sean_patel

Thank you.

DUPE: Previous discussion [Fri the 13th] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392292

DUPE: + OP engaging in click-bait by changing title and posting again.

Previous click-bait Fri 13. Jan : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392292

haha. Yes it was a typo/autocorrect. lol. thanks.

Funny, but jokes aside, I found the NLP to be quite impressive / accurate.

I put the following phrase

> I nut on my girlfriends face.

and the parser correctly tagged 'nut' as a VBP (i.e. Verb, non­-3rd Person Singular resent) i.e. that 'nut' in this context is a verb, and not a noun.

Here's what the tagging returned (all words with tags)

I/PRP nut/VBP on/IN my/PRP$ girlfriends/JJ face/NN ./.

Tag Descriptions: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1833718/325521

> I've been warning friends and family about this for years.

How did it work out? I tried the same too, but it was falling into deaf years. Most common response. "Sean beta (means son in hindi). You are being excessively paranoid. Facebook is a closed community, and I only share info with friends and family, so don't worry."

> analogous ways.

I really don't understand what this mean? Can anyone explain?? Thank you :)

> If Mr. Zuckerberg takes seriously his oft-stated commitments to diversity and openness, he must grapple honestly with the fact that Facebook is no longer just a social network. It’s an advertising medium that’s now dangerously easy to weaponize.

The story is chilling. It more or less proves that Trump campaign and the Billionaire Republican donor who owns the Data Analytics site used Facebook to profile people and send targeted "fear" stories to them and swing the vote away from Clinton.

Fear is a great motivator.

> The rate of rape in Germany is 9.37 per 100,000 people.[Wikipedia]

Wrong. Wikipedia now shows

> The rate of rape in Germany is 3470 per 100,000 people.

(guess who updated it :)

Quote a better source for your stats please.

Steve Jobs would never have allowed this to happen. R.I.P. :(

> irresponsible conjecture.

More like mis-informed assertion on your part. The filing employer is REQUIRED BY LAW to prove that they couldn't find an equally qualified person in USA.. They are required to post a job listing and vet applicants. The H1B abusers like Microsoft, Infosys skirt around this by putting an ad in an obsure local newspaper that no-one is going to read. And even if someone applies the Hiring Manager finds some grounds to reject the applicant without legally getting into a pickle ("ex: candidate failed verbal tech interview etc).

See: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62M...

and

https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupati...

Which they (you) are. This is comical!

> APIful is a blog dedicated to topics in web APIs and API based web services. Join us on moving the internet forward with APIs!

Not trolling, but seriously wondering what APIful.io's value proposition is. Home page is confusing and after stumbling around a bit, it looks like they crawl API usage on github and stackoverflow questions on those API.

How would a full-stack engineer like me use the site, and for what purpose / value? Also, their about page list over 10 people. How is the site monetized??

> I'm not saying vaping is safe. But I'm saying that it's obvious that it's safer than cigarettes.

Agreed. Saying something is 'safer' than something else, doesn't make the original thing 'Safe'. Vaping causes Cancer, so does Tobacco smoking. All of you are saying "Vaping is Safer because it isn't AS BAD AS smoking Tobacco". Agreed. But another way of saying is "We think Vaping is Safer because it causes Cancer in 20 years, whereas Tobacco smoking is will cause Cancer in 10 years"

Don't take it personally. You were trying to compare apples with mangoes.

> Every year there's a study that contradicts the last one.

That's from Astroturfing by <_INSERT_INDUSTRY_LOBBY_NAME_HERE_>

Every time a real study with facts comes out saying X_____ is bad for you, the Corporations and Special Interest Lobbyists working on behalf of X____ will astroturf the media with "No really, X____ is good for you"

X_____ = Coffee, Diary, Wine, Eggs, Wheat, Soy, Stevia, ..... you get the idea.

Required Viewing: Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDx => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU

wallethub.com link? Really? Ever heard of Astroturfing?

The Big Tobacco and Vaping Lobbyists have tons of "blog posts" and "research" news that "debunk" all the bad things about Vaping and Smoking.

Required Viewing: Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU

> Nicotine replacement products aren't associated with cancer risk

This is what's really wrong, and absolutely harmful information to spread.

Your source for all these claims you are making about Vaping being "Safe"?

> It took 8.4 seconds to load the Reddit front page on my phone. Hacker News took 1.1 seconds.

How could you compare the 2? The former has images and rich media. The latter is all text, like a unix terminal. LOL

> Smoking is going out of fashion pretty fast in USA too.

Source?

Yes, Smoking traditional tobacco is going out of fashion pretty much around the world. It's been replaced by the increasing popular E-Cigarrettes / "Vaping", which is also Tobacco and poses the same health risks as traditional tobacco.

Especially very prevalent among-st Teenagers and young people. Heavily marketed by Big Tobacco as "Safe".

Sources:

1) CDC: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6514a1.htm?s_cid=mm...

1) England: Smoking rate continues to decrease while vaping gains in popularity http://www.vapingpost.com/2016/09/22/england-smoking-rate-co...

2) The good news is that cigarettes are out these days. The bad news is that tobacco is still in. http://www.teenvogue.com/story/vaping-tobacco-popularity

Yep, noticed that too. Plus he's Indian, which makes me want to apologise for my Race :(

Yep. Very obvious from the shady email address on the home page

> will+instaprofessor@will3942.com

And he has also posted on BlackHat Forums saying

> Free accounts for the first 100 (or a few more) people to PM me.

> Runs on Mac and Windows 7+.

> Use unlimited HTTP/HTTPS Proxies.

> Virtualises a device so it is harder for Instagram to block.

I bet this uses their undocumented API that allows uploads of media. If you use a traffic sniffer / HTTP Debugger like Charles, and use the Instagram app on your mobile device, you'll see that the native app is also using it's own API to upload media.

> The enormous popularity of the self-destructing-message app Snapchat has helped its developer, Snap Inc., grow to more than 1,500 employees.

Ok, even at a conservative average salary of $70,000 / employee, it works out to $ 105 Million in salary / pay alone (per year), for these 1,500. That's not counting cost of office space, travel, marketing expenses etc.

So, my question. What is SnapChat's business model? How do they make money???

> saw the email associated with it

How?

> I sent them a Tweet to ask them to please resolve the issue. Before they even responded to me, I suddenly had this email in my inbox

How did the Company that was trolling their Competitors' twitter account have access to this guy's email address?

You say

> So if you really believe in your product, quit the day job. You can't do both, period.

then you say

> Well, I've gotten side-tracked with consulting business.

Is Consulting not a 'day job'? You are contradicting yourself. Which is it?

> Is quitting the right next step?

Why do all these Entrepreneurial articles and stories promote quitting and going 'All in'.

If you develop the discipline and commitment and have the 'applied faith' that your product or startup idea will succeed (based on the parameters you set for success) then you should be able to do it nights and weekends.

Even Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder didn't straight up 'Quit' and work on wordpress full time. He was still working at CNet to pay the bills, and bootstrapped Wordpress with 10,000 $ that he saved from his day job and worked on it nights and weekends.

"I quit my day job and started my own company and make a good living" stories are very very few. The media only focussed on these success stories and not the other 99% that fail and have to go back to a day job, with a mountain of debt.

> Last year, I spent $125,535. I don’t even know where that money went. I certainly don’t feel like I got much out of all that money.

Really? I lost all confidence in whatever this person is trying to sell us, when I read this. Indicates a very financially-irresponsible person.

Right. And the equal (if not more) amount of hours spent chasing leads, marketing (blogs, advertizing etc) accounting, to get the steady stream of work.