skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The point is that you're not suddenly going to triple or quadruple your inbound message rate or reply rate by improving your written profile."

I strongly disagree.

I have A/B tested written profiles on okcupid and elsewhere, and found it matters a lot.

" This much is clear, and the fact that your average guy profile gets nearly as much positive attention as your real profile indicates as much."

Actually, the attention is mainly from women who think it's hilarious :)

"However, smartly choosing quality pictures is probably the one thing anyone should do, and you're going to get far more value back for the investment than putting hours writing a profile slightly more witty and more interesting than your previous profile. It triples, or quadruples, or quintuples your reply rates.
"

I don't disagree with this either.

Far too many people have profile pictures that they don't look comfortable or confident in. For example, too many people dress/etc based on what they think people think looks good, instead of what makes them feel actually confident and attractive. They look uncomfortable as hell, and it's completely obvious to the outside world.
I often end up factoring out things into common methods in the end. That's when I see what parts are common, something I don't always recognize in the beginning (or even in the middle of it).
> I think this is a testament to the success of LLVM.

Interestingly, this project doesn't seem to use LLVM, but has a back end of its own.

But I agree, LLVM has made it really easy to write simple compilers that emit fast native code via LLVM.
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Unsurprisingly, there is high interest in Argentina for Bitcoin. The latin american bitcoin conference was in Buenos Aires and there is a foundation.

http://labitconf.com/
http://www.bitcoinargentina.org/

A lot of argentinian hackers I spoke to are very well-informed about bitcoin.
If Google listed your fishing attack in a recommended app list, then yes, it would be Google's fault.
In other words, you could recreate Buffett's $1 billion offer by placing a 1.4 cent bet on the first game, and rolling your winnings on to each successive game. What's more, you're free to stop at any point and take some or all of your winnings home. (Which you would have to do anyway; you'll never be able to place the multi-million dollar bets near the end.)

Hopefully this will put paid to all the crazy comments about match fixing... Buffett is 'giving' you 1.4 cents, and that's inspiring people to talk about organising a massive match fixing conspiracy? Get real!
People use iTunes? Genuine question - what for? I live in an all Apple world, work, home, friends (mostly) and family (mostly). I'm not sure any of them use iTunes. With the exception of having to dump video into it to find it on the AppleTV, I never use it. It is awful.
Yes, I've refused to do it several times and instead "counter offered" with a link to my public github repositories so they can see for themselves that I can code. When I search for a job, I usually have several application processes running concurrently so that I can find a good job fast. Then time constraints makes it so I can't complete several many hours long puzzles for each one.

Unfortunately most won't accept github as a substitute for solving code puzzles and will instead just reject your application, leading me to believe that most companies offering them aren't using them to gauge your coding ability, but rather whether you are willing to jump through hoops or not. And it's easy to reject someone as being "not committed/doesn't want the job enough" for not solving the puzzle.

Many companies are also using the code samples as a means for standardized testing. So even if they aren't interested in hiring you, it's still great for them to have hundreds of completed solutions to their puzzles so that they can measure more promising candidates ability versus the average.
Wikipedia is wrong regarding taxes.

In Serbia everyone counts salary in after tax amounts, not before tax like in most of the Western world. For example you get paid 1 RSD netto, and employer pay 0.6 RSD in tax, health and retirement insurance combined. Tax is the least amount there.

Calculated by western standards that would mean ~35-40% of the gross salary take away for tax, health and retirement contribution. Still much, but comparing to other countries it's not that bad.

Regarding 58 guns per capita? It's ridiculous, that would mean that every 4 member family would need a dedicated gun storage. It's not USA.

20% VAT is higher rate. For basic needs like food, drugs and electricity VAT is only 10%.
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Yes.
In fact, if you have good pictures, okcupid will let you know.
Among other things, you will get an email that says "We just detected that you're now among the most attractive people on OkCupid. ...", once the clickthroughs on your profile increase.

(I thought they send this to everyone, but it turns out not to be true, it's related to profile clickthroughs. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/12/20/is-being-one-of...)

They also have the mybestface stuff, which helps a lot.
You are not writing the specifications for your VPS, but your best bet is to do a benchmark to check if you can handle a certain amount on http connections.

Check out som of the benchmarking tools below.

[1]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
[2]: https://github.com/tarekziade/boom
[3]: https://github.com/wg/wrk
That's the first thing that came into my head. Yes, thank you, I WANT a compiler that Just Works. The last thing I want to debug is stuff my compiler throws up when it thinks it's smart.

By the way, GCC, in case you're listening? Fuck you!
I am confused, what is English for an 'actual genius' these days?
I made a rock paper scissors game using socket.io
http://coolfriends.me

What do you suggest i should do next? (Thank you :)
As plenty of people do use that feature, I'm not sure of your point.
Prior to the buses, far more tech jobs were in the valley, so techies pretty much had to move or commute. Buses not only allow people to commute rather than moving, they allow valley companies to compete for people who would otherwise take jobs in SF because that's where they want to live.
For everyone that didn't knew this, http://amzn.to/1hhI37v

You should read it..

PS. It's the book Code Clean ;)
I had the same request from inside one of Apple's apps. I think Apple just want you to update your security questions. I logged into the AppleID site, appleid.apple.com, and updated the questions there. Relaunched the app and no more questions.

I think you get 3 or 4 tries before they lock your account, I had gotten 1 question wrong 2x an didn't want the account locked because of a typo.
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It’s good to point out that a G8 country like Italy is going about the same way as Argentina. Those 2 countries are extremely connected, Argentina’s Italian descends today might be as much as 60% of the whole population. As Italian, I am not trying to stick yet another stereotype to us, but this is an interesting fact after all and it says a lot about the future of Italy too if you ask me.

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O yeah, and Europe too, it says a lot about the future of Europe too
Same here. If you are still one of their customers in 2014 and you are not a gullible noob, you are doing something wrong.
>> Admittedly, Android does it much better by providing oAuth, an easy way to get the users sign in, and of course APIs for almost all the popular features.

First of all this has nothing to do with iOS/Android. This is an app trying to access a web service. Apple needs to provide oath or similar for accessing their iCloud services.

>> And also, for installing $0 apps you don't need any credit card details at all. Even the buttons are different "Install" v/s "Buy".

This is untrue. I couldn't download any free apps until I had setup a merchant account with credit card.
Don't you have to use the "iTunes store" to install apps on iDevices remotely?

Also, as an example use case, how else do you put music on your iDevices? I'm under the impression that you have to use iTunes.
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Or just use a language that has one way of doing things? C++ with it's pre-compiler magic, and several (three or four ) ways to define a variable is a rather bad example.

Things like this are bumps on a road, where your organization is a car with bad suspension. Sure, bad suspension will cause problems down the road, but no reason to drive your car through rocky terrain.
Not 200k, but someone is giving up their $15M.
Im kind of introverted and have no problem. I use another part of my personality, stubbornness. I have a price Im prepared to pay, and am always prepared to walk out if its not acceptable to the dealer. Last car I bought from a dealer was second hand, was advertised for, IIRC, £5k, (Might have been £6k, but I err on the side of caution) I paid £4k. I told them all I had was £4k. I even turned down £4,100 and got up to leave.

I think one problem is that people get wedded to the car before they go to the dealer, are too excited to be totally rational, and get swept along by the salesman. Being introverted might be an advantage.
you don't need to 'propose alternatives'. You just do it. Make a drug. Don't patent it. Get it approved. Sell it. I mean, this is what I'm working on (see the damn link). Is that good enough?
Helpful tip - your CC provider probably lets you generate single-use credit card numbers. BankAm calls this service ShopSafe, but it is very likely your bank provides something similar. Use it.

For example, say I want to buy something for $10. I create a new CC number with a spending limit of $11 that expires in 2 months. Auto-renew, overcharge, try whatever you want. You got hacked and my CC # got stolen? Hacker can spend at most $1. You can also create CC #s with monthly spending limits (e.g., $cost_of_service+$1).

Canceling these single-use CC #s is easy (no phone call - it's one click online) and because they are single use, you only affect a single merchant.
Found a typo: "A pacakge system"
Ask HN: What are some new things to try in life?
I'm eighteen and looking for new challenges. What are some new things in life to try?

Examples of things I have decided to try:

- playing the piano

- drawing

- Krav Maga
"accounts for 93.2 percent of all Windows Phone handset sales highlighting little traction or interest from companies where Microsoft does not have control" - more like companies incapable of building something better then current Nokia products.
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I thought that AppleScript looked oddly placed, sheltering directly under Lisp. But some people do consider it to be influenced by Lisp/Scheme - Matt Neuburg proposes the connection somewhere in his 'AppleScript - the definitive guide'. I would have connected it more with HyperTalk, which is down past ECMAscript. And English.
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I've been using INWX (https://www.inwx.de/en ) for several years now. They don't get on my nerves at all and they are still helpful and knowledgeable.
And most of their prices are pretty good.
"Easier to read" is the biggest advantage IMHO; I don't find that they are "easier to write": for me it's more immediate to write code in a big dirty main, than in small and self-documenting functions. But there is no choice: you must refactor your code if you want to understand something later
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Not sure how you got any of that from what I said. The public image of the pedophile is male for a reason. "Most sexual offenders against children are male" (Lisa J. Cohen, PhD and Igor Galynker, MD, PhD (2009-06-08). "Psychopathology and Personality Traits of Pedophiles". Psychiatric Times.)

If pedophilia was as common in men as it is in women, no one would be stigmatized. On the other hand, women in programming face problems, marginalization, violence, from men, just for being women. But if you didn't understand that initially I doubt you will 15 minutes later.
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I'm [redacted], the guy you just played a few times! (Guessing you're "mit.") Keeping score and viewing a history of your past games with someone would be cool.
When I say "gender" I mean the thing as described here (i.e. Rachel's working definition of it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot8cBm0YmXo
I'm an engineer an I didn't know you could use two accounts for different tasks on the same device. Just never thought about it, because why would I? Not a reasonable workaround, I agree.
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Yes, that's what I did: https://github.com/wiseman/finalletters

It uses a bigram model and Viterbi decoding. With the right corpora (the repo includes the King James Bible and some Lutheran hymnals, as the woman was reportedly Lutheran) it's easy to decode "OFWAIHHBTN" into "our father who are in heaven hallowed be thy name".
With C++, there is a "this" variable.

With HolyC, if you use "..." in the arg list you get a "I64 argc" and a "I64 argv[]".
Yes, so that would be at best an _indirect_ contribution to economics.
What did you want it to be? A bug?
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Yeah, I suppose single people have no interest in security, so poorly devised workarounds are ok.
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>> indeed, I have seen functions that contain only one line of code. Even if that is intended for reuse, it makes no sense

IMHO it can make a lot of sense. In many cases you can clearly specify the intention of that one line by putting it in a function with an appropriate name. Just look at the example from the OP:

void HandleNop() {
SPIDataPut(SPI0_BASE, HOST_REPLY_POSACK);
}

When you want to handle a NOP, you're not interested in how that NOP is handled, you just want it handled...:)
Best way I've seen code like this described is Holographic code:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/01/09/holographic-source-...

It's as much a nightmare to work with as overly coupled code is.
I think this is why Utah is also providing a social worker to each person.
Sincere congrats! :)
Terrible grammar in this article
A whole country full of tasteful and sophisticated people? I'll have to visit.
How you make money out of it?
Robin's paper is available on his website, here:

http://www.robinstewart.com/research/

Or, a direct link:

http://www.robinstewart.com/research/papers/stewart09graphsk...
It's only available in Canada right now
We have higher-level tools and languages on WP platform. And we can use Xamarin for cross-platform cod reuse. Thankfully there is no strong need for HTML5.
yes but how reliable are these? authored 2 years ago and doesn't seem active at all.

seems to be the pattern with a lot of python django apps on github. they are not active at all.
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You're the one commenting on a thread I started, so what you post here shows up in my "threads" page. I wouldn't follow you around.
Yes i am mit, thanks a lot for the feedback :)
I am thinking of winning 3 coins for every win and 1 coin for every draw (that may be the score system - the coins) .. And then maybe buy some advantages with the coins like seeing opponent's last few choices..
"With so much competition in Android space" - you mean different versions of Samsung Galaxy silvery-roundy-corner things competing with each other?
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It's standard BS. Waiting 40 years has negative value – approximately half a billion dollars worth of negative value.
Sure (I too have read 'How to Win Friends and Influence People') - but that only works if the other person is already interested in you. One sided interest just comes across as creepy.
Hey, I just played mit and won 7 times in a row. :) But I didn't get any coins.

You should definitely have a chat with the person option, otherwise there is no opportunity to apply diversion and taunt the opponent.( make sure you ban certain words )

Also a timer would be nice with a countdown would be nice.

History of the matches would be a must.
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Netsol is terrible. You should really call them and cancel.
Ask HN: What do you think on private cloud systems for team collaboration?
Hello, I'm a WordPress developer and at the moment I'm working on a team collaboration system that is based on WordPress for my friend. What do you think about offering this product to the world? :)

What are the features (first version)?

- Reports - Team members can submit reports (daily, weekly, monthly). It’s a shared work-diary, essentially, that lets team members to share what they have done each day. Managers can also add a comments on each report. Reports can be submitted via web or sent via special email address assigned for this.

- Ideas - Team members can submit ideas and discuss and vote on each submitted idea. Ideas can also be submitted via web via special email address assigned for this.

What are your thoughts about this?
This is great.

Also great is Pete Warden's http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/

Street Address to Coordinates: Street Address to Location calculates the latitude/longitude coordinates for a postal address.
Currently only the US and UK have street-level detail.

Google-style Geocoder: Are you currently using Google's geocoding API and want to switch? Replace maps.googleapis.com with the address of a DSTK server and your code should work without changes.

Free to use, also available as a (free) self-hostable VM.
Once you've learned all there is to learn from this project, I'd suggest making a more complicated game. Playing rps with people online in real-time is cool, but what if you could play cards? Poker? Maybe even a new game you've invented?
If I were a US resident, I would just submit a random bet. A nearly-zero chance for a billion for a few minutes of my time and no cost. There is nothing to outwit here.
People’s intuitions about longform were wrong. They love longreads on phones.
If you were to say "programming languages today are deficient in X, Myrddin fixes that!", what would X be? From the looks of it, it appears to be nothing. The syntax looks palatable and I like the lack of header files. That said, why would I be better off investing the time to learn your new language? (amongst the myriad other languages)
It never cease to amaze me how in the start-up world people can "loose" millions and nobody cares.

It's like free money.

IMHO the second start-up bubble is about to pop.
According to this article it does - work is reduced by 13%.

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...

(Unfortunately no primary sources are cited for that claim, which is pretty common for articles on the topic.)

A solution with similar benefits but minimal perverse incentives is the Basic Job - if you can't find a job the government will give you an unpleasant one at below minimum wage.
I think there are some small green shoots in Berlin, but I'm not sure whether it is anything to write home about.

It is true that Germans are more privacy conscious. Yesterday for example, the Federal Bureau of Information Technology (BSI) launched a tool that allowed Germans the possibility to see if they are 1 of the 16 million identities recovered from a botnet analysis project. Although the site went down after it was featured on the nightly national news, it shows that the German government is actively encouraging and publicizing privacy and crime related issues affecting the German public.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

Of course it doesn't address the issues of the EU data retention laws and the access that the BND have to access email whenever they feel like it.

Also, the recent "efforts" of the largest internet service providers in Germany to encrypt email transport between each other has been seen as more of a publicity stunt then anything of any real value concerning privacy. Emails are still unencrypted when stored.
Unfortunately, you are asking your users to engage in an inherently unsafe behaviour. Even if your implementation is rock solid, users shouldn't get used to supplying AppleID credentials to random applications.
I guess one thing that epidemiologists and economists have in common is that you can't do controlled experiments?
Hey deletes, good game :)

The scoring system is not implemented yet.. I wandered if there is a point to do anything on the game.. I also was thinking of a chat system, the timer is sure to come!

Very nice feedback, thank you!
Depends on the context. One-sided interest that's fixated on one particular characteristic comes across as creepy - it's obvious when it's a physical characteristic, but it's also just as creepy to be particularly interested in someone's career, or house, or car, or any other thing. One-sided interest that's diffuse tends to become two-sided interest, because it makes you seem engaged with the world, and that's a very attractive quality for a lot of people. Basically, be interested in everyone and you'll find that everyone is interested in you, while if you're interested in only one person she probably won't be interested in you.
My own suspicion is that it's a matter of fashion. More specifically, there are lots of problems in the world, and someone is always going to be insulted when one of them is referenced lightly. Right now it's fashionable to treat the word "retard" as a politically incorrect slur, so those particular people have social permission to complain about it.

What I can't make up my mind about is whether or to what extent we should approve or disapprove of the use of these words.
I know this is why I use Wunderlist (Berlin), rather than RTM or Things or similar (USA) - I'm more comfortable under their local privacy obligations. (In reality I don't know how much difference it makes?)
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> I somehow doubt the NSA is going to be constrained because it doesn't cross a border.

That taps at borders which NSA / GCHQ have legal access to are well documented: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/operation-temp...

Other borders ... not so much.

> With the NSA's money and engineering resources, I don't really think any data is safe anywhere.

The NSA are legally constrained. They can't walk into a data center in Germany waving a court order and insist on a tap and no publicity. This is essentially what happened to lavabit because their data center was in the US. Yeah, a data center in Europe could be hacked. but:

1) Any bad actor could try to do this

2) Trying to do this in a notionally friendly country is not the most diplomatic thing. Not saying it can't happen but it would be arrogant and risky. Consider the fallout if some disgruntled sysadmin drops dox on it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nsa-s-alleged-spying-on-merkel-...
I don't understand why this story has more than 1.5k points.
Surely it shows precisely the opposite! You have a Ferrari AND diabetes! Very lucky indeed!