skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on launching and having a user base. Here are some suggestions for the landing page, where first impressions are key to this kind of service:

1. Get an editor to rework the copy and fix mistakes. There's a lot of phrases that are almost-but-not-quite correct, such as "safe friendly trust" (which is the first thing that people see)...You don't want people's mental spam-alerts to go off at first glance. A lot of the text is also awkward and slows down reading (avoid using the forward-slash...e.g. use "attractive" instead of "cute/handsome"

2. I didn't want to give access to FB to use the site so I don't know how it works other than the landing page...but is the only way to express interest is through calling someone "cute" or "handsome"? Other sites have used "I'm interested" as a way to express...well, interest.

3. Try to replace that stock photo with something unique when you can...and if you have to use a stock photo, don't use one of all white people, unless that's specifically the audience you're catering to.

4. Also, don't describe your users as "boys and girls" unless that's specifically the audience you're catering to.

5. Cut as many adjectives as you can out of the copy, it doesn't engender trust. Also, don't use the word "disciplined"...it doesn't have useful connotations in this context.

edit: After reading the About page, I have a couple more things to add:

6. There are so many reasons why people have negative feelings about traditional dating sites and you can't possibly enumerate all of them...so minimize the amount of telling people those reasons, as you make too many assumptions as is.

7. Related to that: there may be situations in which the phrase "call girls or prostitutes" is applicable, but the promotional copy for your positive online dating website is not one of them -- in any context.
I guess our database reverse index is short thus prone to lose content while the data is still there. Once I give you the key, data flows out easily. It's annoying though.

Another memory graph glitch, a minute ago I couldn't remember the name of the file browser[1] .. for 20 seconds I kept thinking about Thor.. Thor.. then Fubar. This happened to me enough to know that these aren't unrelated answers. Answer was Thunar.[2]

[1] First time I boot this machine since a month, it has no desktop environment per se, I run some graphical programs through bash.

[2] Phonetic hints are the most common of this partial answers, at least in my brain, all of them shares a bit of the final answer.
That's amusing, considering that you made two rather bad errors in the above comment ("If you can't be assed" and "language and written communication is unimportant"). Granted, a Hacker News comment is hardly the same thing as a CV, but I still detect a touch of hypocrisy here. What makes you so sure that your own GitHub READMEs are free of errors? People have a tendency to gloss over their own mistakes.
Looking in from the outside, US culture is substantially less homogenous than Australian culture.

Cultural variety arises from isolation. The US was founded sufficiently long ago that there was time for each region to establish distinct cultural flavours, in no small part contributed by waves of immigration being unevenly spread throughout the country.
He is a she. There's a big picture of her, and she's called Stacey. Or did you not notice as the page doesn't have a pink background and it's about stats?
As expected. :)

Just click the downvote button on my comment. Don't bother to explain anything.

Oh, I know, you disapprove I called you smart. Sorry about that.
It's a city, but not in the UK. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_(disambiguation)
Having lived in both, the U.S. feels larger and also more homogeneous. When I lived in Belgium I was 90 minutes from Amsterdam, London, Paris and Cologne. In Chicago I'm 90 minutes from Milwaukee (if I speed.)

There is a lot of state pride in the U.S. but not many people put their love of their state before the love of their country (except for perhaps Texas.)
Like dating a co-worker, I would never date someone who is a friend of a friend or a relative. This and the fact need a Facebook account makes Tomonotomo useless for me.

Is it just me or does the site design look cheesy?
Those KitKats are not as tasty as they used to be, but the video at the bottom of the page is really awesome.
If we're talking about online lookup, then there's a simple countermeasure: if the system has already seen the same serial number 50 times, or it sees the serial number in Shanghai then fifteen minutes later in Frankfurt, or any number of other heuristics, it'll report that it's a fake. True, this might inconvenience the one legitimate customer who had that original serial number.

Also, you need to make sure that the serial numbers are long and random-looking, so that they are not auto-generated.
maybe you are not aware of it, but there is a nifty little tool in freebsd called ministat that somewhat overlaps with what you did, maybe of interest:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ministat&apropos=0&...
I also imagine it has something to do with how much American culture is exported in the world. As a Belgian, you probably won't be able to go your whole life just watching Belgian movies and TV and reading Belgian books. But it's quite possible and I'd imagine very common to do that as an American.
actually hiring based grammar mistakes is " cultural hiring". I assume they were not hiring immigrants based on the stats presented.
~1.6x the size if you go by area rather than by population.
It does feel a bit... short term.

We all know 4K is next, we know that clearly there'll be something afterwards, it would be good if the next hardware we buy planned for that.

Thunderbolt, BTW, has similar limits: http://superuser.com/questions/441395/what-is-the-maximum-re...
Every MoS compilation I've had is pretty good. It kind of is just a bunch of songs that you can already get, but a lot of their stuff is mixed/remixed (on an individual song basis) and you get the entire album mixes at the end (usually 2-3 different ones) that are quite good.
Unintentional in what sense? As in not a gov't conspiracy? Sure. But cheap, poor quality is by design, unless you think this is the best HP could do.

Now, if only there were some gov't agency that could regulate the emissions standards for electronic devices sold in the US. /sarcasm
Can we just have 3D sound now, with X, Y and Z coordinates to go along with the sound clips, and the speaker system routes the right sound an arbitrary number of speakers? That works amazingly well for FPS games...
Are you sure? I've read that old-Nokia is banned for two years from releasing phones with that brand but Microsoft-Nokia will not release any more smartphones with the Nokia name.

e.g. http://allthingsd.com/20130903/microsoft-deal-could-mean-end...

"But when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft only has the right to use the Nokia name on Windows Phones that are in the market when the deal closes"
This screams of... did you not realize how unimportant you've become?

This game is equally well-played with all the places we like to bomb. Watch it.
4.4mb downloaded for this 1 page, Some bandwidth being used there!
If memorising state capitals worries you, might I recommend Australia as a beginner's challenge? We only have six. Seven, if you count the Northern Territory.
At the big companies, HR doesn't handle the complete hiring process, but a good HR department can do effective pre-screening for the hiring manager. I like the fact that the OP points out that if you provide sufficient criteria to HR, they can effectively screen resumes. (The problem that I've seen - which can be avoided - is that either no criteria are given to HR or the criteria are too tight.)

Why should an engineer spend time pre-screening for typos? And, if the hiring manager is adamant that the candidates must be proficient in language/methodology X, why should an engineer waste time looking at resumes that don't even mention language/methodology X? (Maybe the hiring manager shouldn't be adamant about lanauge/methodology. Maybe judgement should be used. So that's a criterion that should not be passed on HR, in that case. If it is, that's the fault of the hiring manager, not HR.)

Also, a good HR department can keep you from getting into legal trouble with illegal questions/behavior.
Even uncompressed and being extremely generous with the bit depth/rate: 32 ch * 24 bits * 96 kHz = 73 Mbps. That's a drop in the bucket on an 18Gbps connection.

As mentioned, this is probably aimed at theaters. Also consider that you could send four separate 7.1 audio programs simultaneously over the same link, which would let any audio program switching happen at the receiving end instead.

Actually, the Engadget article isn't very specific about "32 audio channels". Possibly they mean 32 separate audio programs instead? Audio is so cheap bandwidth-wise that it's practically free these days.
Indeed I did. Thanks for the feedback none-the-less, I guess my comment did need clarification. This would be really interesting to try out with that ExoBrowser tech - if I ever had the time.
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What if email had never been standardized?
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You should be proud - it's a bigger city than Scotland.
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The Buzzcocks, The Chameleons, James (before they went awful), Inspiral Carpets, The Fall, Crispy Ambulance, and millions* more.

Plus the city itself is upmarket gentrified in the centre parts now. Just avoid the students and you'll be alright.

* ok, maybe tens.
I for one don't have any Nescafé tins at home and refuse to purchase any of their chocolate or breakfast cereals, too. I realise you said "about", and I'm only one person, but I think you overestimate their reach; I know others who adopt the same stance. I'd go so far as to say that Nestlé are up there alongside The Sun (british newspaper) and Sky TV when it comes to 'most boycotted' here in the UK. Only time will tell whether Google has made a minor PR error here (granted, it will only be minor because Google is SO pervasive).
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I realize most of the British city names I know are from soccer teams (except for Arsenal etc). The rest is quite accidental :

- music history (Beatles)
- trips (Canterbury is a regular short visit for french schools)

The interviewees could also cheat. New York : USA, York : England.
Heh, yes, the smiley face there encodes something like of ", although of course I know that in the 'real world' people can't just ignore product requirements that don't make sense, and hopefully people will challenge at the design phase insane requirements like 'client-side validation of all possible e-mail addresses' rather than implementing them."
Anyone know how this compares to displayport? I've always heard (perhaps wrongly) of DP being technically better and patent free, so I wonder why HDMI still gets so much more attention...
Manchester United is the #1 or #2 football/soccer "brand" or club with more international recognition (and football is the most popular sport in the world).

So to explain the results: The Beatles and soccer.
I've watched all eps of TG, but I don't recall them mentioning city names too often.
Probably next DisplayPort version will support them.
as a Brit I totally agree with the notability thing and it's a crying shame - the UK has always been such a key player on the world stage (not always in a positive light, mind you) until WWII. It seems pretty crazy that Germany has since recovered to become the most powerful economy in Europe while Britain has never really found its feet again, given Germany suffered arguably much more crushing losses.
Email is email. Chat is chat. Some of us prefer one to the other. Google is forcing everyone to the same paradigm, the same user experience, whether we want it or not.

As mentioned in another thread, there are enough little annoyances in Google products nowadays that I am actively looking for alternatives.
Trademark infringement -> no money changed hands.
Smells like a huge pile of bullshit to me, but I'm certainly no expert.
Somewhat related, but when I setup two factor authentication I securely saved the initial TOTP tokens (using barcode scanner to extract it) for exactly this sort of situation (well in my case it was that I switched smartphones enough that having it tied to one was nonsensical).
and just for curiosity's sake, benchi.c, bench_mdbi.c, benchi.out, bench_mdbi.out using integer keys instead of strings.
I think you need to carry yourself a bit more like an adult. Whoever posted that comment probably didn't bother to check the gender of the author, and as in many languages, the pronoun people tend to default to is the masculine "he". There isn't anything inherently sexist about that, it's just how the language is.
Absolutely. Find anyone who tests as an introvert but behaves (in some circumstances) as an extrovert and you're looking at someone who's learned empathy as an adult.
Ask HN: How to get max out of an accelerator program?
Hi All,

I have got into one of the prestigious accelerator, resident program.

I have a B2B, SaaS product, with one paying customer, and a buggy MVP. The product is sort of CRM for a niche, with inbound marketing via social promotional features etc.

I am pre-product/market fit stage.

The folks over here are very resourceful, and well connected.

What all should I do, to maximize the returns from the program.

What should be my targets for the next 3 months?

What actionable items should I define to be achieved?

Thanks for your advice.
To be fair, Canada and Mexico are also part of the continent :-) Although you did say continent-wide and the US does span the entire width...
Cambridgeshire? In that case, we're changing it from "Illinois" to "Cook County, IL"!
Yikes, and also probably your computer, and possibly your car. And I was having such a nice morning.

Now I feel like I need to work out how much money I need to give to an effective charity or something to offset the bad that I'm doing when I buy my next phone or computer.
Updated for September. I've added a top 10 list and made a few changes to the methodology. I still need to add smoothing, and will plan to do so for next month's edition.
But open source doesn't imply a certain license. Does it?
Anyone knows if it includes any specs about closed captions? It's a source of frustration at times with the previous spec.
McHenry.
here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938

"However, Google told the BBC that it had come up with the idea and that neither side was paying the other."
If you read jwz's output, it's not that "Mozilla decided to rewrite it", it's more like "bunch of idiots who didn't know what they were doing took over and tried to rewrite things whilst ignoring all the sane advice".
No, didn't miss the point - just didn't agree. Pre 9/11, we didn't have a plethora of "risk" experts telling us what to do. Most people listened to news - good, bad, or indifferent - parsed it for themselves and acted accordingly - not according to what the seldom-heard-from experts said.
The site looks like shit. (I'm judging only by my aesthetic preferences, don't take it personally or with a grain of salt)
Nestle paid for product placement of 'kitkat'.

Nestle have given press releases describing their 'collaboration', and even set up this website. Its inconceivable that Google did not demand payment; Google could have called it something generic like all their previous versions.

Google of course probably approached Nestle. They created a new revenue generating angle on creating an OS.

Debian ought to go get money from other brands through similar version naming.

Seriously, why isn't the next Ubuntu called "Head&Shoulders"?
"no amount of training is going to stop a bus from hitting you"

If the circunstances are just right, your training might enable you to leap a bit further, edging out the incoming bus and averting the accident.

Or maybe the bus almost stops before hitting you, and your coat of muscle makes the difference between almost dying and actually dying.

More likely, when you get really old, you'll be far less vulnerable to tripping and falling.
Recognition memory [1] at work.

Sometimes we also use Cued Recall [2] to retrieve events or information from memory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_memory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_%28memory%29#Cued_recal...
I for one think this is very clever. Most of my dating experience was eased whenever the person was a friend of a friend already.
This whole thing is pointless because it doesn't do anything useful. There is literally no difference between using the website or simply asking your friends if they know anyone you might hit it off with, and in Facebook's case, there are plenty of superfluous "friends" people have who may actually be terrible people. They allege "social pressure" in these cases, but on the whole it's a stupid term that generally doesn't mean anything.

OkCupid is still the pinnacle of online dating and probably will be for a long time, because the whole point of dating is that you actually go out with someone and see if you hit it off. Just because someone is a friend of a friend doesn't mean they're any better or different than Random Person A, and if anything, you're greatly limiting your pool of options. And lastly, if you're having trouble meeting someone and don't live in the sticks, the problem is likely you.

P.S. -- The site name is exceedingly dumb.
I didn't ask anything. The question was rhetorical. I am not going to go to the courts and say "my employer is paying me the wage they are legally allowed to pay me." That's ridiculous. That was the point

My somewhat snarky comment was due being felt as if I was being talked down to.

>Peace, dude!

I'm a woman. Please don't presume the gender of an unknown speaker. It's rude and excluding.
Yeah, maybe they just look up the MD5 hash on http://md5.gromweb.com/ and sent him the result.

I used that site to show my boss his plaintext password to explain why MD5 alone is barely more than security though obscurity when trying to convince him that we needed to salt them as well - he agreed with me on the spot.
There's a light near my apartment that takes about 4 full minutes to change (it's a small-road-onto-big-road intersection), at all hours of the day. However, the walk light changes the light instantly.

I leave for work around 6 each morning, when there's nearly no one else on the roads. Since it's so frustrating to watch an empty road for four minutes, I have actually gotten out of my car, hit the button, and gotten back into my car to accelerate the light change.
Sure you can. It's like any life skill. There might not be a systematic universal way to learn "professionalism", "manners", "etiquette", or "communication skills", but those are certainly taught and learned. Why not empathy, which is absolutely a core part of each of the above?
> I don't know what the author's real motives were

You have reason to doubt "what I actually wanted to find out is how well known my own beloved city is"?
I like the site, just to add a data point.
why the impossible name though?

honest question:
is it that difficult to find a decent-2-word-combination.com?
You think immigrants can't write English correctly?
I suspect not, but I can't find any details on whether this new spec provides for more power than the current standard so that low-power devices (Chromecast) don't need a separate power cord.
No money, maybe. Free cross-product advertising, definitely.

I'm not sure whether the fact that (allegedly) no money changed hands makes this whole thing any better. I've never been a fan of Android or Google because I'm allergic to advertising and that's basically Google's business model, but blatantly signing cross-promotions deals like this so not one but two companies can leverage a new phone OS release to spam the internet with free advertising doesn't make me feel any more positive about Google and Android. But I guess I'm a lost cause for them anyway...
Sounds like a Canary Trap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
> the Wayland graphics server doesn't have the notion of separate "selection" and "clipboard" shared-data.

I was almost warming up to the mess that is Wayland (though I still think "fixing X {server,extensions,whatever}" is a better idea). A decent case had been made that some areas (pixmap handling? already-client-side font stuff?), were in need of replacement.

Getting rid of "selection". though? WHY?! Compared everything else X does, it's not some performance concern. It is not even that complicated of a feature.

This, along with the bizarre "nobody uses X11 remotely" nonsense that is usually said when wayland is discussed is starting to smell like a microsoft-style "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

sigh

Selection-copy was the most important "required feature" for me, next to network transparency. If they are also messing with virtual desktops or few other minor window manager features, I guess I'll be staying with the version of x.org I am currently running. to go alongside my already-very-old windowmanager (E16).
Just the excuse of "I'm just watching this with/for my daughter". Adult males without daughters are a demographic with few ways to avoid admitting "I genuinely like this show".
Any updates on the gaming front and 3d performance? I see nothing which is sad.
I wish you all the best, because online dating can always use improvement. However I warn you that it will be a great challenge to overcome what seems to be the insurmountable and persistent contours of the online dating market: that there are more men than women, and that everyone hits on the attractive people.

Also, your name strikes me as the sort of thing that you will be spelling on the phone forever. Consider changing it or at least buying typo variations.
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Please grow up. It's common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question. I didn't even notice the author until you mentioned anything. If anything, your last comment is quite a bit more inflammatory than accidentally referring to a random blogger as a "he".
ok you avoided "the plural of anecdote is not data" :) (the rant previous days ago)

The study may also simply show a correlation between unprepared/quick applications (resumes/cover letters) and well thought, well prepared more serious ones. I mean, it may simply show how serious the applicant takes the current job offer.
All good points, but #2 stuck out the biggest for me. It's not just the wording, but the fact that the only reason I'd be interested in dating someone is because they're physically attractive.

It makes this look like Facebook Stalking Pro.

Just changing this stance to, "someone you find interesting" or better, "someone you might want to get to know better"-- leave the reason open-ended, because we all have different things we look for in people. As it stands, I'd never use the site because it sounds like your active userbase is full of people I wouldn't want to date.
As a person who is not totally secure with my command of English, I assure you I check for typos twice as hard for my job applications, including agonising over the choice of US or UK spellings when applying to US MNCs while living in a UK spelling locale.
My monthly take home amounts to about £1600. I live in a really nice shared flat on the edge of Zone 1/2 (Shoreditch) which costs £700 inc. utilities. I don't have a monthly pass, I top up my Oyster card with £20 every month or so. I use a combination of walking/biking/bus/tube to get to places.

So that's £880 left. I spend £100/month on my gym and I budget around £20/day for food. And about £30-50/week on drinks. So at worst I'm left with £440 every month as play money.

It's definitely enough for me, but then again my lifestyle is cheap. YMMV
For a .com: yes.
This is all good advice. I can't think of anything more that I'd add. Also, I want more of this on HN when people submit ShowHN posts.