skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michael,

You are exactly right. All the traditional means (like blocking a callerID) is far past it's useful time. The dialer companies are getting smarter as well. It's BIG business for them, so it's worth the money to figure out solutions.

Also, it's very difficult to error on the side of caution - you do not want to block a normal phone call, or your upstream will stop sending you calls and you lose money.

Typically, a dialer customer will hangup once an answering machine is detected (usually around 2 seconds into the call) - causing lots of short duration calls. What the dialer customer's are doing now, is simply holding the call open for longer, to raise their overall ACD. It's a tough game. The moment telecom carriers start caring about what the call is (call types, information in the call, etc) - they become liable.
Yeah -- but how would you get the data _off_ those tapes?

I have one computer system that's 10 years old (running OS/2) which is wholly unconnected from the computing universe, much less my network. It has floppy drives, a CD player (and no software to burn anything to CD), a SCSI and serial ports. And I've a bunch of data on that system that I'd like to pry off of it, though it'd take a rube goldberg setup to do so... which means I never do get around to doing it.
What's the difference between Symphony Commerce and Amazon?
Over the years I have talked to a few companies (large and small) that wanted to move forward on a platform yet maintain some legacy cruft...aka sustaining engineering. I partially declined these companies at the risk of them hiring new and then the stuff you work on you maintain for it's lifetime...but that's another story.

That said, I am curious if there is a business model being missed here. Essentially for twit pic and similar, buying up/sustaining the content and trying to figure out how to get some value out of it.

Another option would be for companies like twitter to offer a mechanism where twit pic/etc content could be snarfed up by the internet archive and when a company goes away, somehow the links to content get redirected.
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The Libertarian conceit that theirs is the only moral way to govern, and all the rest of us are amoral scumbags, is a piss-poor way to make a point.
Ally Bank does it. I have an ally account over a year.
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The easiest way to get them to use a CRM is to only pay commissions on deals marked as closed in the CRM. Run all meetings off the CRM, and if someone's lead status isn't updated make a point of asking why. Requires a bit of discipline, but if you make it the rules of "the game", sales people will play along.
They claim that avoiding vacuuming the same area twice saves power, but is that true in every situation? Math-wise, it seems possible for a self-avoiding path (with thickness) to be _longer_ than a similar path (with thickness) that does self-intersect, so the vacuum is on longer, so it actually consumes more power.

Edit: And if you do go over the same spot twice, you should be able to detect that with your navigation system so that you can turn the brushes and suction off or something.
This entire piece throws out conjecture as fact and appears to back none of it up with substance.

> By making the Ferengis a race of intergalactic traders with oversized appendages and an addiction to “gold-plated latinum,” Star Trek merely updates Jewish stereotypes.

If you read the TNG novels you will find that the Ferengi tourists to earth all head for Wall Street regarding it with something like religious reverence, I suspect though don't claim the Ferengi where meant to embody the end result of a "perfect competition" style of capitalism and the capitalist personalities that you end up with and not a shot at the Jews.

In fact I'd ponder whether his apparently evidence less assumption that the corrupt money grubbing characters where meant to be the Jews shows his own prejudices rather well.
My home phone routes callers not on a white list to a message to "press 1 to ring the line", then drops them into voice mail if they don't do so. A blacklist requires callers to "press 1 to leave a message." Voice mails are transcribed and e-mailed to both me and my wife.

Since implementing this about a year ago, I've had zero robocalls actually ring my home line. Previously I was getting 7-10 per week.

Implemented using Anveo call flow.
This is an unusually verbose article even for the New Yorker. The TL;DR appears to be simply "increased heart rate," with no real citations to prove it. And it just sounds a bit absurd. Increased heart rates don't have a reliable correlation with creative thought. You can increase your heart rate by watching a scary movie or pornography, but nobody that I know of reports those being prime thinking times. Moreover, you can raise your heart rate even more by running, but people generally think of running as more exhausting and less intellectual than walking. Meanwhile lots of good creative thinking happens in a bathtub, which is sedentary.

I would have guessed that walking helps us think because it gets us to a position where our problem isn't directly in front of us, nor are our distractions. But I was really hoping to instead get some science about that sort of thing. I mean, I guess it's cool to know that there are some mental tests which some people are slightly worse at when walking, and the Nabokov quote at the beginning was quite interesting even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the article, but I'm just left... unsatisfied.
Maybe some kind of AR workspace setup based on the new Samsung Gear VR would be feasible? Would look pretty crazy, and still might be a bit of a safety hazard, but it might work.
I love standing desks but the closest I've been to a walking desk is trying to type while rolling the laptop cart through the datacenter. It kind of works.
My comment was perhaps more caustic than intended; I go back twice a year and so I only get to see 6-month snapshots of increasing misery, and I didn't want to make anyone feel bad for sticking around.

It just comes up a lot whenever I visit.
"Make a pull request" is an awful suggestion and, honestly, a cop out. Most of don't have time to tune a programming language or framework, we'll just use a better tool and move on. Slow but pretty code is a brain dead goal.
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My parents eventually made "millionaire" status on real estate investments.

And you're 100% right.

The reason my parents did well is that:

a) Few people (at the time) knew about tax and bank auctions

b) At the time both kinds of auctions required that you show up and pay in cash equivalent. They had a worker's comp settlement that allowed them to invest in properties where others didn't have the cash. Now banks tend to let you finance REO properties.

c) My dad was a competent home inspector/contractor who could tell (within reasonable margin of error) if a house was a good deal, and could do the work himself to fix it up

d) It was the Right Time to be investing in their geographical area

So yes, it's possible to do something like this, but for the most part you need to have access to a source of properties that is not already being shopped by a ton of competitors, have access to a building inspection skillset (or pay $400+ per property you inspect), have access to inexpensive contractors (or they'll eat up your profit), and to a certain extent, you need to be lucky and invest in the right market at the right time.
Just change the name already. Jeepers.
Here is another idea/fun experiment: try to express your idea in:

- 5 words

- 1 sentence

- 1 paragraph

- 3 paragraphs

Adding constraints like that really help you focus on what's important. For example, does "Lightweight" section belong to the introduction, or is it an implementation detail? Should you move screenshots up on the page above the "fold line"? etc. etc.
Shoutout to Jason and #archiveteam. Great work on Fotopedia, ready to launch DO instances to go grab Twitpic!
Even aside from the specifics of ClojureScript, this is just a wonderful example of separating and planning for the requirements of an application.

How is a piece defined and drawn?
What control does the user have over a piece?
Since two pieces cannot intersect, how can I detect that?
And so on...

Not unique to ClojureScript, it's a great reminder the best way to write great code is to ask these questions and answer them before you begin composition.

Anyway, great work!
any way to simulate turmites with this?
Embeddable technology is overtaking wearables
"Don't base your entire business on another business' product. "

Well another angle to that could be it's ok if you plan on getting out while the going is good by selling to a greater fool.

This is one of the detriments in life to knowing to much. You tend to shy away from things (because of past knowledge and experience) that someone with less experience might do. And they might, by luck, make out.

For example if you operate in old school business the idea of going forward with an idea not knowing how you will make money simply doesn't make sense. But hey people have done that and they've made out.
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Although this is a practical application of Kimono Labs (except for the APIs for CrunchBase and Twitter, which have their own APIs that are more reliable), there really isn't much to this visualization other than comparing S14 and W14, which is not enough to establish any causal trends. the visualization doesn't indicate any major shifts either. YC invests in a wider variety of companies in the later years, yes, but there isn't an constant increase or decrease in a particular category.

Additionally, how did you categorize each YC startup? I checked your APIs and I didn't see that data in any of them.
What would you suggest (more for e.g. Twitter users than my example)? Reliant? Used to? The whole concept of dependence is that substitutes aren't perfect. Windows/Mac, Android/iOS, emacs/vim - no one is dependent on those, but a lot of people would be pissed if any one of them went away.
Dedicated lines are exactly as secure as the internet - i.e., not secure, so there's no difference on that regard. From a security viewpoint, they're treated as unsecure as a number of third parties (the network providers and such) may have access to it; so you have to encrypt all data in transit in the exact same manner as you would on an internet connection.

In finance, you get dedicated lines for bandwidth/latency guarantees (i.e., no congestion out of your control) or for redundancy and fault tolerance; not for security.
Nah, I think that you've still got to accept and engage with people who are intolerant of others--again, you yourself are a member of that group.

It's not usually a big deal if you are interacting in a strictly professional capacity: if they let their bigotry get in the way of good business and engineering and teamwork, you can drop them on those merits alone irrespective of their reasons for being subpar engineers or businessmen.
>There's a reason nobody goes after the "underclass" at any scale

There are plenty of companies that go after the underclass at scale - things like "no bank needed" debit cards, prepaid phone cards, payday loansharks, western union-style money transfer businesses, public transport companies etc.
yep, i'd say the best and very thoroughly documented case in history. In general aliens don't go for a contact with us as we're too low on development ladder - their "Primary Directive" and overall pointlessness of talking to ants - yet that was the case when an observer got too impatient and tried to deliver a simple message of how we can leap frog our development - by simply reigning in our violence. We still haven't got the message. Beside anything else, look at the "tax" the violence in all shapes (incl. government as well as personal/emotional/social) burdens our development with.
Thanks! And that's a great idea
Should I assume that this topic directly relates to building Go the language and not Go binaries that we use Go to write?

I see some comments here that seem like overkill for building cross-platform binaries which is why I ask.
What is the best attribution model?
Thank you, I usually judge a video by it's cover, so I thought it would be cool just to jump in partway and see.
Societies shown in Star Trek are very homogenous. It appears that each species has only one culture each. But if you look at us, we do not have one culture. We have many cultures, and subculture that nests within them.

That is not the case at all with Star Trek race. Even humans appeared to be made up only one culture, with no subcultures or variation at all.
This seems like a great idea. You have points and lines (streets). What about areas? For instance, real estate lots. It would be great to replace undecipherable legal descriptions or platting schemes with your system.
That always bothered me about Star Trek. You have a multi-racial, multi-cultural human spaceship, but alien species seem to all be the same culture/race.
Dananjaya Hettiarachchi just won the 2014 World Championship of Public Speaking. Check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8xNZQ3ZwE
They also mention that it would have had to spend almost the entirety of it's life eating, rarely even sleeping, and that simply falling over could have greatly harmed it.

Maybe this was some other sort of generally less unwieldy dinosaur, except this particular specimen had some sort of gigantism disorder. Might explain why it appears the bones were continuing to grow even at that massive size, and why it became stuck.
New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program
You might want to have a look at this site in Firefox.

I'm on Firefox 32 on Mac and the videos are grainy and blocky (like trying to watch satellite TV during a rain storm or a badly compressed JPEG). It's so bad I'm having a really hard time telling what they're showing. The header video only loads about every 5th time for me, otherwise I get either a spinner or just a blank white screen.

When it shows up, I also can't click the "Get Mac App" or "Get iOS Viewer" buttons. They doesn't seem to do anything.

Opened it up in Safari and Chrome and looks and work much better.
I was actually just making a very crude joke about the impossibility of really knowing anyone, aliens included, unless by knowing you just mean having sex with.
Who gets the contract? GoPro?
Yes, definitely can't draw a trend based on 2 data points, but the difference is still quite interesting. Also, with kimono you can extend and expand the analysis with new APIs to tease out more interesting trends.
@jessaustin - the rule of any off road exploration is be prepared. Even renting a Jeep doesn't mean you won't have problems if you run into an issue and aren't prepared. Based on your prior messages, it sounds like you have a good grasp on that.

A drive out to the racetrack, assuming no recent storms/floods, in a 2wd drive vehicle is probably sane @25mph or so paying attention to where you are going. A jeep in the same situation, probably 35-40mph. I took my old tacoma 2wd pickup well back into the backcountry, but we were going through contortions to make up for lack of clearance (after 10 years of going, you know the challenges).

My last trip to DV two years back, a buddy and I rented a Jeep from Farrabee's near Furnace Creek (my buddy's 4wd vehicle was out of commission) and typically he rents to people taking the jeep to the racetrack or around the park, which makes total sense and if you are there for a day and want to do such is perfectly reasonable.

We were taking the jeep out for a week on a trip that included having to build up the road in places, a bit of trail blazing in one case, etc. For that adventure, since he hadn't rented the DV jeeps for such (Farrabbe has in his Moab location), we had to make him comfortable with our experience and knowledge.

All that said, it really comes down to being aware of what you are doing, where you are going, what the risks are, and being prepared. Lots of stories of people w/ 4wd vehicles going into the back country, getting lost/stuck (relying on GPS) and in some cases dying. It's not an area to take lightly, even in Fall/Winter.
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They don't really need a huge head with big muscles if they're not chewing, someone did a study on it:

- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12dinosaurs.html?p...
I was surprised too. It includes the three largest banks in Denmark as well.
I may have worded my comment ambiguously, I am talking about the writers in the US who discovered Finland after noticing the low US scores. I am not talking about any thoughts or opinions or the reality inside of Finland. The entire basis of the attention Finland gets for its schools in the US is the PISA scores.
UPTEC last year accepted 165 new start-ups and 22 managed to gain independence and become self-sustained. A success rate of 13% in the start-up world is not that bad...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev...
True! And in the UK I have never seen 'internet only' landline either.
Based on the paper at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/56.Lott_.Police.pdf , "standards" here refers to various tests, including tests for cognitive skills, that police departments used during employee selection. The tests ended up with a negative bias towards minority groups. This is important because of the 1989 Supreme Court decision in City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. which imposed a strict scrutiny test to ensure that job qualifications fit the goal 'so closely that there is little or no possibility that the motive for the classification was illegitimate racial prejudice or stereotype.'

Eg, and quoting from the paper:

> After spending “$5.1 million to have consultants develop unbiased exams, only to have minorities fare poorly again,” Chicago moved to a heavily weighted seniority system for promoting police officers and a lottery system for hiring firefighters (Spielman, 1996, p. 16)

Thus, the supposition in the paper is that those cognitive tests correctly measured skills needed for law enforcement, and with that in supposition in place, it tries to estimate the impact of the changes, concluding that they were negative.

I don't find the paper persuasive. I don't think the hypothesis is tested well enough, I don't see a model for how the police force composition could change so drastically after only 5 years, and I don't like the short baseline of the analysis.
Not a single mention of the Prime Directive.
If you publish any kind of price, that affects your negotiation options if you want to do individual pricing/haggling for each customer.

Also, a multitude of factors affect the 'true' price including various risk estimates of your company, and it would be counterproductive to say "factor X, as measured by Y, gives you a price increase/decrease of Z", as that would just result in gaming the measurement and misleading about the nature of your business.
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It is because the application will start skipping notes if you start singing faster- I have aggressively filtered entered frequencies which made the dictation speed a bit slower. VexFlow's notation is a little handful to say the least, I had to tweak it a lot to make it work for me.
The nearest reference I know for sure it's the season 3, episode 26 "Sunset" of Breaking Bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDSn6odVzs

*The emphasis at the end is not necessary.
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Well, there will probably still be an abundant number of indie developers willing to make $40k/year. They'll move to Alaska so they can live the dream. I should have kept a list of all the recent podcasts and links. Anyway, here's one from today.

http://www.developereconomics.com/indie-app-opportunity-gone...
While this is a thoughtful piece, it's ultimately misguided. Star Trek is a decades-old, generational franchise, built and maintained by hundreds of writers, actors, producers and directors. There is not single person or "voice" that speaks for Star Trek. With such an expansive cannon, it is trivial to pick and choose story lines and themes to support any conjecture or criticism. Like any other cultural artifact, Star Trek has taken on the flavor and zeitgeist of a given era. Including the at times sexist, racist and xenophobic attitudes of the day.

Where the article gets things particularly wrong is exploration in Star Trek. The European exploration of the Americas was premised on exploitation - to find new worlds an peoples to conquer and dominate. It didn't see foreign peoples as human, but as resources to be mined, extracted and refined.

Contrast with Star Trek: aliens are almost always extended the hand of friendship at first contact. They are considered self-determined individuals who can become partners in science or trade, if they are capable. The Federation regulates it's interactions with aliens via the Prime Directive. A Directive that is designed to protect the "other" and maximize their independence and well-being. To declare this an analog with European conquest is laughable.
I've been trying to find long, purposeless walks, but invariably I always end up walking a circuit, so the purpose becomes "finish the circle and get back to work". And I feel that takes something away from using a walk to get away from stress, instead it becomes one more task I have yet to finish.

There's an arboretum here in town but it's a drive to get there. I wish I lived next door to a forest.
Don't doubt for a second that being a woman helped her secure this position. Absolutely every decision made at this level is covered from all political perspectives. To assert otherwise is either hopelessly naive or intellectually dishonest.
I've been with the agency for 5 years. Rules 76 and 78 kind of made me laugh, since projects and centers stab each other in the back all the time. But I think similar dynamics exist in any sufficiently large organization. Mastery of internal politics eventually becomes one of the most highly valued skills you can have, if you stay on for the long haul.
You have to simplify if you want to fit stories into 45 minutes. You can't expect Kirk to spend years battling the governments of fifty different countries on every planet he encounters, and you can't introduce a bunch of completely different alien cultures every other episode.
>You can get a Surface Pro 3 for $799, if anything that's a bargain for what you're getting.

Like I said, its worth the money for what you get, but that's not going to matter much. Most people spend less than $799 on a computer of any sort.

>The only danger about that price point is that people might think it's an expensive tablet rather than a cheap computer..

Until they release a keyboard that actually transforms the device into a laptop, it is just an expensive tablet.
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You can go even farther - for the houses where you've identified pools, sell those addresses to pool maintenance companies.
> But would it not make sense to just rebrand?

Most likely not. TwitPic's only possible exit was an acquisition by Twitter, who has since developed their own image hosting platform.

This is the danger of tying your startup to another company that has the power to shut you down. The company that you are tied to needs to either acquire you, or you are at their mercy.
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