skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've summarized the average guy profile here: http://www.okcupid.com/profile/RegularOKCGuy?disable_mobile=....

Annoyingly enough very similar to my profile! :P

But yeah. I have a good job, I go to the gym and workout, what the heck else am I expected to do? I'm working my ass off to make a positive impact on the world. Fuck if I am going to drop that so I can be a narcissistic asshole, quit my job, and fly around the world discovering myself.

As for the messages I send, I try my best to be original and different, for example,

What does make you laugh? The silliness of life? Those who take themselves too seriously, or those who take themselves not seriously at all? Both are amusing in their own way, though I cannot understand why one would pain themselves by taking life seriously!

Not to say life is without value, life most certainly has value, and helping others is the noblest of callings.

But, well, I own a 5 foot long remote controlled floating dolphin. I gave up on being 100% sane long ago. Technically I am sane, but I do enjoy having fun toying around with things. I also drive a bright orange car!

What about yourself? What is your alarm clock set to? I once set my dad's cell phone ringer to a rooster crowing. He was not pleased, although my mother almost fell out of her chair laughing.

(My current alarm is Violin music, in all honesty, it is not that good at waking me up!)

That message apparently didn't go over very well!

Other messages are sent such as

Hmm, a good cup of coffee may be easy to find, but I have had to teach myself how to make a good cup of tea! I find the ritual itself can be fairly relaxing. (Depends on the culture of the tea of course, some teas are easier to prepare than others!)

Is your work in the heathcare industry on something like replacing old people with robots? Someone should get on that. I know for a fact that the day I turn 60, I want a super strong steel alloy robot body.

Actually I might take that offer a bit sooner than 60, it'd be hard to wait!

Which also apparently didn't go over well either!
Mail.app is near perfect for me - however, Apple REFUSES to fix its IMAP support. If you access your email from more than one device (hey, that's why I'm using IMAP), Mail does not properly query header counts, so folders get out of sync. If you restart Mail, then it does the right thing. I've resigned myself to doing that 10 times a day. Bleah.
I suspect the terms of their funding and human nature have something to do with it.

If the business shuts down everyone (founders and investors) loses.

If they now run it as a lifestyle business the founders win but the investors lose.

If I was an investor in that second case I would be deeply suspicious and possibly angry.
The slow-motion crisis in America’s nuclear force
Big Data Mobile Analytic Trends
OKCupid's demographics skew male nearly 2:1, actually [1].

1: https://www.quantcast.com/okcupid.com#!demo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox

> SlingPlayer is not available for Linux, BSD or other open source systems

Polling the HN hivemind: what are the best alternatives that do support Linux and BSD?
Everyone, this is a pivotal moment. This is when online dating becomes like the trading algorithms of the stock market.

You could even say that the stock exchange is like a dating site but for investors.
I don't know. I've seen real damage done by somebody trying to imitate mercurial and ruthless aspects of Jobs. And let me remind you that Jobs was not afraid of telling direct lies to his partners "... Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's ...". I really really don't know....
Integrate your iOS/OSX project's documentation to Xcode in 2 commands
Man... I kept listening to her go on and I couldn't help but to think "I'm picky, but why am I so lonely." "I don't want to do anything, its everyone else's fault."
C64 yourself - drag and drop commodore 64 style images
so the problem isn't an imbalance of imports (sending foreign currency out) vs exports (bringing foreign currency in)?
After three iPhones (3G, 4 and 4s), my Lumia 928 is the best phone I've ever had.
Used them for years. They are great!
Anyone else remember "Network Solutions Sucks Balls"? (http://networksolutionssucksballs.com ended up being registered by Network Solutions under this method.)

Sadly, no longer the case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96408
In 1951 D.C. scientists set out to listen for the sounds of A-bombs
#2 is really tortured. first he makes the argument that foreign aid works, then narrows it down to "development aid" and then when it comes time to presenting evidence he really pares it down to "health aid".

And addressing the second part of myth #2(aid breeds dependence), is it not possible that the countries that escaped aid are getting better in spite of foreign aid, and not because of it? There are a lot of other things that have happened to those countries in the era in which foreign aid was given, like political shifts, introduction of technology, improvement of trade relations with neighboring countries, no longer being at war with other countries, etc, etc, etc. Seems like a standard correlation/causation fallacy.
If you want to take a look at scaling page rank on commodity clusters with R, you should take a look at the newly released SparkR (http://amplab-extras.github.io/SparkR-pkg/) and possibly just call into GraphX (https://github.com/amplab/graphx).
> I pronounce "cycript" using a "geminate S" or "long S". The result sounds a little like a stereotypical serpent from a cartoon: "sssscript". I doubt anyone else will pronounce it like this, but I have my hopes.

I can relate. Okay, I'll pronounce it that way! :)
I would be glad if I could get 1Gbps Real World Speed from behind a wall. Added with Low Latency, I could finally ditch the Cable and use WiFi instead.

Then I would hope Router could work on their software and not crash every month or so. It would be great if they could restart itself every week during at night when there is Zero activity.

Added with a decent implementation of USB 3.0 / 3.1, so i could use the external USB HDD as an NAS instead or buying a separate unit.
Most of the reason behind this grab-bag list of places Windows Phone has some market share is that Nokia previously dominated sales in most of these places. Nokia used to be "tier zero" of the handset business, in a class by itself, and with a distribution network that reached where nobody else went.

It is a too-easy prediction that these numbers won't hold up as both upper-tier Android OEMs and deep-discount Chinese OEMs invade every remaining corner of the global handset market.
Is this an opportunity for app devs where the app store isn't as crowded so a quality app can really shine?
> C (UNIX), C++, C#.NET, Objective-C (Cocoa-touch), Java (J2EE, Android), Python, PHP, OCaml, JavaScript (Node.js), SQL, HTML/CSS, VBA, Shell scripting, MySQL, MongoDB. And I am currently learning Go!

OK, there's literally no way that you can have meaningful experience with all of those technologies as a third-year student. Can you sit down and implement even FizzBuzz on paper in each of those languages? Don't waste people's time by listing things you've only used once or twice.
This is good news for HTML5 webapps developers. Are there any on HN?
Proposal to remove OpenSSL from Ruby's stdlib
> while the president leads the day-to-day operations.

How would you characterize the COO then?
Yahoo is going full steam ahead with EmberJS
You can watch your Slingbox on the web on Linux, as that wiki page says in the Linux section. There's just no native app.

http://slingplayer.slingbox.com/embedded/slingplayer.php
> 2) The housing projects I have witnessed have not turned into centres for crime. It probably helps that these housing projects are really just clusters of 5-20 individual houses on a common plot, in the middle of some suburb. They're not segregated and concentrated.

This is the biggest problem with American housing projects. They tend to be high density apartments in the cities, with thousands of poor people living together, segregated from everyone else. This is the result of the massive hypocrisy of American suburbanites. The county where my parents live in northern Virginia voted for Obama 60-40, but everyone would flip the fuck out if anyone built public housing in the suburbs near them. To them, public housing means segregating all the poor blacks and hispanics into the inner city so they don't run across them at the local shopping mall.
This Is When Google Should draw the line
Unfortunately that's still the case (Yev here, from Backblaze). Minimum orders are around 10,000 unites, and we're just not there yet. Thinking about starting a consortium though, so if anyone needs hard drives... ;-)
> They are assuming I don't contribute to Open Source in any way (I contribute to private repos that are at the core of several large OS projects but are private for business concerns).

How are those open source? Or are they open source but not open to third party contributions? Or does development not take place on github? Just curious since if the code isn't public I'm curious how it's considered open source.
Eh. Bitcoin won't solve Argentina's foreign-exchange woes anyway. Their fundamental problem is the nation is poor, but the government wants to declare that they're not poor by fiat (printing money, and pretending that the currency hasn't devalued by making it illegal to trade it at a decent price.)

Bitcoin won't make the country prosperous any more than black-market dollars will.
I agree with you, I probably shouldn't have said "on OkCupid". This is far from the root issue, but it's also hard not to fall into uninteresting generalizations, like
"the real issue here is the objectification of women in the western civilization" or "the real issue here is the place of woman in society".

Thinking about it, I can't think of a single animal species where the female is the one seeking out the males.

I couldn't find anything either after a (quick) Google search, so you might be right about that. But it doesn't mean that we are bound to act forever the same, and I think that it's not the case in some (nordic?) countries (although it might be an urban legend, maybe someone can chime in with real world data / observations).
Not that we're aware of no. We doubt it would pass our testing if it wasn't legit.
Playing around with making projects with Arduino + sensors, it's fun because there is so much you can do with the Arduino platform these days. The hardware course in university was a rush through, and I never really had time to experiment on my own with it (the real learning). So now, I get to do it with the Arduino, which makes it SO much easier (and cheaper) than it use to be.
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MacPorts does not use system libraries for good reasons:

"There are several reasons why MacPorts uses its own libraries. It makes ports more consistent across different versions of Mac OS X. For example, if we can rely on openssl 1.0.0 from MacPorts, we don't have to test every port that needs ssl for every available openssl installation. Apple's software tends to break from time to time (e.g. openssl refuses to build with an old zlib, but for awhile Apple shipped the old headers of the vulnerable zlib version). Even if Apple's versions aren't broken, they're rarely up-to-date. Apple has a habit of not updating the libraries in Mac OS X until absolutely necessitated by a security vulnerability." [1]

[1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs
If you build good hardware...you build good hardware.
Looks like some careful editing of Wikipedia pages would clean this up immensely, the various isolates strands of BASIC stood out to me.
I can't comment about this because I'm a white male and therefore cannot relate to anyone who is oppressed, since I've experienced nothing but privilege my whole life. So the only thing I can do is be silent so that the silenced can be heard.
Not saying its the best bandwidth but I'm pretty sure you can get $1/Mbps from Cogent on 1Gbps commits (or you could about 2-3 years ago when I was talking to their sales people). I would expect Amazon and DO's costs to be significantly cheaper.
(Preface: I ended up scrapping my reply and approaching it differently due to "the sense" I'll talk about down below. The coherence of the comment will probably suffer as a result.)

I'm getting the sense that you were introduced to specific schools of thought in college and mistook them to be a lot more pervasive than they actually are. Maybe I can ask you a question in different terms: of your professors, how many of them would you say were male-exclusionary feminists? I'm looking for a ballpark percentage and expecting it to be high.

Because here's the thing: I've never heard of these male-exclusionary feminists. I don't claim to be a feminist (though other people would probably apply the label to me fairly; I don't care), nor am I particularly well-studied in the area (because at the end of the day, I don't actually care about women's rights). So maybe it's just my scholarship that's lacking.

But you're talking about this group as if they were a major and extremely significant subset of feminists. I would like to believe that I'm not so completely ignorant as to have missed these people over the last few years of absorbing feminism, but it's entirely possible. I wouldn't be surprised if they existed, and I would be even less surprised to discover they've found a home in a "feminist-oriented humanities department" because that's exactly the kind of thing that universities do: provide homes for extreme views that don't cross the line into actual crazy.

So basically, can you show me, at all, that the argument you're arguing against isn't made of straw?

I'd be willing to more directly respond to your post, too, but this seems more important.
MIT is Building a Transparent Projection Screen
If there is adequate social work to follow up, I'm betting those ER visits and jail stays are reduced quite a bit. See also: Denmark
We designed our storage pods and software to work in spite of hard drive failures, so paying a $50-$100 premium for a drive just to avoid possibly $5 in labor to replace it when it fails is not a good practice.

We go for the good cheap stuff, and that's how we maintain low prices for our actual product, which is online backup. As long as the drives are reliable-ish, and are inexpensive, that's what counts!
What's your experience with Databases as queues? I was interested in using Queue Classic (Postgres based) because SQL is so nice, plus databases are already quite good at not losing data.
It's really interesting that Haskell, which is often portrayed as merely an academic play-thing, is so prominent. By bringing together so many language features that were otherwise relatively obscure it's acted as a kind of language laboratory — and in doing so it's made a really clear case for a lot of them.
It is, and the underlying problem is that people don't want to bring dollars to Argentina. Why not? Well, because it's illegal to buy pesos with dollars at a fair price; you must accept a really crappy exchange rate or go to the black market. You can see why few would bring dollars to the country under those conditions.

Currency controls like this are the hallmark of a corrupt regime trying their best to pretend there isn't any problem with printing a whole lot of money.
Thanks for sharing. I'm getting tired of my iPhone's problems, so I'll probably be in the market when my contract expires. I'll look into that one.
This is a good place to start on good OpenSSL defaults.

https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/index.html
WTF? Nobody closed or deleted it? Where are all the mods?
There is nothing particularly deep about the OkCupid data set. It is a representation of one slice, one instance, of culture. At most, it shows how a certain subset of people represent themselves to potential dates.

And, on that note, exploiting the game has a strong tradition elsewhere too. Expecting that the data set is not already corrupted beyond recognition by people trying to manipulate their data to get ahead is silly.
Introducing Verizon Cloud
That's a nice site, have come across it before and had a couple laughs.

I too took an interest in this thread because of involvment with a product that shares some similarities (http://www.freeriderhd.com/).

Unfortunately one thing is likely, it won't become the next draw something if it is being tackled as a side project and not full time.

I commend you guys for bootstrapping it but if you aren't in a situation where you have to make money from it that removes a big motivator for success or even failure for that matter and you just end up waiting on or hoping for better days ahead which likely won't come without some hard dedicated work.
The goal of any welfare is to get those that can survive off of it, off of it - through gainful employment and counseling if need be. And for those that, for whatever reason, cannot survive off of it, well.. don't they deserve at the very least respect over squalor, just by being human?
See things like fashion, subcultures, etc.
I think the one thing that nearly everyone can agree on is that all current welfare systems are quite broken. In Australia, welfare comes in the form of money being deposited into your bank account. Many on welfare claim that it isn't enough to live off properly (probably true) and many not on welfare claim that the system is being abused by people who shouldn't be on it, which is also probably true.

I'd like to see a country that experiments with giving people the most basic essentials that they need to get out of welfare. Things like temporary accommodation, basic food, etc. That way there would be no point to abusing it, and no one can claim it isn't sufficient for basic living. I imagine that it would also result in cost savings for the government since they would be buying in bulk rather than distributing cash for those on welfare to spend individually. There's still problems with this approach, but I think it might strike a better balance than current systems.
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in b4 it's too late, perhaps? much kindness, very please, so hug, many thanks.
The text of the ruling does not in any way say that bloggers are journalists, it says that it's irrelevant whether someone is a journalist for purposes of libel.

Note also that earlier courts had rule that Cox was not entitled to protections she claimed under state journalist shield laws. As far as I can tell, this still stands -- what she was doing was not "journalism" within the meaning of those laws.

Maybe they already had the interesting version of the article written before the ruling came down, but there's no way you can twist a case that ruled some particular blogger was not a journalist but "public figure" rules aren't just for journalists into "bloggers are journalists".
The MTBF is typically much higher than regular HDDs, and their reliability is probably at the level described for Hitachi (can't give actual stats though, my experience is limited to hundreds not thousands)

Those drives aren't designed for HDD farms though. They are meant to be used in environments where a failure is a big problem and paying a lot more for a bit more reliability is worth it. Like that 1U server you got in a datacenter with 2 disks in RAID1.

If you have thousands of disks replacing is part of the daily routine, and isn't an issue at all (as numbers suggest in article/comments)
why would anyone in their right mind choose Verizon?
Very cool! What's a good way to reach you, I see your handle doesn't have an about section. My handle is my twitter handle if you would like to ping me and we can chat a bit more!
>I guess that's true if you consider being for legalized sex work the exact same as being against legalized sex work

Why are you being so blatantly dishonest? She is not for legalized sex work, she is for making purchasing sex a crime. That is not legalizing sex work, it is simply not making the prostitutes side criminal.

>"She views prostitution as violence against women and favors laws like those in Sweden, where the sale of sexual services is legal"

And being a customer is a crime. That is not legal. Again, why such incredibly dishonesty?

>If you interpret viewing prostitution as violence the same as viewing sex between consensual adults as violence

Prostitution is sex between consenting adults.

>In what ways do organizations like NOW actively fight against equality

Actively campaigning against laws that would make joint custody the default?

>scream hate at men for daring to want to talk about men's issues?

You've seriously never seen the UofT videos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARHCxAMAO0
With all respect, I got the opposite reading on this than you did. Scientific progress is just that, progress in the scientific world. That says nothing about practical applications per se, merely the increase of the worlds body of knowledge.
I've been having a lot of fun playing around with site scraping. Which probably sounds weird and lame but the challenge of building stuff from metadata has been interesting, and seeing how context behaves between linked sites. Here is an example, which builds a threaded feed from outbound links (still not quite ready for prime time): http://precis.gopagoda.com/url/https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Also i'm cloning HN in Laravel. Most of the basics work but i've got nothing online to show yet. I find it fun because I like imaging how the structure of the site might affect the way people communicate and use it.
Whatever people are doing to get the pesos, they can do directly for bitcoin instead.
I can't see the irony I just pointed out? Are you sure about that?
When we launched EveryDayDream Holiday as a daily email thing, so many people came out of the woodwork and declared "You should make it an App!"

When I asked all of them (yes, anecdotal) how often they used Apps versus how often they checked email, a large majority replied ... "Yes, but people make lots of money out of Apps."

Not that we made money out of email either, of course.
Because as developers, you don't develop for a specific piece of mobile hardware, you develop for an OS.

If Windows Phone is gaining ground in markets you care about, you'd best care about it, regardless of the specific hardware being talked about. We're comparing ecosystems here, not hardware. We can compare "Windows Phone Phones vs iOS phones" if that makes you feel more comfortable.
Their network?
I was in Vietnam last year and it was like being in this bizarro world where Microsoft dominated mobile.
It's funny you should say that because that's exactly what Utah was accused of doing to Las Vegas in order to clean up the streets for the 2002 Olympics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/sports/olympics-the-street...
The image itself: http://bgriffen.scripts.mit.edu/www/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
Drop.js — The most powerful dropdown library yet
It's vastly cheaper to deliver but it also pays vastly lower prices.
Better SLA and support options maybe, also I would guess Verizon's network (at least for the US) is better than most cloud providers. They also seem to offer some interesting encryption options for their storage service.
I have to agree. I was looking into developing a winphone app, figuring there'd be plenty of options, but when you search in the store there's already a decent match for the most part on similar android/iphone apps. I was actually kinda bummed, figuring I'd have easy pickins.
I haven't found a mail client that integrates cleanly with Gmail yet. Mail.app never respects my settings/preferences and is still quite buggy (on OS X 10.9.1). So I'm eager to find a good mail client replacement for it. But in the meantime, I'm still using gmail.com. Fortunately with keyboard shortcuts enabled it's not that bad.
You think that the email spam industry collectively employs more than 500,000 full-time voting adults, rather than a relative handful of humans and tons of bots? It's fine if you do, my hunch is just different.
COOs manage the day-to-day operations.