skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To separate good products from bad? To find the best wine, beer, CMS system, programming language, cities to visit, video games to play, websites or even banks - all based on user-contributed votes? To engage in discussions around the stuff in your life you care about? I can think of a lot of reasons you could be motivated to start using a social list site.

Thanks for the input :)
Thank you, on it now! Do you have a specific page/input field in mind?
Oh bugger - after some though (I wanted to keep the name and command short) I've renamed it 'Nell' - after my dog https://github.com/tanepiper/nell
Many companies say 10 days as a legal CYA (10 days is the limit imposed by CAN-SPAM Act). In practice, despite what they say, it's usually instant.
Change the email you use there to yourname+linkedin@gmail.com, and then filter it out. :)
The Mac version of IE was basically a completely different browser. It had its own rendering engine, called Tasman, which was developed separately from Windows IE's rendering engine, Trident.
Don't think anyone said it is. But is the UN (where the many despotic nations would have influential votes) any better?

At least for the moment, the Internet is Free and Open.
Thanks a lot :) That's an excellent suggestion! We'll try to implement it asap. And kudos to you for seeing what we also (think we) see; which is a market - and need - for user-generated, collaborative online lists :)
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But aren't the mails which contain one-click unsubscribe links also spam because they use it to identify which email accounts are active and sell that information to other marketers?
Good input :)

The goal is to build a number 1 traffic destination; a kind of Pinterest or Youtube for lists. At its heart, Listnerd is a social discovery and recommendation tool. We want to help people separate good products from bad. That's our main goal. Everything else comes second. Money isn't the primary goal - or even the secondary. It's just a tool to create the site we want.
Hi, I tried to send you a response via email, but I think the address was incorrect. What email would you like my response sent to?
We're selling user-generated and user-curated content to everybody with a passion. We're Pinterest for lists.
This happened to me with TripIt. A colleague invited me and they started sending me spam without any action from myself, and it was to my corporate account without an easy spam button like yahoo mail or gmail. I couldn't unsubscribe without creating an account first. I ended up emailing their corporate address notifying them they were violating CAN-SPAM and they manually removed me, and a PR contact apologised. I advised them they should give non-users a way to unsubscribe. I'm not sure if they ended up following my advice. My colleagues are loyal users, but just because your users love you doesn't mean your non-users want your email.
Quora was awesome until their privacy fiascos.
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Also, Facebook's stock included a liquid stock component, whereas Twitter's offer didn't offer any short-term liquidity for shareholders.
Yeah, I thought about this after and realize that you're probably right.

However, the ChromeOS version of Chrome does include a version of Flash that seems to work. Moreover, BlackBerry 10's browser comes with its own version of Flash too. So it's out there, but likely not available for distribution outside of closed systems.
would love one as well
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I don't know of any general biz forums besides the Bank of America small business forum and it's pretty dead over there."

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niche idea
small business forums
You seem to have missed the part where the extreme example is not real life. If you exclude people without black hair from suspicion, then the baddies will find someone without black hair. You cannot assume P(B|A) will not be modified by the policies you adopt. ...well, you can if you are the TSA and don't actually have to answer to anybody....

P(B|A) will never be 100% anyway though, so even if the terrorists were unable to adapt it would not matter. The point is that even in the absurd event that you found a P(B|A) that was 100%, it doesn't mean it is useful. Or do you actually think that screening for black hair in the example would be worthwhile?
What you're describing really doesn't sound like clinical depression to me.

I am glad that you've found something that works for you.
The Petraeus affair didn't come to light because of surveillance. That was a garden variety love triangle that blew up. The FBI wouldn't have known if they hadn't been told.
Tell that to the New England Journal of Medicine, please. I have unsuccessfully tried to unsubscribe from them several times and they do not use this simple pattern.
TripIt is one of the offenders for certain. The network updates are obnoxious.
Link to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai...
>In the old days of US funded IRA attacks against amongst other things, our government, we never let the terrorists win.

Are you implying our government funded the IRA? Also, it's pretty rich being criticized by a Brit for the surveillance state. You guys have a camera system that would have made Orwell proud.
I think "visiting a single page" means precisely one-click.

Because once click takes you to the page. Any further action, even while you're on that same page, is an additional requirement, which is disallowed.
Strongly suggest that those interested in Oracle tuning look at Cary Millsap's book on Oracle tuning.
Pretty sure Firefox OS is only running on phones so far, as the screenshots suggest: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxos/
Meetup.com also send out "A waitlist is available for [event]" e-mails - perhaps the most unhelpful e-mail possible, and as far as I can tell the only way to turn them off is to turn off everything.

Makes me thankful for gmail's filtering.
If Systrom (and his cofounder) had a controlling interest in Instagram, are they even required to act in the best interests of the other shareholders? That's kind of the point of a controlling interest, no? To break ties when shareholders can't decide what's in the overall best interest of the company/shareholders?
FYI: most SPAM feedback systems reduce your account weight ('trust score') if you tag your non-SPAM emails as SPAM.

Although I agree with one-click-unsubscribe sentiment, clicking SPAM on an e-mail you subscribed for is not very productive.
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This is not the first time i have heard of people having full access to yahoo servers for a substantial amount of time.
I would not limit yourself to a startup. Larger companies can provide fine internship experiences, and by opening up the field you may find it easier to find something to get your career started. Barring the most bureaucratic of internship targets, no startup worth working for is going to consider it some sort of black mark that you interned with a larger company. Plus larger companies will find it easier to deal with the paperwork.

You need to concentrate on just getting a foot in the door, and worry about how to leverage that into your ideal career once you've got that worked out.

(And just let me clear, I'm not saying only apply to larger companies. I'm saying, play the whole field for now.)
This should be promoted in any company. If you cant say it or its "not cool" to ask these kind of questions get a new job.

It works against the biggest problem we all have miscommunication.
Flickr's current rule is if it's marked as copyrighted it's not to be downloaded unless it's your image. They know who you are which is how they let you add, delete images through the API.

Otherwise, they arguably need to add more permissions. They know who you've marked as friends and who you've marked as family. Facebook and G+ have no problem restricting access to images based far more complicated criteria.
Many truly interesting technical posts never make it to the front page. Instead it's mostly self-help/anti-procrastination garbage, reviews of the latest tablets and posts about how shitty U.s. math education is.
I found it was actually easier to edit my profile then unsubscribe from SPAM crap I get from Linked in. So I changed my profile to reflect this but I still get spam everyday :(

http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/matt-gascoigne/17/a25/9b6
So, how's that going for them?

Didn't the last little video propaganda just note that IE "sucks less" than it used to, and that all people who dislike IE are trolls? Wow, that's really effective. IE propaganda like that surely makes me want to give up my browsing experience and switch to Windows.
Can you make your scripts smaller?
Thank you for sharing this. I shared a very similar path to yours and it's reassuring to read your story.
"It is possible investors would have been better off selling in an open auction, to Twitter or even to Google or Microsoft."

Really? This is not the sale of a Picasso painting. I believe there is always risk of putting off potential buyers, and you might not get the highest bid by optimizing the process down to the last detail. You might as well close it while you can. I believe the founders did the right thing.
There's no real difference between automatic and semi-auto in terms of how dangerous they are. An experience marksman will use both the same way (as spraying full auto greatly reduces accuracy). An inexperienced marksman with a fully automatic weapon will empty their magazine into the ceiling. Burst fire might be a bit better (it's what the US Army uses), but semi-auto is more lethal than fully auto in the hands of most people.

Overall, murder rates won't change a lot. Husbands and wives will still be able to murder each other. Gangsters will fight with knives, or illegal guns. But mass murders will be harder to pull off. It might also make the police more effective, as they will rarely be outgunned.
Thank you. I am just baffled that an insurance company would pay for an unnecessary test instead of one that was deemed necessary. It seems completely contradictory to how they want to make money.
> Maybe people sign them up for mailing lists b/c they are jerks or something

Not possible if you have a confirm step. And you should have a confirm step.
The CEO may not have a fiduciary duty towards minority shareholders, but the controlling shareholders do, in this case it sounds like they are one and the same.

If you have to break a tie, then you aren't a controlling shareholder. The idea behind controlling shareholding is that as long as you follow your duties to the minority you can install whoever you want (perhaps yourself) on the board, the board can then install whoever they want as CEO (perhaps yourself)

These things get really murky in private companies where the board, controlling interest, and CEO are shared by one individual.
Those "stupid ideas" may not be so stupid
Even if you make it easy to unsubscribe (one click, no sign-in, prominent link), sending an email to any large number of people will still result in "mark as spam" being used on a surprisingly large percent of messages.

Where I work, we send mail through Amazon SES, so we get digests of all the messages that have been marked as spam (stripped of identifying email headers). We see it used on (marketing) newsletters of course, but also on welcome messages; transactional messages (both the "action required to receive money" and "you owe us money" type, though the latter get marked as spam much more frequently); password reset messages; and pretty much anything else we've sent out more than some middling-to-large number of times.

To help deal with this, we include a token in each message and process the digests so marking a message as spam will unsubscribe you (or disable the notification). It's not ideal from our point of view - because we are presumably getting dinged by the mail provider when someone marks a message as spam - but hopefully it helps in the long run since we don't send more messages that will likely just get marked as spam.

When I mark something as spam, I'm doing it to penalize the sender. Whether they made it hard for me to unsubscribe, bought my email from someone else to spam me (hooray for "+blah" gmail aliases), or whatever else - I see it as a different action than unsubscribing. I'm not sure, however, that this difference is commonly perceived. It seems like there are a lot of people out there that use it much less judiciously.

Occasionally I will mark a message as spam in Gmail and get a dialog asking if I want to unsubscribe instead of mark as spam; though I only recall this happening with messages from Google properties. It would be nice (though possibly ripe for abuse) if there was some way to let Gmail know where the unsubscribe link is in the message, so third parties could take advantage of this feature. That way the user could be a little clearer about whether they are punishing the sender, or just want the message to go away.
I'd love that as well. It's certainly something I'd like to implement... but as of yet, I haven't come across many use cases (personally) in which it's necessary.

That said, I would definitely accept help in adding event-driven rules!
Arduino to the rescue? :)
It's so critical to foster a culture where "I don't understand" and (to risk going off on a tangent) "I don't think that's right" is acceptable, even if its an intern to a CEO.

Reminds me of The Checklist Manifesto which cites how OR nurses and doctors who communicated best--they know each others names and nurses can tell doctors "stop"--had fewer surgical errors.
If you're going to work remotely, I would recommend skipping the internship. If you know rails and can throw together a nice webapp, and you're studying CS, you're qualified to do real work. Just apply for some contracts on the basic freelancer sites out there, get some experience, then apply to more ambitious places.

Open source participation could also provide meaningful interaction with others on par with an internship.
One thing that irks me is when you're given some sort of spec document and just told by someone senior the equivalent to RTFM; no questions tolerated ... you have to read and understand the document by yourself, and that's it. That's happened a couple of times to me... and its totally unproductive.
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Does anyone know the purpose of having both the "id" and "id_str" attributes?
You were describing a world in which regulatory and material constraints prevent growth in supply to meet demand. As a simplified model, consider an economy consisting of only medical services (one of your supplied examples). Then:

Real GDP per capita = gross medical services provided / population

If population goes up but gross medical services stay flat, real gdp per capita falls. Nominal GDP per capita can rise of the elasticity of demand of medical services is greater than one.

Being temporary just means that real GDP per capita will eventually reach it's previous level - a temporary Malthusian nightmare rather than a permanent one.
Do therapists / psychiatrists / psychologists really help? Genuinely interested. I would never consider (have never considered) seeing a therapist / psychiatrist, even if/when depressed. I imagine them to be people with soft science degrees who believe in a wishy-washy mixture of psychobabble and pseudo-science. Surely an intelligent person can see what their questions are getting at and influence the therapist's inferences accordingly, in the same way as you can when taking those silly multiple choice psychological assessments? What would a highly educated person with training in rigorous disciplines get out of talking to a therapist? Not being aggressive; genuinely interested. (I'm mid-30s, male, didn't grow up in a culture where you have your own therapist like they do on Manhattan TV shows (do real people do that?)).
Wanting to avoid this fate is essentially what led me to learn social skills & politics. I literally doubled the profits of one 40-person company and received nothing but a "congratulations."

One of the best things you can do is work out an agreement beforehand. Say, "If I accomplish X, Y, and Z in the next year, that's definitely worth (reward Q)." You probably can't get this in writing, but almost any boss will honor their word after a highly specific agreement. This tactic is (part of) how I got a double promotion just 8 months after joining one of the most bureaucratic companies in the world-where the average time for a promotion was 7 years.

From a manager's perspective, agreeing to a promotion in exchange for a certain level of performance feels like a business transaction. But being asked for a promotion after an employee has accomplished something feels like you're just paying more for the same work. Irrational, but true.

(By the way, if anyone ever wants advice on salary negotiations/corporate politics, I'm always happy to help fellow HNers. My email is in my profile.)
>Once your project is entrenched, you can feel like you have the power to say whatever you want because your community is vast. That's a problem.

How is that a problem? What do you propose we do about it? Should be fine people for saying mean things? I don't follow, sorry.
Yup. The fact, however, is that it is not used widely. My guess here is that we are facing a problem where requirements differ depending on the scale. We may want local services to register with DNS automatically as they start and be reachable within seconds (DNS-SD use case). With the services facing the outside world, standard pre-defined records with 72hr propagation time are preferable (RFC2782 use case).

Moreover, I would say there's a need for location-dependent resolving of service names to limit the availablity of local services, to return a topologically close instance of the service etc.

All in all, the problem is far from being solved yet.
I have a problem with your second statement. Why is it hard for you?? Why does the timing have anything to do? If anything, apploud to Mr. Systrom for building a service that attracted millions in such a short period of time. Every one of us trying to build a startup would love to have the same exit.
I'm managing a project right now, and I've found that frequently if I don't understand something, then saying this is indeed helpful. It felt silly the first few times, as I'm supposed to know the hows and whys as the project manager. But it offers me an opportunity to learn, and a few times has found sections of code that weren't really understood by anybody (perhaps from prior developers or cut/pasted from god knows where).

Great advice.
Weeeell it's a brand campaign, right, so they'll be measuring it in all sorts of fuzzy terms that provide resistant to boring stuff like "numbers" and "statistics". :P

Don't forget that you are not likely to be the target audience. I'm not a marketing person, but my guess is they're looking to staunch the flow of home users away from windows, and assuring CTO's that the browser won't continue to hold the ecosystem back.

Attracting back Apple users or trying to convince Ubuntu fans to switch to the dark side probably doesn't feature in the plan, for now.
Have you asked your members? Personally this sounds like a potential paid membership site, lure them in with content & tools, keep them there with the community.
But, how to act after people have tried everything they could think of to no avail? Is medication a better solution than some spanking (especially when it's unclear a mental problem exists)? I wouldn't be so sure about that.
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1 spam report per how many sent emails?
Udemy is one of the spammiest services I have ever come across. Despite, hitting unsubscribe and going through the motions over 10 times, emailing them half a dozen times and finally deleting my account - I still get spammed.

Udemy is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Spam for me.
Nothing that happens to a corporation is a "private matter." Any time you do business in corporate form, you are taking advantage of certain privileges (namely limited liability) extended by the state. The State of California has an interest in any activity that affects its corporations. As Facebook and Instagram, as California corporations, derive their very existence from California law, this interest is much more specific than the general interest the state has in economic activity within its borders.
I first noticed this effect in college, when the prof would be talking about something that didn't make sense to me. If I remained silent, he'd never explain (of course) and I'd remain ignorant. However, whenever I asked him, everyone would start furiously writing down his explanation in their notes.

So I got into the habit of saying "I don't understand". Inevitably, there would be quite a number of other people who also didn't understand, but were afraid to ask, so I'd just ask first. That stuck with me throughout my career and served me well. If you don't understand, ask.

Also, contrary to common sentiment, there is no minimum competency level that grants you the privilege of saying "I don't understand." Ignorance is not a monopoly of the elite.
To my knowledge Apple has discontinued Safari for Windows, so I'd say Microsoft is not alone in tying their browser to their OS.
After you reduce the idea (as per your post), then the "idea" of concept of XYZ becomes a ~meaningless heuristic. And on that, we agreee. So there is no need to argue "with" you. Hope you understand. Nothing personal.
Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher from 2,500 years aging said this. "Wisest is he who knows he does not know".

And er, Donald Rumsfeld, when talking about unknown unknowns.
Apple has actually stopped updating Safari on Windows months ago: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apples-removes-mentions-...

Filed under link bait, IMHO. There are so many better opportunities, even Windows Media Player for Mac would make more sense, if it was everything that people want iTunes to be, and you could use it as a Trojan Horse for Windows Phone sync, online services etc...
I am sorry about your situation but also curious as to how you think insurance companies work (if you don't mind me asking).
Do you think you can actually convert those $300 clients into paying a reasonable hourly rate?
The ACM is also really horrible. Subscription options are located in two or three hard-to-find places on the website. They kept on sending me emails somehow, and I eventually had to file a support ticket to get my account deleted.
>it's just that you think toxic behavior is acceptable.

You think that calling someone's idea crappy is unacceptable? In what sense of the word? Are you saying that it should be illegal to make fun of someone's ideas?
One expression of this that I hear from newer devs (and clients) sometimes is "Can't we just...?" and what it really means is "I don't understand", but in a more socially safe way. If I address the question as if it were "what am I missing that makes this seemingly simple solution not viable?" it usually addresses the question and spreads better understanding. I also find that if someone is having trouble understanding my design, it is only rarely a lack of understanding on their part, and more often a lack of good design and good communication of that design on my part. "I don't understand" is a cue to try to make your architecture, design, and code more understandable.