skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term Layer 8 and PEBKAC exist for a reason.

That said, she now knows that people aren't reading the instructions and should find someone to get them to.
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Can you or someone else post a screenshot so we can see what it actually looks like?
Google Timothy Ferriss, he has written a lot about this topic.
> We're both "high trust" societies. Compare to the Chinese stereotype/archetype of not trusting someone outside the family to run part of the business, which helped to kill Wang in the US and abroad outside of the PRC tends to limit firms to simple types like trading companies.

Sure, but I explicitly excluded non-modern countries. (I have lived in China.)

> I agree, we are in many ways very different, many of them fundamental, but many fundamental are similar enough.

Okay, but you're not controlling for any variables. Like you say, there are many differences even if there are similarities too.
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What I find even more mind-bending is that since premium brands often come from the same production line as cheaper brands, you're actually paying a company a premium to to convince you they're worth the premium for convincing you even more they're worth ... you get my point.
Well, to be perfectly honest... I don't remember a single bit from any of those classes. Also, they were in C++.
Make something people want and are willing to pay for it.
It's not really an under-the-radar hard sell. Here's the page in question, which nobody in this thread can be arsed to look at: http://cl.ly/image/2V302C3j290B

Now, I can see how one might miss the fact that this will send an email.

Things you can say if you're being intellectually honest:

* The fact that this will send an email should be more prominent
* The content of the email should be more explicit
* The tone of the email was overly personal
* The from: field appears as if it's from the person, not FD

Things you can't say if you're being intellectually honest:

* The form is opt-out
* There's no copy on the page indicating an email will be sent
* The copy on the page is hidden below the fold
* The copy on the page is worded designed to mislead the user
* The fact that clicking submit will send an email is obscured
* There is no indication about the content or tone of the email that will be sent

Looking at this page, the most aggressive case I can make is for a slightly confusing design that should better highlight the consequences of choosing vouchers. It doesn't seem in any way misleading and doesn't show any of the fingerprints of someone looking to trick a user into accidentally emailing their friends.
That's a great point. Part of learning SQL is learning what parts of it _not_ to use. Things like HAVING and ORDER BY are useful for ad hoc queries at a SQL command-line, but are either not useful or a waste when there's another level in the system like a BI tool.
Thank you for posting the screenshot but I don't think this is the one I saw. It was a different flow. I was not applying and asking people to vouch for me. I believe I was asked who I would vouch for.
Bingo, and it's many studies; amusingly, the first was done with data collected by gun grabbers, and it had lower numbers since it didn't ask if the respondent had used a gun in self-defense more than once during the year.

Current numbers put self-defense gun uses at something like 2.25 million per year, with indeed way over 90% never involving a gun being discharged.

There's also a systematic difficulty in the other direction, I'm pretty sure most criminal uses of guns also don't involve it being discharged. And some fraction of those don't get reported to the police or then reported accurately, you'd need to start with the national crime survey data.
Thanks for sharing. Actually “issues with authority” is exactly what got me fired ~2 years ago after "assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest, and care about […] people". They didn't. On any level.

The worst part is how much time and care is needed to fully recover from the rejection feeling and depression that can ensue.
It depends on the category, but we provide a convenient CSV file for you to download to calculate any additional taxes.
> There is nothing like AIM left.

In addition to the practical merits you've listed, nothing else sips bandwidth quite like AIM. Despite being the champion of open-source communication, XMPP is fairly awful on low-bandwidth, high-latency links. AIM, partially as a product of the era in which it was engineered, doesn't care a bit.
Well, of course it's a toxin. There's a reason it's added to water: In small amounts, it is not harmful to human health but is harmful to bacteria that cause cavities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#Safety
Related to your feedback on my start-up, I do not think it was harsh and think it is spot on.

Again to transition - unless I am mistaken YC does guarantee I believe in the form of a convertible note in the amount of $80,000 which was reduced from $150,000 from past batches. Though any automatic funding is irrelevant to my point.

I even agree and say in my 1st reply that there is an inherent problem with YC permitting a company who was rejected, to present at demo day unbeknownst to the investors. I just do not think such a move would injure YC, they could disclose that 1 of the companies is non-YC but their identity will remain unknown until after demo day - I even believe investors would be very interested in learning who that 1 company was if only to justify their own bias towards YC companies especially if it is determined that the non-YC company attracted more investor attention than the average YC company - and in such a case you are correct YC may lose credibility. As an investor if your going to skip YC demo day because they are experimenting with their own program, that is your loss as the investor. Keep in mind YC is an experiment to begin with, they just have been very successful at what they set out to do...disrupt the start-up industry.
Ah, I think there may be some confusion as to how Gmail works. The purpose of labels in Gmail is that you can click them and see all the emails with that particular label. This is analogous to a folder in Windows XP or Windows 7 with files in it.

You may be confusing "filtering" with "deleting", where this is definitely NOT the case. The point of my above post is that inessential emails skip my inbox until I CHOOSE to click the label (when I have time), and then I see the inessential emails all at once.

I do this several times per day, so there is no risk of "missing" an email. In the case of getting an email from your dad at a new address, I would click the label at lunch or whenever convenient, and boom, there it is.

Just because an email is not in your "Inbox" doesn't mean it is gone forever.

Does that make sense?

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I did a bit of research and below I inserted some snippets from the official Gmail Help pages that would be good to read over to understand more about what I am getting at:

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https://support.google.com/mail/answer/32608

Deleting unimportant mail is a great way to free up some of your storage,
but with Gmail's free storage, you can probably keep those messages,
too! If it's possible that you'll need a message or conversation in the
future, we recommend archiving.

Archiving mail moves messages out of your inbox and into your "All Mail"
label for safekeeping-- you won't be bothered with extra messages
cluttering your inbox, but you'll still be able to find a message if you need
it six years from now!

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https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6576

Archiving lets you tidy up your inbox by moving messages from your inbox
into your All Mail label, so you don't have to delete anything. It's like
moving something into a filing cabinet for safekeeping, rather than
putting it in the trash can.

Any message you've archived can be found by clicking the "All Mail" label
on the left side of your Gmail page. You can also find a message you've
archived by clicking on any other labels you've applied to it, or by
searching for it.

When someone responds to a message you've archived, the conversation
containing that message will reappear in your inbox.

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https://support.google.com/mail/answer/118708

Labels help you organize your messages into categories -- work, family,
to do, read later, jokes, recipes, any category you want. Labels do all
the work that folders do, but with an added bonus: you can add more
than one to a message.

Only you can see your labels, so whether you mark a message with "Best
friend" or "Read later," the sender will never know.
The DoJ doesn't need warrants to produce email and chat evidence in a lawsuit just like they don't need a warrant to produce other kinds of physical evidence from third parties. A subpoena will suffice and always has. People seem to be unaware of how critical subpoenas are to due process, and how long they've been used.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act
Actually, I just had this happen to me today.

From my perspective, you fooled me into using my professional network to advertise your service. You sent an email which purported to be me, put words in my mouth, and made me look like an ass to my colleagues.

I had to go look in my LinkedIn inbox and send out apology emails to everyone you messaged on my behalf.

> (in white writing) on black backgroud)

In tiny text. That I didn't notice until it was too late.

> and let you see the message

I didn't see the message beforehand. It isn't visible by default. I didn't realize what you were really going to do until I Googled for "FounderDating spam", which turned up the above article. That article, by the way, was submitted by one of the people you spammed, and who I wrote an email to to apologize.

> it's also completely opt-in - no tricks where you can't find the "x".

It's actually opt-out, not opt-in. And by opt-out, I presume that means I should've marked all of your default selections as not "entrepreneurial".

> not send or choose who they send a message to

It's not clear from the UI that picking a person sends a message to them.

> There is nothing sneaky about it.

In my opinion, it's downright deceptive.

> there isn't much we can do about that.

You could try not abusing my trust.
They almost certainly don't, I'm sure he was just saying that since that's always the accusation amongst the paranoid with consumer encryption.
It's better than QuickCheck. It performs whitebox testing - that is, it has knowledge of the code and actively uses this to generate inputs that explore all possible branches.
I recently switched to node.js after working with PHP for years. I did learn to appreciate a few things the apache+php combination does by itself.. but there is no way I would go back to PHP.
You can test it online at pex4fun.com. Here are two tests, one using a function that takes built-in types as parameters and instantiates a Thing to operate on, and a second that takes a Thing input and operates on it directly. It seems to generate interesting cases for both, but it's much more easily readable with the more basic input types, as the parameters are easily displayed in the table.

http://pex4fun.com/default.aspx?language=CSharp&code=OgP...

http://pex4fun.com/default.aspx?language=CSharp&code=_QL...
I actually chuckled.
You also have an incredibly bad attitude, and have a difficult time taking constructive criticism. Your default wording is ridiculous. A user wasn't able to understand the consequences of your UX. That's a failing on YOUR part. Grow up.
Very true. Perhaps I should try getting into the habit of using PayPal instead of credit cards.
That's not the page the blog post is talking about. The page the blog is talking about is the one people are sent to after they vouch for someone who has filled out that page.
Rex is the equivalent of Pex (which is what this is based upon) for regular expressions: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/rex/
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Notice they said "encrypted" passwords not (salted password hashes) passwords.

I don't trust "encrypted" password because my experience with Host Gator: I contacted Host Gator support to reset my password and they were able to send me my previous PLAINTEXT password. I asked them how this was possible and they told me that the passwords were encrypted and only a few people had access to it.

People who also have access to it: Anyone who can see the Host Gator email que and the mail-servers the email passed through.

I promptly closed my account with them.
That's strange, I did receive their email (at 1:45PM EST to be exact). Did you check your SPAM folder?
What do you recommend instead?

Build a custom CMS for your website, on the basis that even though you probably won't do a better job than wordpress in terms of security you will be obscure enough that nobody will bother you?

I've actually done this in the past with no (known) compromises on something that I'm sure I could pay a smart teenager who watched a few defcon talks to rip apart in an few hours.

Or is there some platform you would recommend that is inherently more secure by design? Like an OpenBSD of the CMS world.
That's not the page in question.
I'm the first to jump into the pit and start publicly shaming companies that abuse my privacy but in this case I'm not sure FounderDating deserves as much flak as it's getting:

1) Selection of which contacts to message was opt-in. The OP decided that he wanted to send a message to a particular subset of his contacts.

2) There was a View/Edit message link that the OP didn't bother to utilize.

So between 1) and 2), we have case where somebody opted-in to having a service message their contacts, didn't look to see what that message was going to be even though they had the option to, and then got angry when they discovered they didn't like the content of the message that they could have viewed or edited beforehand.

The "I highly recommend applying... you'll thank me later" piece of the message is certainly inappropriate because this was a "get friend to vouch for you" feature, not a "recommend founder dating feature". Still, I don't see this as "spamming your LinkedIn contacts" nor a massive violation of trust. Also, OP's failure to mention the existence of the View/Edit Message link in his rant seems rather dishonest.

Edit: I'd love if the early down-voters could explain why they disagree. You seem to have read my entire message in about 20 seconds..
This is the first confirmation I've seen of Name.com being hacked. That's a fairly significant sticking point, particularly as the known attack vector on Linode was a ColdFusion exploit, not a complete takeover of their registrar...
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For context:

> FounderDating asked me to identify ten that I would vouch for. I didn’t have to do it but I thought oh well, I guess I’ll do it and see what happens. So all I did was click their photos. Nothing more.

Can't speak to the rest of the flow but clicking photos indeed sounds like opting in.
pretty neat mate.
That's an unfair statement given that it's an invite only page.
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One of my greatest hopes as a search user is that Amazon goes full force into general search - because as a retailer they will see me as a customer rather than a saleable datum.
Good points. A clarification (also stated in the first paragraph of the post): this was not "get a friend to vouch for you." This was "who would you vouch for?"

I am the OP.
The name sounded familiar. This company is a bit spammy anyway.

I am part of the Silicon Valley Java User Groups meetup. I got this e-mail from one of their employee in early March:

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Hey fellow Dev's,

I'm a ux designer who just joined the community and I wanted to share info about a great service that seems super relevant for this crew - FounderDating (no, it's not romantic). FounderDating (FD) is an invite-only, online network for entrepreneurs to connect with cofounders. Why FD?

High Quality - members are carefully screened for quality and readiness (no recruiters, etc.) Applications and members’ identities are confidential, but a few of the folks who are part of the network are former founders or early employees from: stackmob, Salesforce, Zynga, Loggly and Gilt just to name a few.

Balanced - 50% engineering & 50% non-engineering

Reach- FD’s online network allows you to connect with people in your city and beyond to share ideas and begin building something you’re passionate about.

No Idea Necessary - FD is about the people, so you don’t need to have an idea, just be ready to work on a serious side project

The deadline is April 8th, so apply now. http://members.founder[redacted].com/application

Cheers and feel free to reach out to me off-list with questions,
Abby

===

BTW, this is "Abby's" meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/members/8035133/. Not sure if she also goes by another name (Gail) or what. Let's give her the benefit of doubt.

Who joins a new meetup and right away sends plugs for their own project? At least, I don't think that's the norm.
> I'm pretty sure, as it is now, corporations that have shareholders are obligated to be unethical.

Not if the shareholders want them to be ethical more than profitable. Arguably, shared ownership tends to promote turning a blind eye to that aspect.
I just explained this to my aunt and uncle who have been paying for AOL for 18 months because they thought they'd have to have their AT&T service setup again.
If you find Photostream confusing you don't need to use it. Simple as that. It's not even activated by default, you have to turn it on the first time you try to access it.

If you don't activate it, you phone keeps working the way it used to: you sync to your computer and thats that. There are third party apps that will let you upload to Dropbox and google+ if you prefer those as repository.

Now, the thing is that you want the convenience to have PhotoStream without worrying about space constraints. Ever.

iPhoto automatically creates a folder with all last month's Photostream pictures and I think thats default behavior, unless you purposely turn it off. To me, thats the most "smart" sync can get, unless you want Apple to store every photo you ever took, forever, in their servers. Having around 400 million iOS users worldwide this seems to me a little unrealistic at the moment. Maybe someday.

But for me the key here is just being able to delete your own content. You don't expect the memory card in your camera to last forever, you periodically format it. You don't expect your download folder to hold everything you download forever. Every now and then you go in and clean around. Your phone (ioS, Android or whatever) is no different. Go into that Camera Roll and start cleaning around.

Unless you turn it off the option all the photos are already in iPhoto, ordered by month (something like "Sept XXX Photostream"). If you turned it off, just impoert all the photos before deleting to make sure you don't end up loosing any pics.

I agree on the video, though. Photostream needs to start syncing videos as well.
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Anecdotally, from what I've heard and what I observed in the Missouri CCW class I took, the demographics of concealed carry are strongly biased to the older, mostly middle-aged and older.

For exactly the reason you point out. Grandma and grandpa have gotten too old to even think of holding their own in hand to hand combat, but a very large fraction can safely use handguns. And, anecdotally, in my CCW class it was mentioned they had only failed two people, one guy who couldn't observe Rule 2 (was pointing his handgun everywhere, can't remember if he was really old), and one old lady who wasn't strong enough to rack the slide of Glock (unfortunately she gave up at that point instead of finding a solution that was within her physical capabilities).
Looks good! A few numbers are off for me, though.

Paid says I have a transfer today, but it's actually coming tomorrow according to the Stripe site (and my bank account :)

The monthly volume on the dashboard is also 6x my current volume. Is it estimating what my volume would be for the month based on the amount so far?
AltWWDC is not the same as CocoaConf - http://altwwdc.com/
Fair enough. Replace "wrong" with "generally considered a suboptimal idea".
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Francioni calls into question the town of Corridonia(Italy)
Opens a dispute on the Court in Macerata (Italy) among the athlete Gianluca Francioni and the town of Corridonia, the company that operates the stadium "Martini" and Fanfulla Lodi (Milan) Athletic Team, with he was signed when the accident occurred that has forced into inactivity by December 2010 and perhaps will lead to abandonment of events.<p>In the lawsuit to get compensation for damage Gianluca Francioni, will be assisted by Lawyer Giancarlo Nascimbeni in Macerata which prepared the summons for the hearing on 5/29/2013.<p>The athlete who, in his long career, which began in 1984 won the title of Italian champion in the shotput, 5 Convocations in the Italian national team, national record holder and in 2010 celebrated together with his brother Simon, 4 times Italian champion, who was also a national level shotputter, 25 years of career and that thanks to the training carried out in the United States at Rutgers University under the guidance of coach Tony Naclerio Development Member the United
States and the Olympic Coordinator for throwing events in Olympic race have achieved all these results, has gained this decision after serious injury that occurred in December 2010 at the stadium "Martini" of Corridonia (MC), during one of his training due to the broke the launch platform. The facilities of the stadium used for the shot put, before the accident were the subject of several reports by national and regional mass media.
Pro Tip: If the app is meant for distribution, you'll want to make sure Write-Protect on the floppy is enabled.
Use a static site generator to the extent that you can. But, honestly: I think you'd stand a good chance of doing better than Wordpress starting from scratch. There are a couple of very difficult design decisions embedded into Wordpress that make life much harder for them than it needs to be for you.
Music blogs/forums will be interested.

Matrixsynth, Muffwiggler, Gearslutz, check all of these out.

"I've also written to multiple editorial teams with a suggestion for a guest article on computer music - no reply.

These include Mashable, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Ars, Wired, TheNextWeb, The Verge, GigaOm.

Why is it that something seems to be much appreciated by the community, but no journalist seems interested?"

Because they specialize in people who consume, not creators.

Actual creativity on the internet that isn't "viral" is niche and doesn't bring in pagehits.

"Tech journalists" really are catering and pandering and not interested in all aspects of technology. Pay attention to the content that gets published, is it really ~that~ interesting or is it pushing popular nerd'ry to a mass audience?