skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent about one year on OkC @ approx 40minutes/day on the site, and got about 20 first dates, 10 second dates, 2 third dates, and 2 fourth dates. They were almost all 85+% matches, and weren't that hard to find. However, I would say that my manual filtering probably took way less time than he spent implementing his models.

He probably learned more engineering and advanced math while I learned how to read subtle messages of profiles, project the right ones of my own and know what's worth talking about ahead of time by having conversation online first.

He probably got the satisfaction of 'hacking' the system, while I had more efficient expenditure of money (dates can get expensive on average for guys when you decide to at least offer to pay).

None of my OkC prospects looked like they would work out long-term, though I'm still good online friends with over half of them. I flippantly shut down my account 3 months before I would have to leave the country, because even if I met someone I didn't want to be in a long-distance relationship, so I decided to save myself the trouble.

And then met a girl the very next day (not kidding) that I really hit it off with when I wasn't looking, and we're planning to go traveling in Asia next month (it's been 7 months).

I'm a diehard hacker and nerd and all, but when things like this happen, it's hard to not wonder if the traditionalists do have a point when saying you can't figure these things out with numbers. At least not when people are gaming their numbers :)

The math is super-fascinating though, and I hope OkC team does some research into it and integrates some of the ideas: obviously they wouldn't want to support uber-profile optimization for multiple groups, but maybe help find the right groups, etc.

I do think his biggest win as a male on OkC was being able to generate all the inbound traffic he would want with no invested marketing on his part (besides writing his scripts). That's something even the most skilled male OkC connoisseurs find difficult to do.

Edited: to add last thought.
> That section is nonsense.

Go ahead and edit it then :)
Can't you sue them ?
Because of the content ID system.

Welcome to youtube
Plenty of average and unattractive people are in happy relationships. That "rule" is just something that uninteresting people tell themselves to try to avoid taking responsibility for their situation.
It wouldn't be useful anymore, that was 3-4 years ago. At the time besides having AMD issues we had floating point optimization issues which messed up our physics. I doubt it's an issue today.
Implemented in Bitmessage, with free anonymity on the side.
http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/static-service-agreeme...

Their service agreement reads that they have the right to "change part of the Services provided under this Agreement at any time" in section 12. No doubt they're hoping that they'll be able to defend the charge based largely on this.

But there's nothing to support the idea that the "Weblock Program" is a modification of the contracted services (domain registration) instead of a separate program. A couple glaringly obvious problems:

First, the original email stated that the customer "will be protected via our WebLock Program," implying a distinction from the original services. Then there's the subject line, "Your domain is being enrolled in the WebLock Security Program," which is a fairly explicit assertion of the same.

Second, you have the addition of Schedule II to the Service Agreement clearly stating that it's a separate service and not simply a change to the existing ones offered.

In short, they don't really have any magical fine print to even point to (and that's before you start interpreting and responding to them) that can justify this new charge.

But even if they somehow prevailed on the merits of any potential contractual claims, they're still going to get chewed up by their card processor as there isn't a merchant agreement in the world that can justify this behavior.
There is value in the network of people already using bitcoin, as well as the six years of existence backing up the fact that it works.
Even extremely strong vacuums contain large amounts of atoms, and there are the walls of the vacuum chamber, of course. When an anti-hydrogen atom collides with any normal atom an electron will annihilate with the anti-hydrogen's positron leaving behind a negatively charged anti-proton which will fairly rapidly collide with a positively charged proton in a nucleus.
Here's a teaser trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izOJ7zX5I0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937823

I've just stopped caring what people think anymore. It's become a 'the blind leading the blind' sort of thing.
For deigning to be poor, of course.
Buy a Slingbox, you don't need to wait. You can stream live TV to all your devices today. The one I bought in 2005 is currently sitting in my father's house, so that he can watch his home TV from the back office of his store when there are no customers.
Hasn't linode had multiple hacks, including one recently?

I'd stay away from them
I'm very curious as to how the data science specialization compares with Udacity's data science courses. Any input from those with experience in the field would be most appreciated.

Edit: Wow, the last section of the Cybersecurity course, hardware security, sounds fun!
Why Does a Good Kettle Cost $90?
Since we all agree that Jobs was a great businessman, my guess is he would have found another way to realize his talent.
I'm very happy about the AES-NI support. Thank you for the hard work!
MITx Working Papers
yes. gist is ok but not anonymous.
The historical reasons for Gold and Silver being used as a store of value (and as a currency) are:

1) Divisibility : it is easy to divide a large amount of the metals into smaller amounts (ingots->coins)
2) Durable : as noted, it doesn't corrode. You can bury it in the ground for a thousand years, and it comes up shiny and new
3) Rarity : There isn't that much around. All the gold mined since the beginning of history would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

The intrinsic value of gold as a store of value are from lack of competition. It's the best thing for the job, simply by being best at those three criteria. Add in cultural history and it's a lock.

Other things have higher usage as a store of value - prime agricultural land - but it's hard to sell 1/150th of an Acre to buy some bread. Other things as just as durable (rocks) but don't have rarity. Some rocks are durable and rare (opals, diamonds) but aren't easily divisible.

It's easy to get existential about Gold - 'it's just a shiny metal, WTF?' but countless societies have valued it highly as a store of value and as a trading currency, and that is not likely to go away anytime soon, because of a lack of alternatives. Societies and economies need stores of values, and Gold continues to fit the bill.

The fact that Gold is worth $1200/oz says more about the $ than it does about the oz. It's the $ market price that you're commenting on.
the late 20th century decoupling of energy consumption from economic growth.

If you bothered reading my post and links, I've gone into extensive length on how economic decoupling hasn't happened and that the observed increase in efficiency is fully consistent with complex systems / dissipative systems theory.

The problem with technical capital is that it depreciates rapidly. While some Roman infrastructure remains standing to this day, odds are that most of today's electronics won't be functioning in 20 years, let alone 2000.

On peak minerals: Leibig's Law of the Minimum states that it's the least abundant resource that constrains your growth. Pointing out that there's plenty of X when Y is a limiting factor doesn't buy you much. I'd look very closely at ag productivity.

Heinberg and others go into the issues of working from low-yield ores. Most significantly, energy requirements scale inversely with or yield, and the critical problem would be a technological collapse which would lapse beyond the stage of a feasible reboot. While you _can_ extract minerals from dirt or seawater, the energy and capital requirements are immense. Citations on your claims of foreign supplies would be appreciated.
Divisible to 8 decimal places. There are thus 2 quadrillion atomic units.
Once upon a time, I was seeking a Filipina gf. At the time, DateInAsia didn't have any good search interface but it was a good place to meet people if you weeded out the scammers.

I was looking for very specific things (Catholic, educated, no kids, 25 or older, etc). I scrapped (slowly) the site content and threw all the fields in a database so I could query it locally :)

I filled out my profile as complete as possible about myself and who I was looking for. DateInAsia lets people know when you viewed their profile... so my Python script automatically viewed all the profiles that matched my search queries. Many of them viewed my profile in return and those who were interested messaged me. I met some nice ladies that way but it turned out to be a Filipina lady I met in an unrelated chatroom who I fell in love with.

My own more humble attempt at mixing geekdom with love :) but love comes in unexpected places not ruled by math
What country is Columbia?
Look. I don't hate Windows Phone, my girlfriend has the HTC 8X and adores it. With the latest set of big apps ported (like Instagram and Snapchat), it's quite nice. The interface is good, and fast on modest hardware. The browser is pretty meh. PIM functionality is good, as you'd expect from Windows Mobiles pedigree.

But comparing an entire ecosystem of phones (with one of the biggest sellers being the $100 Nokia 520) with iPhones limited range, is silly. Try again when Apple release a true current gen budget smartphone perhaps. I've never understood why we as consumers care about this stuff -- they're businesses for christs sake, and they make billions of dollars of us. Why do we care if one big business does better than their competitors? Why do we defend them? :/
I think the most interesting part of this is that an algorithm told people they are 99% compatible and that changed their behavior enough to make it easy for them to go on a date. Funny that an artificially high number on a computer screen completely changed people's behavior and perception of the world.
If you are using the same IP to host two domains, each with a separate certificate, then only one certificate can be default and associated with that IP when SNI is not enabled. NGINX is probably choosing one of your two domains to be "default" (if you haven't set it up that way explicitly). What happens when you hit the server without any domain (i.e. via IP address in the browser)? Is the site you see the one that got the A+?

SNI is what allows you to use two different certificates (associated with two different domain names) with the same IP address. Your choices seem to be:

1. Rely on SNI, which doesn't work with IE on WinXP, or on 2.x Android;

2. Give your server two public IPs, with each pointing to a different domain; OR

3. Generate a single SAN certificate that references both domains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubjectAltName) Not all certificate issuers can generate a SAN certificate.
>> Italy and Finland aside, Windows Phone is primarily growing is poorer nations where the iPhone is prohibitively expensive

The markets that Windows outsell iPhone are the markets where iPhone has less than 10% market share and where people need cheaper phones.
These are not the markets that are attractive to developers (Revenue/user is much lower than developed countries) and hence Windows will not see developer mindshare in near future.

Notice other than Nokia Home base (Finland), Windows does not outsell Android anywhere else.
A Sudoku Solver in APL in 10 minutes [video]
"Czech Republic Finland" is my favorite country.
How Linked In is Thwarting Your Job Search
Australia is interesting, where Android actually fell 5.5%, and both iPhone and Windows gained. Even BB gained in Australia. Every other country has Android gaining. With so much competition in Android space, there are some great offers available.
This video contains content from SME, EMI Music Publishing and eOne, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Actually because content owners wished it that way. As to what ContentID does it fingerprints copyrighted content and notifies the copyright owners, they then choose which action to take. It's what keeps youtube in compliance with the law.
Find WiFi anywhere in NYC
I don't think I'm ugly[0], but it is hard to be sure! ;)

I have a friend of mine who is short (generally considered a disadvantage) and who has one miserable picture, but his messages are good enough that he has a good success rate on OKC. (His messages also violate every guideline, they are at least 5 paragraphs long and very in depth!)

The problem is, it is disheartening in the extreme. Spending years going to the gym and getting in shape, get promotions at work, buy a house, all for naught.

Doing the math, I figured it'd take me a 3 or 4 dozen dates to get used to socializing with women in a dating environment. The problem is in the last 2 years my success rate at getting dates has plummeted, I used to be able get a date a week w/o issue, now, months upon months of work to get one date. Ugh. This obviously sets back progress of skill acquisition.

It is annoying, I am one of those people who is otherwise successful, but the amount of contact I had with women before joining my current team @ work was almost nil, so an entire skillset[1] isn't there. OKC helps because it creates a way by which to meet women (for reference only one of my friends has any contact with women either!), but it involves what distinctly looks like black magic to be successful on it.

[0]http://ak2.okccdn.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/150x150/...

[1]Recognizing non-verbal cross-gender communications. A subset of non-verbal communications in general of course, but there are (thankfully!) now good written resources on general purpose non-verbal communications.
A 'Fiat' currency is one which the government of a country has declared to be the official currency...by government fiat.

That does not include Bitcoin.

Gold is not a distributed fiat currency. It is just Gold. You can exchange gold for currency, or you can make payments directly with it, if the person is willing to receive them.
Something at work we use that's great for this is ResqueDelayable. Typically I see Resque tutorials extract bits of logic out into worker classes, but this adds refactoring/organization overhead. ResqueDelayable allows this non-queued work:

def post_comment
add_comment
self.notify_followers # Could have lots of followers
Analytics.record_new_comment # Unnecessary for api response
end

to become queued work, with no real refactoring:

def post_comment
add_comment
self.rdelay.notify_followers
Analytics.rdelay.record_new_comment
end
I never signed up to LinkedIn and I get their spam...
My first thought: why this whole notion of having to call in to cancel reeks of AOL in the bad old days. So I Google "aol 'network solutions' executives" and find:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Network+Solutions+and+America+...

Relevant part:

>>Network Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSOL), the world's leading registrar of domain names with more than 10 million registrations, and America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, today announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar strategic marketing alliance to offer Network Solutions' (NSI) domain name registration and value-added services globally across America Online, Inc. brands, making it easier and more convenient than ever for businesses and consumers to create an online presence.

Interestingly, I ran across what I thought was a great anecdote about Jim Rutt, CEO of Network Solutions in a Barron's article this week:

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB500014240531119046810045...

>>The second inspiration for this memo came from a report entitled Alpha and the Paradox of Skill by Michael Mauboussin of Credit Suisse. In it he talks about Jim Rutt, the CEO of Network Solutions. As a young man, Rutt wanted to become a better poker player, and to that end he worked hard to learn the odds regarding each hand and how to detect "tells" in other players that give away their position. Here's the part that attracted my attention: At that point, an uncle pulled him aside and doled out some advice. "Jim, I wouldn't spend my time getting better," he advised, "I'd spend my time finding weak games."

Seems like he found a weak game with auto-rebilling.
U.S. welfare is bureaucratic because it doesn't enjoy broad-based popular support. Conservatives don't believe it should exist, and liberals feel somehow guilty that it does exist.[1] This leaves no room for debate about how to improve service: all energy is spent simply defending the systems' existence.

[1] Hence the liberals' lionization of Clinton, whose big push on the social welfare front was the very conservative goal of cutting welfare rolls.
No, [We] Argentinians follow the dollar religiously. Don't try to give rational arguments in favor or against bitcoins it doesn't work here.
Are you seriously saying that one of the most significant philanthropists alive today, who has given tens of billions of dollars of his own personal money in aid, who has a large role in overseeing the aid organization he built, and who has seen the results of corruption as applied to that aid, is "too idyllic and utopian compared to reality"?

If Gates says that X is true when it comes to aid, and you say that X is not true, what reason could I possibly have to believe you over him?
Looks like it's because the connection between C# and Sing# isn't noted in the "Influenced By" field in the infobox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_Sharp
Can you explain how a large amount of bitcoin end up getting sold into Argentina?

I don't see why anybody (in country) with dollars would bother selling them for bitcoin, and I don't see why anybody with bitcoin is going to be excited about pesos.

So you get a little trickle.
WinPhone mindshare already has grown drastically. There are certainly app gaps, but it closing fast. And before I'd ask companies if they had a win phone app coming they'd say, "what?". Now it is almost always part of the roadmap.
Find tutorials,videos and books on express and connect framework to get started. Frankly the official docs suck,they are very confusing if you are used to good readable api docs.

NodeJS core is tiny, and if you understand networking and linux processes , you should be able to master NodeJS quickly, since it is basically a scriptable server.

it's important to choose the right libs too, as there is a lot of unmaintained crap on npmjs.org. check express, connect, mocha, chai, request, mongoose, commander and grunt.
I am the guy on this thread on the Old Joel on Software on this threat trying to sell my remote support script :)

this was on 2005 too
Patch to fix emacs leaks in 24.3 for OSX Mavericks (aka the distnoted bug)
For what happened in 2002? The statute of limitations on that's probably expired. Fortunately, they were sued by the FTC back in 2003, which put a stop to that practice. http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2003/09/networ...
Semi-related: As an Apple fan for the past few years, I have to say, I'm really starting to like where Microsoft is heading. At least in terms of UI and UX.
MIT and Harvard release working papers on open online courses - MIT News Office
Thanks for the response. I get the A+ site when I directly visit via IP.

I went through the delta between the reports with a fine-toothed comb and discovered that SNI wasn't the problem. It was a biggie: looks like HSTS wasn't enabled for visits to the static part of the site (like the homepage).

It seems like Nginx is doing something counter-intuitive. I've set HSTS at the server level using the 'add_header' directive.

I've set 'max-age=0, must-revalidate' at the location level using add_header for the static parts of my site. I expected Nginx to add both add_headers, but it only seems to do the "deepest" set of add_headers it finds.

Duplicating the 'add_header' directive at the location level (resulting in two add_header directives) results in HSTS being sent for the static parts also.

Now I get A+ on SSL Labs for both sites.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Windows computers have always been cheaper (in general) than Macs and software developers just flocked to the Windows platform.
Mail Pilot – The State of Email on the Mac
Is Text the Programmer’s Silver Bullet?
http://www.taggto.com/ask_hn.htm
Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why?
ITT: people who haven't looked up the definition of "intrinsic value".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_%28finance%29
Seems pretty negligible compared to the one that mandates people to pay for unjustified foreign wars, incarcerating people because they put a certain molecule into their own bodies, etc.

There's an argument to be made against taxation there, but if we're going to have it, you should probably start with the better part of a trillion dollars Americans pay each year for killing brown people (or building the capability to kill them in the future), rather than the relatively negligible amount spent on contraception.

It still amazes me that people can make a fuss about being forced to pay for contraception with their tax dollars but those same people have no problem with their tax dollars being spent on war.
Awesome! That's what we I like to hear :)
yes, but we have demanded that the funds no longer be transferred through those governors.
Murray, I am glad you renamed it to Feedback Fast. This was one of those cool things that I wasn't very comfortable sharing on my Facebook, Twitter, and among my family members. I hope you'll get more traction on this.
Ask HN: What is your current pet project?
In other words, what are you working on for fun? And why do you find it fun?

Don't forget to upvote the poll so other people can see it and share their projects.
Mysterious white rock appears near NASA Mars rover Opportunity
>It fascinates me because I wonder who the leadership team is and what the company culture is like. Do they decide to be terrible by sitting around in meetings brainstorming ways to screw their customers?

This fascinates me as well! But I don't think it's anything that dramatic. I think that a company like Network Solutions is a cash cow in the technical sense, so their people are probably under impossible pressure to "grow" what is a mature business. Then they do things like this and hope the customers don't notice - because 99% of the time, they don't.

NetSol needs ot learn from banks and insurance companies, who've turned frog boiling into a fine art. They know precisely how much to take away from you before you hit the road. (which is weird especially with banks since they are dead simple to switch - and longevity with a bank means nothing to your credit score even if you try to take a loan from that bank.)
Candy Crush Saga Makers Go After The Banner Saga
The better analogy to those would be if someone had said social networks in general were going to die off.

The land-line has been effectively killed off (the last X million accounts will be slow to go, much like the last X million AOL accounts have been). Facebook would be the land-line approach, social networking voice telephony in general.

Vastly more people now get their email through a web browser - "webmail" - than via dedicated desktop email software (eg Outlook). Facebook is Outlook, social networks are email in general.

I'm not saying Facebook will die like that of course, rather your comparison is all wrong.
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Are you aware that "contraceptives" covers a wide range of devices and medications? It's not just "the pill".

For example, I'm not aware of any increased risk of heart disease or any other disease due to using condoms.