skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently have a small office that depends on faxing. I'd ditch fax if I could, but my clients are funny in their ways.

Anyway, I'm using Asterisk 1.6.2 with FreePBX 2.0 and Broadvox is my SIP provider. My system is set up to receive faxes on the Asterisk PBX and email them to a mailing list of employees (this is configured through FreePBX). I also have a Grandstream GXW-4004 to provide FXS ports for the fax machine and analog phones that aren't important enough to replace with expensive VOIP handsets.

Note: I never got the analog fax machine to send and receive. Depending on how I set the fax detect on the Grandstream, I could do either-or, but not both. So my PBX receives faxes and my machine sends them. This is likely a PEBKAC matter, but I can't really be bothered to put forth the time to work this final gremlin out of my system.

My advice to anyone doing faxing over VoIP is the following:

1) If possible, don't.

2) Make sure your SIP provider supports VOIP faxing. Some don't with good reason: it's a bitch to support.

3) Make sure your SIP provider support G.711 with T.38.

4) Make sure your ISP does not strip QoS headers (In this case DiffServ EF)from IP packets. Your ISP will ignore them, obvious, but you definitely don't want them stripped or overwritten.

5) Make sure your VOIP packets have a DiffServ EF value in their headers.

6) Make sure any router(s) and switch(es) are configured properly to give top priority to your VOIP traffic. Failure to do so will likely result in jitter on your calls and you'll be unable to successfully send/receive faxes.

7a) If possible, don't run your primary PBX in a virtualized enivornment. Competition for system resources may create unwanted latency on your Asterisk VM resulting in jitter and failed faxes.

7b)With that said, I would definitely keep a cold or hot "spare" PBX running in a VM to spin up in the event of an outage.

Good luck!
I would split theoretical ability and statistical ability into separate skillsets. Having the understanding in the field and the ability to posit reasonable hypotheses to test is very different (at least in most fields!) from having the statistical knowledge and ability to properly generate results.

And I think larger labs do frequently separate out a few of these. I'd love to have a better understanding of how industry labs differ from academic labs in that respect.
Those sites only seem to value domains on the basis of things like traffic and pagerank. I own a .com domain that is a three letter, cool sounding English word (I bought it 15 years ago). Those sites calculate the value of my domain at about $1000. Since I've already turned down an offer of $60k I'm certainly going to ignore anyone offering what is hardly more than pocket change.
My college was next door to RIM HQ, and believe me, this joke is as old as the company :P
reminds me of the sean connery celebrity jeopardy sketches on SNL in the late 90's ... penismightier and therapist were great
The real issue here is the way high school English approaches reading, it turns even great novels into a chore. With journal entries, reading quizzes over minor details, etc etc you can't actually sit back and enjoy the books.

I hated reading in high school, but since then I have found that when I read classics similar to those people read in high school, I enjoy them much more than I did back then, even if it's hard to find the time to do so.
I've already written an entire book on this and given it away for free. I suggest you read it and write a review. Be specific, and show good counterexamples. I'll be happy to link you when you do.

Until then, stop acting like you're some sort of authority (NOTE: This is not to claim I am -- because I'm not and no one is.) I just think it'd make sense to put your ideas into a bit of context so people can see that you're not just being critical for the sake of being critical.
cough ... Polar bears? ;)

Design is valuable, but that value is of significantly different importance depending on the businesses. For some business, it's a key part of what they do. For others, it's just a checklist item. For a few, professional design would probably be harmful. (Example: The Drudge Report)
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What isn't "poor security" about "a weakly protected account: a shared ID for everyone or credentials sitting in plain view."

When access to other people's stuff is controlled by a given account, unless that there is good protections on every level, you're in trouble, you have poor security.
The interesting part is the video about Sylvester Stallone's perserverance for becoming an actor. Here's a summary:

* Knew without a doubt he wanted to be an actor. People told him "you look stupid." He was thrown out of agent's offices over 1500 times.

* Got his first job sitting in the office of an agent overnight. Played a thug that beats someone up for 20 seconds.

* Didn't have any money, wife wanted him to get a job, but he wouldn't because "I knew that the only way I would make it was if it was my only choice."

* Went to the public library one day because it was warm (didn't have money for heat). Started reading an Edgar Allen Poe book, which inspired him to become a writer.

* Wrote a bunch of screenplays, still broke. Finally sold one for $100.

* Was so broke, he sold his wife's jewelry. That was the end of their relationship.

* Couldn't afford to feed his dog, so he sold his dog - his best friend - for $25.
Later that night saw a boxing match and was inspired to write Rocky.

* Was told the screenplay was "stupid, sappy, etc." Wrote down all of those things
and read them the night Rocky won an Oscar.

* Was eventually offered $125k for his script. But he demanded to star in it. Eventually after refusing even more money, they agree to pay him $35k and let him play Rocky.

* Desperately wanted his dog back. Bought his dog back for $15k and a part in Rocky (for the guy he bought it back from).
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Although in this case we have an engineer who was all three of employer, shareholder and employee....

And you're wrong about "minimize costs" per se. The employer has a obligation to maximize shareholder returns, for which a simplistic application of the "minimize costs" principle is seldom a solution.
i guess they've figured out that for people to buy their phones, they'll have to kiss ass
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kinda chicken and egg... why do they have an 'acceleration of change control' if it gets renegotiated anyway? I figure its worth mentioning either way.
Quirks I noticed in the text to help with identification:

"fully agree"

comma followed by etc with a period in middle of sentence
, etc. can

use of e.g. with a period after each letter.

well-known with a hyphen
high-end with a hyphen
likes to use colons correctly.

no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test and is a robot.
I think in some fields achieving (c) is almost impossible - the n number needed would be too expensive for most labs working with animal models, for instance. (b) would be interesting, especially if it led to a culture where "failed" results are still worth publishing because they disprove something. I think (a) is the one worth focusing on first, since that seems the most achievable and would let you back-apply some of the other improvements at a later date.
It amuses me that, since it's inception, America has essentially always moved from one jeremiad to another... and yet every year we keep pretending that there is something new about this.

According to Americans, things have been "going to hell" for over 200 years, and yet somehow this time it's different.

On the upside, I think all this lamenting is just a sign of our ambition to be better... and that is a good thing.
I disagree with virtually everything you have to say about design, but I apologize for the overly-snarky "spirit animals" comment.
I have experimented with this and found that unloading gift cards at a good price is easy via eBay or "contextual ads" or search engine ads. But, there really isn't an opportunity to establish a competitive advantage on the sell side. Competitors will bid up these channels and, importantly, people can figure out how to Google "buy gift cards" once you present this idea to them.

This business is really about finding a way to get people to sell you gift cards way below face value. But however much PR or advertising you do, most people will just Google "sell gift cards." And, again, you will just be doing work for whomever (of the n existing competitors) ranks highest in the SERPs.

So if that is the plan, you are really just trying to build another SERP merchant, but have the added complication of having to deal with fraud when sourcing your product (and I don't think fraudsters need to be super clever to walk away with a lot of their money).

Hopefully they have a better plan.
Can I just add in anything and everything having to do with networks?

I've run into a number of forest problems due to distributed systems.
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Hey, how do you know this was YC S06? Can you show me the list of YC companies?
IT contractors convicted of UK casino hack scam
This is not the first time I've heard this bait and switch tactic. The critical point that is muddled is that the web is not the Internet. Furthermore, an iPhone is a general purpose computing device and not limited to web applications. I don't believe for a minute that HTML5 solves this. For example, a major selling point of the iPhone is its iPod multimedia functionality which is an application.

Because you may want to do more with the Internet than access HTTP and because you have a device that does much more than access web pages, control over the applications on that device is a freedom issue. The partial freedom of web access is not the same as actual freedom. If I give the author the benefit of the doubt and believe he isn't clueless, then his spin on reality must be considered deceptive. It's misdirection. To alter a line in the article, when he refuses to distinguish between the Internet and the web and web access freedom and software freedom, he knows what he's doing.

I understand you may freely choose to not buy an iPhone, but Apple has gained a certain leverage in the market that can't simply be ignored. As an individual I can ignore it. As a company with competitive interest in mobile applications, you could not easily ignore it.
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I'm running on a shoestring budget so I built my own logo. Does anyone know where one can go to get my logo critiqued?
thanks for all the great responses... phonebooth.com seems pretty close to perfect to what we need... next question - any recommendations on IP Phones?
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I bet it's tokenadult. I do not have any other proof than the fact that I immediately thought of that username when I saw onetimetoken. :-)
Yes, but who says both parties are ferrets?
Microsoft Immediately Stumbles in Quest for Well-Designed Phone Apps
We're building an app that will be going into production in the next few weeks. It's not a huge application, probably around 300 hours of work.

Coming from a framework stack of WebWork/Struts2, Spring and Hibernate, it's a total breath of fresh air. Everything is there that you ask for, even nice little helper methods like encrypting strings, resizing images or serving byte arrays as documents.

We keep expecting to find some big shortcoming that brings about loads of painful refactoring, but it hasn't happened yet!

The templating engine is simple, clean and gets out of your way. The hot reloading really does work. The fact that there is NO XML configuration in our app is blissful and a real wake up call to how absurd Spring and Hibernate configuration used to be. The error messages are almost always enough to show you straight away where the problem is.

The only downside is that it completely shuns the entire Servlet API (although I appreciate that this is where a lot of the simplicity comes from). As a result you cant leverage any servlet-based components. But maybe that's a good thing.

I'm seriously impressed. I thought my company was going to have to make a jump to python or ruby to get such a clean, simple well thought through full-stack framework, but we dont.
Well, I'd respond with some real points but the rabid downvoters aren't looking for discussion - just agreement. Makes for a less interesting world, but there you have it.
You need to lower/change the barrier to entry. I could see myself using it if it limited itself everytime I went somewhere (ie: 2 minutes for hacker news, since I check it too damn much), but there is simply no way I'm going to go to your site first and then enter it. The bookmarklet is a good attempt at a fix, but it really needs to be seamless and automatic. For me deciding how much time I need on a site each time I go to it requires a fair amount of thought and consideration, whereas I could get used to getting everything I need out of HN in 2 minutes unless I was there for a lengthy stay.

Focus on an FF plugin maybe?
Better than efax is RingCentral. You can get an 800 number with multiple voice mail boxes plus the number doubles as a fax number. It can also be used to receive or make calls, but that costs extra and I haven't used it yet.
Pretty cool. I liked the sound of some of my pet projects.

I just showed this to a co-worker. He asked, "How about the reverse? What's the URL for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?"
Not every website has a short URL, especially if you wanted to link to, say, an individual employees page in the middle of a site. Also, relying on a URL shortening service introduces the problem of link rot. Lastly, I think the novelty of simply taking a picture of a QR code and being instantly taken to a site rather than typing out a URL makes them more likely to be used. It's still a good idea to include a URL, but a QR code could certainly have some additional benefit.
Simply, because the right to speak freely is far more precious than the right not to hear untruth.
Yeah when the road is a) snow covered or b) wet enough, being able to see the lines ANYWAY would be awesome.

Joys of Denver weather, eh?
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it's just a very general and simple to understand article in a Christian Science Monitor.

author has an interesting site and a book,

http://contrarianedge.com

for those like me who want to investigate further.
I don't think teenagers are as against bookstores as people would make it seem. While at my local borders/barnes/used book stores I see teenagers around all the time. Some kids will always be interested in reading, and that's great.
I've been using PhonePower for a few years now and they are very impressive with very good customer service and great features.
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I hate to say it but I garnered no intellectual intrigue from this story. At the time of commenting it has 38 points. Should this kind of thing be on HN?

And yes, I'll be that guy who quotes the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
I think that goes for lots of learning. When it's forced on someone else's schedule it's hard to enjoy, but when you're genuinely interested it's much more fun and productive.
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I find it annoying that traditional media websites almost never link to external websites.
Also people steal items from places like Home Depot and then return the items for gift cards.

I met a guy who that is all he did. He would steal the items and had his girlfriend return them. Eventually he upped his tactics and started representing himself as a representative from a manufacturer and would do a "recall" of all of stock on a particular item (swiffer wet mop cleaning pads) and he got them all and returned them to other stores.
hilarious ;-)
website down :/
Great example of why signature based detection for anti-virus is just a stopgap measure. You can be sure the anti-virus of the future (if there is one) will make limited to no use of malware signatures. I suppose it probably feels weird to most people to find out the AV product they pay a lot of money for is just a sophisticated version of grep.
I liked this post in the comments:

A couple of weeks ago I lectured in front of a classroom (in Belgium). I never prepare these things because I – naively – assume that the audience will want to know how it is to run a tech. start-up, like for instance Nomadesk.

So I asked: “What do you want to find out about staring up a business?”... no response!
Ok, I reverted to my fallback question: “Who of you has thought about starting a business, sometime in the future?” Dead silence, absolutely no response!?

At that point I got concerned, because I would only be able to entertain this lot (during 90min.), if they’d provoke me with their questioning.

So, I finally asked why they were not interested in starting up a business.
At that point a young lady raised her hand – she was not older than 18: “Because, you hardly get any retirement fee”…

I rest my case,
> That was Mitnick's MO and most have long since ceded him the epithet "hacker".

Well... I haven't ;-)
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It looks at the "body content of any web page" and translates that, so the correct question to ask would be "What does the website look like for Beethoven's Ninth?"

Also, news.ycombinator.com doesn't work on it, must be blocking it =(
The parent is great advice for dates and for life (is there a distinction, really?)

> go on a date just to have a good time with a girl, not just to sleep with her
- Be present with no expectations except creating a good time for yourself - others will be attracted to this

>share the costs
- Sharing is caring - don't pay for something (in this case, her drinks & dinner) unless you want to

> dont be gentlemanly at the end of the night. She's a person too and if she's not interested in getting laid she'll just say no
- Assume responsibility for what you want, and assume she'll take responsibility for what she wants

> be confident. She's on a date with you already!!
- Act like you've been there before... get out of your head and into the present moment.
Is it marketer?

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=marketer

This is merely a naive guess. He's the only other user on hacker news (according to Google) to use the term "people search engines". He also seems to have been working in the data mining business.
Chart of the day: There's a reason they call it "old media"
I'm doing a master's degree in science right now. I've previously worked as a telecomm engineer. I agree that there is relatively little division of labour in science, compared to engineering; or at least the labour isn't divided in the same way. I'm not convinced that this is bad, and in fact it's probably necessary.

Most of the useful scientific results synthesize previous results from various fields. There are very few observations incoming that actually add to or question the prevailing theories of a given field. It seems to me from my short experience that most of the work is in reducing theories, and experimentally confirming the reductions. To be useful as a scientist, there's a good change that you'll need to be an expert in at least two things.

I don't think it should be surprising that generating novel knowledge requires substantially more overhead than does acquiring and exploiting it (eg. engineering, or any practical pursuit where division of labour works so well). This may not apply to the medical research that was mentioned in the article, (the system is too complex for theoretic reduction to be useful) but I doubt that physical, ecological, mathematical, etc. sciences would progress as quickly without their practitioners having broad knowledge of their subjects.
I fully agree with the sentiment that inspires your statement.

However, this thread highlights a fundamental property of a networked life: e.g., etc. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=onetimetoken
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Maybe, and that's a good point, but there's also something to be said about working with "brand designers" instead of good graphic designers. Some of the inefficiency probably does come from working with frustrated artists, but some of it is also classic consulting rustproofing.

You've noticed I've been especially loud on this thread. You're right. The thing that gets me going about designers, apart from the fact that I geek out on it, is that I help run a consulting company and I'm pretty attuned to the consulting business model. I think a lot of "brand design"-types oversell services that many or even most companies don't need.
Run the following phrases on your thingy and filter by the users who use them:

"The point being,"

", mind you,"

"I fully agree with"

"highlights a fundamental"

":" some text "," some text "."

", etc."

" - e.g."

"entirely dissimilar"

Whatever user has the most instances of these signature phrases is likely your man.
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He doesn't think much of China's infrastructure build out (based mainly on the possibility that it is inefficient or overheating). But perhaps overseas student numbers are more revealing - presumably education is valuable even if infrastructure isn't.

I had a dig around for some statistics, and found the Australian government page on this:

http://aei.gov.au/AEI/MIP/Statistics/StudentEnrolmentAndVisa...

Statistics for China:

2005 - 84,476

2006 - 93,533

2007 - 110,846

2008 - 131,210

2009 - 154,777

That's 17% growth from 2008 to 2009. (Incidentally US figures have gone down.) Not a perfect proxy for economic growth, but then what is? There may be a bubble here and there, but on the face of it China seems to have a lot of advantages.

As for not having a social safety net, it appears they've thought about the one:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGQDE0Z2Lb...

I don't know if China's stimulus is as distorting as the article suggests, but it seems to me that now is as good a time as you're going to get to spend your dollars overseas if you've got some spare. I wouldn't bet on the stories about new investments in solar power, African minerals, and high speed train networks drying up just yet.
Do you keep a corpus of all HN comments?

I doubt PG would appreciate all of us hammering the HN server to collect the data.
Sorry, increased the server process limit to something more reasonable, should be better now.

This site normally gets 10 visitors / day or so...

I posted it on my blog because you can't post HN links on HN!
Here's the relevant text:

A typical case of me and my big mouth.

I figured that a basic analysis should reveal who wrote this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197027

Because of the size of the sample. So I wrote a bit of code to compare against other HN comments, and figured that that would turn up the user quickly.

But I was wrong, after two tries (Daniel Markham and John Graham-Cummings) I have to admit that my simple analysis has failed.

So, who will take up the challenge, can you identify this user somehow ?
All of them?

This is not a standard car feature, it's added specially for people who are a poor credit risk, allowing the creditor to remotely disable the car if they don't pay.
Ooh, I like your guess. The writing style seems to be the same.
You're right, I forgot that firefox remembers the zoom level for each page and when I go to another page/link in the same tab, the zoom level goes normal again. Good job FF.