skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS delivery from regular phone numbers is rate limited by the carriers. Tropo throttles you to 10 messages per minute to keep inside carrier guidelines.

From a shortcode, there's no limit. And Tropo's connected directly to the SMS carriers, so you can deliver at a significant rate.

We don't provide delivery confirmation of SMS today. That's coming soon however. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that delivery can only be confirmed to the carrier. Handset delivery receipts are flaky at best. Not all handsets support sending delivery receipts, those that do often allow the user to disable it, and some carriers will block the receipt.

We have phone numbers in about 280 area codes and 41 countries. Not all of the area codes are available in the UI yet, so if you need one and don't see it, send an email to support and we'll hook you up.
+1 for Eclipse. Then again, I use Eclipse for nearly everything, just because it's what I'm familiar and comfortable with. So even if I'm coding Groovy or Scala or Python or Javascript or Perl, more of than not I'm using Eclipse.
And who are you to patronize other people because of their university choices? The university I went to didn't have a systems programming specific course either. So what's the deal here? The only good university is the University of Maryland College Park?

He made a good point, people often dismiss candidates because they see some buzzword they don't like. A good programmer is a good programmer regardless of what he calls him/herself. It's more important to assess a programmers competence, desires, and fit within a company than discriminate on what "type" of programming you think he should be doing.
"Javascript is a bad language with poor libraries, and I'm forced to use it."

The same can be said for any programming language that you don't like.
Yep true. You may have missed that I said "from a graphic design or typographic design perspective" in my example. There are various schools of thought to that "underlaying [sic] principle of thinking". Dieter Rams comes from one of those schools, but his is not the only school.
1. There had been talk of pruning information that the blockchain don't need, especially information that got confirmed a gazillion time.

2. There had been talk of a lightweight client that download the block header or something.
What do people think about the results of procedural generation in terms of information theory? If I get a CD that has code on in that lets me generate level upon level how much information is that CD carrying?

For doing data compression has anyone ever heard about using these techniques to generate other things besides 3D game levels?
Lol, touche.

The mvp focuses on social aspects and minimal design. I want to build a company. I'm looking down the road, many of those ideas are pet projects that would be many months or years down the road.

I'd like to teleport you into the game from anywhere on earth and have Eva Longoria teleport with you. I'd also like to allow you to take over the control of your favorite athletes and play in the game.

Thank you for your comment. :-)
Funny- the title used to read "google power meter is dead" and was changed after I posted my comment.
The jury is still out.

Gurzadyan dismisses the critical analyses as "absolutely trivial", arguing that there is bound to be agreement between the standard cosmological model and the WMAP data "at some confidence level" but that a different model, such as Penrose's, might fit the data "even better" " — a point he makes in a response to the three critical papers also posted on arXiv5. However, he is not prepared to state that the circles constitute evidence of Penrose's model. "We have found some signatures that carry properties predicted by the model," he says.

My money's on Penrose.
Isn't that a good thing? I mean, if the ISP can't actually satisfy the demands of every user at a given level of service, then why is it allowed to advertise that level of service at all? Its a bit like a sports stadium saying, "Yeah, we can seat 50,000 people, provided they don't all want to see the same venue."
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From the readme.txt file,

Gawker uses a really outdated hashing algorithm known as DES (Data Encryption Standard). Because DES has a maximum of 8 chars using a password like "abcdefgh1234" only the first 8 characters "abcdefgh" are encrypted and stored in the database. If your password is longer than 8 characters you only need to enter the first 8 characters to log in!

Is this true? I tested it now and it needed the full password for a successful login.
any chance it's related to this?

https://forum.bytemark.co.uk/comments.php?DiscussionID=2701
Wait, I left out the punchline: for projects that don't involve systems programming

You think I'm trolling or trying to be funny, but it's actually a real trend I've noticed.
No, Tropo uses Prism, Voxeo's enterprise grade SIP application server: http://www.voxeo.com/prism/. Tropo's application layer is also open source and will run on any SIP servelet server.
It does if you, like many people, believe DJB isn't actually writing in C.
Answered similar comment from other authors above. Thanks.

Check out responses to lkrubner and a_b_c_7.
...and then some Norwegian guy would flame you so hard you would actually die!
Krugman, Stross and Martian hive-mind kleptocracy
The point wasn't ever to protect their innovation (if it can be called that) against others. The point is to ensure that only Amazon has the ability to do one-click checkouts in the way that is described in the patent. Licensing that technology to you would dilute that monopoly and defeat the purpose of gaining it.
Some questions:

What's the most interesting thing you've created on your own or with a small team before?

What kind of alcohol do you prefer to drink?

When I type http://news.ycombinator.com into my browser's address bar and press enter, what happens to make the HN front page show up on the screen? Be as detailed as you can.
Comment deleted as you simply are irrational, and in my opinion financially ignorant. I have no vested interest in the PayPal issue, yet it remarkably seems that every bad story I've heard is the same tale of incredible financial irresponsibility and borderline businesses.
Does anyone have any information on changing all their account passwords at once? I don't use the same password for any sites, but unimportant sites like blogs, etc. I use fairly similar passwords on.
Is the seed a sitewide one or unique per password?
Irony: (n) - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
How were they "asking for it"?
I wish the article went into detail of following up with VCs. For example, how to followup after the first meeting? I've felt that a simple "Thank you, I look forward to talking more" isn't good enough. I think you need to go further and answer any large questions that cropped up in the meeting.
But is there any company over the last 100 years you would rather have owned, aside from maybe Standard Oil? I agree with the majority of threads that it seems unlikely, for a lot of good reasons. Just might be reward for the risk going forward.
No. Gawker uses Google Apps for email. https://www.google.com/a/gawker.com
The stealing of data is from ~November, not today. It just happens they "released" it today.
...or useful enough to get your subscription paid for by your employer.

(see: the WSJ, Financial Times, the Economist)
I don't know about going that far, but I think your basic point is right on. Too many startups expect to have their ideal candidate delivered to their doorstep on a silver platter. Of course, when they can't find that candidate, they blame the education system. Yet I hear very little talk about what startups could be doing to create a better-skilled workforce. It sounds an awful lot to me like they want a skilled workforce as long as someone else pays for it.

Startups have two options: they can choose to be lazy and risk-averse or they can complain about not being able to find workers. They can't do both.
perhaps I'm just showing my ignorance, but I don't know any examples of invasive bacteria to trust that they'd be a problem in the same way, afaik predator/prey/competition is way more complicated at the micro level.
DES crypt (I don't know that that's what they're using) is better than salted SHA1, vis a vis crackability.
Worse, the Gawker post on the issue http://gawker.com/5712615/commenting-accounts-compromised-++... releases no details. Instead of giving a detailed description of what happened, they simply say, "change your password." With that level of detail, you might think they're now afraid to even write "4Chan."
Krugman has a long history of linking economics and science fiction:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/economic-science...
Yes, it seems equally likely that it would make things worse. But it seems unlikely that it would have no effect. It is unlikely that these are the optimal shapes of the up and down buttons.

For what it's worth, I think the Google way to solve this would be to figure out which metrics you can associate with quality and A/B test the impact of the UI changes. Setting up an A/B framework might be more work than you want to put in. But there might be a UI that encourages higher quality that you could discover empirically.
yeah, but "best" is 100% intermediate
I only read the BC paper (Moss et al, [3]), because I knew one of the authors (and he's a smart guy). Anyway, they show that you can find triangles just as easily, and that you can find similar circles in computer-generated random data with the same properties as the background.

At the same time, Penrose likes to be controversial.

So I guess I'm saying that I'm willing to take your money...
>"Penrose, however, thinks that the Universe's great uniformity instead originates from before the Big Bang, from the tail end of a previous aeon that saw the Universe expand to become infinitely large and very smooth. That aeon in turn was born in a Big Bang that emerged from the end of a still earlier aeon, and so on, creating a potentially infinite cycle with no beginning and no end.

...Penrose's idea is being challenged by three independent studies..."

Did that idea (turtles all the way down) really require a scientific challenge?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
It’s also available on torrent sites.
"Bitcoin is open source. You can inspect the source code if you want."

While being Open Source is definitely on the "must have" list of items I'd want to see in a virtual currency system...I know that I'm not capable of determining the security of such a system. My understanding of cryptography is much too weak for me to have any understanding of the finer points of what's happening in this system. And, it only takes one flaw to bring the whole system crashing down.

If people I knew to be competent security and cryptography professionals (such as our friends tptacek and cpercival here at HN) were involved and willing to put their name and reputation on the code and the project, I might be more inclined to trust it. But, I couldn't find even a single real name in my search of the wiki and bitcoin.org. The bitcoin draft "specification" has no names on it, which makes it among the oddest specifications I've ever met.

The web of trust that would make a virtual currency work requires trusted parties, at least providing some assurance of the security of the system itself, if not providing any evidence of value in the currency. I don't trust completely anonymous people on the Internet with my labor, my computation, or my dollars. Maybe I'm a crazy paranoid old-timer, but I'm not putting money into a system that is surrounded by credulous morons, get-rich quick schemers, and driven by seemingly wholly anonymous developers. Maybe bitcoin has great and well-known people involved and the tech is well-tested by competent people, but I couldn't find evidence of that.

In short, being Open Source is no assurance of it being correct, strong, or secure.
Tech house, mostly. Or warp/rephlex/mu stuff.
Anyone else assume this was satire before reading the comments here?
This is a really interesting insight into an aspect of a game I'd normally never give much though to. Very good article indeed.

However I noticed something in this that I HATE seeing in real life, variables (ok "properties", here) prepended with a character or characters indicating type (seems only booleans here, bBlah and such). I honestly can't say why it bothers me, but it makes code really tough to read. It really shouldn't, I mean it technically should be useful as it gives a bit more info to the person reading the code, but I find it infuriating. I wonder if anyone else has this possibly irrational hatred.
I'm not talking about making it "easy on the human eye". I'm suggesting that they use the output from a classifier to make parts of the image stand out more.
"No prior" is, I guess, the term he used. There's some prior probability of finding circles in "normal" noise. It's only news if there are more circles than that. And there weren't.
For anyone who is interested in more details, check out the readme file for how it actually went, atleast a rough sketch of it..

http://pastebin.com/cpb7ndV8
It depends if you're going to have multiple products or not.

If one product is the goal then go with company name=product name.

If multi product is the goal then go with a company name different than product name. This way you'll be able to market several products under one brand...
Regarding bcrypt - does it still make sense to do seeding on those since the key wouldn't be changing? I've also seen wrapping sha1/etc and looping it like 1000+ times to introduce a time factor in, but that doesn't seem like the best solution.
>"So what is the consensus about what time is?"

Kant said time is an a priori condition of human experience. This is to say that time is how we structure experience, and not something existing as a thing in itself.
I figured that, since Google must read every word of every page to spider it, they must thereby have, as a byproduct, the world's most accurate database of word usage frequencies. "Reading level" would then just be a measure of the average frequency of all the words on a page (thus making words learned in a first year ESL class simple, and technical jargon advanced—quite the same as the measure of difficulty used by language proficiency exams.) The fact that the average of Simple English Wikipedia articles seems to be more intermediate than basic, though (29/52/17), would argue against that—unless the calculations are being biased by all the very infrequent proper nouns.
Direct link to the GDC 2010 slides (.pptx):

http://unrealtechnology.com/Downloads/Slides/GDC2010_Golding...
If left to their own devices (read: without bailouts, artificially cheap credit or legal favoritism), corporations would function like any other agents of the free market, subjected to profit and loss.

Corporations are not hive minds in the same sense that any other organization is not. A mind is an attribute of the individual; a corporation is nothing but an organizational framework.
Actually I was only really talking about the Linux kernel itself (which is what Linus has dominion over). For just one example, look at the multi-threaded performance of the scheduler versus other kernels.
1. The most interesting thing I created was one of the best college debate teams in the country. At Mizzou we didn't have a team, I started one, raised tens of thousands of dollars and my partner and I made it to a final four. The squad placed 12th in the nation despite not having a coach and being underfunded. We beat ivies and all sorts of super well funded and coached schools. We were mostly farm boys. After graduation, I was hired as the youngest coach in the country at Colorado College, one of my teams that year made it to a final four. I'm one of a hand full of people to debate in a final four and coach a team to a final four. Code-wise, nothing that interesting, like I've mentioned elsewhere, I've never really taken a class. I've created websites, blogs and stuff, but never with a team.

2. Maker's Mark is my drink of choice.

3. Front page is 1. Threshold of 100 points, 2. Gawker Hacked, 3. HN Reading Level, 4. No evidence of time b4 big bang, 5. Building Generaion in Unreal 3, 6. Atlantic Turns a profit, 7. NY Struggles to find enough tech people.

How much more detail would prefer?
Interesting - Charles Stross covered the "machines as an extension of your mind" idea in Accelerando.
Interesting question. It seems pretty broad.

The meat (claim 1):

..displaying information identifying the item; and in response to only a single action being performed, sending a request to order the item along with an identifier of a purchaser of the item to a server system .. ..fulfilling the generated order to complete purchase of the item whereby the item is ordered without using a shopping cart ordering model.

snippets from claims 2 - 26

2 The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying of information includes displaying information indicating the single action.

3-4 The method of claim 1 wherein the single action is clicking a button / is speaking of a sound

17-22 . The method of claim 11 wherein the single action is:

- clicking a mouse button when a cursor is positioned over a predefined area of the displayed information

- a sound generated by a user

- selection using a television remote control.

- is depressing of a key on a key pad.

- selecting using a pointing device.

- selection of a displayed indication

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazonpatent.html

I'm not a lawyer and don't know anything about patents. What I thought I knew seems to be proven wrong by the existence of this patent. But, it looks like "slide to buy" is covered in the last one.

If someone wants a topic to research and blog about, how about a round up of one-click patent workarounds that have been implemented. Especially if these have been reviewed by lawyers or implemented in response to litigation threats.
>Fix the mobile interface. It's impossible to use HN on mobile iPhone and Android handhelds.

That's funny; the default HN interface is very much like the mobile interface of other sites, i.e. everything extraneous has been removed.

Otherwise, +1 for the ability to change a vote. I can't for the life of me understand the reasoning behind the current setup.
There are precious few people who can both blog and write long-form well. The Atlantic employs three: Andrew Sullivan, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and James Fallows.

I don't understand the Wire, and they've done some crazy redesign things that they've had to roll back (writer blogs didn't have permalinks for about a week earlier), so I'm quite skeptical that this was just about finding a new business model. In my opinion, they made exceptionally smart editorial decisions that allowed them to pull this off.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

and

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...
Burn. If the worst thing that ever happens to me is I get made fun of on a board then I'd certainly be going no where with running a company, eh?

:-).
The resume/interview hiring process is severely broken in US. It is not the schools, it's the companies hiring, they are looking for some perfect holy grail but really need to just start hiring people and pick through the chaff. These startups deserve what they get making it impossible to even find their 'perfect employee'.
I would even argue that having a bad UI is a feature of HN in the sense that it is a deterrent to trolls and other such Internet creatures.

Trolls need an audience to survive. Does HN superficially look like a popular website? No. It lives on a subdomain and the official way to get here is by clicking a tiny footer link on YC's website. And let's face it, the design is pretty ugly too by many standards.

To realize there's a vibrant community here, you have to get passed those "deterrents". This selects for individuals who are truly concerned about great content and intelligent discussion rather than great design or sensationalism which leaves the trolls at the door.
I suspect this is because the algorithm measures word use and not grammar. HN tends to have people who follow the "simple is better" mantra and who write in a tone similar to either an executive summary or an online dialog, thus an accessible reading level.
Since the username is unique, I tend to use a sitewide seed. My understanding of the seed is to make rainbow tables useless, so adding any unique data should help with that. Granted, now that you can fire up a GPU instance on EC2 and generate SHA1's like a madman, bcrypt does seem to be the way to go, but at least (as far as I can tell, would love to hear if my reasoning is incorrect) by including the username + password, you'd need to generate those rainbow tables against each user.
No. Bcrypt does all of this for you.
I think I am going to be checking the dump to ensure my password is not among it…

Remember, don’t use the same password across the Internet. Here’s why.

Edit: It’s there, apparently as a DES hash. …

Update 2: The first two characters are the hash. So if you use a tool like https://hash.online-convert.com/des-generator you are going to put your password in the “Text you want to convert…” box and the first two characters of your hashed password in as the “Salt (optional)”. Then you will see the “Calculated DES Hash” which will be the same as the hashed password from the torrent if you knew or guessed the password correctly.

E.g.

Your Lifehacker password is “hackern”, but in the torrent, it’s just “8h48GPxmwy.EA”. Just to show the torrent is legit, you go to the website I entered above, enter “hackern” and “8h” as the salt; it will spit back “8h48GPxmwy.EA”.

Update 3: “OFFER HN”: The most paltry “Offer HN” ever — send me your username or email address and I’ll grep both files for you to see if your password and/or hash is in one of them. My email is contact-at-<HN username>ogan.com
#1 is impressive.

With #3 I was hoping to gauge your understanding of "how the internet works," but I clearly asked it the wrong way. I assume you have some notion of computers talking to each other in a network. But I thought it would be useful to see how much you've thought about it or read about it or fooled with getting stuff up and running on the internet.
Here's the ISP I use:

http://adsl24.co.uk/broadband/

Look at their non-LLU packages, 30GB/month is ~£20/month. I think I'm paying for 60GB.

It's only the really huge mass-market ISPs that are offering £5-10/month packages with 1-3GB of data transfer. Once you get away from BT Broadband, Sky, and the like, you can get some decent deals.
In short, being Open Source is no assurance of it being correct, strong, or secure.

Fair point. However, we have not yet receive much attention from cryptographic or security experts yet.

Perhaps, words will finally reach someone who actually know something.
I started doing a series of blog posts on Design for Coders and only finished one before putting the other drafts off to the side. Live post is here: http://blog.minim.co/design-for-coders-less-is-more. Shoot me an email and I'll send you the drafts for a couple other articles. If you (or anyone else reading this) has specific questions or topics, I'd be happy to answer/blog about them.
If you take a bus/train to/from work, it would allow you to hack out an idea on the go and test it when you arrive. Of course, that assumes you don't already have a laptop that you could use.
Regulating that ISPs never have congestion regardless of customer demand might be a good idea; I don't know. But if it is a good idea we need some way to phase it in so that customers understand what's going on. We don't want better service to look like worse service.
It's really interesting that two of the (only?) magazines that seem to be doing well are the very intellectually focused Atlantic and Economist right now. Ironically this is a piece in Atlantic about the Economist's success: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/the-news...