skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And therein lies the age old problem of online dating. Why would a rich, good looking guy need a "hook up" service?

Tom Brady's mistress, or mistresses, are likely to look a lot better than any of the women on Pure.

There is even a joke about it I hear a lot when speaking to online dating startup guys...

"...What do statistics tell us about the rich, good looking guys on an online dating service?

That they are liars..."
New Restangular release with lots of new features, self linking among them
(I assume this is directed at me)

> "What I'm pointing out here is a failure in conveying the purpose of this whole venture, you don't cater to people who are searching for quick hookups talking about long-term relationships"

Sure you do. Particularly if you think that people in long-term relationships who are interested in quick hookups are an under-served market. Maybe you don't think that market is under-served, but frankly it doesn't matter much if you approve of them since you are clearly not in their target audience.

Topical bingo seems like a weird thing to target but hey, am I going to tell patio11 that he's wrong? Of course not.

> "Also if you think you can just shrug off media's accusation of moral corruption and whatnot with a smartass attitude you're very naive and you fail to account to a whole series of fiascos that have sunk many a business before."

There are plenty of people who hate Grindr, and they do just fine. Hell, an even better example: Porn. There are countless people who disapprove loudly. It doesn't matter though, that industry does great. Sure, some countries ban porn, but do you really think that there is any danger that first-world countries will ban a service that facilitates consenting adults having sex?

What is the worse case scenario here? CNN and my mother despise this company, while people like myself use it anyway? Broad societal approval is unnecessary in a free society.
you probably mean a Lisp Machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
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It's copy designed to attract a certain demographic. They want to get away from the idea that it's a bunch of men who can't get laid looking for hookups on the internet, and instead create the idea that it's a bunch of men in loving committed relationships looking for a bit of fun on the side with the full consent of their partners.

Media accusations of moral corruption couldn't be better for a business like that as it will make the demographic they are seeking aware of the site.

About 50% of the populace has had more than one partner at a time, it's not a narrow demo.
You really on the factors that work, as determined by the satisfaction of the female users. If that qualifies to you as "shallow," then so be it.
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How are AWACS defended? Are they too far away for the enemy to engage? Is it possible to stealth a plane that constantly broadcasts radar? Do they have other means of missile/drone defense? I hope that "assume AWACS doesn't get attacked" is not the first assumption in all these war game exercises.
> Certainly no one would build a high-speed, dense train network across, say, Nevada.

I wonder. It's easier to find low cost airfares to Las Vegas than other cities. A conduit to Las Vegas from the populated west coast might be interesting to some.
Fully agree – homoiconicity ends up being almost more of a standard library feature rather than an essential part of the core language. For example, how does the existence of Python's ast module [1] not make Python homoiconic? The main difference, it seems, is how much the language lets you leverage having a representation of code as data to generate code, e.g. with macros. There are projects like macropy [2], but the core Python language doesn't provide macros – although I can't really fathom why at this point since most of the features are there.

[1] http://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html

[2] https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy
> And therein lies the age old problem of online dating. Why would a rich, good looking guy need a "hook up" service?

And yet, online dating sites do okay, don't they?
So your fear that it will "hook you up with a tranny" without your knowledge isn't transphobic? Right, got it.
> ...alcohol is involved in the majority of car accidents.

This didn't sound right to me, so I did some digging and found:

"In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States."

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...

I couldn't find any data on non-fatal car accidents, but my intuition says that it would be a smaller proportion (i.e. alcohol-related accidents are more likely to be fatal).

Can you share your sources?
> "Media accusations of moral corruption couldn't be better for a business like that as it will make the demographic they are seeking aware of the site."

In fact, I dare say that this company will likely be disappointed if they don't get the media huffy.
Sorry, I think you've missed the point here.

a) Why not use something to speed up designing and getting are products out there? You do realise that's the point of tools, and the way they evolve - we build better things that help us work faster and smarter. Otherwise we'd still be satisfied using the first version of Photoshop and coding in Notepad.

b) You're not in a position to say what designers should and shouldn't do.
The Pirate Bay is not a marketplace, nor did its origin had anything to do with Tor or Bitcoin.
Might the motivation simply be to get closer to C++ performance?

I really don't value this type of response where the benchmark is brought into question, yet nothing is substituted as evidence. In the few cases were someone does claim that they rewrote a sufficiently complex system in Node from some other language, it's impossible to discount that the performance changes come from architectural choices rather than language choices.

Playing devils advocate, I've heard the same claim you put forth here about Node.js: it gets much slower in real apps because you have more slow JS code being run vs the very fast C libraries that back the core of Node.js.

To me, benchmarks like the one I posted above are the most compelling form of evidence we have. What I take from it is that a great many "boring" languages and frameworks are really very fast. It's not the answer that most people want to hear of course; it goes against the current popular hype.
Its status as a slur is not determined by the dictionary definition. It's a slur because transgendered people (the target of the term) consider it to be so.
Did Bustle.com's founder ruin his start-up on day 1?
Tinder is one competitor. It uses much less explicitly sexual words/pics in their promotional stuff. That seems to be something that would be more agreeable to women (stereotypically).

But I've heard it described as Grindr for straight people. Seems it's known as a straight-up hookup app.

[une] http://www.gotinder.com/

[deux] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5294253

[trois] http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/jackrivlin/100009761...
Chances are pretty good that the company will make it. Huge market(real estate) and very less competition in this market in India.
As I have said in description, I turned down an offer of 20% more than my current salary for the experience of working at a startup + equity but I know I can easily get a job of upto 70-80% more.
Why would french in Louisiana stick out?
It's named after the former King of France(Louis), was once part of New France, and also where a lot of French Canadians(the Acadians) were deported to when the British took over.
Heh, i'm sipping my

overly roasted (and cheap) Kirkland Columbian Coffee from Costco

right now, it's not bad. But i do appreciate high-end "private label" coffee too. I was talking to somebody this week whose sibling runs a little roaster, and almost got squeezed out of business when world supplies get squeezed by a weak harvest somewhere, and Starbuck and Nestle start buying like crazy. Exciting business!
As mentioned elsewhere, the accelerometers are actually part of the HDDs themselves, so SSD-equipped Macs lack this functionality, sadly.
> Lutusp seems to be complaining about people who feel descriptions are sufficient and make no effort to discern the underlying mechanism. Is there really disagreement on this point?

Yes, among psychologists, who insist that explanations aren't necessary, that it's science even if no one tries to identify a cause for the effect being measured. But this assumption is now under serious challenge, as more and more emphasis is being placed on a search for causes, to the degree that the director of the NIMH recently ruled that the DSM (psychology's "bible") will no longer be accepted as a source for science (it will remain as a diagnostic guide).

The practical meaning of this change is that researchers who apply for funding through the NIMH will need to avoid using the DSM's symptomatic categories as a basis for research -- they instead need to express their proposals in more scientific terms, in terms of causes, not just effects. In other words, explanations, not just descriptions.
Laterally, and profitably, that is a distinction.
You should publish a how-to guide for women. Really. Some best practices to avoid potential stalkers and maintain anonymity. These two issues are my main reasons for not participating in the online dating environment.

I'm afraid of traveling to somebody's place due to potential hidden cams; thank you very much Mr. Tucker Max. I'm afraid of hosting, because if the guy is a creep, now he's a creep with my address, and with a little digging around, my name, which probably leads to my work. Hotels that I would decide to go to ad-hoc are the best option, but as of now I can't spare hundreds of dollars per encounter. Besides do hotels allow registering with a pseudonym?

So as a woman who might be open to the idea, but has the above concerns, there really is no option for me other than a relationship (as in, vetting the guy myself before any fun) and social contacts (people who've been vetted by my friends).
As for upvotes and comments: I think it's because people are still excited about it, but cautious, I think most people are waiting for the big 1.0. That said, 0.6.4 is great, you can use it, it's stable, and it will allow you too express a lot with it.

This release is also a big one, in terms of internals.

0.6.4.1 -> 0.6.5 is a huge jump:

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/compare/release/0.6.4.1-rc3...
This is very cool, but I don't see how it can compete with boards like the BeagleBone Black. The BleagleBone Black is $45 for a 1GHz CPU and 512 MB of memory, yet the access to low-level hardware is just as good.
> and they're on the internet. deal with it.

Can we leave those memes on Reddit please?

> it's just that all the women are banging the same 10-20% of guys.

I don't think this is entirely true because most of the 10-20% men also have standards. They will not have sex with a lot of the less attractive women and those women are therefore not in the market for casual sex in any meaningful way (just like everyone who would like to own a Ferrari is not in the "market" for a Ferrari - pardon the dubious analogy).

Furthermore, as someone else pointed out, what you claim would still only be true within the subset of women looking for casual sex which I am sure is smaller then the subset of men looking for casual sex. You don't see many "pickup artist" books on getting laid with the 10% men.
I can recommend Rosalind http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/

It has bioinformatics problems. They start really easy ("count the bases in a DNA sequence") and get progressively harder.

For each problem you get some sample data to work with. When you think you've figured it out, you can download a dataset to run your algorithm against, then upload the output to see if you are correct. There's a time limit for submission, and although you can keep re-trying, the data sets are different each time.

Check it out! Don't let the bioinformatics part throw you off.
Forgive me for not being hip but why try so hard to put JS in new places? It seems to be just an unfortunate historical accident that JS is one of the most popular languages in the world - does anyone actually like it compared to other modern scripting languages? Could we invest in CoffeeScript instead, at the very least?
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This is precisely what I wanted to work with.
The dictionary is not the arbiter of what individuals consider offensive.
Yeah there is definitely some kind of disconnect there. Those early morning awakenings...thats not 2 or 3 drinks.
That would be item 3
Rarely have I wished so much for a downvote button on top-level posts.
Since Warp seems to use many light-weight(green) threads behind the scenes, and Mio is mainly about improving multithreaded performance on actual multi-core set ups, the answer seems to be yes.

However, it would probably only help if you use -threaded (which you should, anyways).
When all you know how to use is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
There are many terms that minorities consider offensive, in the meantime I'll stick to the dictionary. When transvestites will be authorities in language matters I'll change accordingly.
Yup, exactly. Also, I believe the company is fairly lax in laying people off for poor performance. They may just be doing a little bit of cleaning house.
No problem for me: one beer either puts me to sleep or gives me sinus headache. Don't understand what people like about alcohol.

It's a pretty primitive drug too. Such a simple and small molecule, might just as well sniff glue, it seems to me.

Tobacco is so much fun in comparison. Quit that cold turkey many years ago. Still like it though.
Very disappointing. They should concentrate on DRM free, cross platform bundles. Recently they have too many "Steam only" stuff. Now Origin? No thanks.
Neat stuff. I work near U of T, and I've got an Oculus VR. Want to get together for lunch?

Re: video production values, one simple improvement would be to start with action. Start with a quick clip of you manipulating the image, without any explanation. After you've elicited a "Wow!", then explain.
Nope, but it does animate when you resize your browser window.
They disagreements do go away. When I go back to iOS 6 I feel like I have went back in time 5 years.
Don't use "runhaskell", it's more of a "script mode".

Use: ghc -threaded -O2 main.hs && ./main
Frankly I would fear if it hooked me up with anyone other than a girl, transvestite or less, and I'm positive that would happen sooner rather than later. With these kind of services it's just bound to happen.
Which dictionary? Yours is incomplete; knowing that, do you consult others? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tranny

The word is a slur, and is considered such by many more than just the people it refers to. Though I suppose nobody can make you care.
For anything other than taking phone calls or checking email, yes.
BBC link to the same news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23702264

Cisco earnings report: http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1236468/Cisco-Reports-Four...
Why FUD? DRM always has a risk of spyware. It's in the definition of DRM.
A few things that seem strange:

- Where's the Y Axis on that graph? It could be 10 or 1,000 downloads and I wouldn't know the difference.

- #9 fastest growing based on what index? It'd be impressive to say it's #9 in the App Store under the dating category, but there's only one mention of it being #9 fastest growing. It doesn't elaborate futher.

- If you're going to pilot launch this, don't do it in San Francisco. There's a reason why Tinder was launched in LA and Grouper in NYC. Girls in SF will not use this; I talk to a lot of them because I run a dating startup and they're already very hesitant about meeting complete strangers for drinks. If anything, launch this thing in Las Vegas and be the Uber for prostitution.

- There's nothing here that stands out as compelling as a way to overcome the chicken and egg problem. A wait list is not going to solve that problem for you.
Hmm...

That's not really how the "hook up" site scene works.

It's a lot like swinger parties. 8's are with 8's, and 3's are with 3's.

It's nigh impossible to make a 9 connect with a 3. And this goes both ways. The data testify to this on site after site. So it will be interesting to see if Pure can solve that problem.

Put another way... the top .. say... 10% of men will DEFINITELY not be trying to connect with the bottom 50% of women. Or vice versa. It just hasn't worked that way for any other site. If a "hook up" site could solve that problem... they could make a MINT.

There is a LOT of money in convincing the top 10% of guys to have relations with the bottom 50% of women. As mercenary as that sounds. It's just that no one has figured that out.
Forgotten the unsuccessful Falcon 1 flight 1,2,3? They are available online on youtube
>>I don't disagree, but when I've tried this I just find myself doubly exhausted: once (mentally) from the work, and again (physically) from the gym.

When you walk into the gym you need to stop thinking about work and start focusing on your workout. For me, this comes in the form of planning which exercises I'll be doing, how much weight I lifted the previous time for how many reps, and how much I can increment it. And then during the lifts, I focus on the mind-muscle connection to make sure my form is correct and I'm activating the right muscles.

Trust me, when you do it like this, it's incredibly relaxing from a mental perspective. I actually look at my gym sessions as meditation time.
Question: does the LEAP need to be flat on the table, or could you hang it around your neck to get mobile gesture input in a vertical plane?
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Another option is a middle path:

It will turn out, how it turns out.

Sounds tautological, but it preserves the idea that multiple real world forces determine the outcome, not wishing or feeling. That might save us from paranoia.
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This is the key line (key bits in italics):

>On Sept 28/06, the US DSCA (Defense Security Cooperation Agency) notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Turkey of 30 more F-16C Block 50 aircraft external link, as well as associated equipment and services. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $2.9 billion.

Thus, the money includes any of spares, ground equipment, special tooling, weapons, and training. I can tell you from my experience on the F-22A program that these items can add significant cost to an overall buy, and I would not be surprised if 1/3 or more of that price was the extras rather than the airplanes.
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I'm not sure that not having big sites come out and say that they're using Meteor is a huge detractor. In fact, many corporate products usually don't mention what platforms they're built on. At my previous company, we were using Meteor for a number of critical internal systems, which is where I picked it up from.
Interesting that it misses what I always thought was the most important property of gold in this regard which is that it is (for a pre-technological society at least) completely unadulterable. It's the densest material you can readily obtain, without the ability to smelt platinum (whose melting point issues were mentioned in the article as a disqualifier for functioning as money). That means that I can't make a coin that matches both the size and the weight of a real gold coin out of anything other than gold. If you'd picked iron as the precious metal, I could fake an iron coin by mixing tin and lead together so the alloy's density matches iron's. But to make a fake gold coin without using gold, I need to mix something lighter than it with something heavier - and my options looking for something heavier are either in the platinum group, or are heavy radioisotopes like Uranium. All of which are probably sufficiently rare in a pre-technological society that they're worth more than their weight in gold anyway, so not much use as raw materials in a forgery. Density is destiny...?
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I enjoy JS a lot, and will frequently choose it over Ruby or Python. A functional style plays nicely with a lot of the problems I'm solving, it's nearing ubiquity, and there's lots of big names and smart people working on optimizing it even more.

In my day job, we write mostly Coffee - which is little more than a preprocessor to JS, IMHO. It's definitely nice to have, but I don't consider it an independent language unto itself. If you know JS well, it shouldn't take more than a day to get up to speed with CS.
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I feel sorry for the people who need this.
Well, it's certainly something you've given a lot of thought to and is foremost in your mind.
I think he meant it stuck out as in it was a noticeable difference from the normal population distribution, rather than stuck out as in didn't expect.
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> To continue your thought experiment, another researcher designs a new, double-blind trial of gourds, and discovers that while gourds per se have no effect, the placebo effect is statistically significant.

Without a search for causes, for explanations, even the placebo effect is routinely disregarded. For example, it has been recently discovered that all psychological therapies are equally efficacious. Until now, the assumption was that Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy was superior to others, but that's been disproven. But, even though all therapies produce the same outcome, no one in psychology seems willing to consider the idea that it's all placebo effect.

> In fact, any explanation at this stage would be provisional and highly suspect.

Except the one that Occam's razor suggests, the default assumption under these circumstances: placebo effect. Or, perhaps better, the non-explanation suggested by the null hypothesis -- nothing meaningful has been measured and no conclusions can be drawn, which I think is your point.

> What are we to do, ignore this phenomenon as if it didn't exist?

No, but as scientists, we would do well to avoid drawing any conclusions not supported by rigorous experiment -- including the responsibility to propose and then test a theory about what's been observed.
The people in their target audience are obviously not crippled by such a paranoia.

Do you know what happens when I am set up with somebody that I discover I am not interested in (be it by algorithm or a misguided friend, it makes no difference)? I politely let the person know that I am not interested, we finish our meal and then go separate ways. Like adults.
Add trailing commas and I will use this for my open source projects. I can't tell you how many time I've deleted the last property in a JSON object (such as)

{
"foo": "bar",
"baz': "biz"
}

to

{
"foo": "bar",
}

which is invalid JSON.
Those cookies can be a real pain if you make a typo.
Answering to sibling comment: why would you be afraid? Is a polite chat and not doing anything with person you don't find attractive not an option with this app? Once you're hooked, do you absolutely have to fsck? I don't think so.

You really sound like you are afraid of just being in one room with the "tranny". You're probably not, but I read your comments as implying that, just FYI.
Corn-fed is more often a descriptor of cattle, to contrast with grass-fed beef. DannoHung is extending the "bullshit" image to "corn-fed bullshit".
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Why? Because it uses JavaScript? I'd rather stick with my Arduino and use C. I don't get the whole "JavaScript Everywhere" meme, I'd rather use almost any other modern language (note the almost).