skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this article for taking an angle I'd never thought of, actually getting recruiters to stop by punishing them. But if you're not going to actually take those steps, I wrote up a different set of tips.
https://medium.com/tony-stubblebine/cda0c5da9c8e

Recruiters can be infuriating, so the true cost of the call is the 10 seconds it took for you to hang up on them plus the 15 minutes it takes to calm down. As an example, I hung up on someone yesterday who called right back with this line, "Are you that fast will all your women."

They're relentless.

Anyway, the TLDR; version of my trick in the Medium post above is to have a script that's very happy but which leads to you hanging up no matter what response they give you. Somehow that lets me imagine that I'm having a polite conversation regardless of how they try to trap me.

I'm usually super calm, but these calls used to get under my skin and distract me. I can't have that.
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Have you looked at https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/ ?
Winding a 10 day old baby and keeping a site up while on the front page of Hacker News isn't easy.

Can anyone help me keep it up?
So it's like chip and pin but doesn't require new pos hardware? Is your system easier to use than a card swipe + entering 5 digits?
I disagree. I get 4 phone calls a day from recruiters trying to sell me "talent" for my startup. They refuse to get off the phone when I politely tell them we have a policy of not using recruiters, follow up by email, and then of course they call again next month. My phone going off causes a distraction, causing me to fall out of the zone and waste a few minutes as I try to figure out why they're calling and try to politely get them off the phone.

Really, they are absolute fuckers with no consideration for anyone but themselves, and going nuclear is long past due.
> I understand the sentiment you're conveying but a link isn't sacred.

It damn well should be. The link is the basis of the www.

> If you allow users to post content to your site then you should be taking measures to ensure that new users aren't spamming.

Of course, but breaking legitimate links as a form of spam control is just lazy.

We're going OT here, but...

> eliminating the "PR bleed"

There is no such thing. PR doesn't work this way, and the existence of outward links doesn't negatively impact the linking website in any way.
2 Factor auth with keyfobs is also pretty popular for corporate VPN.
How Russia's Sputnik succeeded when the USA's project failed?
Where a clerk was breaking open the sealed packages and counting out the wafers on his desk to make damned sure Intel was getting its money worth....

I find this hard to believe. At some point a person in a space suit was introducing them into a clean room; she should have noticed that the packages were not sealed.
The US Dollar is a make-believe currency. It only ever has as much value as we believe it has.
I hate this perception that working from home = slacking off.

Think about why that perception exists. It implies that unless you have someone looking over your shoulder you wont do any work. Like a child in a classroom.

Most people are not children. Most people want to do a good job and support their team members.

If you behave like a child then you should never have been hired in the first place. If you are hired then your lack of delivering results will be very visible.

If a slack employee can get away with slacking off, the company has a much more serious problem about the way it works. Putting people in an office will not solve this problem.

I'm happy to argue about the pros and cons of local vs remote teams. Effectively communicating, mentoring,team bonding etc are all debates worth having.

The slacking off argument is not worth having. Its rubbish. This initiative sounds like busy work.
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808 days ago, I wrote up some thoughts on Gox. Wow, it's been a fun two years!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998899
Make some tea?

Do yoga?

Stretch?

Or, you could move. I hear taxes are a lot lower elsewhere in the country.
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or just install/customize a nice theme on top and you're set.
Can we not submit stories that have a paywall? This sounds like something I'd be interested in, but not $21.99 interested.
You're right. I think it was an addiction in some way, because I often received points for my posts (usually 2-5 points and several times I got 30-60) and kinda liked that.
Sure, but which is more likely to happen?
The FDA recognizes foxglove as a toxin, not a treatment [1]. You don't want to consume foxglove because, like virtually all herbal supplements, the doses of the active ingredient can vary wildly.

So, we have its derivative, digoxin, available as a prescription medication. And many people do take it. It's helpful for some symptoms of heart failure. One thing it doesn't do, quite notably, is reduce mortality. Anyway, this is an available, commonly prescribed treatment

Not to belabor the point, but I was hoping to hear about alternative medicines that are not accepted but have evidence supporting them.

[1] = http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/plantox/detail.cfm?id=...
But wouldn't the game just be connected straight to Java over websocket once the client has been paired to the server?

From the looks of it I don't think they are using Node for anything related to the game itself. At best it might be used to pair a client to a server but that's basically nothing.
here is a very personal essay the oscar winning director Ang Lee wrote about those 6 years in the desert (translated):

http://whatshihsaid.com/2013/02/26/ang-lee-a-never-ending-dr...
Well I am not saying no options available. This service says they use research, data analysis etc. I am sure 20 copay will not get you that.

So my point was to pay more that 20 but less than given minimum 5000.
To the credit of the management, they did not fire him. He resigned. But the coworkers felt he was responsible personally. That makes a uneasy work environment.
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It's an interesting perspective on the man in light of all the ruckus about his film and the bankruptcy of Rhythm & Hues (who did the Oscar-winning effects for the film and ultimately fired 250 people in the past month):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/26/ang-lee-visual-ef...

He's got talent, that's for sure. I suspect much of the flak should be thrown at the industry rather than at the filmmakers.
Objection noted! Aside from the PHP opening/closing tags, the templating system is the same as John Reigs and is fast, simple, and works extremely well...so we haven't had a need to change. We've evaluated other options and realized that switching won't really get us anything we don't already have.

Maybe once our team grows we'll re-evaluate again, since it's just two devs at the moment.
Looks like Wordpress. If it is, use this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Edit: Also would recommend using Cloudflare.
If we want to teach the next generation to code we should make sure that the "programming languages" we use work well on a touch screen with no keyboard or mouse.

That is, probably not text-based.
Very inspiring, though this makes me think that we also have to worry about survivorship bias. How many people stuck to their guns, focused, worked really hard for years, and nothing ever happened for them (at least nothing close to their dreams)? Probably many, though I'm sure it's still the best way to maximize your chances of getting there; by giving up, you are assured of not making it; but even doing your best brings no certainty.

That's why you have to love the journey, not just the destination.
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To be fair, though, SimpleMachines is a very atrocious piece of software (not to mention their equally atrocious licensing, although it seems they're in the process of changing that[0]...), so it's no wonder.

I could say similar things about phpBB, but that's quite a dead horse to beat (hey, at least they use a proper license).

[0] http://www.simplemachines.org/about/opensource.php
Why is the liquidity justification pure rubbish? That's what human traders do as well. HFT doesn't "take" money from anyone. Its all voluntary sales and purchases. They don't "deserve" it any more or less than any other middle man.
Thanks! What cable modem did TWC give you? I've got an UBEE DDW3612 that's DOCSIS 3.0, but its still pretty slow at times.
Why is everybody trying to contact Carlos Slim?
So, I was doing a bit of reading about Carlos Slim and came across this article: http://theweek.com/article/index/200797/7-things-to-know-about-carlos-slim-helu

The article is fine but what blew me away are the comments. Most of those comments are people asking carlos slim for money, offering him to come invest in their country, i.e. Kenia, and so on and so forth.

Are people (or scammers) that naive or delusional that they believe that Carlos Slim will read their comments and maybe even answer them?

What the heck! I've never ever seen this before about any other billionaire.

Any ideas?

Here are some hilarious comments:

>>MR HELU SLIM CARLOS I HAVE LIKED YOU .BECAUSE YOU ARE SO NATURE . BUT I HAVE $5000 ,HOW CAN I CHANGE/INVEST IT INTO AREASONABLE OUTCOME.?

>>u are a vary wise man. i want to be like u. u are my role model. this is my number +2330267493598

>>hi Carlos.. hope you will be my friend.. i am a danish woman, and i think you are very interresting mand. you got loads of ambissions.. i study right now, i want to be a socialworker and help people.. hope to here from you..with all respekt Amina Hansen

>>hi Carlos.. hope you will be my friend.. i am a danish woman, and i think you are very interresting mand. you got loads of ambissions.. i study right now, i want to be a socialworker and help people.. hope to here from you..with all respekt Amina Hansen

>>DEAR Mr Slim, I Really Want to MEET YOU .WANT TO TALK TO YOU .I AM A POOR Student pursuing CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT,COMPANY SECRETARY,LL.B, and Planning for IFS,IAS, IPS,IRS. I WANT an OPPORTUNITY to Become Like YOU SO that i can remove Povertyfrom INDIA Before I die........its my ultimate goal of life. PLS PLS READ
I've considered rewriting user links to scramble the text and point them inward at a link proxy (which then routes out through an anonymizing service like anonym.to). Anything to destroy their value.

Haven't actually put it to practice yet though and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a good idea. Unfortunately it seems that if spammers catch just a whiff of SEO from you, they'll never stop, like cockroaches.

[edit] I also haven't tried putting it into practice because I can imagine how utterly annoying it would be. I can't stand those "you are now leaving [site x]" pages myself.
Googling for "Hank Gardstein MD" finds only a Henry (for which Hank is a nickname) Gardstein (http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-henry-gardstein-xcs...) with the same school of medicine, medical specialty, and rough date of beginning of practice as that of the profile on MetaMed.

That doctor was disbarred (http://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/cd901a6816701...) for writing online pharmacy prescriptions.

Same guy?
The founders are all Mechatronics grads from uWaterloo, so they know what they're talking about.
If you see Mechanical Turk used for spam like that, you could report it to Amazon as abuse and get the account(s) paying for it shut down.

I also wonder if Amazon has a content filter, to block URL patterns in Turk tasks.

As for bots, IP banning goes a long way.
I would say a lot.

If you think - why would you use anonymous and basically untracable currency for?

Turns out it is used mostly for drugs and anonymous online services. And a little for online casinos.
CORBA/DCOM/SOAP-RPC are examples of RPC-based services, i.e. exactly what Alan is advocating against.

Here's my definition of a message-based service:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/What-is-a-...

Here are some of the advantages:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Advantages...

Here is the difference between WCF RPC methods and a message-based ServiceStack service:
http://www.servicestack.net/files/slide-35.png (i.e. 6 RPC methods vs 1 Msg service)

Here is the difference between WebApi RPC methods vs an equivalent message-based ServiceStack service:
http://www.servicestack.net/files/slide-34.png (e.g. 5 RPC vs 2 msg ones)
The Web Audio API has already shipped on Chrome, FF and even mobile https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/webaudio/specifica...
Yep, well put. I was thinking this too which sort of made it all the more 'tragic' - though perhaps that isn't a good word as this story isn't tragic...but it almost certainly could have been!

Good for Ang Lee!
As someone who works in the same industry, doing the same type of work, I cringed hard. I hope you were able to save your ass.
I'm surprised he didn't mention his interview with the comedian Stewart Lee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC13MYcrR4
Tim Horton cups are one of the biggest contributors to litter in Ontario already. Now we're handing out cups to people who didn't even ask.
> It damn well should be. The link is the basis of the www.

I think it is just as much the basis of the www to show a link as it is to not show it.
I would really love for someone knowledgeable to comment on this. I'd never even thought about blocking customers in Eastern Texas. I just compared a map of my users to a map of the texas districts (http://www.txed.uscourts.gov/images/divisions/texasdistrictm...) and I'm pretty sure that out of my 2000 paying users, not a single one falls in that district. It seems to just miss Houston and Dallas.

If blocking IPs that originate from that region would offer additional protection from patent trolls, I'd do it in a heart beat. I know that the real answer is "talk to a lawyer" which I will do, but it'd be interesting to see someone from the Hacker News community comment on the viability of this strategy.
> It damn well should be. The link is the basis of the www.

Anything on the www is only sacred if it's on your server. If you're on someone else's server it's up to them to extend the privilege of making links (or any content). Having links moderated for new users seems pretty fair--the vast majority of brand new users who make a post that contains links are spammers. The worst case is it will take a little time for a mod to clean up. You can even have your link be removed publicly but still function for members (so no Google juice but people can still answer your question).

If you have ever moderated a forum you will know how bad spammers can be. It's not just posts either, PM spam is really popular and a lot harder to police.
Fortunately it happened early in the morning. So the previous nights copy on the development server was close enough that it could be pushed back to live while causing only very minor issues.

What EMR system do you deal with?
Thanks, yes it's Wordpress. I've installed that and removed the couple of images which seems to be helping.
You're dreaming of today? Because that's what it is. You can walk into just about any machine shop and get your part as long as you have drawings and material spec. You probably won't be happy with the cost, though.

The point is that the spare parts you need can be made with traditional manufacturing processes because that's how the original was done. Just because you only need one, doesn't necessarily make it easier to produce by a 3D printing machine.
An allergist is likely to have plenty of access to research, data analysis, etc. about their specialty, and cost significantly less than $5,000.

$5,000 would buy me consultations with 250 allergists, who'd likely be basing their conclusions on the same sort of research available to the health researchers at MetaMed, as well as it being their actual medical specialty.
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I wonder why they didn't just jump on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon and build on top of that. Call it FreedomPi.
“I sent in script after script. Most were turned down. Then there would be interest, I’d rewrite, hurry up, turn it in and wait weeks and weeks, just waiting. That was the toughest time for Jane and me. She didn’t know what a film career was like and neither did I.”

Blimey me, that's some solid hustle. That too when you have young kid. Seriously inspiring. Time and again it has shown that determination can change fortunes.

EDIT: I got # of kids wrong
Bitcoin is a deflationary currency since it's supply is limited.

Doesn't that mean that it's expected to rise in price? This also ends up being the currency's downfall, since there's an incentive to hoard it rather than spend it.
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Awesome, thanks. These two articles are just amazing.
Posts a day? I'd say only one a day MAX, although I have no idea what the real number is.

If you're posting 10-15 a day, go outside and get a hobby.
Paywall-less Google link to article: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
It takes an inhuman amount of confidence or blind faith to convince yourself that you are good enough to make it in the film industry. To hold that belief for 6 years, while seemingly spinning your tires and growing your family is just something else. Ang Lee is something else too, though. After seeing Eat Drink Man Woman one evening, he instantly became one of my favorite directors.

As a former film school graduate myself, I must admit I took the other route and settled for a safe, but rather mindless career in marketing. At 31 I think I still have some fight in me, but alas not everyone is Ang Lee.
Not that I agree with shanev, but this is misleading. If anything, modern health has improved in spite of our (shitty) diets.
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From the page titled "Our Scientists, Doctors, and Researchers"

programmer
gamer
mba
programmer
student/mathematics
student/medicine
md/recent grad
student/medicine
econ BA/finance (labeled researcher)
marine biologist (labeled researcher)
industrial engineer/entrepreneur (labeled senior researcher)
econ BA/event planner
student/philosophy+neuroscience+law (labeled researcher)
md/recent grad (labeled researcher)
eagle scout/philosopher (labeled researcher)
graphic designer
md/practicioner
novelist
phd molecular biologist/recent grad (labeled researcher)
programmer (labeled researcher)
college research assistant (labeled researcher)
blogger
programmer

http://www.metamed.com/our-scientists-doctors-researchers
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I ran the numbers a couple months ago. They added roughly (on average) 20% to in-store Safeway prices, in addition to charging for delivery.

I noticed at the time that they were scraping everything off Safeway.com's listings. Safeway.com prices themselves had a certain % markup on top of in-store prices, and Instacart had added its own markup to the Safeway.com prices.

Things may have changed since then. I expect prices to fall as they scale.
Ah I see.. I misunderstood the first time around. I thought you meant to store the user table in a flat file. Thank you for the explanation. That reminds me, I need to convert to Innodb one of these days.
I knew Taylor Swift growing up.

Like Ang Lee, for around 6 to 8 years Taylor acted in musicals, sang at festivals, entered competitions, and recorded demos. She was bad at first (sorry Taylor!), but she kept working at it. Every day, she was writing another lyric, or taking another guitar lesson, or auditioning for another play, or switching voice teachers. The reason I knew her was that I went to school with her (she was maybe in third grade when I was in 7th), I acted in plays with her, and I ran sound and make background tracks for her when she was 10 or so. I knew her mom and dad and brother too. I got to see her bildungsroman firsthand.

Then came her "overnight" success. And the press talked about her like she appeared on planet earth overnight. She was a sensation. All at once, you couldn't walk outside your front door without hearing about Taylor Swift. It was surreal, having know the awkward girl from a few years earlier.

But what no one talked about was the years she forewent hanging out with other girls in middle school, watching TV and doing her hair with girlfriends in high school... all of the stuff that normal kids do. Playing sports, going on dates with boys... all of this was sacrificed. For Taylor, and Ang Lee, great sacrifice was made.

Success requires an obsession of sorts. You have to say, "I am going to accomplish this, come hell or high water." Failure is not an option... it's not even a word in the dictionary. There is only success. The buck has to stop with you; there's no room for blaming other people, making excuses, or avoiding harsh realities. Whatever it takes to be successful, whether that's hiring a speech coach, taking more classes at the university, learning etiquette, doing odd projects, finding a tutor, seeing a therapist, waking up at 6am to exercise... there is no limit. And that's just the point -- there is NO limit on what you have to be willing to undertake to achieve the goal.

I've grappled with what I'm going to say for years, but I now acknowledge it as a truism: If you stick with it, you'll be successful. It doesn't matter where you come from, who your parents are, what you know, who you know, or how you look. All that is required is a choice -- a commitment to excellence.

Therefore, there's only one rule in making it to the top: don't quit.
A quick Google search turns this up:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10902-011-9257-7
Not really sure, perhaps the game itself isn't web-aware and they just use node.js to pull messages in and out because it is fast?

Will have to see if Ivan replies to know for sure. :)
I've tried it. It's really friggin cool. (My team's desks are right next to their's)
OK, the "Burn in hell" comment added little value, and so the downvotes from Mods understandable, but take into account I'm a West Virginian, and this is genuinely upsetting to us.
A very very small one that I'm too ashamed to mention :) it's mostly medical billing though.
Yes, I did see that, but it doesn't address the important part of the assertion (more so than drugs or therapy) so to be charitable, I assume the OP has a different reference in mind.
It's very hard to discuss the facts when you withhold them. I would like to know who these Nobel laureates are. If they have examined your service but do not have enough confidence in it to be associated with it publicly that is interesting information.
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I'm still guessing how Glass would stand up to the performance shown in the demo video. For Glass to work like as shown it would need to have Internet connection everywhere (including ski slops and dessert roads) and batteries need to last for a significant portion of the day. One way it can do is to offload processing + connection to cellular via Bluetooth to phone in your pocket. In which case Glass becomes just interface device for phone like Bluetooth headsets but with camera and tiny projector. The projector could be LED based low powered device with a lens. I think whole thing can be made very cheaply, probably under $199. It would be a very cool thing for sure.
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