skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Secretary problem is quite related to marriage...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

Michael Trick, a well known Operations Research professor at CMU, wrote about applying it to his own life

http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392

[Edit:] He assumed we wanted to be married to the best possible spouse by the age of 40. The optimal strategy, given his assumptions, is to date until age 26, and then marry the first person who is the best seen so far. You'll marry the best possible person 1/e fraction of the time.
Lets raise the gas prices to EU levels and see what happens.
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Interesting to hear you say that. My views on feminism changed* after reading a piece titled "Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful" [1]. It's a bit wordy, so I'll condense it as much as I can in the context of your reply.

> My wife is a corporate lawyer and gets a lot of flak for working long hours, especially from family. Nobody ever gives me flak for working long hours. Painting in broad brush strokes, men tend to find that when they get married, society reinforces their career ambitions. Women tend to find that when they get married, society chips away at their career ambitions. Other women, particularly other moms, are the worst about it.

The aforementioned author argues, more or less cogently, that popular feminism seems to have been all about erasing this imbalance by grading successful women by the same rubric as successful men. But this is the wrong idea, and it seems to establish this extremely misguided notion that the men had it right all along: fulfillment and happiness are only accomplished by working long hours for worse pay under terrible management. The men, the popular feminists seem to be arguing, really understood what life was about the whole time and only through truly egalitarian "feminism by the numbers", where men and women work the same number of hours and for the same salaries and in the same proportions in every industry can women be happy.

But, that author argues, is that it's a ruse. There's no reason to assume the men had it right, that being willing to sell your soul for the corporate machine is envious or desirable or worthwhile.

> "Other women ... are the worst about it."

Why is that bad? Why is it that women are the worst when espousing the idea that life isn't about career ambition? It's worth thinking about. Why is the unfair social pressure that your wife is urged to spend more time with her family, and not that you're urged to spend more time at work?

Maybe, the author argues, society and popular feminism is profoundly mistaken. Perhaps the real thing we should all be fighting for is a society in which people aren't asked to work long hours ever again. Where the balance between the home and the workplace is more equitable such that we don't have to make necessarily gender-biasing decisions like having to decide which family member will work longer and which one will stay home longer.

[1]: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_because...

* - SLOW DOWN THERE. I'm a feminist.
Seriously? Fuck statistics?
What was the last Apple model to include schematics in the documentation? The Apple //e?
I propose not distinguishing the "winners" and "losers" by sex to understand who has the upper hand, but by those who act on what they want and those who don't.

I suspect the people who end up not getting what they want tend to be the ones who don't put in the effort, especially taking the emotional risks in attracting others, initiating relationships, and making the relationships work the way they want.

Many men and many women put in this effort. Many men and many women also don't put in this effort. I suspect the former group has much more success than the latter group in the long run whether male or female, though I suspect they face a lot more rejection and emotional pain in the short run. I suspect the latter group faces less short-term pain and rejection, but is lucky to get what they want from relationships if they ever do.

The emotional challenges of making yourself vulnerable are harder for most than pursuing a career or hobbies so many men and women go the emotionally easier route of working hard at their jobs. In my experience, along with overcoming those challenges comes tremendous emotional growth.

(Btw, I disagree with the zero-sum mentality of winners and losers because people can have more than one deep, meaningful relationship and relationship come in many forms, but adopted it for consistency with the article).
Looking for team members to hack along with ... my email is in profile
That actually seems like a reasonable difference considering that outside of cities biking is only a hobby (and sometimes quite a dangerous one depending on infrastructure). And in America many commuters drive for over 20 minutes.
Wasn't that Alan Gore who started this drama with CO2 emissions so his company makes big $$$ trading CO2 "packages" or however they're called while he is enjoying a few of his mansion houses while telling the rest of us to cut on electricity and ride on bikes?

Dear Westerners suffering from Stockholm Syndrome: Stalin called people like you "useful idiots".
They are honorable people, who likely wouldn't fold to blackmail, if they thought that they were being blackmailed into doing something bad for the US. I respect them that much, at least.

I'm curious to know your age. I used to feel as you do, but as people get older they tend to get more cynical. In particular, the idea that Americans are intrinsically honorable died an abrupt death in my mind after studying some of our history. Blackmail is one of the most basic tools in politics, and it's just that: a tool. Framing an effective tool as evil is beside the point, because an effective tool is always going to end up being used. And indeed we see that it's been used astonishingly often since WWII (and certainly before that as well). The most obvious example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover but there are many more.

For what it's worth, the founding fathers probably wouldn't want you to assume our government are honorable people who wouldn't fold to blackmail. They would encourage you to assume the worst, and then be pleasantly surprised if your expectations were proven wrong. Thus far, the evidence has been pretty grim.

Snowden seems to share your ideals and belief system (e.g. belief in honor for honor's sake and "people will do what's right, not merely what's lucrative") yet he was so offended by what he ultimately discovered at the NSA that he fled the country and left his life behind in order to expose it. In other words, he did what he thought was best for his country based on his ideas of what is best, and his ideals seem to be pretty close to yours.
It's impressive if it is good for the customers, but the comparison with Apple is uninformative linkbait.
Gamma Rabbit here. I'm doing pretty well actually. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/02/04/my-thank-you-gift-to-e...
Lawyers are on the higher end of status things. In line with commerce peeps and engineers.

If I was to make a ball-park guess, fewer people sue each other here, so there are fewer lawyers and the career path stays prestigious.
A big part of their problem is that they are not just competing against women their age: Men happily date younger women, and younger women happily date older men more successful, experienced etc. than the men their own age.

I'm 38. I get more attention from early 20's women now than ever before.
Similarly, it's unsurprising how much vitriol and poor behavior/misogyny these folks exhibit in their 30s.

Consider the number of guys who go through their twenties and don't have any luck--perhaps even having good female friends who are close but never take that additional step into a proper relationship because there are hotter guys around.

Now, go through a decade of this, and suddenly you "get your shit together", and now things are easier (really, perhaps, the girls are just better adjusted in their expectations), and how are you to treat these people?

People who looked on for a decade while you suffered? Why not treat them like pieces of meat--that's how you were treated, after all.

And if you do treat them decently and settle down, you basically know that you are likely missing out on a whole chunk of life experience.

It's a horrible and toxic cycle.

It seems like we get to keep having this as a societal norm, or we get to complain about manchildren and not settling down--we do not get to do both.

EDIT: This is clearly not the case for everyone; there are many, many different life experiences out there. That said, for a certain set, I would wager this is fairly close to what they'll/they've gone through.
Arn't dating websites make money from Users who are single ? If the dating service is just too effective, won't they be reducing their customer base? Where else will you find women in her 30s paying $90 per month for years for a hope to get married vs. someone who pays just for one month and gets married.
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One thing that also tips this figure is the fact that bikes can be used by any age group, cars cant. How many thousands or millions of bikes for kids are sold every year?
Thanks! I built this as I was doing competitive analysis for my other project, www.cameralends.com. I have a few ideas for where to take this:

- take a timelapse of your site, one screenshot per day

- create a report of 10-20 webpage screenshots (one time for competitive analysis, scheduled & emailed for visual QA)

- options to use different browsers

Because I'm using SauceLabs and S3, I have hosting costs, so I am definitely interested in some sort of paid premium version. What would you pay for?
Seems like an odd invention given the industry is moving to storage technologies with sub-microsecond latencies, which is at least an order of magnitude better than 10ge is usually capable of. Still at least 'object store' style operations are much richer, so the need is avoided to make many round trips to the disk to resolve the location of a database record.

Hmm, which raises the question: how much RAM should a hard disk have? In a regular architecture, that database lookup could be meaningfully cached (and you could design and provision exactly to ensure your entire set is cached). Opaque K/V "disk" seems less appealing from this angle
Indeed, the raw materials such as spent casing and powder are easily acquired. It's a lot cheaper too.
From the age of 18 onward, I selected on a quirky combination of intelligence plus subjective cuteness. I did not consider financial stability but I wouldn't have been emasculated by it either. I was by no means an alpha, but I was a straight A student and that did help with attracting the smarter ones (which the alphas, frat boys and jocks mostly ignored anyway).

That said, this was a really bad algorithm. My divorce sucked.

Since then, I've selected on a maxmin of a quirky combination of intelligence plus subjective cuteness combined with financial stability. So far, so good. I had to rule out several otherwise promising contenders on the way using the second criterion though.

I would not consider marrying the receptionist, no matter how hot, unless I noticed that she was reading O'Reilly books and/or managing her multiple rental properties between visitors to the front desk. You do not want to marry a boat anchor and make beautiful concrete galoshes with her.

Finally, while looks are a mediocre measure of long-term compatibility when one is young, as one approaches and passes 40, one's looks become less a matter of genetics and more a matter of the consequences of conscious choices along the way and so I got pickier on that axis as my pool of potential partners aged.

Women who are selecting for financial stability early on are way ahead of you if you truly consider a financially competent woman emasculating. Get over it.
Great post and great advice. Being selective about candidates is a fine line, though--everyone falls short on some index of ability. Good hiring is about finding people who are good on most indices and then cultivating the others.
That's pretty clever - I'd never noticed, despite having been in the guts of a number of machines over the years.
BBC Panorama explained why this is the case in a recent investigation.

The basic problem comes down to money. Imagine you have a really good dating site and everyone finds their perfect partner within a matter of a few emails and dates. Thereafter they no longer need the services of the dating website.

Hence to make money from a dating website you need people to not find dates, find partners or marry. Because as soon as that happens they stop paying their subscription fees. Keep them suckered for as long as possible, as in years, offering glimpses of false hope.

Personally I don't see why it has to be this way. If I was a benevolent dictator I would make sure there was a free dating website, make it mandatory for single people to be on there and force the cruft dating websites out of business. Ultimately dating is good for the wider economy, a hopeful date is a no expense spared event for those with expense to spare. Our politicians are forever pandering to families and family values as if they are the only people that need to be looked out for.
ATAoE was- to my knowledge- never integrated into a drive controller.
Marissa Mayer, or her virtually uncredited ghost writer?
well the land used has something to do with it. They used special road funds around here to resurface and fix roadways. One of the requirements were to install bike paths.

Small problem, the hills are many, varied, and of enough incline and length, to make them a challenge even to seasoned riders. So its rare to see them there. If anything I am more bound to find them on the 45mph roads as those tend to be flatter. Some of them do have bike lanes.

Now we have change the purpose of some parks to be more family friendly and bike friendly, these are normally connected to purpose built bike and walking trails; the Silver Comet is one.

So I think geography does influence it a bit. Even if I were within a few miles of where I needed to go the land just isn't all that much fun to zip about, unless on a motorcycle then those curves and hills are most fun.
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I mostly agree with you, but I think you missed one step. The 5-7 women wont just immediately start dating their own "tier". They will swarm the 7-men. Those were the once we read about in the article: Men who used to be ignored, but now gets attention from loads of women. Eventuelly it will balance out, but not before the "slightly more attrative than average" men take advantage of the situation.
Good typography is often invisible. I clearly feel far more elegance with the original typefaces:) Its a subtle thing, something that cannot be quantified. Ofcource, content is the king, but in a world where everyone can create good content, how well will you present your content will be key.
It means "rich".
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This past summer I biked about 10 kilometers a day over 45 days. This is around 450 kilometers and I know I biked even more, but did not count how much after those first 45 days as biking was not daily routine anymore. Last Friday I put my bike into storage as it is so damn cold here in Finland already. Next summer I will probably try to get 1,000 kilometers.
I'm in Edmonton, which sounds pretty similar to your climate. Except for those few -40 days I've found winter biking to be fairly comfortable once you get moving.

In my experience you don't want to be using a bike lane after heavy snow anyhow; they often don't get plowed. If you can take residential roads you're pretty safe (and studded tires really do make a HUGE difference).

But yeah, you don't want to be on the road with cars going 80km/h - I wouldn't be comfortable doing that every day in the summer, either.
I am confused by this. Are you talking about being attacked as in being mugged or something? As in biking/walking being unsafe because of crime? Or do people in your hometown attack bikers and pedestrians because they're biking/walking? If it's the second one I'd be interested to hear more about it because that's fascinating.
That link errors out for me. That said, I've never seen time constraints actually enforced in any real way at a hackathon, and I suspect there's a good amount of cheating at events with decent-sized rewards. Multiply that a thousand-fold for a hackathon offering $1m.
Writers don't compose on a tablet. No one who does any significant amount of writing does so on a tablet. They use keyboards. A word processor is a tool for writing. It should optimize for the input devices used by writers.
If the site goes down due to being linked on HN, what happens to your bugs? is there a queue for if the platform is down during a submission?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpYWQRpxzQs

i would recommend watching this video if you want a different, non-mainstream perspective on the philosophy of the sexual, marriage, and 'dating' marketplaces.

you don't have to agree with it, but it's worth a watch. especially if you are having trouble 'understanding' women. women are actually very simple biological creatures, like men. they just operate under a different set of constraints which are generally invisible to men.

in my opinion he is able to see and convey things from the perspective of women, which is valuable insight for an audience of men.
> "Professional women often still carry with them some of this 1960's mentality and refuse to "date down." As the demographics change and women being overrepresented among the college-educated, this puts them at the wrong end of a supply/demand imbalance."

While I agree, I would say that this mentality predates the 1960s in many ways. A woman's status has always been more strongly evaluated based on who she married than a man's. A man is often judged first by what he does, and secondly by his spouse, family, background, etc. A woman will usually be judged first by her relationships, especially her closest ones.

The reason the term "alpha female" isn't in the popular lexicon the same way as "alpha male" is probably because men will judge a woman based more on her attractiveness than on her place in some social hierarchy.

I'd be interested to know if these tendencies held more strongly for cultures where monogamy was not the nominal relationship form. They seem to me to be an evolutionary vestige in a lot of ways.
> erasing this imbalance by grading successful women by the same rubric as successful men. But this is the wrong idea, and it seems to establish this extremely misguided notion that the men had it right all along

Some people want career success. Some people want to take care of a family. There are both genders in each group, but society only supports one gender in each. A feminist point is people of both genders should be supported in whichever endeavor fulfills them.

ps You are not a feminist.
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I got interested in this and found the index to his ramblings on the internet archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130120215549/http://www2.hawaii...

I wouldn't say I am learning exactly, but it's interesting to read from his point of view. Thought I'd post the link.
That's correct and by far the most accurate explanation for understanding this riddle.

See also:
http://therationalmale.com
http://mgtowforums.com
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I've never used one, so why exactly do these websites suck? (and is this any different from dating in general sucking?)
> All the crap women put us through

How can you expect women to select without testing us?
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OK, smiling is a behavior that is typically evocative of happiness, and it turns out that smiling actually induces a small level of happiness even if you weren't happy before. I follow you so far.

Therefore, you can... act self-empowered, which can make you feel self-empowered, even if you're not actually self-empowered? You're starting to lose me here. How are these ideas related at all?

edit: I see; you mean that if people BELIEVE that acting as though they are successful will help them become successful, then it actually might help them become successful as their expectations influence their actions. Fake it 'till you make it.
> my point being is that if two countries don't collect and categorize the data the same way then any type of comparison is pointless.

That's a very good point. I was being lazy and just going by a single line in a wikipedia article, so maybe I'm totally wrong.

We seem to be doing better with gang gun violence. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-winning-ba...

Police are not routinely armed, so officer involved shootings are rare. Although we've had some really awful examples - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_...
SD cards implement a linear map of blocks. We typically introduce a hierarchical key-value store on top of that- a filing system where we file values by certain keys.

What is your ask? Get rid of hierarchy and use only a single flat directory on the SD card? Plan9 was close to the kind of vision you describe- configuration and state for applications lived live in the file system.
This is happening more and more nowadays, but a man in that position still has to defend himself against accusations of being a “girly man” and so forth.

Another way to put it - will a man be seen as (a) more or (b) less desirable to most women if he makes the following statement: “I’d like to marry a successful career woman, and when we have kids, I’d like to stay home and be the primary caretaker for the kids”?
Let me guess: you also think global warming is a hoax, evolution is fake, and vaccines are a scam.
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I've met lots and lots of this. During my dating years, I went on a single date with a hairdresser whose ex-husband was one of the founders of Cisco. Dumped her and levelled up right before he made his money. It's not at all uncommon. I've even seen it happen at one ex-employer.
if there is potential for a couple to end up happily together but they don't , because of either one's later-regretted choices, can you call either one of them a winner?
Man, they really, really, really, really, really, really want to chat with me. And I'm not even a hot single in my area!
For some weird reason (having dealt with newsletter projects), manipulating the html through the IMAP services was the first thing i could think of.

But i wouldn't do that, because this way, you can intercept all messages that people are mailing and it would harm your business image (at least, in my eyes).
+1 on Durandal. We're using it to build the new RavenDB HTML5 Studio: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/ravendb/tree/Raven.Studio.Ht...
Please remember that for a serious recreational cyclist, the correct answer to "how many bikes should I own" is:

$num_bikes_owned++

From my experience in the local road racing scene, a majority of the 200 or so cyclists that participate in the weekly training racing have at least four different bikes. I suspect that the percentage that only owns one bike is very, very small.
+1 mherradora - I got the first version right after twitter changed the API >_< and busted one of the examples in chapter 1. Not anymore with Mining the Social Web 2e :). Bonus style points for Vagrant so that the author doesn't have to host (i.e. pay for) a VM and the massive bandwidth.