skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct, the breakdown for a monthly SMS fee is $500-$1,000 (for a 'vanity' short code) just to hand on to the name (think of it as paying $500 for a domain name of a random sequence of characters or $1000 for a domain of your choosing).

It doesn't stop there thought. Typically you have to pay an aggregator to send and receive messages from the cell networks. This usually costs thousands of dollars and is broken down between a monthly fixed cost or a cost per message (typically $0.04-$0.05 per outgoing message or $0.01 per incoming message).

But that's not for fund raising short codes. If you're a corporation, the cellphone companies take anywhere from 50%-75% of the amount that is to be billed to the customer; however, this number is much lower for non-profits. The caveat though is that not many non-profit organizations are approved for these lower rates; companies like mGive and MobileCause have to do a lot of work to get this clearance from cellular phone companies and act as an aggregator for non-profits.

Oh, and there's one more thing: the application process, which is a fucking nightmare. It takes 3-6 months to get a non-charging short code and thousands of dollars without any guarantee of approval. Worse yet, each cellular network has to approve of your application so if all US cellphone companies approve, but one like Verizon says, "No, sorry," you're screwed. When our company went through this process, one cell provider said, "No," at first, and then asked us for a sample of the SMS messages that we would send and receive.

Net net: its a fucking mess out there in the SMS short code world. If you want to see what a world of non-net-netruality looks like, look no further than cellular providers.
Caffeine, Flash Cards, Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic#Memory_enhancement
thank you so much for all your advice .i'am curious to know if companies like microsoft and a couple of hardware companies still use it.
You need to restore the stack to what it was before on return. Normally you can easily do that because you know the stack pointer delta at compile time. But when realigning at runtime, you don't, so you need to compute the difference and then store that somewhere, and on return you have to read that back and add it to the stack pointer.

Or is there some trick that I'm missing?
A lot of people should quit 'pointless' Twitter. Each time that happens, it becomes more useful to the rest of us.
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Well, I wouldn't sign it.

You could ask them to add more specific wording about why they want the photo, and what they want use it for.
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My point is simply that you could have reached your current stage of proficiency as a developer quicker if Scheme immediately followed C. C++, Java, and Python would just seem like relatively minor differences in syntax for concepts with which you are already familiar, assuming you learned C and Scheme well.

Of course, the danger is that it can quickly become frustrating to program in the likes of Java once you realize all the things that are simple and straight forward in, say, Scheme but require ridiculous amounts of circumlocution in Java.
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.. which is exactly my original point, restated. So the "severe systemic problems" are to blame, then. But there is blame, there is cause, it's not just some unavoidable random thing.

Look, one last time. Mahmud was saying that no-one's to blame, it was an act of god, can't be helped. I was trying to say that the systemic problems killed those people, poverty killed those people, bad government killed those people. That's what I think and that's all I was trying to say.
And a team from the People's Liberation Army's signals intelligence branch will find themselves in jail soon for embarrassing the government...
Typo, it's fixed in the Etherpad version
I find the fact that Adobe got hacked by a pdf vulnerability kinda funny.
The earthquake epicenter was in Haiti. It wasn't felt as strongly in the Dom. Rep.

About 6 years ago, an earthquake centered in the northern part of the island destroyed the nearby towns.
Deadweight is a very well written Ruby script that performs the same kind of task. Give it a try:

http://rdoc.info/projects/aanand/deadweight
Why would you care if prospective employies read the blog?
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"Although the initial attack occurred when company employees visited a malicious web site, Alperovitch said researchers are still trying to determine if this occurred via a URL sent to employees via e-mail or instant messaging or some other method, such as Facebook or other social networking sites."

It still needed an employee to make the usual "install the dancing pigs"-style gaff while using IE6.

Also: Employees using IE6, inside Google, in 2010. Why weren't they using Chrome?
What Is the Chinese Economic Model?
I seriously doubt Lucas actually intended any of this. Rather, having R2-D2, C3-PO and Chewie all over the prequels was mostly fan-service, and this is an elaborate retcon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity).
What I find more interesting is that this is from the Embarcadero blog. Does this mean we'll have Delphi on the Mac soon?
I hope that this article will be a good starting place for anyone learning how to get their page ranked in Google... Sort of a crash course in SEO.

Anything that you think I've left out or would like to see updated?
Actually I think touchscreens which you touched with your fingers were much more prevalent back then (in e-kiosks, ATMs etc)

Having touchscreen on your mobile device was real luxury.
I know this may not be the same situation as yours, and it may not be entirely helpful to you; but whenever I've had a problem with my account I've just sent a note to PG and it's gotten taken care of within a day or so.

(I have had voting problems previously.)
It'd be impolite to email someone something when it only concerns them, and yet it's fine to post on an online news group where everyone will see it?
Yes - thanks - now corrected.
This attitude is not even only in India, but also seeps into the Indian culture in America. I dropped out of engineering and pursued History. I really love computers and programming, but I sort of lost interest in studying it at the university as it was just a rat race.

After a semester of exploring random classes I decided that I wanted to do History. It wasn't an easy choice by any means. Previous to this exploration I was really trying to focus on doing well in engineering, but I was constantly fighting myself. I would say that was one of the worst periods of my life. I was doing something which I felt I was obliged to not because I truly enjoyed it.

I talked to my parents and they were open with me changing my majors. I think that was my biggest fear, what my parents would think. When they accepted my change of major that was big relief for me. However, when I told my relatives (here in the states) they had quite a shock.

I must say changing to history was one of the best things I have done. I love studying it as opposed to drudging it. The wonderful thing is that I supplement history with classes from the linguistics, psychology, and economics departments.
Further, since I am concentrating on Indian history whenever I talk with Indians (from India) more often than not I know much more about India than them.

This rote learning is why India has not produced an Apple or Google! That's not to say there aren't brilliant engineers in India, there definitely are! But family and friends in India see outside the box thinking as unusual. When I visited India over the summer and told people I studied History they did not comprehend what that meant. The choices were: business, doctor, or engineer.
It's in the frame pointer.

Edit: You're right, optimized code might not save the frame pointer and this wouldn't provide any benefit if your frame had unknown size. But usually the preamble saves the old ESP in EBP and it is restored at the end. Maybe there is another alternative.
It looks like it's already starting to fade. Twitter became popular because of the number of high profile celebrities that could use it to talk to their fans directly. Now it looks like those celebs are all abandoning it...
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True, it may not have been as ultra-sophisticated as the article lets on, but the fact that there would be no obvious reason to pursue the attack on 34 different companies seems to belie the commercial-hack theory.
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I had no idea HN's defense mechanisms were this sophisticated.
Not that I disagree, however, I found it interesting to hear about this issue. I wasn't aware it exists before this submission.
Also: Employees using IE6, inside Google, in 2010. Why weren't they using Chrome?

I guess they were testing something in IE6. Perhaps one of their own sites. Perhaps how some other site renders in it compared to Chrome. Who knows.
you realize you're saying you wouldn't choose the guy that _invented_ semaphores right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)
Thanks for the feedback - appreciated.

I could've taken more time to explain that more clearly, and it probably would've sounded better, but I really do have other things to do.

The simple facts are that my votes don't count, I don't know why, I thought I was a useful contributor, I resent the implicit message that my votes aren't valued, and I think it's rude to walk away from a service because of a perceived flaw without giving feedback.

I'd be interested to know what people think the difference is between "user" and "customer." Perhaps a "user" simply doesn't pay in any way, whereas a "customer" does. I prefer to be a "customer." In return for the contacts I've made and information gained, I'm happy to repay by taking time to add value.

Most companies try to turn users into customers. I'm just pointing out that the current situation has turned a customer into a user, and that might not be what was intended.
I don't understand, how would SocialToo help the scammers? Seems to me if a scammer follows you and then unfollows after a week, it would be nice to have auto-unfollow. So SocialToo would help against the scammers?
Google Said to Have Tried to Get Support Over Attack
My thought while reading this: "There's someone at Google running IE?"
Specifically, a 0-day exploit in the Adobe Reader software which Adobe knew about and refused to fix for months (since it would break their upgrade schedule).
Once I got to the point that I had my follow list well tuned for my tastes, Twitter became a very valuable source of information for me. The trick has been to be ruthless with unfollowing people if they dirty my Twitter stream with stuff that distracts me or irritates me. (It's also helpful to be on the lookout for anyone to add who might add value to the stream.)
I agree -- it's the "anti-network effect". Twitter will finally be most useful at its limit of zero.
Well... I'd say that it'd help if the information was reliable, backed by evidence, up to date, referenced experts within the field and actually factually correct. Like http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
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Source? (Not being a dick, just interested in the whole story.)
Interesting - thanks. I wish I could upvote you.
The list under the subheading "What Is the Chinese Economic Model?" is worth reading. He is overly harsh on some points ("there is perhaps a 30-year supply of poverty-level wage earners happy to make export goods at below global cost") but he is right on the money for others (currency manipulation, stolen IP, etc.)

Note that this came out more than a week before Google made its announcement that it was considering pulling out of China. I think other startups or established companies considering an expansion into China should read this first. There are certainly opportunities, but lots of asterisks too.
I think it is not so simple. Despite of the casual nature of Twitter, there is still a lot of diplomacy and politics involved. To me it still feels like the polite thing to do to follow back if somebody follows me - it is like answering "hello" if somebody says "hello" to you. Except that I completely stopped managing my Twitter followers atm, because it became too overwhelming.

Another example is #FollowFriday - how do you react if somebody recommends you? Recommend them back? Does recommending somebody mean you value your other followers less? And so on - just saying that there are still some issues...

Another issue is that if you are a company and want people to be able to contact you via Twitter, you basically have to auto-follow. People can only send you DMs if you follow them, after all. So if the following-limits become a problem, I could see auto-unfollow help, too.
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Is he saying that we went into Afghanistan to ensure that natural gas from Central Asia could somehow be piped to a port, liquefied, and then transported to the USA, when we have now found another hundred years of domestic natural gas by using fractal drilling?
I find the fact that the targets were source code repos very interesting.

If you are a super-smart black-hat villain who wants to plan a mass global attack, what better place to start than with Google and Adobe's source code?
I have to say that is a very skewed statement. What the DOW has done in the past ten years to basically end up in the same spot is amazing! Though it is very interesting to note!
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Considering that pg a while back mentioned you specifically on a short list of people whose comments he tends to find interesting, I doubt this was intentional.

It also might've been better handled by a short email to him.
How is this HN material? I am curious...
Bigger than that, Ted Ts'o (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tso), is a Googler. He probably has some experience with ext2, 3, and 4.
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This sounds like a Marshall Plan for the mother of all Games. Hope they make it multi-player open source:)
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This is called factoring and is common in corporate finance where Y net-N (payment after N days or Y% discount at 10 days) is standard operating procedure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)

The Red Cross would sell their invoices from the telephone companies at a discount to a third party. Although, the possibility of fraudulent contributions may complicate this plan.
Sorry about the downvote. It was a mouse slip. It should have been a +1.
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Wasn't this supposed to be done in Wave? ;-)
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Mystery: Why is that when I make a huge generalisation, I don't back it up.

You see, consulting is very similar to cooking. I think I read a book about this 'Hackers and Bakers'

...

More seriously, I think this comment sums up this style of article:

'This review captures what's been driving me crazy over the last year... an unbelievable proliferation of anecdotes disguised as science, self-professed experts writing about things they actually know nothing about, and amusing stories disguised as metaphors for how the world works.'
"The Petronas Towers were the tallest skyscrapers in the world."

Only if you count unoccupied, decorative spires.
Grampa wants you to, like, get off his lawn.

Also:

> The restoration of the word 'as,' which isn’t that hard a word to master, along with 'such as,' would also be a help in varying the national lingo.

Instantly reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

> Everywhere, like, such as.
By all means get them to be moe specific! I had this float through my head:

Fade in: Boom zoom over a bedroom set. Cameramen etc are doing their thing. Robed actors are chilling, laughing in the background. Entering stage left REP (modestly dressed middle aged woman, dark business suit, style to evoke sara palin) carrying folder of important looking papers.

Cut to camera 1: REP looks up, smiles

REP: Hi, I'm here to tell you about the hard working people of hte adult film industry. Sure you know about the actors.

cut to camera 2 on the actors chilling, laughing

REP (in voiceover): And all of thier hard work

cut to close up face shots of actors during hardcore scenes.. montage

REP (still in voiceover): These men and women are people, who deserve your respect. Perhaps even your envy, who wouldn't want to be intimately involved with such beautiful people!

end montage, cut to camera 1

REP: I know however, that lifestyle maynot be for everyone. It is a bit icky, gross even. I am instead talking about different people. The people in the back office. These are the men and women who keep the servers up, and manage sales. They are normal folks, just like you. They are the lifeblood of the internet.

begin montage of faces of smiling regular employees. Include first name and vague job description/dept

REP (in voiceover): When you try to look at porn at 2am, do you know who is making it stream at peak hours? Howabout when your credit card is discreetly billed to a non-descript entity? Yep thats Debby, she is our "Cheif fake company expert". And don't forget larry, who spends half the year away from his wife and kids, in the cold russian winter, just to wrangle russian cam girls.

* Cut back to camera 1*

REP: Yes folks, the Adult industry in america is more than just sticky booths and shady old men. We aren't just coked up beautiful people who couldnt make it as real actors. We are normal people just like you. Next time you talk to bob the accountant at the block party, try and remember if you know his company -- he may be working at an adult store.

cut to bumper... brought to you by the national porn council

END

Im just saying: captaincrunch-- dont end up in that montage, particularly if there is a PTA at your kids school.
In the US maybe. In most countries anyone can get to the gate in a domestic terminal.
I believe Grooveshark and similar services will truly be the future of music. With the web based mobile devices, it is possible for anyone to carry all music along with them instead of simply limiting themselves to the amount of MP3s they can store or afford. Their defense can be that they are simply Internet radio.
Who else? Also, I'd argue that celebrities tweeting is not why Twitter became popular. Have you used your RSS reader lately? If it's fading, why did Google add it to search results?
What emailing out of the blue on a low priority issue and for which a wider group of people are interested in the answer anyway?

I certainly wouldn't bother him.
Does anyone have a full list of the 34 companies?
Just create a new account. I get banned all the time. This is my third account. You can't take it personally. It's either some person being wrong about you or some automated system. Who cares?

I love it when I get banned, it means I won't be back for a while, until the desire for attention overcomes the inertia. This site is kinda like Get Satisfaction for bloggers. "You don't have to create an account. It's just that everybody on this one thread is talking about you right now, and they're all taking your lack of response to mean something."

I hate the karma system. Any site that has one is fundamentally flawed (detailed rant: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...). It's an automated, massively parallel abusive relationship, and I hate to kick somebody when they're down, but this guy, with all his sad whining about "I don't know what I did wrong, why don't you love me any more"? That is not the sign of a healthy community. That is the sign of an automated, massively parallel abusive relationship.

Any venture capitalist knows that you run a lot of experiments and some things fail. The karma system is fail. Throw it away.

PS, please ban me.
Imagine that The Naked Chef gets bored doing "telly" and opens a restaurant.

Like his venture 'Fifteen' that is not only a top restaurant, but also a program for troubled youth? Or more like the half-dozen or so "Jamie's Italian" that have opened?

Or like the dozens of additional "Jamie's Italian" that are planned for Europe and Asia in the next couple years?

Come on, Joel. If you're going to use a metaphor, please make sure it fits... at least a little. Jamie Oliver is already executing on the exact thing you say he can't do; creating a repeatable process to make delicious food and opening a chain of restaurants that sell it.
Good security is multi-layered. Just because they relied on an old trick to get their foot in the door, doesnt mean they have bad security inside or at more sensitive parts.
He's got a lot of GetItDoneness, even if his technical skills aren't always the absolute best.

9 times out of 10 I'd take the former over the latter...
I'm more worried about Voyager coming back
Check out the date of the article... 2001. It's not a new article
Why yes, yes I have used my RSS reader. I use it quite regularly. Unlike twitters stupid 140 char limit, RSS gives me enough information right in the reader to know if the article in question is worth clicking on to read more (not to mention, most sites let you read the whole article right in the RSS feed).
I've dabbled a bit with twitter, and to me at least it doesn't seem even remotely likely to displace RSS. Now, if I could find more high quality social news sites like HackerNews, MetaFilter, etc. THAT might supplant my RSS reader.
Pete,

Thanks a lot for that link. seomoz.org is a great resource for SEO research.

I am going to update that post to include this.
I know. It's no fair that Luke got a quiet, peaceful childhood, spending all his time tinkering with his Land Speeder, shooting swamp rats, and daydreaming about adventuring through the Galaxy, while his sister had to grow up in a stifling, controlling, political environment where her every word, action, and appearance were constantly monitored giving her very little freedom or privacy.

Obviously, Obi-wan went easier on the boy.
Shipping containers are used for student housing where I live. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
PPS, nothing against you, giraffes guy, I just re-read my sentence and it seemed a bit harsh.

I'm just saying that a web site that makes a person unhappy is not a good thing for them to be part of, and as someone who comes back repeatedly, despite being banned, to me it looks as if your desire to come back, despite being disenfranchised, is a sure sign of dysfunction. my coming back is certainly dysfunctional, but here I am. people dig the site in spite of its dysfunctions, but it sure would be cool if PG et al just threw the dysfunctional parts away.
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Hmm, I was actually about to edit my comment to say that you are right because usually you'll store the old stack pointer as the new base pointer.

I guess the answer is that realigning at runtime costs a register, but most code has to pay that cost anyway.
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Even if it was intended, it doesn't change the fact that Episodes 1-3 were terrible films.
I keep my eyes open for anything that looks like a toy - and this did (http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...). But in my case it wasn't sticky enough.

So just like Ricky I ended up abandoning it. Maybe it works for really well networked and extrovert people but is not a universal utility by any means.
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