skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a guy who used to write technical manuals for Sun Microsystems and he said that he usually ended up working about 3 or 4 months to earn his annual salary. Sounds like a good gig to me!
If only Steve Jobs were around, he would put the industry cabal back in place and fix this problem for you pronto.
I... what?

I mean that my work is done on a tower pc sitting under my desk in the office, whether I am in the office, or at home. When at home, I just log into my desktop.

"no development is done in their desktop machine, but on remote servers" has nothing to do with working remotely.
Given Google's emphasis on quantifying every aspect of recruitment, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason is because their numbers show that contacting people who previously rejected offers was more likely to result in a hire than contacting people who never interviewed, and that they decided that ignoring "do not contact" instructions was worth it after some time. Basically, kind of an retargeting strategy but applied to hiring. I understand why this may be annoying to you, but your case is probably rare enough that they decided to go along with it -- I would think that most people do not care enough about being contacted by companies they do not want to work for to complain. I do not condone this but the assumption that you may not feel as adamant about not working at Google as you did two years ago (during which a lot can happen) seems perfectly understable to me.

With that said, your post does come across as really obnoxious. Asking to have an "ON PAIN OF DEATH" mention added on their file? Really? I dislike having my instructions disobeyed as much as the next guy, but if I counted properly this is 6 emails over more than 7 years. Surely one could live with receiving one unwanted email every year or so? It's not like it's that hard or time consuming to just ignore a message or to decline politely -- after all, a lot of people do it multiple times on a daily basis, and I'm sure you do too.

This is too bad, because the tone of your post distracts from the perfectly valid (but IMHO, minor) point that this policy does imply things about Google they view themselves.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
I just hit the archive button :(, but now that I think about it, I should really just draft a canned message.
Every considered working for Google? I hear the perks are great!
Recruitment isn't the same thing as a guaranteed job, though; it's more like an invitation to submit a resume than anything else.
I claim 'Rock star problem' as the term for problems that most first worlders might wish they had, except for the ones that have them.
I see what you're saying, and it's very reasonable - I'm not a San Franciscan so I can't comment on the tech community's engagement (or lack thereof) with SF's older cultures - including the homeless/streetkids. Perhaps there is a solution that everyone would like?
My MIL has a force field that disables electronics
My Mother-In-Law will cause WIFI, GMail to iPhones… to cease operations after being around her for 5 hours. I swear she alone caused the Gmail outage last week.

At the least opportune time (around midnight on AnyDay) I get the call that her ‘Email has stopped working’ and I’m supposed to know every question why this is.

And today I get the call that her iPhone is now asking for a passcode, she swears she did nothing it just ALL AT once wanted a passcode to access it. So tomorrow I got to hard reset it and go through training with her once again.
I don't really see the problem with this. A lot of the languages you mention have been slowly and sustainably building support, even when they aren't on the front page of HN.
so google contacts you every couple years. must really clog up your inbox...
Very similar: The product I work on is something that you really only need to use once (unless your genome changes somehow, but that doesn't happen to most people).

However, I use my side project http://www.3dprintingpricecheck.com quite frequently for working on my other side project which involves making 3D-printed geographical models (http://www.printablegeography.com).
I dumped time machine entirely for an rsync based solution. Take a look @ `--link-dest`
The words themselves (exceptional,influential) do not have comparative/superlative forms.

Sure they do. More exceptional. Most influential. What's not to love?
I wish I had problems that resembled this. :(
Whatever her reasons, Missy Cummings frequently overstates the role of automation as it's currently used in commercial aviation in her public comments.
Now you can ask them to add a link to this post. "DO NOT CONTACT but if you still think you should, please check this link".
as a girl on okcupid, I fully understand this.
The Silicon Valley thing was no-poaching agreements between a few companies, not an explicit cartel. Which is bad but not nearly as bad.
I can't see a good reason for posting the names of the recruiters in this post, and can't see why this is that "special" of a case. Maybe if they called that many times, it would be legitimately annoying. But a few spam emails? I don't know many people who would emotionally react like this.
Stop trolling. NeXTSTEP's objc compiler was based on GCC.
> it read like a classic humblebrag

What about this did you feel was humble?
Ask HN: Would you hire an ex-government intel intern?
I'm considering applying to the grad program for my countries NSA equivalent. My country is a participant in five eyes. Would you have any concerns hiring someone who has worked for one of these agencies, especially post-snowden? I'm not 100% sure I want to work in that sort of environment, and I don't want to restrict my options by working there.
Take a look at SAP. Not all areas of the company are desirable to work for, but they have a lot of good groups from old acquisitions.
D-Wave's Dream Machine
When google asked for my resume (which... oddly enough, they already had because that's how they said they got my contact info), I told them to bing for it. Haven't heard from them since. Perhaps that'll get them off your back in future.
Let's be honest, if he needed to give a credit card number to try it, most likely nobody would have bothered submitting it or voting it up.
Do you mind elaborating on some of the moment to moment differences? Sounds interesting...
Who "uses this in production" and how is it better than MySQL and Postgresql? They need a little more show instead of tell.
I think about my friends from high school and college who are struggling to find meaningful work when I read things like this. I try to imagine what it be like from their point and it comes off like an entitled prima donna is complaining about being recruited by what one of the coolest companies on earth. Honestly I think as an industry we should try to keep some perspective here.
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i've tried germany and UK both. what server are you having luck with?
What a jerk. I thought once of using Tarsnap.. now I know there's no way I'll ever use or recommend this product. Ask a support question about Tarsnap? Bam, blog post about you annoying the shit out of him with your question.

If you are not interested in an e-mail, it takes about a third of a second to press "!" in gmail.. that's a free way pass to the spam folder. But the person sending the email, the recruiter, won't know it. So a quick: "No thank you. I'm more than busy right now and not interested in new job opportunities" would do wonder.

And FYI, the last time a google recruiter tried to recruit me, we had a very nice chat about my own startup (Hacking Health) where we pair technical talents with health professionals to find innovate solution in healthcare. These guys are very well connected and can introduce you to so many people.. So, if you think it's okay to be jerk to them, then realize that you're closing the doors to great opportunities by doing so.
You don't want multiprocessing to fork your process after gevent is loaded. If you can avoid that (like hold off on monkey patching) then it works great.
He doesn't need to be humble. Google would be extremely lucky to have him. Let's stop wasting time pretending that he's lucky to be contacted by them, or that he needs to be careful about how he presents this. He's at the top of his field. Get over it.
Why's this post even up? He just needs to get a bigger inbox and learn to use the archive button.
This isn't a knock on you - I was contacted last summer. Had a long chat, but didn't pursue it, as I'd have to move. That wasn't the only reason, but a primary one. To me, I had about 5 minutes of feeling valued, then the cynic in me started thinking that they must be scraping the barrel to contact me. I don't mean it in a self-loathing "i suck" sort of way, but... they must be tapping out 'locals' already to be reaching out across the country. They really can't find anyone else within driving distance who's at least as qualified as me?
as a front-end engineer I have just been abducted to work in a hiring war room at my company (30 FTEs in 30 days is the mandate)

seeing and having to do what sourcers do for the last week has been eye-opening. identification, assessment, and engagement of skilled candidates is super hard and very time consuming.

I have nothing but sympathy for these people now...
When I'm absolutely not looking for a job or not interested, I just ignore cold-call recruitment emails. I don't see this as being a negative at all, and I've actually worked with a recruiter after ignoring her for years and it didn't seem to be an issue -- I think they expect it, and because they almost certainly are shotgunning their email out to many people at a time, they aren't crying about you not personally responding.

That aside I've never been contacted directly by Google :( Amazon spams me all the time though. I've never interviewed at either one.
Isn't this spam you can report because it's illegal? If not what's the difference?
Dark skin, blue eyes: Genes paint a picture of 7,000-year-old European
Eh, it just gets grating after awhile. Inboxes are cluttered enough already without getting 10+ emails a day from recruiters, you know?

It's also annoying to try and hit "unsubscribe" from a mailing list only to find out "unsubscribe" does nothing.
From Github: "The system programming language is Ink, a new Lisp dialect which combines the elegance of Scheme and powerfulness of Common Lisp."

And no link! It's like eating chocolate in front of a child and not giving him any. Me want.
Are we trying to suppress any critical sub-comments? I've never heard these complaints, and it doesn't look as though it's the only thing the user is posting. Seems interesting to me.
It seems that Google has now gone full Singularist. They jumped the shark when they hired Kurzweil.
Though it is important to note that the iPhone is generally in a different category of more expensive smartphones than many Android/Windows Phone devices. In terms of just devices in that price range, the iPhone tends to do very well basically everywhere that it is sold and has good carrier support.
Dear Every Recruiter That Has Called Me In Last Couple Years,

I know you think you can help me find awesome Rails programmers in the Chicago area or whatever kind of developer it is you think you're great at sourcing, but all I can think of when you call us to pitch your services is that my company's name is going to end up in a blog post like this.

Go to hell,

Thomas.
Developers are annoyed by hundreds of companies and professional recruiters who try to recruit them constantly. To single out Google reeks of nothing more than "HEY GUYS LOOK AT ME I'M TOO COOL FOR GOOGLE!"
> Katy Perry's voice could be swapped for Avril Lavigne's and many people would barely notice.

What an absurd statement. They sound nothing alike.
so obnoxious
And now we know how much your recommendations about secure backup software are worth. Thanks for sharing.
Relevant?

"When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not."
1. For now, there isn't any way to force off the typo correction. It has been added to our feature requests list.

2. What do you think about http://hn.algolia.com/legacy#!/story/forever/0/algolia or http://hn.algolia.com/legacy#!/all/sort_by_date/0/story:7126... ?
While historically pump and dump was focused on penny stock, I wander if doing it with altcoins violate some of the laws mentioned in
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2009/lr21053.htm
I doubt the time it took you to write this is less than the amount of time it would take to simply ignore their emails.
Given that you live in a small town, have you considering looking for remote work positions?
No, I don't think it's unfair because "fairness" has nothing to do with anything.

I was simply illustrating how using a mutable data structure defined in an outer scope can bite you.
Good point, but still; the experience is so frustrating that it's actually worth waiting until the entire season becomes available on Netflix, Amazon, etc. so you can watch it in peace.
humblebrag

I see you're new here. Let me refer you to this classic HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068
This guy is so full of himself
You could have just solved the problem by taking a job at Apple, Adobe, Intuit, Lucasfilm, or Pixar!
Amazing variety from such a simple setup.
Said every spammer ever.
What year was that? I applied in 2011, and I've been conducting interviews for Google ever since, and I think the most in-person interviews I've ever seen on anyone's slate was 5.

Occasionally, a second phone interview is necessary, but usually only if something went wrong in the first one.
It's fun to talk about the value of the dollar being manipulated by dark forces, and to hear people talk you'd think the dollar must have lost a lot of value recently.

Not really.

In the last year, the US dollar actually increased in value 10% against the Canadian dollar, increased 12% against the Japanese yen, and increased 20% against the Australian dollar. It decreased 1% against the Euro, decreased 3% against the Swiss franc, and decreased 4% against the pound.

In gold terms, the US dollar is 39% more valuable today than it was a year ago.

I also put some money into crypto-currencies, though not because I fear the imminent collapse of the dollar. The dollar's value has been pretty stable even through the financial collapse.

Dollars seem perfectly fine for transactions, though no currency is suitable as a store value for decades or generations.
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> I don't understand why it bothers people so much to be contacted by recruiters.

It likely depends on how big your online footprint is. I've been on the Internet publicly since 1989 and hence you can find me all over. That also means recruiters do. I have no problems with the ones who are good at their jobs, but about half are below average, working on commission, and their tactics are the same as spammers (spread yourself indiscriminately far and wide). Many are downright scammers such as taking resumes off the net and then pretending to represent those people, or scraping job postings off websites and then pretending to represent those companies.

At the top of my resume I put a "note to recruiters" that makes it clear what I am good for. It is very clear then which recruiters have made even that miniscule effort, versus just started spamming right away.

I'd say I see about one good recruiter for every 20 spammers. And that is what is bothering. Even worse the lack of response or saying no doesn't deter the spammers so you have to do something about it. I made a blocklist in the end.

http://rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
Get an agent, if you're that in demand you can hire somebody else to handle your recruiting and opporunitites for you?
The only company whose recruiters bug me on a regular basis is Google.

Google's also the only company I know of which flies the same guy halfway across the country every year or two for interview processes that always end in rejection. (This is the primary reason I've stopped even responding to their recruiters. I don't want to get caught in the same cycle of anticipation, terrifying interviews, and rejection.)

Their recruiting department seems to like wasting everybody's time and their employer's money.
I'm not. But that's only because I heard his interview on All Things Considered in 2012 [1]. Really like the song he wrote for Leona Lewis.

1. http://www.npr.org/2012/01/15/145233608/ryan-tedder-a-hit-ma...
I suspect, but don't know, this is different in Python 3, since `print a` changes from a statement to an expression.
Article has been updated; company is about 50 people.
I find recruiters to be a piss poor annoyance -- but that's because they call me at least once a day despite the "seriously, no recruiters" advertisement on our company's site. And because they don't understand that if I'm looking for someone with web MVC experience I probably most likely just-kinda-sorta want someone that knows HTML too.

That being said, I wouldn't be that ticked if someone from Google contacted me once every three years. It sounds like the author is just humble bragging.
Exactly. Moreover it is weak and dishonest to agree to with others when you don't or know the opposite to be true. Honesty > politeness > fools. Feedback is how we can improve our situation, false approval is how others further reinforce departure from reality.
Awesome to see my favourite author here on Hacker News.

May I also humbly recommend:

* Civil Disobedience (1849) - the classic referred to by Gandhi and MLK http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html

* A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) - Thoreau was one of the very, very few to defend Brown attempt to launch a slave rebellion http://thoreau.eserver.org/plea.html

* Walden (1854) - of course - read the first chapter at least ("Economy") for a timeless analysis of what is necessary in life http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
I got annoyed, but mainly by the volume and persistence of a few bad recruiters. Many recruiters poorly represent their clients. The one that caused me to close my LinkedIn account spelled "projects" as "progects" three times. He worked for Reuters. The problem is gone now, for better or worse. I wish it wasn't something that came off as a humblebrag. Recruiters and head hunters can be legitimately predatory at worst and incredibly thick at best.
Building up an easy data analysis platform with RStudio server on top of MongoDB
It's just insulting when recruiters don't do basic research on the people that they contact. Yeah, it's not the worst problem to have in the world, but I get the feeling that a lot of these people are just spamming anyone they can find in a particular keyword and then expecting those people to do the recruiter's job for them.
When I was a kid I played with a group of boys I didn't know that well at first. Some were kind of nerdy (me), some were jocks that were interested in playing, I guess to find something imaginative in an otherwise conformist experience. We all became friends, but we couldn't talk about playing D&D because it wasn't "cool" at high school.

At a high school reunion I saw many of that group and realized that was probably the most successful group of people I ever sat down at a table with. Three professors, a doctor, and a very successful business consultant. I feel really lucky to have had that experience.

Now my kids have the internet, and great video games. In those days we had to entertain ourselves by telling stories. It brought some interesting people together.
I'm not questioning his ability or professionalism.

I take issue with the fact that the stated intention of his post - to get Google's attention and prevent similar incidents in the future - is at odds with the tone of his writing. That's all.
I watched a fascinating documentary about DeepMind's most popular product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QRvTv_tpw0
> WRONG. Because you have to use mysql_REAL_escape_string.

Using mysql_real_escape_string is almost a sign you're doing something wrong. You should be using prepared statements with PDO or mysqli.

> The point is that I can't audit (and would rather not waste my time doing so) this PHP code.

I wasn't going to bother, but this post is pretty high up on the front page. There's some XSS issues with the JSON output, the Content-Type header isn't set to 'application/json' so PHP decides to set it to 'text/html'. Now anyone that controls ipecho.net[0] or can execute commands as any user on the server[1] can XSS users of the panel.

If you'd like to confirm, go to /sh/ps.php and notice where the page breaks due to strings in the JSON being interpreted as HTML.

[0] https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash/blob/master/sh/ip.php#...

[1] https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash/blob/master/sh/ps.php#...