skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run analytics for a major enterprise and have had this technology pitched to me for years. It is a very common practice for B2B lead gen.

That said, don't believe the sales copy on their websites. They will tell you that they can reliably identify the individual, but that is horseshit.

They usually maintain and/or purchase access to lists of people who work at companies and have relevant job titles. The lists are captured from multiple sources ranging from stuff pubically posted on company websites to business cards collected (and sold) at trade shows/conferences. There are lots of other sources and I'm sure this audience can think of many on their own.

Comapny/ip/id can be gleaned from either an ip block or someone who registered to download a free report or other content from a partner site at some prior time.

Sure you'll sometimes get the contact for the exact person that browsed the site, but you'll often get it wrong. That said, it could still be valuable to contact someone at the company about your services, because if one person is looking into it, then someone else might be interested too.

The tech/idea certainly isn't new - I've been getting pitched it for 5+ years.
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Choosing food on ethical grounds is a load of crap. Here's a counter-example discussing the slavery on California strawberry farms:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/11/in-the-s...

>>> Migrants are among the poorest workers in the United States. The average migrant worker is a twenty-eight-year-old male, born in Mexico, who earns about $5,000 a year for twenty-five weeks of farm work. His life expectancy is forty-nine years. <<<

I'm hoping some things changed since 1995, but as someone used to to construction in California and had to compete against dry-wallers earning $3/hour, I am doubtful.

One would have to be very careful in choosing "ethical food," lest they have tunnel vision in only protecting animals, and by their pure nature of replacing lost calories with more vegetables, they encourage more human slavery in the world, and yes... in America.
Wow, that Wikipedia article is awful, and a fantastic demonstration of how hobbyhorse subjects on Wikipedia tend to get filled with crap.

Contra that shitty graph at the top of the article, population diverged from the historical trend of exponential growth in the 1950s. Worldwide birth rates have peaked. The largest cohort of babies the world has ever seen was in the 80s. The population is now growing solely due to increased lifespans.

Much to the disappointment of everyone waiting gleefully for mankind to suffer for its many sins, the Malthusian crisis has not happened, and will not ever happen.
I am not an ethiveg. I ask literally every ethiveg I meet if they have heard of in vitro meat, because asking them is an incredibly easy thing to do, and if they spread awareness and generate support for the science then the world will be a measurably better place. I am impressed that you ask literally every ethiveg you meet if they have heard of in vitro. Keep up the good work, improving the world is the responsibility of all those who can help improve the world.
I know little about the Indian systems but reading this article and comments makes me think that entrepreneurs there don't really know the
customer yet. Talking about "educating the customer" does not bode well for startups with no IP, especially when the education is regarding the customer's online behaviour and not the product itself.

All in good time, I suppose. Good luck to you all. Meanwhile, I'll enjoy the show from the sidelines for another couple of years.

Also, whats up with all you guys on HN using the word 'shallow'? Someone explain that please...I don't get it. It's used 3 separate times in this thread.
One more aspect to this is how the game becomes interesting because it has bugs, not because it is bug-free.
I agree with Vijay .

Read other comments, some don't understand the Indian context.

Indias biggest ecommerce site is operated by federal government owned , IRCTC, they sell train tickets which is the most popular form of long distance travel. you can hear lot of horror stories at https://twitter.com/search?q=irctc&src=typd

Then indian financial and banking regulator RBI, they limit online payment in every possible way

a) every online credit card payment needs multi factor authentication.

b) no recurring payments.

c) getting merchant account for online services is a long tedious process.

d) TDR as high as 7%.

now add the problem with logistics due to bad infrastructure.

add the news of people getting arrested for posting liking on online sites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20576416

culturally Indians feel guilty for exuberance, so they would go for value for money propositions and take safer options.

you have people who go to stores and buy mostly in cash

now you have the context,now you can read the article again, it would make lot more sense

disclosures: I am friend of Vijay, I have been mentor at couple of in50hrs events along with fellow Chennai tech entrepreneur
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What about the talks from 1990 to 2005?
The curiosity is about his well-being, and this hype for possible loss-mitigation by collecting the remains from the erased persona. Also, a reminder to be nice towards fellow programmers. Referencing Paul Buchheit's write up in this context http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.in/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html
I just ran across this : http://www.thielfellowship.org/become-a-fellow/about-the-pro... which seems like another option if you really have a dream to chase and don't want to wait the 3.5 years. Still risky but less so because Thiel is attached.
Ha ha, talking shit about Clojure, Scala and other languages that are in better shape than Javascript.
Probably too mind-closed to stay in the internetz.
I don't consider Godel's theorem to be philosophy. Its status is similar to Cantor's theorem stating that reals are uncountable. Surely is inspired by philosophy and has philosophical consequences, but it is a part of mathematics. Trivia: Godel used the Chinese remainder theorem in his proof http://mathoverflow.net/questions/19857/has-decidability-got.... I acknowledge that philosophy can be inspiration for mathematics, but this is rather unsatiating, as very many things can be.

In the meantime, I found a very good defense of philosophy here: http://www.ditext.com/russell/rus15.html
I don't think GWT is being used for gmail.
OK, what's the term for someone of no gender?
C-h k C-h k gives me:
C-h k runs the command describe-key, which is an interactive compiled
Lisp function.

It is bound to C-h k, <f1> k, <help> k, <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<describe> <describe-key-1>.

I have no link to the source file. I am running version 23.1.1
Goroutines are what is known as green threads in Java land.

The Java specification allows for green threads, N:1 mapping of threads, or system threads, 1:1 mapping to system threads.

It is up to the Java VM or compiler to offer one implementation or even both.

Tasks in java.util.concurrent make use of thread pooling to also achieve N:1 mapping of tasks to threads.

The Squawk and the Cacao VMs are two examples of a Java VM using green threads,

http://labs.oracle.com/projects/squawk/

http://www.cacaojvm.org/
I left in August. They must have started right after.
I was baffled with his Clojure comment but hoped it was trolling and flipping off paraparazi until further explanation. But, now I feel sorry for not defending while he was being laughed at.
This is really clever. Figuring out the first bootstrapping program with such a limited instruction set must have been a pain though.
One of the big trends in current nutritional thinking is that we should eat natural, whole foods... and processing foods, even when done to enhance nutritional qualities, has been a major mis-step.

In-vitro meat and printing steaks on 3d printers sound like a steps in the wrong direction.
Even the App Engine support is made by the Go team, not the App Engine Team, as I got to know in a Google IO talk.
> For pure text surgery, I'm still significantly faster in Vim.

Have you tried viper mode or one of the equivalents? I'm curious how it compares to vi. One of the things that I (as a long time Emacs user) have considered is to switch to using viper mode, even though I only know vi enough to edit a config file on a remote machine that lacks emacs. But I'm curious how it compares to the real thing, and if it gets in the way of ancillary emacs stuff (I can't live without stuff like "C-x v =" and "M-/").
Most tool-assisted speedruns (TASes) for old-school video games, usually RPGs like Pokemon, include a "manipulates luck" clause. The emulator uses save-states, and if there's a random encounter, the player reverts to an earlier state. Repeat until successful.

Some games have naturally exploitable RNGs too. The GBA RPG Golden Sun and its sequel, for example, had a RNG that was completely reverse-engineered for players to get the top items that normally only randomly drop extremely rarely.
Re switching: I did the same thing. After a year or two of doing my best to use Emacs as it was intended -- to ensure I "got" it -- I recently switched to evil-mode (another one of those vim-in-emacs implementations) and have been quite happy with it. I still get the good Emacsian stuff like using C-x C-e to eval one-offs in a scratch buffer but I also get the superior vi keybindings for navigating text.

(To respond to another comment here, I also tried viper mode but it never stuck. It might have been too soon after switching, or it might have been that it was missing some integrationy magic that I gave it the wrong feel.)
Where did you get your binary? Many linux packages have the .el source files as a separate package and only put the compiled .elc files in the main package.
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Yes, I agree, build it.

However, please do not make it like HN or you will fail.

Be different. Brand it. Have a personality.
There was a (surprise!) meta-thread about that, seems some people are happy using the site as a link resource.

Me, I prefer to have discussions, but it's been tough going. I'm optimistic but it may take a while.

Last time lobste.rs was mentioned on HN there was an influx of people, but the only noticeable effect was that there were more submissions and slightly higher average submission up-vote numbers. Commenting seem to stay about the same.
You know, sites have log files for basic stats... Tracking is completely another league. I feel no guilty using Ghostery fully blocking everything by default (and I'm not so paranoid).
Biased is a too strong a word

I can give more info about him as I am his friend, he grew up in middle east, moved back to India, went to canada for graduation, did a startup, sold it, back in India, worked with RTBI in chennai for couple of years before starting StartupCentre.

so he spent about 3 years in Canada, yeah he is exposed to developed countries
i was never claiming that somehow ethernet was "built into" the cpu, what im saying is, if you want the kind of features built into your motherboard usually associated with the high end, integrated CPUs will force you to buy a high end cpu aswell

stuff like:
dual built in nics, IO virtualization, FB-DIMMs, Multiple PCI-e 16x slots, SAS ports, SATA 3.0 ports (have been implemented with a separate controller)

can be bought on boards that support cheaper CPUs, however as these are "premium" features, you can be certain they will be bundled with an expensive CPU only.
This is a great statement, because it points to the fundamental problem with Descartes' legacy:

"His philosophical results are now largely a historical marker on a road to nowhere. His formalisms are still used by every human practitioner of math from elementary school students on up."

As if his "formalisms" could stand on their own without the philosophical foundations of his entire system. And yes this is what modernity after Hume did -- take Descartes' project forward long after the core assumptions had been completely undermined.

In many ways the history of modern philosophy since has been a quest to re-ground the Cartesian project with the kind of confidence he promised, and a succession of regressive rear-guard actions taken against the encroaching skepticism that threatened the entire enterprise at every turn. And finally we're left with a weird, cobbled-together Popperian/Kuhnian pragmatism that long ago gave up on "certainty" or "clarity" and settled for "less wrong."

No wonder philosophy is held in such low regard in scientific communities. It has done science no favors whatsoever in the last century, other than to progressively undermine its naive epistemological assumptions and redirect it back to some kind of Formal Realism -- at which point the scientific community yells "remember Galileo!!" and runs the other direction.

It's a sad state of affairs when we can't distinguish between the salutary philosophical insights of Aristotle and religious tyranny. It's going to take a long, long time to recast the entire narrative to where the two points of view can inform each other once again.
Some of it is inflammatory and though I don't agree with such treatment I can see why he received it.

One example is this: "Node.js has linear speedup over multiple cores for web servers."

In general it is possible to say crazy and inflammatory things without repercussions only if these 2 things are true: 1) There is already enough dev karma and respect 2) The things you say are true.

Think of Linus. Linus rails on people publicly and is quite insulting. But he has both lots of dev karma and also most stuff he says is true.

Think of average Joe programmer some place on a mailing list. They don't have public dev karma and even if they are right and say true things, if they say it in an insulting way they will face repercussions. Others might point out that he is right but he will still have to handle negative responses coming his way.

Ryan in this case has lots of dev karma (#1) but he messed up (#2), he said things that are wrong and because he put them in a rather insulting tone, this amplified the response.
You're making it awfully hard to get your Email address.
Or just create one themselves: http://harpb.com/static/news/news.html#/featured/p1/100

Presentation, along with content, is a better experience than just having good content.
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A generic speech about how our brains are spectacular in many ways. I honestly don't see any value in these things and I've really tried to. I guess they're just another bunch of motivational stuff that plague the world nowadays.

And what's the fuss about these TED meetings? Don't seem to get their value at all.
Evil[0] is where it's at for vi/m emulation. In my, albeit short, experience Evil is much less obtrusive than Viper and Vimpulse.

[0]: https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home
You can get "similar" Model M retros from Unicomp: http://www.pckeyboard.com/

They're 104 key (pg up/down, win key, etc). I had one until my cat killed it with a cup of water, I got a das keyboard afterwards.
> mneumonic

If you want to research things, it's helpful to spell them correctly. This, for example, is spelled 'mnemonic'.
I am nothing [2011]
Apparently, yes:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/08/anonymous-tracking-now-inc...
"But the Model M has more stopping power."
The features that make Emacs self-documenting are superbly done.

I wish other software systems emulated them.

Another example: if you write "(funcall " (or if the insertion point happens to be an existing call to "funcall") and then hit C-h f, Emacs prompts you with "Describe function (default funcall)".
If "funcall" is the function you wanted documentation about, you do not have to write out "funcall" again -- you just hit enter at the prompt.
When I was living in India last year, an Australian tech founder who rented a room in my apartment said we was tackling the kerosene problem too with solar. His company (Barefoot Power) wasn't highly technical, but rather put together components for an efficient solar powered light. The solar panel doubled as a mobile phone charger (phones are ubiquitous in India, even in the slums, so this was a huge selling point) and was enough to power the light for a full night.

I don't remember all the economics, but the cost of kerosene for x months would pay for the entire setup. Also, the light was an order of magnitude brighter than a kerosene lamp. But the interesting part (again, there's nothing highly technical here) was the business model.

It had a social/micro-finance bent in that he would source investors, who'd invest in shipping containers of these systems, which they'd sell on consignment to local entrepreneurs in poor areas. Those entrepreneurs would pay a fixed interest rate, so the investment was for-profit, and the local entrepreneur would profit from the rest. I remember him talking about building a Kiva-like interface where you could track your investment, right down to the shipping container, village and entrepreneur.

The best thing about this guy moving in was that my co-founder (of Flightfox) was just preparing for an expedition across the Gobi desert and needed solar power for her Macbook so she could blog about the expedition from the desert. All went well and she (Lauren) spent 52 days, trekking 1,000 miles, with full power and ability to blog over satellite the entire time. All using solar panels small enough to fit in a backpack.

That said, love the concept of the gravity light. For anyone who's spent a lot of time off grid, even dim light makes all the difference.

Edit: this system cost about $20.
I haven't. Oddly, I find that the Vim and Emacs parts of my brain are completely separate. When I open Vim, my fingers do Vim stuff, and when I open Emacs, my fingers do Emacs stuff.
>...but we’re still years away from seeing viable, affordable artificial meat – and probably many more years from convincing the public to eat it.

What about Quorn's 'mycoprotein'? They've been making it for years, and people have been eating it. There's some controversy, of course, but go into any grocery store and it's there. Not half bad either imo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn
I understand what you're trying to say, but it's hardly the same thing. Getting paid vs being "caged" then killed is a very different argument.
Did none of these people notice all the mirrors that popped up with in days of the last attempt to block TPB? All that happened was that TPB's database of torrents got spread around the net even more.

Thing is, they must know this. So, I have to think that more is at play and something nasty is waiting in the wings. What? I have no idea what so ever. But while its easy to mock the record industry, etc, they are really not stupid people. They must be up to something, IMHO.
Have the various spam-blockers of the world gotten more complacent? This seems like the sort of indiscriminate crawling that would get you both a lot of valid e-mail addresses and a permanent home in everyone's junk folder.
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No, i don't think we should celebrate about such a serious health issue. The data is alarming and future studies should focus on identifying the source of this trend. The decline is reported in developed countries (France and Britain), which already have at-or-below level replacement birth rates. The best way to reduce population growth in the developing world is to bring people out of poverty.
Now if they just get the ability to emulate SW: Rogue Squadron and Donkey Kong 64, I could die a happy man...
Ahh, that's because CDs are broken technology and should never be allowed into ones house or possession.
Each subreddit has different character, depending on the mods and the community that it attracts. Some skew one way, some skew another.
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That's not correct at all. You don't need website hosting to have a domain, and you could use free google apps on any domain you own, without paying for a host.
It's still very big news, unfortunately. There aren't that many that have switched; the majority of govs around the world are still filling Micro$oft's pockets.
A fantastic talk by Meredith L. Patterson on this very topic at 28c3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
Video games are designed to get you hooked
This is all too advanced for me, but I think it is a good idea. I only wish the articles were a tad longer. The SQL article looks really good, but the Tests article stops far short from its title and seems more preachy than useful.

I think the challenge of writing any good coding resource is balancing philosophy with content. Most books and articles swing far into philosophy with little assertion to back it up, usually at the cost of content. The authors always forget that the reason I bought the book or opened the article is because I am, 99% of the time, already sold on the philosophy, idea, programming language, [flavor]. The Tests article offers little substantial content and doesn't bother to offer up any specific examples. Yes, there is a mention of RoR and its ORM, but then it concludes: "Well designed code will never substitute testing, but does give you the reassurance that no code coverage can match." In regards to this, I think Rich Hickey said it best: "gem install hairball."
Why would a "natural" steak be intrinsically better than an "unnatural" steak? And what does that have to do with current nutritional thinking?
Actually, iOS 6 has awesome maps... of the world of Baldur's Gate.
Those revisions have actually enabled the problem to stay hidden longer; they've reduced the sperm count threshold at which men are considered "normal". You may be referring to technical issues, such as distinguishing live from dead sperm, or measuring motility---but WHO numbers don't reflect that.
No, and Maimonides was not Christian. However, a large portion of the body of at least European and American thought on charity comes out of the Christian tradition.
This looks like some interesting stuff. I'd love an an RSS feed to stay up to date.
I think it depends on the company. There are a lot of terrible companies that won't look at you for an ML/data science role without a PhD. That's true. There are others that will hire smart people and give them a chance.

What will probably happen is that the pool of "data science" jobs will grow, but the bottom half won't be real DS.

I don't mean to imply that a person can become a decent data scientist overnight. It takes years, but it can be done.

On Wall Street this sort of role is called a "quant", although there's less machine learning in finance than one would expect (hard to audit). "Data scientist" is a startup quant. Just as with quant jobs, some firms will only hire PhDs with research experience, while others will take chances on smart people without it.
I think many would disagree with you on your definition of what makes a time 'warlike'. I think proportions involved in war would make a lot more sense than absolute numbers.

I found this talk very interesting on a similar topic:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
It's a promising direction, but the diff is really just a stub at this stage.

I used to think Siri would be the beginnings of ambient intelligence, but it seems like Google cares more about the idea.
You don’t have the elisp sources installed. If you're on a unixy system, use your system’s package manager to install the "emacs-el" package.
I'm all for someone talking shit, but you have to be able to stand up to the blowback. I have little respect for someone who talks shit, then gets all bent out of shape that someone is talking shit about him.
could you guys explain why vim is faster in text editing than emacs?