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by goodside 14y ago
OkCupid -- New York, NY Three positions: * Product Designer * Software Engineer * Data Scientist http://www.okcupid.com/careers/we-are-hiring
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by goodside 14y ago
While we're providing isolated, non-representative examples: I graduated in 2009 from a crappy Podunk school whose average SAT was 980 (on the old 1600 scale). It only costs about two grand a semester. I majored in CS. I had an internship a
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by goodside 14y ago
I have yet to see any anti-scraping method that can protect against a full instance of Chrome automated with Sikuli. It's obviously very expensive to run, since you either need dedicated boxes or VMs, but it always works. In my experience t
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by goodside 14y ago
This is a very specific selection. There are plenty of modern languages that don't use printf semantics or C-like syntax. Too, there's languages from the 80s and 90s that did: Python (1991), R (1993), and PHP (1995) come to mind for direct
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by goodside 14y ago
"Every frontier seems like it will be a frontier forever, until suddenly it isn't. Perhaps software is going to settle down, start a family, and quit this cowboy nonsense." Can I quote you on this? Did you come up with this metaphor yoursel
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by goodside 15y ago
What percentage of your users actually have JavaScript disabled? How small would the user base have to be before you decided they weren't worth this much effort?
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by goodside 15y ago
CTRs aren't irrelevant, since they're a concrete proxy for conversions that ad networks can relay back to publishers quickly, but nobody actually pays by clicks anymore. That was common fifteen years ago, but CTRs plummeted circa 2002 and n
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by goodside 15y ago
You're correct. It's only "zero" in the sense that it's so low that nobody cares enough to quantify it. Several of our competitors spend over $100 million per year (each) on TV commercials, billboards, and online display ads. We have a guy
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by goodside 15y ago
We never worry about this. Helping people find happy relationships is hard, and there's no risk of us succeeding so completely that there's nobody left to pair up. People in happy relationships also tell their friends that they met on OkCup
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by goodside 15y ago
For the record, OkCupid doesn't do anything even remotely like this. It's strictly the purview of assholes. Riley Goodside, Yield Optimizer, OkCupid
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by goodside 15y ago
The point is that there are humans who will refuse to have that machine hooked up, even though they understand completely that it'll make them feel so good they won't care if they use it.
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by goodside 15y ago
The fact the author can think of one particular way to design an AI that would result it in falling over and dying once it figures out how to modify itself does not imply that all possible intelligences would behave similarly. Somehow, huma
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by goodside 15y ago
Why do you think nobody is reading his mail? In September of 2010 an employee was dismissed for spying on the mail and Google Voice calls of four underage teenagers he had been meeting in real life. There have to be people at Google who hav
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by goodside 15y ago
I can't find a reference off-hand, but I'm pretty sure Yudkowsky has specifically rejected this theory. No matter how you slice it, this would be a real-world consideration and thus cheating.
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by goodside 15y ago
"The first is that dating sites typically don't care about people actually finding a good partner, because there's a negative economic incentive for it. If you find your perfect man/woman, you won't come back to the site and keep paying." D
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by goodside 15y ago
"After some time he asked me if I was aware of the work by Chromsky [ sic ] on formal languages. I told him that yes, Chromsky work was a basis for much of the developments in theoretical computer science." Really? You couldn't proof-read l
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by goodside 15y ago
Hi. I work at OkCupid. I can't address all the particulars raised in this analysis, but the biggest is essentially correct: > The worst side effect of the current scoring system, is that a spammer could easily answer only the questions
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by goodside 15y ago
"One simple way to look at it is that there are far more people who've never bought an iPhone and who've never bought an iPad, who will in the next five years than all of us who've already bought at least one to this point." That's one simp
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Odds of a random chord exceeding the side of an inscribed equilateral triangle(en.wikipedia.org)
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by goodside 15y ago
It's ludicrous that it's even necessary to paint the archetypical "Google chef" as someone who daringly sacrifices for their scrappy company for them to be worthy of windfall profits. If you compensate employees with options, they deserve w
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by goodside 15y ago
I just asked irb to generate me a random string of decimals, and it gave me "95307035382862516268483317510515387284259666415834482486542336". Jesus, the odds of that happening are like a gazillion to one!
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by goodside 15y ago
It's not reasonable to expect a design team to be able to function under the condition that whenever a user disagrees with the placement of a UI widget, they must either publicly justify their decision as being objectively correct or make t
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by goodside 15y ago
Both of my parents are IT professionals and former CS professors. If you're substantially older than I am (I'm 24) it's not hard to imagine assuming that everyone's parents are clueless about programming, just for generational reasons, but
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by goodside 15y ago
The baggers are faster than you only in the rare scenario that you are the only customer in line. Self-service checkouts are, at least in theory, always available. Not only do grocery stores rarely keep all checkout aisles staffed, but they
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by goodside 15y ago
If you calculate backwards from these figures to the absolute size of the community, you find that NYC's startup scene is actually twice as large as San Francisco's. As someone from the NYC area, that doesn't seem plausible.
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by goodside 15y ago
If it actually required PHP, or was somehow particularly useful to PHP users, or was even just identified on the website as a "PHP/CSS framework", that'd make sense. This isn't targeting a niche, it's firing a rifle blindfolded and hitting
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by goodside 15y ago
No, it doesn't, which is probably why nothing on the site even mentions PHP. Nonetheless, when you download Foundation it's presented PHP files that do just enough in the way of conditional server-side includes to scare away people that d
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by goodside 15y ago
Or there's very little need for it, which is why nobody has made anything better since.
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Cheese or Font?(cheeseorfont.com)
1 points by goodside 15y ago|0 comments
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by goodside 15y ago
I must be missing something really obvious here. I haven't used Earbits, but as a streaming service, why not enforce things like this server-side, rather than trying to suppress pirates from distributing the cracked client app? (No victim-b

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