back to the requester. I happened to find out apple's location simply because they were the only ones to use the app (apart from my tests).

But I don't keep any personal data (the app doesn't require mail/registration/identification etc.) hence it is impossible to connect any coordinates in the database with an existing individual.
Why would you ever fold if you always have the best hand?
Single women make more than their male counterpart. Married men make more than their female counterpart. Several reasons for why this might be true including married men are more likely to work overtime while married women are more likely to work parttime. A married man is committed to his job in the same sense that he is committed to his family since he is more likely to play the provider role. He is a dependable presence in a company.
Linux Mint has a Debian Edition. I think it's based off Testing rather than Unstable. That would probably be my default recommendation for newbies.

Personally I'm using Crunchbang, which is minimalist, lightweight, based on Stable, and comes with a nice set of install scripts for web servers and databases and suchlike.

Generally speaking though, if I were moving code between platforms, I would make sure that my staging environment matched whatever the production environment was -- I suspect not Ubuntu.
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What happened - did NetApp waive their patents? Am I missing something? Wasn't the consensus that ZFS is encumbered, and Oracle might or might not defend it, but who knows?
I'm honestly really surprised to hear that anybody thinks there is still stigma attached to online dating. I don't know what it's like for straight people, but online dating definitely has zero stigma for gay folks. I mean, compared to Grindr -- where all criteria for meeting somebody have been reduced to "I don't want to have to walk more than a couple of blocks" -- online dating like OKCupid is staid and respectable.
yes — avoid having a generic email address! it doesn't cost you to have sales@ourdomain.com and techsupport@ourdomain.com so why not filter from day one? and if you want classify the current email into categories and create your top addresses by what people are looking for...
I'll actually help maintain tmuxinator now. :) The project is really awesome but the author doesn't have enough time for it, so he added me to the project a few days ago. I'll go through the pull requests soon.
This is not news, it's source-less "he said she said".
You're missing half of the equation.

> So why did you say yes?

The other question, which is just as important, if not more so, is this: Why were you offered less?
The issue isn't unique to invisible fonts - in all the cases you mentioned the text would be visible to search engines but not users.
Really weird for a dolphin tour business to do a coupon deal... How on earth would somebody become a regular customer of a dolphin tour ?
Very exciting stuff! Looking forward to seeing you guys at DDT.
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It will definitely not solve your problem but will inspire you with humor and sarcasm, besides that it's great helper for a personal brainstorm session.
Emacs-server does the same thing.

C-h f server-start
One isn't a scientist observing one's own life. Being a realist is a good principle, but rationality is not an end unto itself. In the field of human endeavour, mental attitude is a huge factor. You can weigh out different cases in terms of odds, but the actor who dwells upon statistical improbability will have a much smaller chance of success than the one focused on actually achieving the goal despite the odds.
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Yes, but for everyday purchases people do not care about that. Until bitcoin can get to that point, then it's not a useful currency. Especially since it seems like people bitch and moan now about things costing too much in bitcoin because it's currently strong against the USD.
Charity can also be problematic if you're not in the mainstream. Salvation army shelters this decade have turned away gay couples and atheists from homeless shelters.
"Service is temporarily unavailable. Our engineers are working quickly to resolve the issue."
I don't think so. Maybe you misread what I said?

"'only' 3700 hours" probably wasn't the best way to phrase it, but I was trying to establish that it would have been possible to earn $14,000 at low wage jobs in 1990, and it seems like it would have been.
It has a flaw of requiring a person to have friends.
The article was tl;dr for me, but is there a gamification angle?

Like can me and my buds set up a fantasy football league and see how our team scores against other teams (or against women teams??)

Because gamification, social media, that's money in the bank right there.
I fried my friends too :(

With some fava beans.
Hacker News, man. Everybody's on here.
"All other currencies have a bottom floor that they can't fall below"

I suspect holders of the Zimbabwean Dollar would disagree, as would the holders of many other hyperflationary currencies going back many centuries. Such currencies were all legal tender, but it didn't make any difference.
The kerning of the scribd view is really weird in Chrome. And almost as bad in IE.
Nowadays police will apply force regardless, and retroactively claim that you didn't comply. Just look at all these videos of people being brutalized and beaten unconscious by police men shouting at them "stop resisting!"

So what you're basically saying is the price for having any policing is that we have to accept a morally and legally corrupt police force.
Hollywood helped to normalize the idea of online dating with Sleepless in Seattle - if it was good enough for tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, then sure, why not? OP comes off as slightly unhinged and blaming the world for his failure to find love.
ha! no shit. after almost two decades of marriage i laugh my ass off at this online dating stuff. what a farce. it's a perfect metaphor for the shallow cesspool our culture has become...
Really happy to see this. Testing with Titan at the moment and very happy with it so far.