skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just go to GV settings and check forward all SMS to gmail. From there on all your SMSs go to your Gmail account for you to read and reply. I have Boxcar which notifies me of a new SMS via a pop up in which I then go to the iPhone's mail client(configured it to work with my gmail) to respond to the SMS.
Why do you like your Nook more than a Kindle? When I was deciding between the two, the Kindle seemed more usable and more book-like. The user experience seemed better to me - didn't want to trade that for a color screen, less battery life, and weird usability quirks.
Do you have any good examples/tips?
While this doesn't help you in general, you can stop an LED from blowing out by connecting it in series with a 220 Ohm resistor, if you're just hooking it up to an Arduino. You can vary the resistance up or down a little to get the LED brighter or dimmer.

For properly learning what's what, I started out with Lessons in Electric Circuits, which is pretty decent:

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/
Easy fix to this would just be to get them to make a new blog entry with some keyword to indicate ownership.
I suppose I should have mentioned I'm already paying my health insurance (current employer doesn't offer it). Thanks for your help!
You made up all the stuff about "working for the Man", and since you did, I feel free to ask you: why all the vitriol? Is your own job fulfilling? Where does all that anger come from?

The idea that you can work a regular job AND start your own thing is a common misconception. Nothing to do with whether your job is rewarding or not; either way it precludes striking out on your own. The hours in the day prevent it.

The addiction is to the soft life. Lots of ways to explain why you enjoy that - and I understand completely. But its not going to get you anywhere but where you are.

When somebody has this level of emotion, I like to ask: if you were going to die in a year, how would you spend that time? And then: what are you waiting for.
"Then nobody would ever be able to buy a house with anything less than cash."

I've heard worse advice. That would have avoided the mortgage crisis anyway. The fact that the default in so many markets is to 'buy' things with borrowed money is probably for the worse.

I'm not saying one should never go into debt, but, plan ahead. Your job is not a given so make sure you have a buffer.
What should I expect this to cost?
As a developer trying to make money on an app through advertising - you're an advertiser.

Let me know how much money you make doing iPhone apps with AdMob. I'll be here.
sure but you can't attach moral obligation or duty to a corporate entity, all you can do is regulate (and we are trying...)

to tie the two together, i don't believe regulators are paying nearly enough attention to how incentives have changed over the past 15 years and why board of directors have become powerless to common sense in this arena
Eh. None of your points move me. In particular:

"Quora has managed to assemble an incredibly high quality set of founders, VCs, angels, hackers as extremely active members of the community."

Anyone who has been around HN or Reddit for a while will tell you that the hard part is maintaining an intelligent level of dialogue, in the face of the massive crowd of mouth-breathers that come with open adoption. It remains to be seen what will happen to Quora's signal-to-noise ratio if it becomes popular. And if it doesn't become popular, the value is a huge question.

"Cofounders Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever were former CTO/VP Engineering and Head of Connect/Platform at Facebook, respectively. They've managed to secure a massive investment at a huge valuation from a very highly-regarded VC firm - before launch."

This is practically a truism. In any case, it's not as informative a signal as it sounds -- people with successful pedigrees have an easier time raising money. It's hard to disambiguate this effect from the promise of the product itself.

" No one cares that you won't connect with Facebook or Twitter. Most people aren't like you."

Indeed. I am far more likely than the average person to try out a new service, if it's useful. Yet, with Quora, I am not compelled. I have no need for the service it provides.
I find these "X won" "Y won" blog posts to be getting tiresome. This industry is one of the most fluid, most innovative, and most dynamic in history. The products, services, and companies at the top of the heap today will not be the same at the top of the heap in a year, let alone 5 years or 10. Things change. Every company has to keep up with the competition or they will fall behind. There is no Ragnarok-esque finish line, it just keeps going.

If Apple had stopped at the iPhone v.1 it would have been an interesting footnote in history.

As far as eBooks, we're in early days yet. I doubt we've seen anything even close to the "winner" for eBooks yet.
Again, you two are free-associating all this from the original remark. But since you brought it up:

I treat my employees like people, and valuable resources, and experts in their job. I defend them from outside distractions and criticism, taking all the crap on their behalf, and giving them ALL the glory.
I don't get to make decisions, I HAVE TO make decision with the best intelligence at my disposal, which includes my Employees expert opinions. I'm paying them for that; I'd be a fool to ignore it.
Right, Prime numbers are anything but random. Their distribution, however, is.
IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible
I have said this before on HN, but its worth repeating the only thing that has worked for me is the Pomodoro technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com and the Hemming Way Hack
What is the best advice for a startup applying to Y Combinator?
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-advice-for-a-startup-a...

Why does Quora use MySQL as the data store rather than NoSQLs such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc.
http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-use-MySQL-as-the-data-st....

Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of Paypal?
http://www.quora.com/Why-did-so-many-successful-entrepreneur...

What were the 4 or 5 key decisions that Larry Page and Sergey Brin made in the early days of Google?
http://www.quora.com/What-were-the-4-or-5-key-decisions-that...

Why has FarmVille been so explosively successful
http://www.quora.com/Why-has-FarmVille-been-so-explosively-s...

What was the interview process like during the early days of PayPal?
http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-interview-process-like-dur...
Google, Chinese Researcher Find More iPhone Security Bugs Than Apple
And in a moment of pure irony, I'm seeing an "Error establishing a database connection" message.
That's the whole point of proxy access - to make shareholder revolutions easier.
> Again and Again it must be said that violating copyright is not stealing.

That's a side argument, which is irrelevant. The point is it's wrong.

> a lot of what your complaining about isn't even copyright violation

Plagiarism is copyright violation.

> copyright is prime example of regulatory capture, how else can obscene concepts like retroactive extension be endorsed and enacted with straight face.

I think most people don't really care one way or the other. But how is market share of distribution networks relevant to ethics? Doing something wrong to someone else who did something wrong is still wrong.
Compelling Landing Page Design Is Not Formulaic
If you exist solely for the purposes of facilitating piracy, you probably are, depending on the country. Go ask a lawyer.
The runaway general:Is criticism of Obama, Biden and others a fireable offense
If you want random access to a map you should write your own implementation. This is a bit like complaining that random access to a linked list is too slow.

Choose appropriate data structures for the task at hand, no one data structure will fit every use.
Ah, I'd missed the distinction, thanks.
Judge Blocks Deep Water Drilling Moratorium
Sorry to have referred to you in third-person; wasn't sure you were reading this thread. Thanks for the correction; I've changed my code fragment.
Interesting idea, but I'm guessing users wouldn't really like that very much.
From the judge:

He wrote that “the blanket moratorium, with no parameters, seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger.”

Personally, if I have a component fail violently and no explanation why, then I tend to err on the side of caution until I have some answers.. but that's just me. I'm sure this judge knows what he's doing.
Q1. Is Google doing something illegal by indexing the internet? No.

* Google doesn't exist solely for the purposes of facilitating piracy.

* The pirate bay does.

The law makes a distinction (ask a lawyer) so only TPB is doing something illegal.

Q2. Is Google not applying its Terms of Service consistently?

Most likely - sites that break it's ToS are still indexed with high PageRank. This could be worth taking them to court over. I hope this happens - TPB illegally distributes materials that a lot of my colleagues worked very hard on, in clear violation of the law and Google's ToS.

The 'obsolete business model' arguments are irrelevant to whether something is illegal or not and waste both our time. TPB illegally distributes across all industries, including independent artists and major contributors to open source.
Not really- pay is too good to quit. Boring, not enough projects, delays from everywhere under the sun. Requirements don't match expectations of finished projects, etc etc. At least there'll be other jobs, only here for 10 more months
shocking.lol. while def has correlations to the dev/startup community, HN is a very low design site, super info driven, seems like that would appeal more to male demo then female.
I've taken more "risks" than most, getting to a pretty comfortable position. Yet still I know that I've operated at maybe 20%, simply because I could.

I remember quitting one job (giving proper notice and doing everything right to strive for something better) and one of my coworkers lauded my bravery. It struck me because I didn't see it as bravery at all. More cowardly of rotting away in a 9-5 boring position.
|It's incredibly frustrating, after years of being in a relative comfort zone with the realm of general desktop/server software, to try to learn more about embedded, and then be uncertain as to what materials you even need.

That is, to me, one of the greatest feelings in the entire world. I remember being a kid and installing a qbasic compiler for the first time. HOLY CRAP it was like learning magic. There was SO much wonder.

Now it's just work. I know how to make my computer do pretty much whatever I want. Microcontrollers offer me the opportunity to experience that wonder of learning something new again.
Wow 14% female! That's at least 5 times mores than in my computers science classes. (no joke)
If you think that a given company's CEO compensation is wrong, don't own the stock.

This assumes good competition among CEO compensations.
But when I say "game", I mean that there's essentially a cartel of CEO compensation among all publicly traded companies, so that you can not just invest in a company which does not overpay the CEO.
I would like to say that DRM-free formats, will win, if they hadn't already.

All the ebooks I have purchased are in DRM-free formats and I won't buy books in DRM-encumbered formats. All the magazines I subscribe to are either delivered in PDF or as dead trees. If I ever buy a DRM-ed title, I'll crack it and transport them to whatever device I have that I want to use. I currently favor the Nook and intend to buy one as soon as it becomes available here (or I pass through some place where it's available), mostly because it's easy to hack and runs Android. I currently read with Stanza and GoodReader on my iPod, but will move over to the Nook as soon as possible.
The Nook is easily hacked and runs Android.

That's enough for me.
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Lisp is certainly great, and Clojure looks like a reasonable lisp. I wonder why the JVM attracts untyped languages while .NET attracts typed ones. Could it be that the Java language has damaged people’s ideas of what types are for?
Why does MySQL insert a NULL when a column is declared Not NULL?
The Art of Failure: The Point transforms into Groupon
Could this lead to a move by big investor to gain 5% of stock just so they can nominate alternative board members? Is this realistic?

I understand almost no one owns those kind of proportions today, but what would be the incentive today if everyone seeks diversification. This would create an incentive, would it not?
Electric Assist Bicycle Pedals
>which have sought to build search-like question and answering services that rely on what people say is important, not just machines.

Google's PageRank algorithm is based entirely on what people say is important.
There is a non-zero chance of Apple killing apps like Stanza because they create a confusing user interface by replicating functions already provided by the standard iBooks application.

It may be unlikely, but all they have to do is to slow down the approval of them or create additional terms to the developer agreement.
Doesn't Acrobat Connect scale that far? I don't know off-hand.
Q&A sites are more a community-building problem instead of a technology problem. Quora's only chance at success will be with building a good community.
Gotomeeting is for smaller, interactive meetings; Gotowebinar claims it handles up to 1000 participants.
Multiple Paths into the computer science field
Yep. The ones who had computers in the 80s, and bemoan that you can't program on windows out-of-box.
From Antivirus to Antibiotics, McAfee Searches for a Last Cure
"All the safety of C++"???
Guava looks cool, but seems to () cost you outgoing call fees in Gizmo5. SipSorcery allows you to configure the routings back through Google Voice so your outbound is free in the domestic US as well as inbound.

http://androinica.com/2009/07/24/android-google-voice-guava-...
Stop Forking with CSS3
GotoMeeting is better than WebEx.

Microsoft SharedView isn't terrible for free: http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94
No, I would not have worked for the Nazi government, thank you very much. Hundreds of high-caliber scientists and engineers chose to avoid working for the Nazis or the Fascists and fled elsewhere.

I can appreciate and even believe the argument that Zuse is not an inherently evil man despite working for the Nazis, but he nevertheless made a choice to support the Nazi regime with his talent. That choice may not have made him an irredeemably evil person but it was still a bad choice and pretending that we don't live in a world where choices have consequences, for yourself and others, is not only fantasy but a recipe for disaster.
Judge Blocks Offshore Drilling Moratorium
Jonah Lehrer: Interfacing/Interacting with Machines
It, however, is Windows-only.

I have downloaded it and will try to run it under Wine, but I bet it won't like the USB.
buy a motorcycle
Looking at these techniques I see them all leading towards a series of behaviors that we’ve learnt as kids, and that turn out to be quite useful in tapping into our "creative side". Behaviors like exploration, which is about going for quantity, building and thinking with our hands and role play, where acting it out helps us both have more empathy for the situations in which we’re designing, and to create services and experiences that are seamless and authentic.
So spam doesn't violate an anti-spam law? Interesting.
I'd like to add that this split can be traced back to the Norman invasion of England in 1066.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England#Lang...
Good point. But no, not a trick question. You are sent by an alien civilization to find out the contact "person" as defined in legal documents =person=corporation=a natural person or a state= to contact to buy the earth.
There's plenty of footage of Android tablets running everything from 1.5 to 2.2 and nothing obvious is missing from casual inspection of people playing games, surfing the web etc.

What do you think is missing, or to say it another way, why is the iPad not just a big cell phone (minus the ability to make calls)?.
Programmer Puzzlers: Circular Quarters
While taking this approach, does it make sense to read and familiarize oneself, to the level of layperson, in advance, to the extent possible? The purpose being to make those meetings as efficient as possible and maximize knowledge transfer.

If so, does anyone recommend particular resources?

My biggest concern is liability. I don't want any more potential attachment to present and future personal assets than necessary.

EDIT: I'm seeing some references/recommendations in the other comments. So thanks, and sorry if my query begged repetition.
For an evenhanded report on the decision including a link to the actual decision, try The Volokh Conspiracy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1452889

Here's the words that are wrapped about the about incendiary NYT quote:

"The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an unprecedented, sad, ugly and inhuman disaster. What seems clear is that the federal government has been pressed by what happened on the Deepwater Horizon into an otherwise sweeping confirmation that all Gulf deepwater drilling activities put us all in a universal threat of irreparable harm. While the implementation of regulations and a new culture of safety are supportable by the Report and the documents presented, the blanket moratorium, with no parameters, seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger.

On the record now before the Court, the defendants have failed to cogently reflect the decision to issue a blanket, generic, indeed punitive, moratorium with the facts developed during the thirty-day review. The plaintiffs have established a likelihood of successfully showing that the Administration acted arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing the moratorium.

As a matter of law, I suspect the judge does know what he's doing. And we are, or at least aspire to be, a nation that lives under the rule of law, not men.

Also, as he notes: "no one yet fully knows why", which is very different from "no explanation why". We know quite a bit about how this happened, probably enough to prevent it from happening again with the current state of the art.

BP wasn't following industry best practices, wasn't listening to its subcontractor, saw a bunch of large red flags as previously noted in in submissions to HN, etc. etc. Prior to the inevitable new regulations, we can have a reasonable expectation that other drillers will pay sufficient attention to all this and avoid another nasty blowout anytime soon.

After all, the last one was 30 years ago (Ixtoc I); the real danger will be when people become complacent again.
First, copyright violation is not necessarily wrong, and saying that something is stealing when it is clearly not is wrong -- it confuses the issue.

Plagiarism can be a copyright problem, but in this case I took the more appropriate fraud angle since I'm arguing that copyright is invalid and hence the problem is a fraud problem not a copyright problem.

Well the entire purpose of copyright is to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts", when media industry is crippling science and technology it becomes important. And your last point doesn't follow, I'm specifically saying that violating copyright isn't wrong. Just as abolitionists who refused to follow the fugitive slave act, weren't doing something wrong by refusing to send slaves back to the south.

So violating copyright isn't wrong, and it sure isn't stealing. Now it may be illegal, but during prohibition alcohol was illegal and drinking it also wasn't wrong just because some people said it was, so it is with copyright.

We are going to see major changes as digital technology rips through the media industry. Just as the shipping industry faced when container shipping started. For instance longshoremen unpacking and repacking pallets (completely useless and unnecessary make-work) was eliminated as locked containers moved from boat to train/truck. So to will the media industry lose control over distribution.
(Home) Rental Nation: Bad For Energy Efficiency
Obviously, there are a lot of unstated assumptions underlying these points, so I'll add the caveat that if none of the above appeals to your sense of curiosity, then maybe Quora really isn't for you. But I just wanted to balance all the negative comments so that someone that would enjoy Quora doesn't get turned off by all the "meh".
This is a good overview, but I would definitely plump Clojure higher in the implicit rankings of your list. If you know Java and Lisp does not frighten you then it is probably a better choice for big data analysis than Scala. The Incanter libraries give you a very nice R-like environment for numerical analysis and Cascalog is a pretty nifty system for interacting with Hadoop.
It did increase, but that's because I was getting more and more annoyed with doing work that was completely irrelevant. When I take a Web Programming class, I don't expect to learn about Java Applets, for one example... especially while reading about Haskell in my free time. (not that Haskell is relevant to web apps. I'm trying to point out a disparity in the level of free time studies vs. classwork)

And after years of C and Perl, getting used to have to do all of my assignments in Java was extremely frustrating. Especially as I was picking up other languages in my free time.

(I just voted you back up to 1, by the way. Dunno why someone would downvote an honest question...)
It gets annoying for handles too. I usually just use "vsync" but certain systems smash the first character upcase and it looks ugly as "Vsync". So I try "VSync" and it smashes all characters but the first downcase.

Not to mention systems that require usernames to have 6 characters or more, sigh...
from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...

"The president will speak with Gen. McChrystal about his comments, and we'll have more to say after that meeting," Gibbs said. Asked whether Obama was considering firing him, Gibbs said, "All options are on the table."
#learned "pick up" from a master (always wanted to have women in my life)

Could you please elaborate on this? Since graduating college, this is difficult to me.
Indeed. At the risk of being overly flippant, I'd say "maybe you should go back." The page is still loading (after several minutes) for me.
TPB does not exist for only facilitating copyright violation (it's not piracy), it legitimately distributes torrents to files that are licensed to be freely distributed. Here's a tv show made for torrent based distribution, it's on the front page of the pirate bay: http://vodo.net/pioneerone
The extra words don't change what he's saying at all, or make it particularly less incendiary.

Yeah, it was a tragedy, I love puppies, blah blah, but here's what I'm saying: "Even though this blew up and nobody knows why, and even though this was allegedly safe under the previous inspection regime, I see no reason to stop drilling for 6 months while we figure what went wrong."

The preamble doesn't change anything.