skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get dozens of unsolicited sales emails every day.
Just answering "thanks but no thanks, and please take me of your mailing and prospect lists" takes time out of my day. It had a real cost.

I have to answer, because the sales people will keep mailing every week otherwise, and marking as spam reduces the quality of the spam filter rules.

I'm the kind of person who will use inbound information if I'm actually looking to solve a problem, and I will resent your wasting my time if you go outbound at me. You literally end up on a "prefer not to do business with" list, hurting yourself.

Meanwhile, enough people apparently can't research their own problems enough, that cold marketing works. I just can't really understand why that is.
This is just sad. Didn't something similar happen with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s?

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/timeline-mental-...
Ask HN: How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?
I'm asking this for several founders on our team who are getting deeper into our thirties and starting to think about moving to a larger more stable company. We have been working together for 4 years under the same company name during which time we have done 4 major projects that we were hoping would take off. We've been profitable the entire time and we all make decent salaries, and 3 of the projects still generate modest revenues.

The problem we are facing is that our resumes and Linkedins do not look impressive (to our eyes) because you don't see a progression through multiple companies with inflating job titles (example good profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/saadkhan02).

So, how does one communicate that they are hirable after running a semi-successful startup for years? Or, perhaps, is this undesirable?
Clickhole just did a piece about Pokemon Go and sex offenders.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/gaming-safety-ftw-pokemon-p...
> Commercial banking and investment banking are split again

If we take the example of the UK, all of the bank failures were because of non investment banking activities. RBS failed because of its excess of leverage as a result of its disastrous acquisition of ABN AMRO and because of its loan book, HBOS because of its loan book (essentially commercial real estate exposures), and Northern Rock because of their over-reliance on wholesale funding.

There are examples of banks failing or making large losses because of the investment banking activities (Lehman, Merrill, Bear Stearn, UBS) but my point is rather that the principle "Retail banking = safe, Investment banking = risky" is simply not true.

In a way, universal banks tend to be more robust than a specialized bank, as it benefits from funding and revenues diversification (and cheer size to absorb losses).

> we didn't pursue many personal penalties nor criminal cases

I am not saying that there hasn't been any fraud in the financial crisis but I am of the opinion that it is not fraud that caused this crisis. It is the over-reliance on leverage, short term funding, and a belief that the US real estate market would never go down (belief that many people have today in the UK).

You can't send people to jail for making bad business decisions. Some banks were run in a moronic way, but being incompetent or missing a fundamental economic driver is not a crime.
Papa John's didn't violate CAN-SPAM. And there has never been a case (that I've seen, and I follow this stuff pretty closely because I really dislike receiving newsletters, personally) prosecuting anyone for sending a cold sales email.
The article seemed to lean to designers, but I conducted a lot of interviews that I didn't get through referrals from colleagues for development. I can't speak for the world at large, but when I had roles that could be filled by low/no professional experience developers types as employees or freelance, there were a couple of things that would stand out:

1) Do something. Make something. A developer can benefit from a portfolio of projects where a prospective hiring manager can see what you are capable of doing. Don't worry about it being perfect, but do try to show that you care about your craft and have good reasons for what you did when asked. This I imagine is required, but tougher for designer types as there are usually more of them trying to get in the door. If you can conceive of or participate in a project that people would be interested in on it's own merits, all the better.

2) Don't incorporate elements from third parties (such as copying and pasting code from Stack Overflow, for example) without having the legal right to do so and without clearly designating the incorporated elements as being what they are. From a developer perspective, I saw more copy and paste code being represented to me as original code in code samples than I would have thought; often times without any original work whatsoever... and yes I checked to see if I could find the code published somewhere. In those cases, proposals/resumes, etc. all were round-filed due to the honesty issues raised. If a project/sample included appropriate/properly documented third party bits along with original work... no problem.

3) Depending on what you do, try to get some specialized domain knowledge in a marketable subject and write about or demonstrate that knowledge in some way. I specialize in boring old ERP type systems, for example. Because I know the accounting rules, the logistics, and operations of inventory centric companies, I have extra knowledge that I can sell compared to someone that has technical skill alone.

The whole point is to show that you are self-motivated, are capable, and have good judgment. True, it's really hard to beat experience and track-record, but you can compete on price until you have reference-able clients under your belt. Also, beat on every door that looks like it might be a potential customer: outside of having contacts on the inside, good salesmanship is the only way to let people know you're there and can make the difference compared to your peers that aren't selling themselves as aggressively.

(for the record, I do nothing but freelance work these days).
awesome tools , it reminds me of https://github.com/aristus/packet-flight (video https://vimeo.com/14439742)
Our attack type recognition based on machine learning which can at first produce lexems and, secondly. syntax constructions (patterns) by existing attacks. For example, in the case of memcached injections (more details: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Novikov-...) we can train system to detect these attacks without regexps or new heuristic rules.
Pretty cool that this was done in pure Rust, although it might have been easier to write a small trampoline in assembler code that calls into Rust code.

This is what I did in a hobby kernel project of mine [0]. This was pretty simple to do and easy to do all interrupt handlers at one go, leaving the actual logic to C code. The downside is that it uses unnecessary amount of memory (at least 16 bytes per interrupt vector).

The Linux kernel has a similar but more clever solution where the actual interrupt vectors are tightly packed and the number of interrupt is determined with arithmetic from the instruction pointer. I can't find a link right now, if anyone finds it, please post a link.

Side note: the use of Intel syntax is an annoyance. You can write inline asm in Intel syntax but it's not exactly the same as nasm/masm style and you still have to read at&t syntax in objdump output (by default at least). I prefer sticking to at&t when working with GNU tools. Even if you prefer Intel, it's still better to have just one syntax.

[0] https://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros/blob/master/src/arc...
Chip+pin was rolled out in the UK in a matter of years, and contactless payment is making similar progress at the moment, so I'm not really convinced legacy infrastructure is what's holding the US back.
The best investment I ever made was purchasing an old banged up Porsche 911T from a movie studio and keeping it garaged for nearly 13 years. I sold it for nearly 70 times the amount I bought it for.
People like this are always motivated by the same thing - money and fame.

They like to hide it behind this whole "being a part of an exciting future" persona but its all a marketing gimmick to help them achieve their true goal - being rich and famous.
Even resource conservation is done better in a free market, because it responds to anticipated future shortages by raising the current price of the commodity, leading to more responsible consumption.
I don't think it will have any impact either way. Any danger of sex offenders using Pokemon Go to lure children is vastly overstated, but I also agree that people out on parole can be subject to restrictions.

It's mostly a waste of taxpayer time to be considering this.

Most of the negativity is really about the attitude that Pokemon Go is somehow dangerous.

I also find it a little troubling that Niantic is being compelled to review user data in a search for "criminals."
How onerous it may be is irrelevant. The government shouldn't do things that aren't useful. This is exactly as stupid as a law requiring paroled sex offenders to stand on their heads and whistle Yankee Doodle each morning.
99% of the small business on the web is trivial. They never get the point to worry about code liability.
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The original Advantage keyboard saved my career 25 years ago, so I feel obliged to tell everyone I know about them. :)

https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/products/#keyboards-section
People aren't automatically wrong just because they state something in their interest, nor are they right just because it's not. To me, the important difference between the two is that dentists can explain the basis of their recommendations in terms that make some sort of sense, whereas the mechanisms proposed by chiropractors are clearly nonsense.
I saw a different thread about how China embraced mobile payments. One of the benefits was a consumer could pay a farmer directly using the mobile payment.

My first thought following reading that was "Yeah, and then the Farmer transfers that money into the stock market, and creates the bubble effect that is only corrected by direct intervention not allowing it to go down naturally."
Wow, even in the early 00's I walked to and from school myself. Summers were about exploration. I was just taught strong "stranger danger" skills because it was preferable to my playing video games. I guess the Nintendo lobby got to the CPS.
I don't know, there's nothing groundbreaking here but they do explain why.
In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab
> the people of the country seem to be very apathetic about doing anything

Do you remember Occupy Wall Street? "The people" organized, disseminated information, marched, protested, petitioned, wrote and called legislators, held sit-ins and partook in civil disobedience by the millions.

> Take this petition for example

That link isn't illustrative of anything. There were many petitions, with many tens of thousands of votes. You won't find them any more because they were created many years ago, and expired petitions are eventually deleted from the site.

> Why are we also not setting examples of these people who knowingly destroyed lives?

People went to prison. Not everyone you'd like to have charged (a) actually committed a crime, and (b) there's a prosecutor who can both prove this and prevail over a larger and better-funded legal team on the defense.

> shouldn't be charged

Putting words in the mouth of others probably isn't going to get you whatever response you're hoping for.
Right. Feature flags are nothing new. Have them been using myself since forever.

The use of them in CD, in A/B, blue /green, or gradual rollout scenarios is very convenient though, that probably explains the popularity.
> The bailout now constitutes an implicit government guarantee.

The bailout continues, but through monetary policy. The prolonged low rate environment is the biggest robbery of the century. Savers are being robbed from their savings to subsidize over-borrowed house owners. And I think it is fair to talk about a moral hazard. I know bankers (disclaimer: I am a banker too) who deliberately over borrow personally because they think the central banks will always be there to save their ass through low rates, pumping liquidity to push prices up, etc.
> Can you only email people who have actively given you an email address?

While soliciting them with offers or advertising, yes. Anything other than that would be sheer lunacy, frankly.
I interpreted the ASOIAF reference to mean what it means in the books: it is a question of when, not if, Winter is coming and you'd best have a plan in place for whenever that may be.
Eh, that's kind of rationalizing away the threat posed by China's habitual targeting of US military tech, specifically in aviation.

I'll believe China has corrected its dirty sourcing ways when they build their own reliable Mach 2 Fighter Jet from scratch without reading Lockheed's homework first.
You're right, I should have been less colloquial in that reference since I was using “Arabic” in reference to the script, which is used by multiple languages.
It's not quite that bad. Assuming base stations are already plugged in, I'm generally up and in Steam in 1 minute. Only step necessary to detect controllers is turning them on. Straps are annoying if you play with others though.

IPD is easy once you know "the trick": close one eye, adjust IPD until lines as viewed straight ahead are sharp.
An Agenda to Help the Poor Up the Economic Ladder
Not true. That is an excuse of any spammers out there.

Edit: Check my posts - I am talking about Europe not the US. Cold emails are against UWG in Germany.
Foreign Influence
Just because you wrote about it on Medium, and used words like "biz dev", doesn't mean you're not a spammer.

Seriously, if you're not swayed by the ethical considerations and all the other commenters here pointing out how scummy and immoral your business is, at least consider the liability questions. You're in pretty flagrant violation of the CAN SPAM Act and could be looking at very large fines.

Turn it off.
As a loss obviously, a sunk cost is exactly that: sunk
How is allowing free entertainment to exist in the building "getting their hopes up"?
If I had to guess, I would say the person who wrote this article is a lot more rich than you. That would explain why his experience in China was better than yours - being a rich white guy makes him one of the elite in China.

Funny how having a shitload of money can change someone's perspective on a topic, isn't it?
> some people the term implies acceptance of a heteronormative framework.

Hmm, this makes sense—I didn't interpret "queer" as meaning "different from you or me" but rather that the way they appear in society is different from the way they identify. I guess this does imply society is heteronormative, but that's DOES seem to be reality.
That's probably not the best comparison, since we shouldn't be jailing journalists for protecting their sources.
Talk about believing propaganda. You're falling for Chinese propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Broad Sustainable Building Group is basically one giant propaganda machine propped up by government loans.

They've been talking about building the world's tallest building in only 90 days for years, but they recently dropped the idea because it was never a serious proposal. Buildings of this height need rigidity from huge amounts of steel and concrete. That much concrete that can't cure in the time frames they're talking about, and hooking modular sections together they way they're doing it isn't rigid enough.

The technology is so far away from doing what they said they would that it's laughable.

But prefab building technology on the scale they are actually building, as opposed to what they say in they're press releases, isn't "mystifying."

A US company could also raise a prefab 50 story building in 2 weeks. If the government loaned them hundreds of millions of dollars, allowed them to ignore worker safety and environmental laws, and they ignored any long term maintenance considerations.

It wouldn't be profitable, just like it's not profitable China. And it wouldn't last 40 years, just like the buildings in China won't last 40 years.

Not to mention that almost everyone believes they are fudging the numbers on the total prep time.

Ever been to a hackathon where teams technically built a product in 2 days but spent a month rehearsing what they were going to do once the clock started?

There's plenty of speculation that's exactly what Broad Sustainable Building Group is doing. Not that the state run media is ever going to allow any of their critics to talk openly.

I'll leave you with a word from the company themselves. "Sustainable Building Group's prefab technology is] the most profound innovation in human history." Really? You're buying this?
You call them problems, but I call them job security.
I work at a company that uses feature flags heavily for releases. Even most refactors are done behind a flag.

It works surprisingly well, especially when you have 20 developers all trying to release different features at the same time, you then have a controlled way to isolate enabling and monitoring each new feature one at a time.

It's generally expected that you clean up your flag conditions after things have been tested. And that you write code so removing the flag flow is trivial.
They also want to restrict Niantic from creating pokestops near sex offenders' homes which is ridiculous.
And I'm sure France invade California to enforce their laws. (Or Barbados, or Jersey, or wherever this moves to.)
It is true, no matter how many times you claim that it isn't. Can you name one single salesperson who has ever been prosecuted for this? Active consent is required for email marketing in the US too. It's not required for me to send a cold email to someone whose email address I acquired (or could guess).
I'm probably opening myself to accusations of whataboutery but it's not like America has never partaken in state sponsored industrial espionage: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-busted-conducting...
> Unfortunately Gary’s passion for life also manifested in a struggle with alcoholism, and we feel that the unpublished preface and later chapters do not reflect his true self.

Well, he wrote them, so presumably they reflect some part of himself. I hope that they've not destroyed them; future generations should be able to see his work as he wrote it.
Title should be: "Here's a narrative that makes me feel good and righteous"
This was wonderfully written. It's clear though that the fine storytelling presents one specific perspective and opinion (which is a good thing, in my opinion). I would, however, like to see another side of the story. Are there others who side with Corkin? What do they have to say about the controversy?
As you work in a bank, and I've been out of direct Wall St. finance for a few years, is there enough money in the entire world to address the swaps market if a massive insolvency triggers an messy, imperfect unwinding rather than the "oh everything balances out" claim?
> Perhaps I do have some rose-tinted glasses

Yes, that would be your enormous wealth that is tinting your view. If you weren't rich, I guarantee your experience would be different.
Environmental records shattered as climate change 'plays out before us'
I think putting them off makes sense because you can start investing early and people tend to earn more as they get older, so it could be less of a financial burden if you have children at an older age.
I would like to refer to my post on bail in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12220961

I honestly do not believe a politician will accept to face the political heat of a bail out before having attempted a bail in first.
I'm actually okay with the process for normal React, it's just downloading npm and then typing a long list of packages after npm install. It's React Native then I find the 'from zero' to working dev environment process faintly ludicrous.
It seems like he is talking about EU directives as they apply to individual member states. That is nice if you only want to sell in that country, but if you want to sell to the entire EU, you are back to square one. Or maybe I'm missing something.
Hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but in case anyone finds himself in a similar position, there are hedging strategies that avoid the 1259 constructive sale rule. You have to take some risk but you can put a floor on it.
> nor does it seem particularly onerous

I disagree for reasons other than putting a burden on parolees. To me, this is effort wasted on our legal system in drafting, passing, arguing against, and ultimately maintaining when its no longer relevant. Additionally it places a burden on Niantic, and any company that builds similar products, to cross reference their customer list with the list of NY sex offenders (and potentially other similar lists of states that follow suit). In my opinion, any potential payoff from this is so small that it's almost certainly something we could do without.
There's lots of routes in before you get experience, and also helps build your portfolio and references.

Make friends with some local charities - do a little work or make their new website (or whatever you do) for free, or cost. Ask them to publicise it on their site in return.

Similar for local small businesses who might buy your services. Talk to some, offer free or cost price in return for a little exposure.

Use spare time to build your portfolio, just because. Program a few small utilities or design a site for the dog and put them all on your portfolio site as you start to build it.
Well, at my place I'm the "older" guy wanting to innovate :) I don't think either NIH or not wanting to innovate is an age thing. It's a mindset. Plenty of young people have that as well. Plenty of older innovators.
3000 sex offenders are on parole? I wonder how many of them are potential threats and how many are the "took a piss on a playground at midnight while drunk with no children in sight" variety.
So, help me out, that reduces the severity of too-big-too-fail in theory, but doesn't reduce their size unless banks are disincentivized to be large enough that they need to bail-in, right? I ask because the article talks about banks being reduced in size (I guess by nebulous quantities, number of employees? AFAIK, when people say "too-big-too-fail", they mean that such an institution is too important and coupled to the system to fail, not on absolute terms like employment size,etc)
Matt's reply to that is a great (& amusing) example of a well-reasoned reply to a very bizarre comment.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-Jul...
U.S. Seeks to Protect Voting System Against Cyberattacks
Reading i2c data sheets and implementing them on the Raspberry Pi
chilling and wonderful at once, in how his family recalls him