skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People obviously still have a romanticized image of dating sites. Having worked for 2 years at an adult dating/advertisement company, let me wake you people up.
Badoo's billing struck me as ingenious, but still a sham, like 95% of the online dating world.
However, my line of work was in adult-dating so that's a whole different ballgame of faking and scamming.
They hired me for doing "billing" . I was like "ok" yeah I have experience with implementing payment modules and such in e-commerce, been doing that forever...
Like to these people, it was magic. And what they considered "billing" was basically acquisition or conversion through on-page shams and tricks.
It had little to do with connecting API's:

A lot of fine print and cross-selling, up-selling. The same biller allowed to use different descriptors on the creditcard statement to reduce chargebacks....
API's in (adult)dating, like anything else seem to have come back from time in Marty McFly's Delorean.

Still, the majority of dating sites are just a sham. Most of them copies (or.. "white labels" as they like to call them).
Don't you guys know "Twoo.com" ? iz like exactly the same as Badoo..

Actually, on-site scammers - they usually give you a phone number from the Philippines - are great because they provide the only "real" (as in human) interaction with the users.

Still Badoo relies heavily on fake profiles and automated actions. I myself have been implementing such "angel" features in an adult-dating platform.
Morally abject, didn't really like it except I took it on to learn NodeJS and hopefully get something out of the equity deal and use my money for something good.

Badoo (and any other of such) basically pleads with you when you're not a subscriber:
They start mailing you profile visits ("someone is checking you out") or you get random "likes you" from cute 18-19 y old girls.
Intermediately you get spammed with what we call the "special offers". Discount ledgers or "sign up before dd/mm and get x% off" e-mails. Yes you're a real popular guy at Badoo if you don't have any cash.
You will even get some replies on your messages if you don't pay.

Become a subscriber and bamboozle, all the mailings stop, interaction basically dies down.
Now you're such unpopular wow?? such amaze.. how did that happen.
Now that they've made billing convenient for you, you start doing micro payments for popularity.

Alright, enough of this... I put $100 in this site, and not giving me any ROI. I get better ROI at the titty bar.... better unsubscribe...
Oh wow, why did I do that, seems like all the girls are checking me out just now that I stopped billing. wtf???
seriously :P

The only real real dating site I've encountered in this age, is OkCupid! And i'm pretty darn sure that they also juice up their listings (as far as activity goes). although they do not need it as much, and I've actually had some real interactions on OkCupid!

So who's getting laid? It's basically a threesome between the sites, PSP's and Creditcard company's.
They all hang out at some trusted mansion on Cyprus and have sweet phone-sex with their bank in Zurich.
Which is why my comments said "Retard in its noun form" obviously retard has a verb form that means to slow. I used it in engineering a lot.
I find myself gradually coming around to the Snowden side, but it is entirely despite his fans on HN, not because of them.

The concept of a self-releasing trove-in-case-I-die is fascinating to the HN crowd from a technical perspective, but it puts Snowden in a really bad light. Without it he can make a convincing argument that he only took what was necessary to expose bad behavior.
That would involve a much, much, much more complicated simulation than the one Peter Norvig is writing about.
Will these tiny computers herald the arrival of the Internet of Things?
This whole post is a perfect example of the danger of Taleb's work. Someone with no knowledge of finance or statistics has read his books and now feels able to make extremely strong statements about a link between financial theory and financial crises. :(
Yes, we do have some pretty good theories for designing metamaterials. From what I can remember (and quickly look up on the net), one of the leading theories is called transformation optics, and finding a coordinate transform to a coordinate system where the path you want light to take is a straight line. You can work out what your metamaterial has to look like from that coordinate transform.

I probably have some of the details of the technique wrong, I am trying to remember a talk from a year ago. If you want more detail, look at John Pendry's papers (he is probably the leading theorist in metamaterials). http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.pendry
Yes it would, though that kind of modelling is some orders of magnitude outside of the scope of the toy model in the article.
Italian names are not realistic.

Try #1: "Dante Marcelo". Dante is a very strange name for an italian, I guess it is used in the US. Marcelo lacks an "l" (it is Marcello) so it sounds Spanish instead.

Try #2: "Berto Trentino". Trentino is realistic but Berto sounds a lot like an abbreviation of "Alberto", so not a real name even if I guess there are people actually named "Berto".

Try #3: "Pupetta Rizzo". Can't imagine somebody called "Pupetta", it is something you say to small children as "Little Doll" or alike.
I’m genuinely interested: do you have any example of a GIF/LOL website which owns the rights on the published content?
I've used this a bunch of times for my sick raps! Thanks :)
Yes, that is the tradeoff. Submitting to federal justice would be the moral high-ground, and a tactic of classical civil-disobedience. Doing that, however, would effectively silence him; it would be up to others to make arguments on his behalf. Who can say whether that would be more effective than the course he's taken.

At the same time, it's pretty brazen for his critics say that he hasn't sacrificed enough, that if he was sincere about his motivation he would have sacrificed more.
I think this is a great example of both compromise and overreaction. In the end, they are clearly trying to give students the tools they want, but this should have been the first response, not the second. I can't find it now but the other yale student that wrote the chrome extension was the main catalyst. He took the complaints of Yale and removed them therefore forcing them to find new logic, which they did. Hats off to him.
This is way to simple a model for that - it's a very nice toy model, which is useful to get a quick intuition, but you cannot just add pieces to it and hope to get meaningful results.
Fake names, cities, and other in python:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fake-factory/
It's an interesting simulation, but fatally flawed by the assumption that transactions between actors are a zero sum game. It would be more realistic if it modeled the fact that wealth can be created and that actors transact only when the net outcome is more valuable to each of them.
That condo has to come down someday my friend.
This is a fun experiment, but in real life transactions create wealth. If a buyer doesn’t feel that the widget she's been offered at a certain price is worth more than the price then she won't buy it. Similarily, if the seller feels the widget is worth more than the price, he won't sell. Therefore, a transaction means wealth wads created since both parties' wealth has increased after the transaction.

I’m pointing this out because it is quite a common misunderstanding that a certain amount of wealth exists in the world, and that it is a zero sum game, where someone has to loose every time someone wins.
Original post for context: http://haufler.org/2014/01/19/i-hope-i-dont-get-kicked-out-o...
What he has gone through is nothing compared to those who fought for Civil Rights. It is beyond lame to make the comparison on any equal terms.

MLK and those like him stood in the face of sanctioned brutality. They marched straight into the face of known violence. They lived everyday wondering when their time would come or their families would face harm.

Claiming Snowden would be tortured or disappeared is beyond stupid. Nutters, 9/11 conspirators, and UFO kidnappers, fall into this hyper paranoid mindset.

He is a public figure, it would be a black mark on the US government that anything violent would happen to him while in custody. There are most likely an uncountable number of rights groups who will sponsor his legal representation
As I read the letter, first they're going to stop providing faculty evaluations, and then they're going to set up a bureaucracy overseeing student-developer use of university resources. After that, they may or may not reallow the app, but as the letter points out:

> Just this weekend, we learned of a tool that replicates YBB+'s efforts without violating Yale’s appropriate use policy, and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us.

Not a huge victory for the students here. :/
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Hipster CEO - a tech startup sim. 6.5k downloads at $2.99 in the past 3 months.

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"Privacy concerns on the raise. A hobbit accidentally outed by a web service."
Yeah actually, I have.

Unfortunately it let you boot from FAT which doesn't have permissions. But if it was using NTFS you would have non writable system files by default.
Same thing for French : I have not heard of anyone named Brigliador in France, or maybe in some medieval poetry.
That depends, he might be day trading with a bot, that's (largely) passive.
Hi, does this apply to non US citizen residing in the United States? Those one without permanent resident but on visas such as H1B, F1 or J1?
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Share the same sentiment.
For all those speculations, skepticism and criticism, one would have to ask how much is rooted in reality. Without facts, all that is left is an emotional investment in defending the NSA.

Has there been any indication that documents has been stolen/given to Russia or China?

tptacek, you work in security so you know how to analyze probabilities. If we take the assumption that one of those countries managed to gain access to the documents, what the probability that it would still a half year later be kept secret? What is the probability that NSA would not use any concrete facts to denounce Snowden and other would be whistleblower in media? If U.S. informers, spies and facilities was attacked, whats the probability that it could happen without it becoming public?

The idea that Snowden could sell the information brings similar questions. Whats the probability that huge amount of money could be provided to Snowden without NSA being able to track it? If they could track it, whats the probability that they would keep this fact secret?

Anybody who is skeptical of scare theories looks for facts. As we all know, same is true for Software security. When people speculate that NSA can break RSA, we ask for some proof. Thus, when Snowden skeptics speculate, I ask for some proof, or at least what the probabilities are.
Do NOT attempt to breeze thru Accelerando. It's so concept and information dense that you will suffer a brain aneurysm.
Are you sure you are not thinking of the Windows XP that exists in your mind? Because the one I used had permissions and never forced you to log in as admin.

If you had said Windows 98 there would be no argument, but XP had real permissions and real accounts.

I used to set up XP machines with restricted accounts for family members. They could not write to just any path. They would need to call me to install stuff. They still got malware. Hence, the existence and enforcement of file permissions: not the only factor, not by far. (You'd also be naive to think privilege escalation bugs don't exist or haven't existed in OS X as well.)
It looks like they are basically copying Songza's concierge model (which may not be original itself but it's a pretty popular implementation of that idea)..
Here's a link to news report regarding that case: http://www.argentinaindependent.com/life-style/thecity/chica....

Here's also an opinion piece, which gives a little more detail, including a translation of the tagline (namely, "without posing and without permission"): http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/05/21st-century-street-haras...
Someone please make a homebrew keg with this!
It's a pretty old project. I know that it's been used quite successfully plenty of times for social engineering purposes.
I've been using this for testing webapps for years
So that's what you do with an art degree
The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names.

Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.
Can customers be your product manager?
Come on, you spent $5 for an app. For a working app! This is a pretty low price. Actually, it's basically nothing. Of course you can't get support and are not entitled to feature requests at such a low price tag!
I guess you can still like someone as a person while you dislike them as a developer.

It's nice to hear both sides of the story.
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Bought mine on Apptopia. As far as I can see, it's the (only?) most reliable and most solid market place.
Indeed. Tried like 15 times and not a single Hispanic first name didn't make me wiggle.
Me too, and when I do I always blindly copy and paste and end up with very fake looking data... Which doesn't matter to me at all!
Persuasion is not about making you say Yes.
There is already some data that Apple doesn't provide in the app store but that third party sites do collect, namely price history. Being able to see if an app often goes on sale is very useful to the user, but not information that Apple or the developers want to make obvious.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7092642 (62 points, 13 hours ago, 67 comments)
Whenever a brand like Beats lends their name to or builds a service like this with a much hyped press launch I feel like it's almost always doomed. I tried my account this morning and that's probably the end. It's just another streaming radio app, nothing at all new. Their entire value claim is based around the idea that not just an algorithm is picking the music, humans are involved too. That's great, who cares? Humans are already involved for the other radio apps, maybe not special "music experts" but direct plays on Spotify are certainly factored into their radio algorithm. In fact it's more democratized that way. This needed to be magnitudes better than Pandora, Spotify radio and iTunes Radio to get anyone to care once the press goes away, it does not appear that is the case. I will be impressed if anyone is still talking about this in 3 months.
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Snappy game title.
That's the correct number. The complete list of instance types and sizes lives as http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.
Phil, I wrote a response but HN rejected it because it was too long, so I posted it on my blog.

http://blog.ezliu.com/which-problems-to-solve-first-in-real-...

TLDR:

Despite directly opposing headlines and section titles, I don't think we really disagree on much.

Real estate is a big space and there are easy and hard problems. Most of our opposing headlines are a result of us describing different aspects of the game.

Happy to chat any time. Email in profile.
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That would indeed be passive income but OP appears to have bought the coins a year ago and has kept them as a speculative investment. Seeing as the wheel of fortune has landed on Tuesday, OP has made a capital gain! :-)
I'm wondering if anyone here has real experience with node-webkit, I'm looking into it to implement a desktop offline version of my app but I'm not sure if their offline DB layer is capable of handle data in the hundreds of megabytes order.
Apple is also suing the Polish company for its trademark a.pl
My first Android app: Scratchpad https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avabodh.sc...

I made it to learn Android development. It took me total of 5 days: 2 days to learn basic android stuff then next two days to develop this app and on last day creating dev account and publishing on Android store.

After publishing I forgot the password of signing key I used, so I never updated this app except for a description change. Initially there was almost no revenue but it increased over the time as the download count increased. After two year(of publishing), it is giving me around $70/per month through ads (admob).
Yeah, you can actually find many many clever little ideas in Perl 5 and 6. I even find reading the Perl 6 synopsis (http://perlcabal.org/syn/) entertaining.

The problem with Perl, IMO, is that there are too many clever ideas and it takes way too much to fit all of them together (and they never give up and ditch some of the less clever ones like Python people routinely do), which is why Perl6 is moving so slowly.
"we need to review our policies and practices"

Welcome to the 21st century. That single minor incident now escalated into a news item of several days. Lot of lost PR points. All because they feel the need to control the course selection process. Sad.
Interesting to read the comments - don't skip those!
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Is that the size of the root volume?
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Here's the thing though, they can bundle a free trial period (longer than the default on the website) with every pair of Beats they sell, and they will probably get enough adoption to keep going in the long run.

I forget the stats, but Beats headphones have a ridiculous market share...
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Yes, for learning, simple can be better. Years ago as a teen my understanding of the basics of assembly and machine language and how CPUs worked finally "clicked" when I was playing with a very simple software simulation of a 4-bit microprocessor. I think it was called "picoprocessor" or something close to that. While useless as a practical architecture, the concepts I learned in that simplified environment were then easy to apply to real-world systems.
> The problem with Perl, IMO, is that there are too many clever ideas and it takes way too much to fit all of them together (and they never give up and ditch some of the less clever ones like Python people routinely do), which is why Perl6 is moving so slowly.

I have to correct my statement about Perl6: it's not moving slowly, but it takes too much to get there.
"It isn't complicated enough to need a specialist."

Have you ever tried to center a hole to micron precision? Do you know which drill speed vs feed rate to use for the metal you are drilling? Do you know which drill bit to use? Do you know how to sharpen drill bits correctly? Do you know how to secure work to the table? Do you know how to use a sine bar and gauge blocks to mount your work piece at a precise angle? Do you know how to inspect the surface of the work piece to make sure it doesn't have burrs, specs of dirt etc that could throw the work tolerances out? etc etc

It's not he most in depth job, but it's far from unspecialised.
Brazilian names are quite convincing.
Caring about people's racial characteristics is racist.

Not caring about people's racial characteristics is "colorblindness" and also racist.

That really is a catch-22 scenario.
Hmm, in my experience, 85 yo Dutch women are unlikely to drive a Mazda Miata. Although maybe mine examiners are more thrill-seeking than the average 85 yo. Fun!
their tagline/value statement is weaksauce: "A NEW MUSIC SERVICE CURATED BY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE MUSIC IS EMOTION AND LIFE." who gives a shit?
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Hey, I find people being offended by the use of certain words offensive in and of itself. You should reconsider your reaction, so as to prevent me from being offended.

I'd appreciate it if you'd edit your comment to reflect this.
> OK buddy, you got me. Go wear cameras into prohibited areas on private property, specially those where federal law comes into play.

I do things like this all the time and never have an issue. Granted, I've never done this with Google Glass as I haven't gotten one. But your scenario is carried out every day across the country without issue.

Oh, and please, share the federal law that prohibits carrying a camera into a theater? Oh wait, we covered that already. It doesn't exist. And, unlike some dystopian future you might imagine we live in, being able to commit a crime doesn't mean we've actually committed one.
"No, what you really need is an understanding of wireless power transmission and non-ionizing radiation."

Like you do?

Do you understand non ionizing radiation?

Some people are so ignorant, that they don't even know what they don't know.

I can kill a rat with non ionizing radiation. I could introduce it on a microwave or put it under a laser, or in the oven(IR).

With enough energy density, I could create devastating effects on any living organism. Nature protects against natural sources of radiation, like the light of the sun, but does not protects about artificial ones, it is very simple to blind someone with a IR laser she does not see.

You can use non ionizing radiation to make resonate the electric nervous systems like the US army is testing, with enough energy it kills you(we need electric operated muscles like the heart and lungs to operate to live), and lots of other funny things.
Another adjective springs to mind, also beginning with "P-A"...
If I recall correctly, Apple didn't really take off until they released a Windows compatible iPod. That singular decision to leap out of the Apple-only ecosystem is what set the stage for the iPhone and the iPad and all other success thereafter. I wonder what world we would be in if Apple had continued to insist on people switching to OSX hardware before enjoying the benefits of the iPod. I suspect that most of the huge market for Windows users would have turned to the Zune, which the few people who actually own them seemed to like. Image a world where the Zune had won the music player wars.
A more effective place to put the notice would be to standard output when you're compiling for AMD.
The whole push to wireless charging feels like a bad idea. We already are deeply in need of reductions in total global power use or at least efficiency improvements, and wireless charging wastes a huge amount of power. Unless they can figure out how to bring the efficiency in line with direct contact we're better off with clever direct contact without a plug schemes.
I am from Switzerland as well and to do such a thing would be illegal and I haven't heard of people doing it...
I like the post at the bottom, http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com/post/73631082205/m... , which starts with:

"""
The problem with arbitrary metrics in complex situations — they tend to backfire. Give emergency services drivers rigid response time metrics, and they’ll tend to stay close in to urban centers. Surprise!

Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should another “paired” metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric. Many companies and especially governments violate this principle continuously, and are startled by the result — every time.
"""

This last bit - Grove's paired metrics - does not seem nearly as widely known as it probably should be.
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This, I had the same issue, except they paid well. I ended up leaving for a job that would actually use my skills with more pay