skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Monetizing SMS?
I'm building a side-project app. One of the main features is that I send out some information on a weekly basis through Twilio. Ideally I'd like to find a way to offset the $0.03/SMS cost through in-SMS ads - and if I could make a buck or two in the process I wouldn't mind that either. Are there any SMS ad networks? Note that I am currently only support US numbers.

I'd also consider alternatives. For example, I considered the free email to SMS gateways via the US carriers, but they seem inconsistent.
You're essentially proving that the rep requirement is valid because if you're not interested enough to answer a few questions, the chat probably isn't for you.
Slanytyyz - tell me more... Can we arrange a 15 minute call sometime? + 44 7776 251669
I think I've clicked on 3 ads in my whole life (apart from the accidental clicks). Every time I did that was because the ad was better than the organic search results below.
Who’s Killing African Entrepreneurship?
What about people that haven't used much Perl but can pick up languages quickly? Do you look for people like that or do they get screened out because they have little to no Perl experience?
actually, I've had a different idea: create JS packager, something similar to bundler/apt/ivy. and of course, it might optimize scripts a lot (for instance, you can specify only certain parts of JS lib to be imported into your project).

it can be implemented in any language, but all the languages may store a single repository for JS, since it's not like with java/c libs or ruby code.
google's a number. and i bet the added benefit of calling wherever they worked the google-plex cinched the deal.
Wasn't google a misspelling of googol?
Yes, it has. The sensor survived the harsh winter storm that dumped a couple feet of snow last winter in the Northeast.
Functional Languages 101: What’s All the Fuss About?
It took me a while to find but the real value proposition is presented on this page - http://hypernumbers.com/more/
FRIENDLYCONTEST.COM
BUDDII.COM
ALIKENESS.com
LIKEHUB.COM
YUPAL.COM
DEALII.COM
The Easy Answers Usually Don't Work
That looks awesome, I can quit doing this:

print '\n'.join(dir(my_object))
I think SO chat could be to irc as SO itself is to Usenet or Usenet-style mail lists. When I first started programming, I asked questions on mail lists. I learned a ton this way (perl-beginners was especially good), but some lists had a lot of rules and some very, very type-A regulars: no top posting, give exact error messages, read the FAQ first, etc. None of these rules were necessarily unreasonable or unfair, but there was an inordinate amount of time spent telling new folks all the rules they were breaking: "The boilerplate disclaimer at the bottom of your email is longer than four lines. Signatures and bottom matter may only be four lines or less. Do not write to this list again until you...." Irc in my experience can be similar (just a few weeks ago, I had someone barking one-word commands at me on irc, because I was asking a question incorrectly).

By contrast, SO is relatively frictionless. There is some fussing about tags and which site to ask on, but for the most part, you ask and you get an answer. Less rules. I suspect that SO chat could be similarly frictionless, in comparison to irc.
Also useful: Try running pydoc -p 8000 and then navigating to http://localhost:8000/
Ze Frank's web playroom (video)
The landing page is built inside a spreadsheet - which is a bit painful, but... yum, taste the lovely dogfood!
I am an Indian myself. Sadly the media here publishes news without analysing or questioning it. The same media made ankit fadia as a "hacker", who didn't even write a single exploit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankit_Fadia#Controversy . For all your information , Indian government has "created" an operating system out of debian, it is named as BOSS - http://bosslinux.in/ .
I read somewhere that the prime SUV in the arab world was the Mitsubishi Pajero. The entire category was labeled "Pajero Jeep" in Pakistan. Of course, I can't find the article now.
because that's web 2.0 baby!
"Cedar Mill" CPUs would go up to 8GHz:

http://www.nordichardware.com/index.php?option=com_content&#...
Which language does Toyota Hilux drivers program in?
Can you point us to that thread? Good feedback, yes, we'll add the links.
Nice hedging of your bets on torture there.
I think this already has the target demographic covered: http://www.dullmensclub.com/
I was actually not thinking about capitalization in the logo (which I'm fine with either way), but about the actual name as it's used in written form.

Amazon, Google and Facebook all use an upper-case letter to start their "official" name (if you see it in text anywhere).
You might not be a spammer, but you're also not part of the community. 20 points is a very low barrier to entry. Why don't you add your knowledge to SO and worry about Chat later?
Angel Investors – Advantages for Early – Stage Companies | Venture Capital
Ask HN: How do you design your webpages
I've saw a ask HN post a couple days ago about design concepts, but I didn't see any resources on how to actually implement designs. I'm no expert in webpage design and I usually just hand code the HTML & CSS by looking at the source code of other websites whose design elements I want to emulate. My question is HN is what tools do you use to create your webpages or do you just create them by hand?
It can be. I doubt any public companies would consider Hypernumbers for SOX reasons.

I know of a few companies who had no problems, however, having their finance data on a third party external server, but in a different context. I believe that GoodData (hosted business intelligence) is doing quite well, and I would think that a large portion of their clients are sending finance data to them.
Advice on link widget startup
I just closed down my first startup SkreemR.com to focus on a new project called LinkGym.com.

The idea is that you submit a link to your website and in return you get a small widget of other links (similar to a blogroll) to host on your own site. We will ensure that all links have an even distribution and receive an equal number of page views. Ideally, we want this to become the easiest way to get traffic to your site, particularly if it is a new site or startup. With one submit, there will be links to your site from all over the web.

I am trying to gauge interest in such a service and get feedback on what people think of this idea.

Over on digital point forums, people were concerned about being penalized by search engines for using the widget.

So, I'd love to hear your feedback and if you are interested in the service please sign up to be notified when it is ready at LinkGym.com.
I think that one approach that may yield domain-specific improvements would be to add certain numerical routines into the x86 instruction set.

When I was working in finance as a quant, I was shocked by the amount of time code spent executing the exponential function - it is used heavily in discount curves and similar which are the building blocks of much of financial mathematics. An efficient silicon implementation would have yielded a great improvement in speed.
In a straight up game, if the human plays standard then the computer will have a pretty good chance.

The main issue is stracraft is pretty complex and if the computer is predictable, a human can just exploit that for easy victory. (always 6 pooling for example)
It's Not Enough
reminds me of the time when every fishing boat in England flew the Canadian flag because it signalled opposition to the EU Common Fisheries Policy and alleged Spanish over-fishing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbot_War
Thread on Team Liquid forums (Starcraft community site as well as Starcraft team) about this:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=160...
It seems pretty good as far as things like this go, and I'm sure it'll do ok, but a big part of anything like this is network effects: people go where other people are.

My guess is that SO is currently big enough to attract viable communities for several of these "channels", but that many others will end up as ghost towns, and that, overall, IRC will continue to be 'bigger' for real time chat. It's probably a big enough space that this can be successful in its own right, even if it's not huge, although I think I will tend to prefer IRC.

Also, signing up for HN is way faster than having to ask/answer a question.
The same reason I registered thefoo.com. I really just wanted the subdomain ipity.
The reason for sticking to the =function(params) approach is it makes it easy to build things like =twitter.button("hypernumbers") <-- actual function and =google.maps(points) and other cool inline stuff - which then seamlessly clicks over to webpages/forms.

You do want to be able to create dynamic webpages and putting graphs out on separate tab/page/things is a bit tricky because it all gets tangled up in permissions. You can always put them on their own page..
Calacanis just offered HN users angel funding, work space, and connections.

The domain name lead is ancillary to his interest in HN users – eg the domains are his way of inserting himself into the HN conversation.

There are worse people in the world to have as your co-founder, and if you hit even a base hit with Jason you're as good as made on the west coast because you can be darn sure everybody will hear about it.
Here's an anecdote: A friend of mine, a girl who studied mathematics with me, got herself christened when she was around 20. Her parents aren't in any church. She grew up in atheist East Germany.

It's seems quite rare for adults to change their religion, though.
Ask HN: How do you tackle the "where do we head out today" problem?
I'm really curious about this problem as I'm yet to find a service that solves it well for me.

To elaborate, it could apply to just a couple of individuals or a larger group looking for a good place to head to at the end of the day / on a weekend. And the agenda could be anything from just hanging out to dinner to a rock gig to a movie to a more formal event.

From what I've gathered thus far, most folks I've discussed this with
1) ask a friend for a recommendation
2) look up Yelp or a similar service
3) subscribe to a newsletter like Thrillist or Urban Daddy or Startup Digest so they're more informed
4) actively monitor Plancast, Facebook Events and the like.

I'd really like to know whether this more or less covers the entire gamut of available alternatives. I'd love to discover services that tackle this well that I don't know about yet, because this seems to be the "can't get it out of my head" idea for a few months running.
Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion" car, recreated
Hehe: http://slashdot.org/~Mark+Zuckerberg/friends
CrowdSorcery.com (.net, .org)
Oh noes, competition! Burn the capitalists!

Jeez. This whole 'x ripped off y' thing is ridiculous. There's a reason that it's legal.
So instead of checking Edmunds for reliability, I should just check what the insurgents drive on warzones. Seriously, those guys have no alterior motives, they just need rock-hard reliability.
TwTeX - LaTeX equations for Twitter
For all those times you've wanted to tweet an equation!

Ok, so that doesn't happen very often, but now you can! Just enter an equation in LaTeX (x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}, for example), and you'll get an image and a Twitter-friendly URL to paste into your tweet.

Yes, the target audience is small, but feedback is welcome!
Will be great once http://github.com/ghewgill/soirc is complete.
Facebook begins promoting "Recent Checkins" - still no "See All" page
Twitter actually launched as Twittr.com. They bought the Twitter.com domain for $7500 in 2006.
Check out http://www.jedox.com/en/home/overview.html

You can download a free copy and install it on a server to see what I mean.

Jedox is an open source alternative to TM1 - they run on the support service model. Both Jedox and TM1 do in-memory cubes (think pivottables on steroids on even more steroids) that let you dice and slice large volumes of data very quickly. For a lot of co's, that's overkill, but a nice-to-have.
And another nice thing is that if you're in chat and a question is just too big or too detailed (or you just don't want to deal with it) you can always just tell the person "go post this question."

I think this would reduce a lot of the drive-by chat noise.
IMHO Reddit version feels better. It has both the hour as well as day sliders and multiple controls for the same.
Fledgling Ruby Developer Discovers Community Among Mountain Rubyists
sigh thank you for totally missing the point. This is all mental masturbation. You're just using luck as a synonym for circumstance, which is not a good attitude for an aspiring entrepreneur to take.
Demolish the building, yes.
I don't use python much anymore, but I am often surprised when talking to python programmers, that if I mention ipython and introspection (e.g. dir() ) they look at me funny. They are missing half the niceness!
Not really. A Lisp Machine had a better Lisp, multi-tasking, a cool graphical user interface, the software was object-oriented and more.

Emacs still has a relatively poor Lisp dialect, no object-orientation in most of its software, no multi-tasking, a relatively poor user interface and so on.
http://androidrevisions.com

Started this site as a way to search and filter OS Android Roms. My initial dataset was from androidspin.com, and I said as much. Just wanted a useful tool, instead I got shit from the Android "Community" for ripping off the guy's dataset. Their app for searching and filtering is still terrible, whereas I built something useful in about a day. Code was on github, I've since deleted it.

http://areyousmokingcrack.com

Joke domain, thought it would be funny to geolocate users and predict whether they are in a "crack-belt" and respond appropriately.

http://isitti.me

In-joke the CS students at Pace University have about smoking cigarettes. Is it?

http://istheinternetup.com

If this page didn't load, you would know for sure the internet was down ;)
Data displayed from MySQL using PHP
Why Is Microsoft So Scared of OpenOffice?
Sellopy.com //would look nice for some commerce site.
I was logged into my gmail account and after visiting this site, without signing up for anything I get a welcome email, WTF?
REST in peace, SOAP
I don't think it's sending that message at all. And if the title of a few blog posts encourage you not to seek out a woman as a co-founder, should you really running anything anyway?
A Fast Regular Expression Indexing Engine (pdf)
It's just a regular house with a nice big garden ... in the basement.
If the ideas you hope to prototype live on the web, this is a reasonable choice. However, I don't recommend using PHP as a general programming language.

Python kind of works for everything, if you want to do web dev you can pick up Django, plenty of GUI libraries and it works on all platforms easily.
Thank you both for the quick thumbs-down.
Hey Gordon, send me a note at information [at] braintapper [dot] com, and we can arrange a skype voice call or something.
Wave of New Angel Investors Turn New York Into Startup Heaven - Topix
IOS4 Multitasking UI Revisited
iOS4 multitasking is pretty simple. But is it too simple for the rest of us? Here is a different suggestion.
FYI taking the sum is also incorrect, you want the exact match number of searches
Same thing for me. Whatever you're doing, you need to stop it, or else you'll have worse things to worry about than complaining HN users ;).
Brazil tried this stunt in the 80s. Google "Brazilian Informatics Policy". Even when such a project fails its primary objective, it may advance the human resources immensely.
This is probably a stupid question, but if heat dissipation is a big problem, why can't we just build better cooling systems: bigger heatsinks, refrigeration, etc.? I'm not an electrical engineer, so I'm sure there's something I'm missing.
I chose "never". I am interested in content, not billboards. However, I am fooled like everyone else by ads that are presented as online forum posts, such as the "Check out my startup" links on HN. Maybe that is because these are a bit better targeted than the random junk that appears in the dedicated ad boxes.
There has been an attempt by C-DAC called "Bharat Operating System(BOSS)", based on Debian, in collaboration with NRCFOSS. It was endorsed by the Government of India for adoption and implementation on a national scale.

Grand plan right? Then, it went no where. Dead. period.

Having known a thing or two about C-DAC & DRDO, I seriously doubt this grand secret OS plan.
It is, but this was just whipped up in a couple of hours this morning to get going fast ;-)

That said, something about the Reddit one's approach to separating days and hours doesn't feel right to me. Two interfaces for controlling one variable (in essence). Copying that would be easy but it doesn't smell right to me though I'm open to opinions and suggestions.
ish, same here. Marked as spam...
I guess the customers might think different when they actually see the product.
The white coloured Hilux are used in Singapore by the Police force.
Hacker News Los Angeles Meets this Saturday @3PM
Fixed link: http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/prescription-drug-s...

Are Lipitor and Plavix truly preventative? Aren't they prescribed when there are already issues with cholesterol and the heart?
My guess is that this is overblown a little.

Rails apps make RESTful services fairly easy, even if it doesn't usually cover the entire spectrum of RESTful actions. Many Rails (CRUD) controllers are going to have 4 RESTful actions built into that one controller/service, so a single app might have one RESTful service for each model (assuming it is exposed).

SOAP has been overtaken for sure, but I think that first pie chart set should show the number of services, not just the percentage. My guess is that the number of SOAP services may have grown, but the number of RESTful services just grew much more quickly.
One of the reasons Salesforce penetrated the enterprise space is that they priced under the pre-approval limit for corporate credit cards.

People signed up, loaded up their data, claimed the money back and then told IT/compliance by which time the hens had flown the coop...

There is no way any seriously large company would put us on their approved list (at the moment) which is fine.
AWS Office Hours - November 10, 2010
My bet? Microsoft fears Oracle will invest in better integration between OOo and Oracle applications. Remember that now OOo has Oracle's "seal of approval".

Oracle could invest some time improving OOo's spreadsheet and giving it means to easily import and/or manipulate real-time data coming from Oracle's backoffice applications.
That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated.

UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our intention and we're not that kind of company!

UPDATE 2: Ok it looks like Google has updated their "federated login" http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html since we implemented our login system, so we'll check against that and see what's up?

If anyone from Google is reading this and can comment/help, please email us at founders@wattvision.com.

Thanks!
I don't have a link to the official announcement, so I can't be certain, but I doubt they're going to build their own hardware architecture. It's reasonable to think they will develop a new OS; one can only hope to see an actual OS based on the principles behind Minix, but that's my little dream world there. :-)
anappleaday.com would work just as well, though. vani.ty domain names are cute, but hard to remember. I liked del.icio.us, but apparently delicious.com was easier to market.
Check out Quicksand, a jQuery plugin for animating lists as they reorder or change:

http://razorjack.net/quicksand/
it's easy to start with an expensive domain name if all you're doing is monetising type-in traffic. Not sure kokua falls into that category though...
Social media widgets are killing your conversion rate . . .
Not to be rude, but StackOverflow is a Q&A site. Why would you not just ask the question you had there instead of trying to answer questions to make it to the chat rooms?

You'd probably get enough reputation from that question to be able to ask your next one on the chat rooms if you wished.
Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee
What are you going to do personally to address this evil that you seem so outraged by? Nothing.
Thats not how it is working. I clicked "Sign In" and was immediately logged into your site.
I doubt anyone here would be a potential customer.
Great point. Considering a lot more attention are on mobile now, websites are becoming more like landing pages. More people i guess choose to remember application names as opposed to remembering domain names. Just put the application name on Google Chrome browser (where you used to put the url address) and it will show you the web address. No need 'killer' domain names anymore.

As far as spending $125k on domain names, he could have created at least 2 - 3 killer apps for that price, especially with his marketing influence.
Prosper's certainly not making any money itself. What happens when Prosper is out of business? You should try LendingClub instead-they're finally moving toward profitability, and most lenders at LendingClub actually make money on their loans.

LendingClub is hardly flawless, for example verification of potential borrowers' income as presented to lenders is voluntary for borrowers, but the platform allows lenders to question potential borrowers and pressure them to verify income.
All true. Read what again?

That caveat "as a live technology" is not strong: many technologies Did pass between cultures even though they weren't attached to the camel.

(Western) Rome wasn't around in 1000AD, Europe was.
In the main heritage line of Lisp (Lisp 1.5, MacLisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, CL), Common Lisp is still THE common Lisp. One can run run old code from the 1960s with relatively little changes. Neither with Scheme and Clojure you can do that. Both are Lisp dialects. Clojure is basically incompatible with every other Lisp and porting Lisp code to and from Clojure is basically done by completely reimplementing it.

So, Common Lisp is not THE Lisp, but the common Lisp.
There are 17,000 cults aka castes in India. http://goo.gl/CNyp

With less than 1% marriages inter-caste, they literally hate each other.

Since Economic mobility != Social mobility it is better for India to give autonomy to FC/BC/SC/ST/Minority regions with a single passport and currency across these regions.
No. I wish SOAP dies a horrible death.
Nussbaum: Among Gen-Y, the Facebook Backlash Has Arrived
NexusOne: Usability and Design Issues (Part I)
The judges (in the UK) are appointed from senior lawyers by other judges who were themselves appointed by previous judges etc...
It does mean that it takes a few generations to get many black or women judges - but it does reduce the level of corruption and means that a lot of politically motivated prosecutions get thrown out.

It's not democratic - but neither is the process of selecting senior doctors from the ranks of junior doctors.
How is that even possible? So if I'm signed into my gmail, a site can detect my email address? This seems like a huge privacy bug on googles behalf if this is actually happening.
Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google
Am I the only one that likes them both?

It's easy enough to stick with Hypernumbers (the better URL) and use "insteadsheet" as a catchy tongue-in-cheek description of what the product actually is.