skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you why I'm beginning to go silent.

Because I'm done with these people bashing these events. Either they're highly-advanced trolls and we're all getting played REALLY HARD or these people are serious; if the latter then as far as I'm concern they're just awful people not much better than the folks at stormfront.org. I think any reasonable person understands it would be a waste of time trying to argue with stormfront.org members... and I'm just about ready to mentally tag these HN comments with the same level of lunacy & bigotry.

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Preemptive: And yes, I know one of you is going to come along and throw the definition of bigotry back in my face. I don't care. I refuse to consider the ridiculous points of view I've been seeing on these gender stories in the same way I refuse to consider stormfront.org. You're all just trolls or really awful people. The end. I'm just super-happy that Ycombinator officially supports & organizes these kind of event to show YC is above your nonsense.
This is a useful clarification.
Not completely true. You can find someone you're interested in and then click on "She cares about" and that will list all her public questions that she cares about, he can then answer those.

My general concern is that manipulating of the data in this way essentially lowers the value of the data in general and thus becomes a cycle resulting in the actual features of the site being no longer useful.
Well, he did it the standard way but was only able to go on 6 first dates in 9 months of trying. By hacking the match % he was able to have more women view him and then message him and go on 55 dates. Article also states that when he messaged a woman it took 3-5 messages to get to where he could set up a date but when the women messaged him first it was as easy as a single reply to begin setting up a date.
A shame to see it go, but I've also noticed a number of a "pre-negotiated" venues for cars...including Cotsco of all places.
My comment was that he makes a statement that says "I can't see poor people, which means they must not be here". I tried to clarify my comment and have an armchair critic in you disputing me, when you could have googled it to prove me wrong. But here you go, http://data.worldbank.org/country/mexico

Poverty as a % of population in mexico has increased from 47% to 52% according to the world bank.
I agree, but it's nice to have something real to filter on to save yourself from having to be in the room with the other person in the first place. I don't know if I'm angry, so much as concerned that tactics like these will spread and further erode the OkCupid data set essentially making it less useful for everybody.
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is that still a thing? Also, how are they supposed to hear about it? And who picks up hitchhikers anymore? I mean, maybe a few people would do it, but I'm skeptical that it would ever be a problem.
Can you provide more info on the brokers? I was not aware this existed!?
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conviction for conspiracy to commit when no actually commission happened is an example (consider the FBI convicting someone of a terrorist plot when all other participants are FBI agents).

Or, frankly, when a punishment for a crime is increased by its intent (e.g. race related or anti-homosexual) -- it's not only the crime that is punished but the thought behind it as well.
I am bringing artists and game deveoplers in a collaboration effort to develop games and apps. There are a couple of games under development. One of them is a sandbox game. We are hoping for investors once we have a demo ready. We are also looking at Kickstarter and a local incubator. But we are determined to ship the games to market.

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The wonderful thing about fakenamegenerator is the email coming with it. While mailinator is often blocked this one is less so.
I unfortunately think the only option for you will be the 13.3" Retina MacBook Pro.
I wrote a Bomberman-like engine in QBasic when I was 13. Many many times since then have I wished I hadn't lost that floppy disk.
"the tragedy of the commons"
- For example people keeping houses they no longer need and people not maintaing the houses they are in.

This is what happens when a persuasive argument with absolutely no empirical evidence (the 'tragedy of the commons') meets a cognitive bias. I admit that old chestnut of an essay from '68 sounds reasonable, but unfortunately there's not a speck of data in it; meaning it's all bafflegab and opinion.
Also, you don't seem to have an especially sound grip on what the 'tragedy of the commons' actually is, at least based on the examples you're providing. Home ownership has nothing do with 'the commons' in any way, shape or form.
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> The 55 dates really isn't too hard to do without the hacking, it's just a question of time.

That I disagree with, 4 years and hundreds upon hundreds of hours sunk into OKC, and I've had maybe 2 dozen dates from it.

Knowing how to optimize the site would be very useful. From pictures (OKC has MyBestFace that helps with that) to profile text. This guy obviously had good pictures (great pictures alone can make a profile, for either male or females), a decent profile, and the ability to write good opening messages.

Without at least 2 out of 3 of those, online dating becomes nearly impossible.
Totally agreed, unfortuantely however this introduces significant constraints in the parent/child/sibling insertion and navigation model.
It seems they consider it just a choice to be made, do you want to succeed or fail. But in a lot of cases due to personally circumstance the odds of success are greatly stacked against you. People from very disadvantaged starting points could succeed by advancing their personal and financial position from their parents and still be poor.
Microscopic Black Holes are cooler than anti-matter if you ask me. We are only centuries of progress away from this: "Are Black Hole Starships Possible", http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803

My question is, how long before we can build an accelerator that deliberately aims at creating black holes, so we can understand the Quantum effects? (In space hopefully).
I'm in a similar boat at the moment. I've just been applying to developer positions that don't require senior and prefacing my cover letters with the fact that I am in fact very new to professional coding.

As for projects I had a few toy ones that I started to learn specific things, but after I felt I understood the objective the motivation kind of died. I'm now working on an app that my girlfriend wanted for her academic work.

Having someone who actually wants the app and can give input makes it a lot easier to keep going towards an actual finished product than when you're building it because you're supposed to build stuff. Bug your non-technical friends for what they would like to exist/be better.
Some comments:

- You don't need the builtin session cache. According to the Nginx documentation, it's more efficient to rely only on shared memory alone.

- You should use a longer session duration. Five minutes is too short. Use at least one hour there.

- For performance reasons, you might want to enable OCSP stapling.

- SSL Labs does not currently penalize Diffie-Hellman parameters of 1024 bits (the Nginx default), but it's something you should generally look to improve. It's easy with the ssl_dhparam directive. (Some libraries, for example Java 6 and 7, does not support DH params over 1024 bits, though. So take that into consideration.)
Would that be cheaper than putting it on a spare server in the rack of servers that power 4chan?
They do, but men don't notice that. Men initiate conversation regardless, or women go home wondering why no one responded to their cues.
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I built a few large scale viral games at zynga, crowdstar, etc. These games eventually exhibited the same strange behavior. They would stop growing - then start a quicker decline into nothingness. We tried every thing: features, advertising spend(s), focus groups, etc.

Once all your users' friends and contacts have been exposed to your game - growth becomes impossible. They either didn't want to try it or tried it (immune / infected). Once you have peaked, people with the least interest begin to leave. The scary issue is that people with moderate interest are effected by this group of early leavers. Then moderately interested users start tapering off. This begins a very quick death circle.
"email considerably fewer."

How so? I'd say that number is actually much higher.
There's something very cognitively tempting about "People are not entirely rational actors, therefore people are entirely irrational actors", but it's not true. The rational actor model is incorrect; this is beyond dispute. However, it is still largely correct, and it remains more correct than many of the naive models that people rush to substitute in. The economists of the past did not use that model because they were stupid; they used it because it is the most accurate tractable approximation that was available to them.

Also, economics is quite radically value-neutral; if you come to enjoy using deodorant, even if you've never heard of it before it was advertised at you, you are still obtaining utility and value from purchasing deodorant. There's no morality in the "value" that is used in economics, no decision about whether a person "really" gets value out of an item or not. It is also a very cognitively tempting idea, that one can declare oneself the arbiter of what is "true value", but if you actually try to use it in the math the model completely fails to match reality. You may feel free to create your own such definition; I unashamedly have one myself, we all do, really. But it's not what economics use, because it doesn't produce useful results.
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"he probably would have done better just simply browsing on the site, and only directly messaging the girls he found interesting in the first place."

He'd already tried that, the article claimed. The problem is that he didn't know what was important to the women he was interested in, and so didn't know what parts of his life to mention in the OKC profile, to attract first dates from women he, as you note, might well have messaged anyway.
CoffeeScript is in an interesting place.
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An enlightening example is to consider people's perceptions of New York City. The popular perception / comedian's perspective I remember of the 2000s was that NYC was also a shithole, where you would be mugged at the drop of a hat and everyone was murdered.

Of course, things were bad for a long time between early 80s and early 90s, but that wasn't the case by the time I moved there in 2003. I lived there for 4 years and never saw anything exciting, despite doing some dumb things. However, I had cousins, living in in New Jersey, who refused to take the subway or bus "'cause bad stuff happens there."

Actual anthropologists must surely have better ways of quantifying this, but it sure seems like negative popular perceptions of places lag at least 10 years behind reality.
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Oh, my take was that he exposed how the data keeps people apart. The number of matches is greatly determined by which questions you answer instead of the actual content of the responses. I suppose I understand why they do it though, since the system would feel useless if you had hundreds of people (in a big city) that were a 99% match. It provides people with a sort of false selectivity.
At least the nerd friend would do it for free... I've seen the GeekSquads (are they still active?)
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Surviving legacy code (2013)
Does anyone know of a resource tracking the remaining todo's left before Node.js 0.12 is released?

Every time I ask what the projected release date for 0.12 is I always get a "When it's ready" response. That's fine, I understand the uncertainty of software development like everyone else. But there really should be a continually updated todo list of line items that when done will mark the release of the next version.

I'm excited about generators and Koa. I just want to get an idea as to whether I'm looking at a month, 6 months or a year before I can use them in a stable environment.
You just need to find less idiotic hiring teams.
The (late) great Sam Kinison gave the solution to world hunger over 20 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA#t=64
cool! have you (or have you considered) open sourcing this?
Hong Kong cages http://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-rich-live-in-mansio...
With Consumer Reports info I got 5% off MSRP.
With CarWoo it was 10% off and a lot less work.
The argument I'm putting forth is that:

'Intrinsic value' meaning 'objective value' is a useless concept because all value is subjective.

What I think people generally mean when they say 'intrinsic value', especially when talking about currencies, is something more like 'having some uses other than to simply trade away again to someone else, or perhaps being backed by something which has intrinsic value'.

Dollars have intrinsic value according to that definition, because they are backed by the fact that there are many people who must give the US government dollars in order to avoid being prosecuted for non-payment of taxes. That's where taxes come in. Without taxes, and perhaps some other things like legal tender laws, dollars would have no 'intrinsic value' according to this definition, just like BTC.

Both USD and BTC could still have value, even if they don't have 'intrinsic value' according to that definition.
"whip shitties in the desert"

As a European, I am unfamiliar with this term, can you explain?
Not much to mine, but they seem to be doing pretty well.

http://www.thingsunder15.com and http://www.myfancysauce.com
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I have experience with hundreds of T of data stores. My opinion is very high of Hitachi 1T and 3T Deskstars. The problem is that they are not generally available - there could be months when you just could not order them.
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You should pitch this app to Conde Nast media. Specially their women magazines. They would love an app like this customized with their branding. Specially if the products advertised on their magazines also display on your app. This will make the magazine more social in a mobile world.
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You mean like a housing project. They were tried in the 50s and 60s and were pretty much a complete failure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_St...
Like others have mentioned, please make sure you're using wdidle to regulate head parking. Also might wanna read this http://forums.freenas.org/threads/western-digital-red-with-t... . Greens are dangerous in a NAS context so make sure you have backups.
>I think you need to shut the hell up.

Dissenters are just so problematic, aren't they?

>Nobody says this. Nobody.
>feminists in the 90s

More like 2009.

http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-sch...

>This wasn't feminism, this is the NYT spreading their usual ignorant filth about the tech industry.

Feministing, Jezebel, and the like seem to have a lot to say on the subject. Hell, so do a lot of HN comments about how "toxic" and "hostile" tech workers are towards women.

Also, anyone can call themselves a feminist. It's not up to you to decide who is or isn't one.

>Are you a woman?

That shouldn't matter. Why do you need to ask about my genitalia in order to decide what to say to me? You should treat me the same way, whether I'm male or female. Address my brain, not my body.

>If not, shut the hell up

So, I'm either allowed to speak or not allowed to speak based exclusively on something I was born with and have no control over.

I guess if I have the "right" genitals, I only have to "shut the hell up" once instead of twice. Either way, it seems you don't want anyone to disagree with you--even if they are a woman, you'd still prefer them to think what you think women should be thinking.

Telling me to just "shut the hell up" isn't exactly a convincing argument. I'm not a kid, and you're not my parent. "Because I told you to" isn't a valid argument for this sort of exchange.
I strongly agree with your underlying point, but I think you're trying to have a semantic argument over sloppy language. The word "journalist" in lay writing (like that of the Atlantic article, and mine as well) is too vague to be picked apart like this. And in fact the appeals court decision gives some credence to the common bloggers' refrain that "we're all journalists now".

Using more precise terms, you might say that the court did not decide that Crystal Cox is a member of the institutional media. If this is your actual assertion then you needn't have bothered, because we can read it for ourselves in the opinion:

We therefore hold that the Gertz negligence requirement for private defamation actions is not limited to cases with institutional media defendants.

If we're not bound by the traditional but increasingly outdated definition of the word "journalist", then I think you and I are saying the same thing. Let me illustrate with another bit of pedantry (on the part of both of us):

> "Actually, she claimed that she can't be held liable because the alleged victims were public figures"

Yes, but that only works if she qualifies for first amendment protections commonly (and now perhaps erroneously) understood to belong to institutional journalists. Which she now does. So what do we call her? A non-institutional journalist? A blogger? Tomato? Tomahto?
Also not the OP, but this is my conf and it got an A+ with no modifications. Redirects http://www and http:// to https://example.com (also strips www from https://www.), supports sdpy where appropriate, and does OCSP stapling.

http://idzr.org/r0v7

Also, my nginx.conf includes

add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains";
I am actually doing something very similar to this with Aether, but it runs on Qt, which offers far superior native platform support, Python in backend, and Angular.js in frontend. If there is any interest, I can extract this workflow from the main app and release it. Aether[0] itself is available here [1] too.

[0] http://www.getaether.net

[1] http://github.com/nehbit/aether-public
Please provide evidence that providing housing incentivizes people to become homeless. Oh - wait - you don't have any.
You - like many other hysterically inclined people, seem to think people like doing nothing all day. You - like many foolish Americans seem to think the 'natural' predisposition of human beings is laziness and sloth.
But what you don't understand is that many people are actually compelled to do things by a sense of belonging, of shared goals and common purpose, and that sitting on one's backside all day doing 'nothing' is not something the vast majority of people want in their lives.
Don't believe me? Then why do people volunteer?
Could this also support the iPad Pro rumour? Perhaps this will also be the stepping stone to touch tablet/laptops if they choose to go that way.
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Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone
4chan was based off Futaba Channel (2chan.net), which was in turn a based off 2channel (2ch.net).

So it's not like there wasn't a precedent.

If you check the footer on 4chan, you'll see it links back to Futaba Channel. I seem to remember Futaba linking back to 2channel as well at some point, but it doesn't look like it does now.
Toxic investment
Replying to self rather than everyone; I meant as a tattoo choice, not as an actual problem to have on your computer.
Rather than crying, try being more persuasive in your arguments. If it ain't working, try a different angle. It will go over better with the people whose opinion you're trying to change - the silent and cautiously indifferent majority. Persuasion is hard, but you sort of signed up for the hardship here, didn't you?

A lot of people on "your side" of the issue are either flat out incoherent or go far too deep into proselytization land to be tolerable. The other side is also somewhat incoherent and often shallow or juvenile. Together the two sides are creating a lot of noise for each other, with hardly any digestible information for the masses.
It's not clear how much those $16k costs for ER visits and jail stays are reduced, if at all. We can't conclude from the information provided if there are any savings at all
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Let's go to the moon!
I'm sure we could agree on how the system is fucked, but where is the alternative? Fact is, people in this thread who are railing against academics holding patents don't seem to get how the system is built in the first place. If they do, they should be proposing alternatives, not just scoring cheap political points against Big Pharma and Big Academia.
I always preferred "ita erat quando hic adveni" as my latinese of choice. ("It was like that when I got here." If I could create a family crest, that would be my motto.)
They're a success in most first world countries. Like health care, the US bungled the handling of it something awful. Still, there have been some successes. NYC's housing programs have been (for the US) relatively competent. This was in large part because they didn't do what another commenter wrote about chicago's system: corral all the poor people into a place with no transit so that the rich didn't have to look at them. NYC sprinkled its housing projects here and there, and it turned out much better (or at least, much less worse) as a result.
I wish Will Satire would explain the etymology of "Why X Matters"
Thanks for all these suggestions. I was able to implement all of them except for oscp stapling due to our version of nginx not supporting it. Once that gets upgraded that can be implemented too.
I think I have over 150 domains with Network Solutions and I stay with them only out of convenience.

But each time I register a new domain name, I swear I am about to sign up for a bunch of crap that I don't need - their registration workflow is fraught with pitfalls and if you simply want to reserve a domain you must navigate a minefield to complete the transaction.

Is there a domain registrar out there that simply focuses on domain registration? If so, I'd love to hear about alternatives...