skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they may be implying that engineers write brusque emails, void of any niceties or "small talk."
I just commented the other day to someone that Tinder should analyze the features of those you swipe yes, and build a profile based on your history to auto-swipe in the future. Machine learning at its finest.
You'll have to excuse me for not having noticed this, it's the first I have heard of Streak. This is indeed quite impressive and comprehensive.
Yes, through inflation. But your article never mentions that.

If you mentioned inflation, someone would point that inflation has been very low for the past few years.
Congratulations on making Tinder even less useful than it is now.
Oh, cool! My sundial might be 17 minutes fast! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time#Apparent_time...
What Is the Difference between Authoritative and Recursive DNS Nameservers
It might look like a vagina, but Airbnb's "new" logo is a blatant copy of Automation Anywhere's logo https://www.automationanywhere.com/
I looked at this amazing parser some time ago, but it depended on jQuery for basically nothing. Great news it doesn't anymore.
The example set for the in the article, Hugh Hewitt's interview with Zach Carter, is possibly the worst example the author could have used for ignorance in the media.

While ignorance in the media may or may not be an issue, this article does not demonstrate that it is.

Yes, it's possible to have a credible opinion on things even if you haven't read a select list of books that a Dick Cheney apologist has set forth.
Ya, I get the whole "as a professional layman, I'm pretty sure I'm getting screwed because of it" when it comes to HFTs. But if you look at the actual data it's blindingly obvious that the exact opposite is happening. Trading costs have come down enormously!

Iit would be nice if folks looked at the data instead of falling back on their irrational gut logic.
I told him at the end of last week that I didn't like the bait and switch he pulled on me and that I would not work with him again. I didn't take the call he set me up on. He said how he had to repair damage with the client he was courting with my resume.

He kept trying to pitch opportunities Monday to which I didn't respond.

He sent an email to my boss with my resume yesterday.

It's entirely too convenient to be stupidity.

EDIT: I just found out from my boss that there was no prior back and forth between the recruiter and him when the recruiter sent him my resume. My boss didn't respond to emails or calls. The recruiter just sent him my resume.
those are awesome suggestions! i especially like the subtext, comparing to gym membership costs makes so much sense! danke!
1. Congrats on your first app!

2. The [lack of] font styling in the Instructions is a minor issue, but little things add up. Also copywriting-wise, probably best to avoid first-person eg "I suggest..."

3. Feature request: history of workouts! Day, duration, and (ideally) the specific exercises. These should be plotted to show progress. Check out "100 pushups" for a great example. Seeing that chart climb steeply up and to the right is a big motivator.

4. Feature request: display list of the whole array of potential workout elements (grouped by type). Allow for "favorites" or perhaps ratings so only higher-rated ones show up in the mix, and/or an exclude feature to block particulars that aren't right for me. A simpler way to get this would be a "skip" button to simply select another one from the same type/group.

5. Suggestion wrt making $: you might do better to just have the one free app with upgrade, vs selling Pro for $2.99 (steep)? Any of the features above could be catalysts for upgrading. App Store Search optimization is arcane (to me anyway) but I don't think having 2 versions is as user-friendly. Hopefully others here w more experience on generating revenue w iOS apps will weigh in.

Anyway it's a solid start, good luck taking it to the next level! :)
Heh! Yes, run with it. Just keep me appraised.
As shaunxcode says, there is an unpushed preview that does let you expand it out with text, images, and then try it out live in a browser that is real HTML you can resize, etc. Really cool.

That should be done tonight.
I'm male and I never was part of any political machinations in high school or college. It's definitely not everywhere. Every behaviour obviously exists in every gender, but playing nasty political machinations at an early age is definitely girls' forte and almost never observed with boys.
Tinder library in ruby : https://github.com/nneal/tinder_pyro
I will look at the UX on that and make some improvements.
Web 2024: Waiting for the singularity
Freedom of assembly is also a form of freedom of expression, one that is also constitutionally protected. People have a right (within reason) to refuse to do business with other people as a form of expression. See the Mozilla/Brendan Eich situation as an example of this.

If a restaurant owner kicks you out of a restaurant, he is also expressing himself, just through association instead of speech. Additionally, he has property rights to consider. He is allowed to control the operation of his building and business. On the balance, the restaurant owner should be favored in this sort of dispute.

Why involve the cops? It's not strictly necessary. In many cases, there are private citizens that do the same job (event security, bouncers). But the cops, at the end of the day, are enforcing the the restaurant owner's rights to property and free association. The enforcement of biases only happens indirectly.
Have you thought about contacting opensourceecology.org and offering these guys/gals?
Google Webmaster Tools Gets Updated Robots.txt Testing Tool
Why would you want to? You'd be caught in the same infinite loop.
We're actually in process of hacking that one too based on your Facebook stated preference :)
PS Forgot to mention social integration. Strava sucks for their API rug-pulling maneuver, but they get the social aspect right w easy "kudos" for friends and posting to FB/twitter. Peer pressure is a strong motivating factor for workouts, and the more engaged your users are the better you'll do. Cheers.
I worked with villagers in Peace Corps and Navajos in schools. What small farm tools do they need?
Lighting at night and cooking during the day w/o firewood?

UAV for plant and animal monitoring.
https://code.google.com/p/uavplayground/
http://unfoldingmaps.org/

We are using Arduino, GPS, Raspberry Pi.
http://playground.arduino.cc/Tutorials/GPS

Biohacking would reduce animal agriculture.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/real-vegan-cheese

Biochar for farming?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar

Amaranth and quinoa sprouting.
We grow these well in Santa Fe, NM.
But sprouting is too hard.
How do we create a sprouting machine to produce sprouts without mold and endless sprout rinsing?

How can we use Ecat and Blacklight power systems for decentralized farms? Lighting and cooking?
Distillation, food sterlization, fermentation, refrigeration, biochar?
http://ecat.org
http://www.blacklightpower.com/
Nope. Not at all.

Backporting upstream patches by request, enhancing upstream, help debugging difficult, multi-level issues and so on. I also took it for granted but seeing what I see today, I understand.
By my reading, prior to Dec 2013, the old terms[1] permitted using personal RSS readers but forbade aggregators. However, the new terms are much more restrictive; they prohibit any use of the craigslist website outside of a web browser. Thus, I think that it is now against the terms to use an RSS reader to read the craigslist RSS feeds! (By the way, it is also against the craigslist terms to write a crawler such as google.com or archive.org even if it respects robots.txt!)

I happened to review these terms because I too was sent a letter from Brian Hennessy representing craigslist last Friday regarding a little Chrome extension I wrote a couple years ago[2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131128233421/http://www.craigs...

[2] https://github.com/yonran/craigslist-shortcuts
Just like the music industry, I think more writers are going to become acclimated to the book-signing aspect of the industry in order to support their themselves financially. Subscription based models and piracy that originated from the disruptive nature of new technology sounds like it would discencetivize writers from creating new works, but I think if you model the economics of future distributions, it will eventually favor the writers that create quality work. The best example I can think of is the existing state of stand-up comedy. Louis CK, Aziz Ansari, Joey Diaz can release a $5 special DRM free with low capital expenditures, and still make a significant payout. This model cuts out most of the pre-existing middlemen, and all that's left is artist and the audience.
Just because you can hack another app doesn't mean you should. You're just enabling another form of spam. There are more interesting things you can work on. Don't be that guy.
Actually, brand perception usually works in the reverse order of the uphtread description, where negative reaction to branding prevents consideration of the other qualities of the product rather than be considered as a factor of discussion after consideration of those qualities.
XS keeps columns in a phone view, but often you want to just stack the cols and not use a grid so much as just "a shelf"

90% of my designs use col-sm-*, and then if stuff needs fiddling at md or lg I do it there. For xs I just usually let it default to stacked 100% cols.
… or OS X, though it takes space in OS X. So much for my ill conceived scheme to make custom glyphs for programming language digraphs and keywords.
Anyone know where you can get detailed blood tests like that in the UK? I'm guessing the NHS won't cough up for that every month...
I'm talking about using OpenCV on profile pics of those you swipe yes on. :)
Most people don't spend $9.99 on books every month on average. If Amazon encourages people who are infrequent readers to devote more of their time/entertainment-dollars on reading, then this service will be a win-win for Amazon and authors.

Also, if my service is all-you-can-eat, I'm definitely going to take more risks with authors I haven't heard about. That is a definite win for unknown and unpromoted authors.

Some of the blockbuster authors may suffer lower revenues ... but fuck them. I'm less worried about JK Rowling who makes a billion dollars on each book, and already has plenty of incentive to write. I'm more worried about Professor Joe Schmoe, a Com. Sci. academic who has this really great AI story inside him, that needs just a little monetary incentive to come out.
Can you add a chatbot to carry on enough conversation to get to a date? Then just message the user when and where to go.

And for ultimate virality, can you somehow encourage unprotected sex through either a filter on users' profiles(1), or the chatbot? Then you can create more users who are predisposed (through nature or nurture, I don't know) to use the app. Yes, that will take a while to really have an effect, but hey, we're not here to build some fly-by-night startup. We're changing the world.

(1) I don't actually know anything about Tinder.
I am not a game theorist, but take Centipede game for instance. If you know the exact number of rounds in advance, the optimal strategy is markedly different than if you don't know it. And I think there are many weird behaviors like that in iterated games, where optimal solution for infinite time horizon is not the same (or doesn't even exist) as the limit of optimal solutions for finite horizons approaching infinity.
Hourly News for Mac Now Available Outside of the Mac App Store
They're territorial, mean, and not particularly scared.

Does depend on number of donkeys vs number of coyotes though. They're ornery, not magic.
Hmmm... any interest to declare?
> lightly-roasted, sour-tasting coffee thing

A well made espresso with light-medium roast bean should taste fruity and maybe a little tangy and sweet, though this depends on no end of factors. Coffee Angel around Dublin is a good one.

Most of the beans I saw when visiting the US (even in the hipster artisan places) were roasted to the point of being indistinguishable from toner and made for bitter, unpleasant coffee.

Still, I needed my hit.
It sounds like a neat problem to work on. I imagine a few awkward situations where the algo has "slightly" miscalculated though.
This, exactly. I'm glad I never got into the online dating scene, specifically because of garbage like this. This is not automating love, this is defeating the purpose of an already nebulously-useful tool.
Introducing Burpbuddy
He's not winning across the board; Kindle Fire has not significantly impacted the tablet market (I think it has actually lost share recently), and no one expects their phone to do so either.

And while Amazon has a good digital media business, it would be a stretch to say that they are beating Google or Apple in that space. Only in books does Amazon have a strong digital media share.
This is good first date conversation material.
> I also didn't label or judge anyone -- disagreement with your perspective isn't sexist.

> "Guys are less subtle -- we're wired to be more attracted to the binary good/bad aspect of things."

> "Girls sweat the details."

Upon re-reading, you might notice that you did, in fact, both label and judge.

> I don't know why, but girls and boys tend to gravitate towards different types of play. And they do so very young. That's just a fact.

That fact is a very controversial _opinion_ that is on the way out of mainstream thought. Certainly, it isn't a fact in the "tested and proven" sense of the word.
I think the objection is that the initial knee-jerk reaction to try to fend off scrapers/competitors had a (potentially unintended) consequence of being pretty anti-user by claiming exclusive ownership over the user's content. Craigslist doesn't have to play nice with other services, or aid their competitors, but trying to fight competitors by overreaching and harming your customers isn't OK, which of course, is why they then backtracked on that bad policy after enough public anger.
Each to their own, of course, but I find the design pretty good on the whole. The app icon was designed by Pacific Helm, so he did hire a designer (and a pretty well-respected one); I'm not sure what the argument against it is. (Other than the subjective one, obviously.) And most of the interior is just typography, in a style that, at least to my eye, is pretty reminiscent of the UI for The Magazine. (Surprise.)

I suppose if you hate orange, you're going to find the whole thing pretty hideous. (But if you hate orange how can you bear Hacker News?)
Zombie games build self-esteem. Because the zombies are all the other people in the world, who aren't you. It's a judgement on how we look at others.
That's a bug. Offset inheritance and reverse-inheritance was a real bugger of logic. Will fix.
Nice.

I'm personally waiting for a tool to group and split mails in a mailing-group-compatibile tree view. Or at least something respecting the usual headers mailing groups use to mark which mails belong to which thread (so that when you change the topic the e-mail doesn't go to a different thread in GMail).

Not that I care about it for 99% of my conversations, but one Hackerspace I subscribe to seems to be stuck in 1980s Unix Land, and get terribly annoyed at people using GMail for mailing ;).
If you believe in what you're selling, and you are convinced it can help small businesses, talking to them isn't a problem.

I design social games and write ebooks, among other things.
Those are linux system call IDs: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm/include/uapi/a...
Most of the risk capital in publishing is in the promotion, not the writing.
Reality is boolean. Any "nuance" is a reflection of poor reasoning ability on the part of the humans involved. We only make a caricature of reality when we project our own uncertainty onto it.

We should strive to overcome the limits of language. Mathematics is, in general, neither ill-formed nor inconsistent, and we should try to imitate it in our arguments in other fields.
Does YC own aprox. 5-7% of the $30B marketcap? Or is there dilution?
Taking a Whack Against Comcast
Got a good chatbot api/library to recommend?

PS: your kickstarter project rocks. We are donating!
Airbnb Goes Emo With Its Rebranding Love Story
The truth is kids get bullied because adults don't care and look the other way. If an adults hit another adult the police will get involved. When an adult hits a kid or a kid hits a another kid they've got practically no recourse. It's just grossly unfair, and there is no solution. So you tell them that. And you repeat that if they don't go to school they won't be able to get into higher education, which in turn won't allow them to get a good job. So their current situation sucks but the alternatives they have are even worse. It's a truthful description of a shitty situation.

Adults don't have to have a solution to everything. But kids should expect us to talk to them in a forthright manner. Spare them one-liners like "you'll understand when you get older" and other condescending nonsense.
THANK YOU! That was driving me insane.
s/GCD/LCD

Greatest common multiple, lowest common denominator
New Airbnb logo?
I'm an Audible subscriber (all of my book-reading comes via audiobook), and I would obviously jump over immediately if the entire library was available. Audible has many more than "thousands" of books, though, so I think it will be a gradual process.
KDE Plasma 5: A New Awareness of Design
Thank you! And you're right about the audience and their interests. That makes sense.

I'd love to package this thing up for NPM. But I'm not a Node.js developer, so I haven't tried running this in Node. I'll see what I can do though to make that happen.
So basically it's just a way to waste your time going through the hundreds of ugly chick that swiped you right too, to filter the few you would actually date? No thanks, might as well just not use Tinder and go for a real dating service.
>> While most OCaml implementations have poor standard libraries

> That right there should tell you something.

I wouldn't use that as the main criteria to judge a language. C has a poor standard library (for a definition of "poor" relative to, say, python) and so does C++. But they are certainly useful tools in their domains.

In any case, OCaml has a couple of standard library replacements/augmentations that reduce the gap a bit. (Batteries Included [1] and Jane Street's Core [2])

[1] https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included/

[2] https://github.com/janestreet/core and https://github.com/janestreet/core_kernel
How come you chose ember over other competing frameworks? were you already familiar with it?
Auto-swipe enhancement = So damn hard to do

Always-yes for an online dating app = So brilliant

i have to admit that you guys are the geniuses of our generation.
Gotta love being downvoted for an informative post... :)

If you look at the XML returned for RSS feeds, you will notice:

<syn:updateBase>2014-07-16T14:25:18-07:00</syn:updateBase>
<syn:updateFrequency>1</syn:updateFrequency>
<syn:updatePeriod>hourly</syn:updatePeriod>

That is the configuration setting for RSS readers to not update more than once per hour.

See spec: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/

Craigslist has aggressive blocking for excessive GET requests. The RSS feed contains only the first 250 characters of text description of the ad. Thus, you will see that something got added but you will not see its details. More importantly, attributes are not available as part of the RSS feed.

That means that you were interested in specific colors of a car, you would need to define a separate RSS feed for red, yellow, and so on.

It is hard to test whether the RSS search results are additionally throttled, but you will likely get blocked while testing. :)

While legitimately shopping, I got blocked multiple times for becoming more efficient.

RSS is not hard to read. Here are some red manual transmission cars in San Francisco Bay Area http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cto?auto_paint=7&auto_tra...
Agents' Mutual is OnTheMove.com
How can Craigslist accuse you of violating their terms of use? The act of providing a chrome extension does not use their service. Maybe if this was some sort of copyright-circumvention software covered by the DMCA I could understand it. But this sounds like an obvious legal bluff, no?

IANAL, which is why I am asking these questions.
"Recently, we decided to take a crack at one of life’s most perennial problem: finding love."

The solution makes me sad and frustrated.

I bet someday someone thinks it's a good idea to create a daemon bot to represents us in virtual dating world, and start relationship simulations, so that we need not bother.
Mathematics makes strong case that “snoopy2” can be just fine as a password
> "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".

That's a straw man if I ever saw one. No one here claims to be great. And no one is calling this product clueless. In fact all the discourse thus far is fairly civil other than this comment which comes off as hostile.

There will always be doubters, that doesn't make them haters. Why would they hate anyway? Shunning them as clueless and ignorant won't convert them--they'll only dislike you more for labelling them as such.

On topic, changing the subject is a means to accomplishing thread splitting and people do it for that reason. It may not work for everyone but it does indeed work and works reasonably well. There is nothing self-aggrandising about that.
It's quicker to use the classes, but semantically, you can use the LESS/SASS mixins they provide to remove the classes from the markup entirely.

https://coderwall.com/p/wixovg
Welp, somebody needs to get this ported to an XPosed Module please. I'm on the Android L Developer Preview so I can't work on one. :/
Hi Sam, I was able to pull some data on these things via Mattermark.
http://mattermark.com/yc-portfolio-stats-mattermark-crunches...

267 companies currently have 2 or more employees

8,164 people are currently employed by a YC company [1]

121 companies have disclosed an exit (no IPOs, all acquisitions so far)

66% of YC companies are based in the Bay Area, followed by New York (7%) and Boston (2%)

76 un-exited companies have raised a venture round of funding (Series A or beyond)

There is a nearly 50/50 split between B2B and B2C startups in the portfolio

The average Series A stage YC company has 26 employees and has raised $10.2M of funding in its lifetime.

[1] The total number is probably much higher, many of these companies do not have LinkedIn pages or employees on LinkedIn, Crunchbase, news, and other sources until they are further along. I think an estimate of 9,000 to 10,000 current jobs created by current YC companies is reasonable.
AWESOME feature.
As a monolingual white person, my name is kind of important to me too.
Functors (also known as parameterized modules). See: http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/modules.html
Sounds like the opposite of what hackernews is about.
“Learning Styles” Concept Not Evidence Based [pdf]
Ask HN: How to take advantage of your film being torrented?
Yesterday, our film company just released it's first feature film(plug: www.bronytalemovie.com) to digital media after a successful festival and theater run. Today it's now on the pirate bay. It was pretty obvious that it would end up on there, but now that it's there, I was wondering what the best possible way to take advantage of that would be? Initial thoughts would be that we could get some free community translations from people who are watching it via sites like subscene.com and opensubtitle.org. Another idea would be to actually join the pirate bay and ask that if you're not going to buy the movie could you at least spread the word, and hope for a sale through word of mouth to friends and family. Any other ideas about what you can do to leverage a movie being torrented?
Thanks.
Yes! Please run at full steam. Go nuts.