skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know of a reference list for sending from SMS to email on various carriers/platforms? There are all kinds of resources for sending email to SMS (generally involving sending it to (phone number)@(carrier address.com)), but I haven't been able to find a cross-carrier reference for going the other way.

On my T-Mobile service, for instance, I have to send an SMS to "phone number" 500, with the email address, subject, and body of the message separated by appropriate delimiters. How does it work on other carriers?
Netlog is getting bigger than Bebo
Awesome. You get to be my first new upmod.
From the title I sincerely thought that the article will talk about the relation between entrepreneurship and promiscuity.
User visits site, likes site. Without RSS user bookmarks it and then forgets to visit the site again. With RSS user adds feed and then gets reminded of site when new articles etc get posted, prompting user to return to the site. RSS increases return traffic.
Most NDAs I've read have a similar bit of boilerplate in them. When I signed my NDA with my current employer I asked them to take out that clause and they did.
How to incent people without external rewards
What Dan said, and also, if you don't offer such a convenient feature and your competitors do, then you'll be bleeding users no end. Better to have users getting a feed from your site (leeching bandwidth and not contributing to the community or your revenue in general) than to have them go and get their RSS from a competitor (this would apply more to a Digg style site than a blog of course). You can always monetise the RSS feeds later (Tom's Hardware, I'm looking at you...)
Funny! Didn't "rap" mean something like "free form brainstorming" in the 70s? I noticed it in the Simpsons:

----

Flanders: Reverend, I'm, uh, I'm afraid something terrible has happened.

Lovejoy: Well, sit down and rap with me brother, that's what I'm here for.

Flanders: [sits] I was talked into doing a dance called "The Bump," but my hip slipped and my ... my buttocks came into contact with the ... buttocks of another young man.
you mean mobile apps or mobile services?

we (heysan) are building a mobile messaging services, but the guys at iminlikewithyou have done a great mobile integration too.
Really? What a coincidence! :P
http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yuki/plushie/index-e.html
Seems to me that Cell Phones are in the position of home computers before the PC. Each manufacturer having differing standards and specs. I wonder if this is somewhere the Java really will be WORM?
Digg Community Sends the Mob After Speaker Pelosi
Takeo's been doing this sketch based stuff for a while.
Why I Don't Think The iPhone Will Sell Very Well
Guy Kawasaki's Newest Venture: Truemors
Yes, I know. But this is pretty cool anyway. See the results in the last minute of the video.
How do you go about hiring a web designer?  How much would you expect to pay roughly?  What if the design fails to impress potential users?
This reminds me of an old Slate article about a study that compared the % of Harvard MBAs who were working on Wall St with performance of the stock market and found an inverse correlation. The greater the % of Harvard MBAs working on Wall St the worse market performance. The analysis went further and suggested that any time more than 30% of the graduating Harvard Business School class went to work on Wall St, it was time to Sell Sell Sell!

I was working at Microsoft at the time, and the place seemed overrun with a bunch of recently hired Ivy League MBAs (particularly Harvard grads).

The slate piece:http://www.slate.com/id/2109982/
This is a good question. The other investors may already be in control of the company and just attempt replacing the founders with professional management. They may liquidate, since sunk costs are sunk.

According to Paul's essays, the software of Viaweb was powerful because it was written in a high-level (but bottom-up) way. It seems like besides this being an edge over your competitors, it would also make your investors leery of getting rid of you. Who else would want to buy it if the Viaweb team wasn't there to walk them through it? And wouldn't that consideration also be true for lenders? I recall reading something about Trump's period of declining fortunes years ago - to whom, exactly, were the banks going to sell his gaudy yacht and other outrageously expensive and virtually unsellable properties? They were better off pretending he could still be successful for a while, and they got lucky.
Pink is the new Kawasaki.
I'm sure she influenced it -- she's a great mum (NZ spelling). But when I was growing up, Dad was always the I-have-a-brilliant-idea person.
Sorry, I meant comments, specifically those from 3-5 days ago. I looked through them, and many of the comments previously downmodded have been mysteriously modded back up to what they were previously. Not a big deal in the first place though.
This article contradicts another more practical article posted here a few days ago, that says branding is worthless, which I liked better. Branding implies consistency, and no startup, no matter how pretty or expensive their logo is, is going to know exactly what they stand for, and they shouldn't know going into it all.

If branding was important to startups, no startups would exist, as they usually have no brand name.
It was just hip/black slang for "talk."
How do you go about hiring a web designer?

Past custom references, portfolio and most importantly designer's overall attitude.

How much would you expect to pay roughly?

Too vague to answer...really depends on WHAT exactly you've hired the designer to do. Is it to take a detailed concept YOU give him and convert it into a design(cheap)? Is it to THINK through your technical product, think how users will use it, then design(more work)?

What if the design fails to impress potential users?

I don't know any designer who will guarantee that your users will like the design so this one is tough.

-Zaid
-- From data I've found, it appears to be over 27% for Christmas alone

-- Some analysts expect Apple to have shipped 37 million iPods worldwide by the year-end, with about 10 million sold in the key Christmas quarter.

27% of iPod yearly sales occuring in the Christmas quarter. Interesting interpretation of data there :)

I have to give you props for actually taking the effort to write a blog, but I really think you should work on polishing things a bit more if you're trying to turn it into an asset (if you're just venting steam then please ignore). People will read this kind of stuff when they Google your name, after all:

-- I love Apple fanboys. They never stop drinking Apple's Kool-Aid.

-- Maybe, if that 499 is in pesos. If that's USD dollars and you think it's underpriced then yes, you are the moron.

-- It'll sell a couple million units to the many people who have wet dreams about Steve Jobs, and that will be about it.
Interesting we're reading this on Google. It never occurred to MSFT that a usenet archive would be good to have.
Here is a good blog post I read some time ago about how this company chose their designer:

http://www.barenakedapp.com/the-team/how-we-picked-the-designer

Figuring out the best designer for your site is, generally, more art than science. Just like choosing a developer. One thing you can do to reduce your risk is to hire someone for a small task first (say, do the logo), and if you like their work, ask them to do the whole project.
How good are your interns?
SBCL perspective
Threads, Interrupts, Transactions - SBCL Lisp
I'm getting a Mac. Which Mac do you use?
I noticed near the peak of the Bubble that a lot of MBA students wanted to go work for startups. In fact they were dropping out of B school to do it. This struck me as odd at the time because they'd effectively announced by going to B school at all that they were not startup type people. And it did turn out to be a pretty good predictor of a coming crash.
No; the article says MBAs want to work at Google, not that Google wants to hire them.
I have a 12" PowerBook G4.
Wehn did u fnid out taht olny the fisrt & lats lettres cuont
17" MacBook Pro. It is very, very, very nice.
Accordnig to a Unviesrtsy reseacrh waht mattres the msot is the fisrt and lsat lettres of each wrod. Waht do you tinhk?
Me too, plus one 23" display on each coast.
That's vaguely cool, but any javascript can be encased in JSON, so it's just saying the entire site is in js - why would you want to do that?
I wouldn't be worried about somebody googling my name and finding that. If they google your name and have a big problem with that, you probably don't want to work for them anyway. I suspect that the author is good enough that if he does end up seeking employment (which he isn't at the moment, being in a startup), he won't fail to find it because of that.
It takes a lot of internal centering, vision and experience to be creative. Sometimes people get lucky w/ one idea between the age of 21-30. Them they "peter" out for the rest of their lives.
I like this designer and he's very friendly.
http://www.eoghanmccabe.com/
MacBook (non-pro). I'm poor/cheap, plus I actually prefer a smaller form-factor for notebooks; I have full-sized external monitors at both home and work, so the smaller display is a non-issue where I spend most of my time, and a postive advantage when I'm mobile.
Good Common Lisp Faq (For Interested Non-lispers)
A "change your password" feature.
I've been self-employed for a long time and I'm planning on staying that way.

And you're right, I suppose not all iPods sold during the Christmas quarter were gifts. Valid point, but I still don't think it detracts from the overall view that being giftable is a big asset in the sales department.
Now who's left to buy meebo?
I didn't mean potential employers, just in general. I often do it when I hear a name, one way or another, and the impression that is left lasts.
Techcrunch: Yahoo To Announce Closure of Yahoo Photos Tomorrow
Do you carry it everywhere with you?
simply "wikipedia" email to sms gateway and you will see all results. This option is fine, but if you use it too much, you will considered spammer. So if you are trying to build a lasting business, be careful with it.
Sorry, I didn't make it clear, I wasn't saying "fall in or you'll be unemployable". The thought didn't even cross my mind that someone visiting this site would really care about that :)

What I'm saying though, is that someone Googles your name - acquaintance, potential customer/partner/reviewer/employee etc, and it'll happen more and more as you get more successful, they'll make a snap judgement based on what they see (and your blog will be #1).

You're writing interesting content but kind of shooting yourself in the foot by adding a few (very light) personal/group attacks in there. I'm just saying a bit more effort/restraint could turn it into a real asset, people will visit the site and say, wow, this is a guy to look out for. Larry O'Brien (http://www.knowing.net) is one example - I wouldn't know him from a bar of soap without his blog, but I found it, liked it, still read it, and I can tell you now that he'll be far richer in opportunities because he's put that effort in.

So that's what I meant. Maybe I'm overstepping the mark by saying it instead of thinking it, and I should have worded it better, but really I'm just trying to give you a bit of constructive criticism (and like I said, if you're just using it as a diary or to vent, please do ignore what I'm saying).
"Anidroccg to a Utisreviny rcraeseh waht mrettas the msot is the fsrit and lsat ltretes of ecah wrod. Waht do you tnihk?"

Not as easy, ha?

http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000227.html

Transpose the letters in the way I did above and it won't be easy at all.
Interesting they focused on their local market first before anything else.....totally contrary to what I was thinking for my start up.
A 13" MacBook. Without a doubt, it's the best computer I've ever owned.
I've got a 24inch iMac. IMO, insane value for what you get. I reviewed it a while ago: http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/09/18/first-impressions-24-inch-imac/

then I got a very nice VESA arm for it.. http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/02/26/review-ilift-vesa-arm/

sorry for the link spam, but i figured it was relevant.
Get an invite here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18993
Exact same setup. Great with the bluetooth keyboard & mighty mouse. You also definitely have to go for the 1GB ram upgrade.

At one point I was using a 13" macbook, but it was just too big. Plus, I hated running non-intel native apps. I had to upgrade the RAM and hd(7200RPM) to get any decent performance. Blogged about the experience a while ago: http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2006/09/disappointed-with-my-new-macbook.html
I use a 15" macbook pro - the entry level model (2.16GHz), but upgraded it to 2 gigs of ram. The 17" was too large for me.

I also have a Dell 2407FPW which I highly recommend - it's cheaper than the Apple equivalent, has a great picture and also has a built in flash memory reader. And unlike most Dell products, the industrial design is pretty nice.
Thanks, but I'm looking for instructions for going the other way. The Wikipedia article (at least the one I found) has good information for sending email to cell phones, but that information is all over the place.

What I need is a comprehensive, cross-carrier list for sending email from cell phones. I've found this information for a few carriers, but it's not complete by any means. For instance, it looks like Cingular (U.S.) and Rogers (Canada) use the same method as T-Mobile (U.S.), just using a different number (500 for T-Mobile, 121 for Cingular, and 0000000000 for Rogers).

I may have to devote a few days to digging out this information by hand from the carrier web sites. If I do, I'll add it to the Wikipedia article.
A PPC 17" iMac. My wife has a dual-G5 PowerMac. Of course, you can't buy these models any more, but they've both been reliable.

An important thing is that you should probably buy directly from Apple. Every experience I've had buying from third parties resulted in Macs arriving with hardware problems. Could have been a coincidence, I suppose.
I used to have a 17" PowerBook (first 17" model), and I carried it around a lot. There's a Halliburton case that fits it snugly on all sides; no rattling or anything.

People complain about the weight and size, but I never noticed a problem. Of course, I'm a pretty big guy.
I had no problem...
I don't use a Mac as a primary machine (I test on them), but I do have a piece of advice - the Dell 24" is possibly the best value monitor ever. If you're on a budget but still want some decent real estate, they're perfect. I run 2 of them, 1920x1200 on the left for general stuff and 1200x1920 on the right for code (I'm considering adding a third for notes). I find it impossible to do any serious development on a laptop these days.

A 23" Cinema display is the other obvious choice - much sexier, but the specs are inferior and it costs significantly more.
I should add, the key word was 'budget' - a 24" iMac will probably serve you better (unless you need serious graphics card power or multiple hard drives).
I heard a story about an author getting all her family and friends to buy all copies of a new book she wrote from an initial test run of all local stores. By selling out so fast, the publisher ordered a lot of books nationwide and the book became popular partially due to the fact that it was available in every book store the second time around. What do you think?
BAN THIS SPAMMER!!!! ;)
I'm on a WindowsXP desktop right now.
I'm planning to get the 15" 2.33GHz MacBook Pro,
w/ 160GB hard drive.
I don't know why they don't offer the 7200rpm hard
drives. Won't the 5400 be noticeable slow?
I started two startups and this is my journey.
An un-holy amount will charge out the ass. Many have few clients, so their business model depends on charging each client alot, almost scamming them.

Web design is not rocket science. With all the tools and stuff available to designers today, there is no reason the "clothes" of a site should ever go over a few ,000'.

Don't pay 20-30k. Leave that for big/unsophisticated companies.

p.s. A lot of designers do suck. With developers, many can get the task done "eventually", but with designers, many can't get what you want... ever.
15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. 2.33GHz / 2GB RAM. Nice machine, although perhaps not the most durable (I handle it fairly carefully, but it's already pretty scratched up after ~6 months). Thinking about upgrading to 3GB RAM (the max), as I run 2 WinXP VMs under Parallels (for IE 6 and 7) and that slows me down pretty bad currently.
When I was looking for a designer, I called many firms. The end result - expect to pay 5k-10k for a small site (~10 pages). This was outside my budget....

So then I tried craigslist. I received a lot of interest, but found only one good candidate. But this candidate found another contract before I could get back to them. Craigslist is cool for simpler things like company logos, but didn't work for me on the web designer front.

So, I contacted a prof who taught a project course at a design school (university) in my area. I asked this professor to ask his best student to contact me. I looked over the student's portfolio and was really impressed. This design student turned out very good work for a very reasonable price.
I wonder if theme customization is really important in the context of acquiring users. First impressions will be based on the default scheme. And most registered users probably won't even change the default....
Myspace for teens [Teenwag] zooms past lipstick, riya, lipstick, zooomr in 3 just months after launch
Seems like the main kinds of people who would go to a VC review site are people who either a) tried to get funding and didn't, and want to rant about it, or b) people who don't know anyone, and therefore are not going to get personal introductions, and therefore are not going to get funding.

I don't know anything about it, I've only read blogs and YC News and Founders at Work, but that's my impression.
check out for the hot startup
www.mintpages.net is a private forum for designers. I've had luck asking for someone there.
Recently replaced my XP desktop with a 13" Macbook as my main machine. I'm eying the Mac Pro w/ a 30incher when the time is right...
CEO Q&A - What books have changed your life the most?
Just to clarify: The whole point of a healthy industry (i.e. a vibrant, competitive one) is to provide low-cost, high-quality products to the consumer. Standards are a means to that end. Vendor lock-in, on the other hand, stifles competition, and produces lower quality at a higher price.

Consider how unfortunate it would be if, for instance, the WWW were built not on W3C standards, but on proprietary technology; say IIS, IE, and an undocumented network protocol. In that case, innovation would slow remarkably. Competitive browers (Firefox, Safari) could not be developed because they couldn't talk to the IIS servers (the protocol is secret, remember) and competitive servers (Apache) could not be developed for the same reason. The only way competitive products could emerge would be for some firm to develop a client/server/protocol stack, and market the hell out of it until it achieved sufficient penetration to be successful.

It's a lot cheaper to compete when the protocol is open, competition is what produces great product, and that's why I think it best that solutions built around open standards not just thump, but crush any proprietary alternatives. Multimedia is a bit of a disaster in this regard, but I see no reason RIA need go the same way.

I can't get on board with the notion that standards are only good for lowest-common-denominator sorts of things. The internet seems to work ok, for instance. As for people going 'above and beyond', to the degree that such activity represents the 'extend' part of E/E/E, standards can't prevent it, but responsible people ought to shun it.

As for MSFT's ability to cram product: they can bundle with an OS that has 90%+ of the market. I don't think their ability to guarantee their products penetration (not necessarily use, not necessarily sales, but availability) is a matter for serious dispute. If they want Silverlight to be a viable platform, they just have to roll it into IE 7.X or IE 8.0.
When it comes to innovation, Silicon Valley is still the place to be
If I find a blog that seems interesting, the first thing I do is look for a feed. If there isn't one or it's just partial, I go somewhere else and I don't look back.

In today's information-overloaded web, the line between being worth my time and being a waste of my time is thinner than you might think.

What you are paying for is the second look.
15in mpb 2.0Ghz / 2gb ram. a lot of the time w/ 20in monitor plugged in. I've been ecstatic with it. The 17in seems to big to move around with (though I did not have that option when I bought mine).

If I was buying it again today I would take a really hard look at the MacBooks; especially since they are now as fast as my mbp.
YouTube's Commercial Audition
Guy kawasaki's latest startup teenwag
yc news is one line of coding
Check out http://teenwag.com it is supposed ... to be funded by Guy kawasaki
I'm In Like With You: eBay for love?
Breakpoints have now been patented
Ok. I have a question. I am not a coder, but aren't digg, yc news, reddit all using a repeated statement as easy as
Select count (story_votes)/ story_age(which is sysdate-date_added) "alias" from table stories order by alias desc
Um, is there a reason for this?
watch this video.

http://homepage.mac.com/svc/LispMovies/index.html#2
Yes, she's still bitchin' most of the time. ;)

One of the reasons I keep holding on is to proof her wrong. When I started my first business (working on my second now) she disapproved it from before I even started: "it won't work", "it will only cost you money"... When I finally did start (with some help from my (now-ex-)girlfriend who motivated me a lot) she was all like "Yeah, you can do it".
She seems to be like that: supporting me when it's "too late". Like those kind of friends you never see, until you suddenly have money.

My dad on the other hand, .. Well, he can be a critic too, but he can set me back on track sometimes and gives me advice.

So yes, she did influence it (still does), but not in the way you probably meant.
This is a similar article to the ones written when the original iPod was announced. Everyone said "who's crazy enough to spend $400 for an MP3 player?", etc. I remember buying the original 5 gig one when it came out, and at the time, none of my (admittedly non-technical) friends bothered to understand what was so great about it to justify the money spent. They all have iPods now (all bought models in the $300-400 range), along with everyone else.

Frankly, these arguments about high price rarely hold up if the product is good. Back when DVD players first appeared on the market, people said the same thing ("Oh, I will never buy that because it's too expensive"). Well, early adopters buy these things, followed by more people, which means prices go down, which means more people buy, etc...
The software company in India doing web developments
We are doing the website development , E-commerce solutions and customized softwares
MacBook Pro, entry level.

I've had a MacBook for a few weeks (while my MBP was in repair :() and I was so happy to get the MBP back.

I use it with a big CRT in our office and a Samsung 205BW (20" widescreen) in my home-office.
Yes! Also, databases are just a set of big arrays, the internet passes on packets where packet_sent = packet_received and code is just self evaluating data. The devil is in the implementation details (technical and otherwise).
Given a previous discussion on Yahoo's sluggishness in implementing Panama (i.e. rewrapping Overture), is it unfounded to say this is yet another case of Yahoo's failure to recognize and integrate a superior service? Also similar is the failed pair of Google/dodgeball.

Another loss from bureaucracy?
MBP 15.4 2.16 2GB and the sexy Axio Hardsleeve (axio-usa.com) for lugging it around.