skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, most bad cold pitches read like bad recruiter emails: "Dear Sir/Madam, I represent a huge firm that is looking for junior PHP Engineers in Topeka, Kansas. Are you or someone you know interested?" When I read something like that, I just ignore it because I don't know PHP, I'm not a junior dev, I'm not in Kansas, and I don't want to help the recruiter do their job.

I have two (related) criteria for good cold emails:

1) The sender should do a little bit of research on me/my fund (Susa Ventures). Susa is a seed stage fund, and our website lists some of the things we look for. For example: "We invest in founders and companies that are building competitive moats using data, network effects and/or economies of scale." A cold email that makes it clear why we might be a good fit -- e.g. because a company is building a unique dataset -- is much more likely to get attention than something generic that was clearly bcc'ed to dozens or hundreds of investors.

2) Building on the previous note, some effort to personalize the email goes a long way. I feel uncomfortable not replying to emails -- after all, I don't like it when people don't reply to my emails -- but replies do take time and I'm pretty busy. The rule of thumb I've settled on is that if it's clear that the sender didn't spend 5 minutes to write a targeted email, then I don't feel bad not spending 5 minutes to reply. If someone clearly put in effort, I'll try to reply even if it's not a fit for my fund.

Edit: Also, the email should give a decent sense of what a company does. It should not be too vague (e.g. this is not compelling: "I'm working on some amazing tech. Could you meet me on Thurs at 1pm or 3pm for coffee?") nor should it be too long (i.e. don't send rambling emails that are 3 or 5 or 10 pages long)
your willingness to be condescended to by someone with approx 10-15% your years of experience is a litmus test as to whether you will be a good 'culture fit'. age won't count against you as long as you're willing to put in the hours, eat dinners at work, put up with scrum management, etc etc.
am I debating an ELIZA upgrade
>Again, assuming FB and Gawker have the same privacy issues, what you point doesn't really matter.

They're not comparable. You give information willingly to Facebook and accept their terms of service. I know plenty of very social and successful people who don't use Facebook. Maybe you feel that there should still be additional regulations on Facebook; fine, that's a debate for another day. But it's very clearly different than a "journalist" prying into your private life against your will to produce a sensationalist and embarrassing article that does nothing to serve the public interest.
> That's kind of what ad hominem is...

Strictly, the fallacy involved is tu quoque -- if it is used to rebut the argument which is inconsistent with the persons behavior -- not ad hominem. They are related, but distinct.

Although I suppose if one took the route of:

1. A says X,
2. But A acts in accord with not-X,
3. Therefore, A is a hypocrite.
4. And, because A is a hypocrite, one should disregard A's arguments

You could actually make an ad hominem out of the accusation of hypocrisy.
Still very common in much of Asia (eg. China). Chickens too.
Well, there's also Milo Yiannopoulos.
Consider the regex may be program input, so you can't just code them away. A search engine is a good example.
There is the other option to use Parsoid.

https://github.com/wikimedia/parsoid

That is MediaWiki's official off wiki parser that can turn wikitext into HTML or HTML back into wikitext. It would be reasonably simple to hook into its API and use it for data extraction instead.
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No political objection to that video that I am aware of.

Nothing to explain.

Just what I said the first time. Sorry to be such a boring adversary.
"Finding a link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and an outcome affecting the child is no proof that acetaminophen is the cause of the outcome. But the authors contend that the study results do heighten concerns that fetal exposure to acetaminophen can give rise to neurodevelopmental problems." This study and its results are misleading. The scope & method aren't good for the conclusion. It doesn't answer whether people should use tylernol while pregnant or how much can they consume.
Mmm, I may have mixed up the context myself.

FWIW, a lot of people have flown the flag upside down in protest.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2009/07/11/upside-down-flag...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/upside-down-distres...

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/letters-to-the-edi...

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/06/03/oregon-man-flying-ame...

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/woman-angers-hoa-by-han...

Quoting the last:

> "The United States Supreme Court has been clear since as early as the 1930s that the flag can be flown in various ways as a demonstration of political viewpoints," said Hammer's attorney, Mari Newman.
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Somebody please explain to me: What's the point in signing on github when I can set the key on github itself (e.g. account gets compromised). A simple flag (on github's server) that is showing that my email on commit is the same as on the account would also do the job. What if my key is compromised and set a new one on github? What happens with my old signed commits?
Another question: We are mostly no airplane mechanics which need to sign everything of our work. Why would you give up deniability of doing something (with your signed key) without thinking about the consequences? I'm thinking of legal cases here (hey you signed your commit!).
Be charitable. Clearly that's not actually what 'gay Christians' believe.
what does any of that have to do with any of this case? did any of this incite illegal acts or acts that resulted in violence? no. that part of your post has zero relevance to either my post or to the current situation (did someone kill someone? did someone make someone cause someone else to commit an illegal act?)

i said outing peter thiel is not illegal. and in fact the supreme court has ruled that reporting facts is permissible. _but_ it is a really shitty thing to out people.

and the saying is "falsely shout fire in a crowded theater" not just "shout fire in a crowded theater" read up son.

you should also read up because that saying is not "law" and the court case that it originated from was overturned because of its gross ignorance of the first amendment. read up son x2.
Great list. I'd add this one.

Billy Corgan Warns of Weaponized Zombies - Full Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojAXUqL--mY
This offensive, paternalistic attitude towards users needs to stop. You do not get to decide these things for end users.

> It's unfair to expect most users to be able to protect themselves.

Correct. Problems in this area are the fault of the vendor, not the user, for producing shoddy software, not caring enough about security, and/or not going far enough to educate the user about important thins they do need to understand. None of this requires stealing user data (or "telemetry"), nor does it require taking agency away from the user.

Your "solution" is to take away the General Purpose Computer from the user. I realize that General Purpose Computers are frightening when in the hands of people who might make a mistake* or run some software you don't like, but that is what we call "freedom"[1]. Instead of supporting freedom, you seem determined to force centralized control on people. Do you not see how this is a major shift in power?

> Therefore, as a matter of public safety, we're going to have to put safety and security rules on publicly networked computers.

This is a cheap excuse to not address actual security. The negligent security practices of most businesses over the last few decades are becoming a serious problem, and as usual the guilty are trying to deflect the blame onto the people least responsible: the users.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
Ten things we know to be true
> You can loan like 15k euros without any interest

Nope, sorry, I don't want to live under credit.

> If you've already worked before you can get ~650e per month during the 3 year of the formation.

Not if you're over 25. What are you talking about?
Was it something you were interested in? Replaced an alternate you were working on?

I find it hard to believe that a project you didn't create became something you actively wanted to support. On top of that, if the old maintainer really walked away completely, and they don't answer questions, you're walking through the dark.
It's also missing the texture units.

What I hear from my friend who works in the GPU industry, one of the main outcomes from the Larrabee research project was: It is possible to do most of graphical operations on a SIMDed general purpose CPU, with good performance. Everything except texture decoding, which really needs dedicated texture decoding silicon. And with texture units taking up 10% of the silicon, Intel really needs to decide if they want to sell it as a GPU or as a general purpose compute unit with 10% more cores. Intel chose the latter, and you can't really blame them, as you can sell dedicated compute units for more money.

Sony ran into the same problem with the PS3 and the cell. They originally designed it so the game developers could implement whatever rendering method they wanted, in software, on the SPUs. But the performance wasn't high enough, partly due to texture decoding taking up too much time. By the time it was discovered this was a problem, the cell was more or less finalises. Sony were considering adding a second cell to the console, to brute force through the problem, but eventually they asked Nvidia to hack together a traditional GPU.
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Interesting to me as recently I founded Infinite Food[0], which hopes to leverage macro-trends like urbanization, apartment living, and the internationalization of culinary consumption patterns to provide cost-effective, highly efficient, fresh and automatically prepared meals on demand. While our initial markets are in Asia (higher population density, less of an established car-commute/supermarket norm), it is interesting to see people attacking the same problems from alternative angles in the west.

One sentence that struck a chord with me in the article was "She insisted we begin serving ourselves at dinner, in order to get our own portion sizes right." as the habit here in China is that people serve themselves from communal dishes. We plan to offer custom portion sizes, too.

[0] http://8-food.com/
Someone sitting on the FB board on FB and Palantir, talking about privacy...

Gawker dug his own grave but Thiel is a disgusting hypocrite. I hope the history will remember this man that way. And no, not because of Trump.
This is only true if the person looking at the repo doesn't have a copy of your key locally. It's important to remember that all of these tools work offline and don't require some web 2.0 service to operate. :P
Bloomberg's headlines are infuriatingly clickbaity these days.
It's a Hindu model of marriage, a Chinese model of marriage, …

Hell, even the Ancient Greeks didn't practice gay marriage (as far as I know!)
I believe anonymous prepaid SIMs will keep existing in the UK for a long time. I used to have a Tesco Pay-as-you-go SIM card, bought and topped-up anonymously with cash, £12.50 a month for a semi-usable package with 1 GB data. Looks like they still have them:

http://shop.tescomobile.com/pay-monthly/sim-only/Tesco+Mobil...

With roaming in the EU becoming free mid-2017, and Brexit not coming into effect til 2019, the whole EU will still be well covered by anonymous prepaid.
Removed my downvote, because i get why you wrote that, but possibly the parent didn't read it carefully, or possibly didn't understand, or possibly simply disagrees with the methodology used to eliminate confounders, or any number of other possibilities.

From the guidelines:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
CloudFlare is not a hosting provider.

Interesting analysis nonetheless.
Where evidence is provided which undermines the credibility of the author, this does not qualify as an ad hominem attack. The parent provided relevant background as to why one should doubt the author's objectivity.

Simply playing the "ad hominem" card is not a free pass for the opinions of crackpots to be given equal weight.
Hello. Would love to get your feedback! Here's my profile as an example. :)

https://hackernews.club/hacker/profile/sideproject

A few weeks ago, there was a Show HN post regarding GitHub profile widget - I always wanted to do a widget, so I was inspired by that post (and also, since the code was in GitHub, I heavily borrowed many of its ideas)
For the caliber of companies on this list, overall that's a really shitty experience.

The takeaway: treat interview prep as simply learning the realm of possible questions. (Sounds impossible, but not really.) Rote memorization FTW!
That's a very nice list of diligence questions!
You're intensely equivocating here. The moral calculus of renouncing your massive profit-making association with a company that you serve on the board of if it chooses to do things that you find morally unacceptable is trivial, and entirely different than when you're a citizen of a country that you serve in the legislature of that decides to do things that you find morally unacceptable.

If you're on the losing faction on a corporate board that decides that the best option is to poison the city water supply, and your mournfully cash the checks, you are just as guilty as the winning faction.
If they really respected him they wouldn't treat people like him like second-class citizens.
Only signing releases is equivalent to saying "every bit of code I just released I trust and so should you". This means that you have to have reviewed every change to make sure someone didn't dupe you into signing a commit you didn't mean to.

Signing every commit is a much easier guarantee to make: "this change was made by me and I trust this change". In aggregate it's much better than just having signed releases (though of course you should sign releases in addition to this).
It's called "monogamy" and existed in such biblical places as the USSR and PRC.
For a sprained ankle you likely want a NSAID like ibuprofen...
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Nifty! I added it to a couple of my websites :) I particularly like your font choice.
Easy access to online porn is 'damaging' men's health, says NHS therapist
when the corner shoe boy gives you stock advice, its time to get the hell outta there!
>very few sports websites were talking at all about the sexual assaults going on in colleges

Here's something to consider: a lot of that is sensationalized yellow journalism as well. They take surveys that include behavior that is usually handled at the social level (e.g. guy goes in for a kiss and girl doesn't want it) and count it as part of the headline "Sexual Assault" figure. In the most technical and pedantic sense they are correct, but no victim would ever file that complaint, no prosecutor would ever bring that charge, and no jury would ever convict on it. i.e. Most of the "sexual assaults" that are counted in those statistics wouldn't even be considered as such by the alleged victim. That's not to say that there aren't real sexual assaults that happen at colleges, but it's nothing like the sensational statistics that journalists like to throw around.

Look at what Rolling Stone did to a bunch of innocent young men at the University of Virginia when one of their reporters went "looking for a rape story". Any reputable journalist knows that if you walk around soliciting sensational stories, someone will tell you one. Ultimately, it was all proven false, but it no doubt ruined several totally innocent people. Rolling Stone and the particular journalist are now being deservedly sued for over $30 million. Free speech is not license to spread lies or to intrude into people's personal lives. Political and religious speech is very protected, but there are many reasonable limits on everything else.
Knuth is brilliant and wonderfully pragmatic, no doubt. I think the greatest thing Knuth really got into me is that code is meant for people, not computers.

As to Dijkstra; enlightenment doesn't necessarily mean productive. Some of the least successful people I've ever met, can have absolutely sage like advice. Dijkstra was able to visualize things others could not, and explain novel solutions to those. On top of that he had a deep understanding of the life of a programmer and the complexities faced day in and day out.
Dolce and Gabbana is a good example from outside of States.
If you believe that the primary role of legal marriage
in a society is to encourage child-rearing in stable
homes, then it's a totally logical position to believe
that there is no Equal Protection violation that would
warrant the intrusion of the federal courts into a
state matter.

Just to make sure I'm clear, you're not implying that gay couples are incapable of rearing children in stable homes, right?

The child-rearing argument is completely broken. If it was true, then marriage of divorced or widowed senior citizens would be forbidden.
> Well browsing in Firefox is confined to Firefox, not sure what you want to say. The fact that Firefox isn't perfect in every way shouldn't mean that Windows should go 100 mph evil with its telemetry.

Browsers are an incredibly sensitive and important part of people's day-to-day use of computers. In terms of time spent, most people overwhelmingly spend their time there, and even do work of other types via that system.

> If it's not straight keylogger still doesn't mean it's anywhere near acceptable

Indeed! But we can't even have a conversation about what the "is" in fact is! We're using incredibly incendiary and obviously incorrect language to avoid even the pretext of a rational examination of the data. I was just downmodded to -2 for posting a link to Ars's examination of the telemetry via local proxy and a discussion about what it looks like at the byte level. People are that uninterested in actually understanding the technical details here.

Can you name a specific aspect of the telemetry that you don't like that you can't turn off in SP1? If so, please let me know. I am happy to gather data to consider escalating concerns both as part of my professional responsibility and as part of my connections to many smart and placed people at MS.

> Lack of _informed_ consent and the fact that telemetry as part of OS is ever present (and not segregated to third party software) is what makes the difference.

OSX, iOS, Android, and Ubuntu all contain core telemetry. They have similar EULAs to Windows for the customer facing product. Heck, this entire conversation got kicked off from the article I linked over the more exclusive opt-in for Insider program builds! The clause isn't as strong in the public EULA, last time I checked (IANAL, so please feel free to correct me if you're better informed there).

I am all for a rational, calm, informed discussion about the pros and cons of telemetry. I wrestle with the "right" thing to do daily as part of the products I help build, design and ship. I very much want to have that conversation, but shady authors looking for cheap ways to buy relevance are writing clickbait to obfuscate the real discussion to make incrementally more dollars via impressions. If you're looking for deceit, the handful of authors cashing in on this meme are not a bad place to start.
Is not a good product a good back end and a good front end together?
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How so? That article is amazing, and I think the title reflects it.
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It's not just improving the quality of the theme song, it's decreasing the size of podcasts. A 10-20% reduction in bandwidth costs isn't anything to sneeze at, especially for larger distributors like relay.fm etc.
> The SEC has pushed to keep shell companies out of the hands of fraudsters, who manipulate their shares to make illegal profits through a so-called pump-and-dump scheme.

So if you wondered what a shell company is, one way to get a publicly traded company is to buy the "shell" of an existing company that is already public but wound down operations.

Sort of a take over of just the name, incorporation documents and exchange documents that let it list. You'd then delist and have your shares only trade OTC. This helps explain why they haven't filed any financials for the past few years.

If you look at its trading history, NERO US Equity<HP GO> if you have a Bloomberg terminal, you can see that it traded a few hundred shares a day and slowly climbed up each day. This probably indicates that the shares are very tightly held. So the owners can't really cash out by selling their shares, but they can possibly use the shares as collateral.

Being so tightly held also eliminates the possibility of shorting the company, though shorting any OTC symbol is always a bit sketchy.
You're trying to discredit an argument because the person saying it is a hypocrite, which is also an ad-hominem. If the argument is true, then it would also be true even if the person saying it were hypocritical.
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What kind of romance novels? Because I've been told the really cheap ones follow such fixed patterns that publishers have checklists and databases to prevent accidentally repeating the same story too blatantly between novels.

Which, if true, would actually make them an interesting source for machine learning, now that I think about it.
Thank you!

Since it's within HN's crowd, I wanted to find a nice "programming font" on Google Web Fonts. I'm using this.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata

Other good "programming fonts" I found are

Cousine - https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cousine

Droid sans mono - https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono

Roboto Mono - https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto+Mono
Neither sbov nor coldtea are saying that they are comparable.
https://neuromama.com/get/web/WTF

I am entirely unsure how this search engine works.
Yes, but there are varying levels of 'moral acceptability', and online privacy violations are on the low end of that. I find it hard to believe that most people would act differently from Thiel in that situation.
could you email me details? (email in profile) We would be interested in it.
Fruit is OK, you just need to go easy with it though. Most fruits are just big fructose bombs with very little nutrition. Berries are good.
> True, but that just points to the fact that ad hominem should not be dogmatically a logical fallacy.

No, it doesn't. OTOH, a logical fallacy isn't something that means that the conclusion that flows from it is wrong, or even that the fallacy doesn't provide a useful pragmatic filter given limited resources to devote to fully evaluating arguments.
Except that the incident was found to be newsworthy and not illegal in two previous cases, once in federal court and another attempt in Florida state court [1].

Shopping for a favorable venue, and convincing one jury in a civil case does not make for a very compelling argument of "illegality."

[1] https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/hogan-v...
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According to Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel believes that online privacy violations are really, really important.