skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into an issue with Constant Contact that basically banned one of my mailing segments of around 500 emails. The rest of the list was okay to send to, just one segment was blocked. The issue was a false positive spam test by Constant Contact and they refused to unlock that segment. Even had they unblocked it, the CS experience was still bad enough to raise a warning flag.

I've since moved on to MailChimp and have been much happier with it than I was CC.

I'm glad to see them improving on an already highly functional free-tier.
Towards this end, it's useful and good to make your kids practice when they are very young. Your brain is actually changed by doing music before the age of 12, in a way that's actually visible on MRI. If I ever have kids, I'll do this for them when they are young but let them find their own way to music or artistic expression of some kind as young adults. (Despite the circumstance that I'm an accomplished musician.)

If you aren't an excellent player of music yourself, but genuinely enjoy music, the thing to do is to take your kids along to see live music, outside of the paid perfomance context. If you can be there, taking joy in music that's not paid for, but played for the pure joy of it, then there's a good chance for your kids to pick up on the magic of it and be influenced to do music for the right reasons. (Yes, I've been a firsthand witness to this phenomenon.)

Then again, there's also a chance that it won't become your kid's thing, or that you could lock them in a tower and forbid them to do anything musical, and they'll still find their way to playing music. By these lights, making your kids engage in musical drudgery in order to impress judges so they can impress college admissions officers is about the worst thing you can do.
> If it is a good piece of work, why not pay for it?

I only hope they don't timebomb the paid version like they did the freeware version.
A browser addon would also be awesome!
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Not everybody likes it when some stranger's business sense starts imposing itself on their social life.
Torching a straw man
Thanks for your comments!

"I visited - didn't know what to do."
True, the only place it is really explained is here on HN, I'll fix that quickly. [edit: fixed]

"Categorize/tag them so I can browse startup-related articles (or whatever category I want)"
I don't want it to become this "big", I just want to have a bookmarklet when I'm reading a good Paul Graham's article, and check if someone did a TL;DR for it already. One click.

"Auto-fill url's as people are typing."
Auto-fill with what?

"If the story I'm interested in has already been summarized, take me to it."
The bookmarklet does that.

"Could definitely build a mini-newspaper/ezine type of thing around this."
Maybe, I'll wait to see if the website is of some interest for an interesting number of people first :)

"Don't force me to use my twitter account to do a submission - please!"
I thought it was a good idea for moderation/spam protection... Maybe I should rethink that...

"Good job! Keep the iterations coming."
Thanks again !
no virgin mobile here.but if they are anything like pcs, which advertise unlimited web and calls for 40, then data for them means some proxied sites only
from what i read on howard forums, you should check with the target in your area
You never delete, and then people bitch that they can't really leave the service. See: Facebook.
If you buy this phone, can you use it as a wifi only and never actually activate it with VM? Or can you pay for a month, cancel and still use it on wifi? Might be a good tester device option.
Here's Virgin's coverage map for voice-usage: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage

It looks like Virgin uses Sprint's 3G network. Here's their coverage map: http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?ECID=vanity:coverage

Finally, here is a CNET review of the LG Optimus V (the phone featured in this particular plan): http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/lg-optimus-v-virgin/4505...
And it's a crying shame how many Americans aren't aware of that.
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Yep. Two weeks ago I bought a cheap Huawei Ideos running Froyo at about $100 here in Kenya.

Testing Android apps on a physical device beats using the emulator hands down.
Virgin Mobile USA uses Sprint PCS Network.
Very true, thats why most of the time I spent time reading the hacker news discussion rather than the original link.
But then you'd have to have a financial reward system in place that rewards ethical firms.

I don't know how you would do that.
A friend recently bought a ZTE Blade. I haven't tried it personally but he's very exited with it, and looking at the specs it seems to be a good, cheap android phone.

It's available in a few countries other than the US like the UK, France and Switzerland. Depending on where you buy it, an unlocked phone will cost about $150 to $250.
I got mine at Target this past weekend. Call ahead and they can put one on hold for you if it's in stock.
That's cool, there's definitely pros and cons with both.

I've tried both, and even the time I spend with the charge backs and "I changed my mind and want a refund" aren't worth my time dealing with. It's just boring hassle.

I definitely agree, there's a balance between making easy ad money, and satisfying users. That's the hard bit - making the advertising useful enough, unobtrusive enough, but effective.

A lot of it perhaps depends on what sort of person you are. Making money from advertising is basically a numbers game, which you can just optimize iteratively. Selling subscriptions involves feelings, random users, and all those fuzzy things that I personally find a lot harder.
I'm not a salesman and never have been. I don't like trying to charge people for something I'd never pay for.

OTOH, I would, and have paid for advertising, I have used websites that carry advertising obviously, so I'm just a lot more comfortable with that whole ecosystem. I can put myself in the position of all parties.
I forgot to bookmark it but once I followed a link from reddit to google images and it somehow defaulted back to the old method. So something on the URL can toggle it, I just have no clue what it was and feel stupid for not researching it right there and then.

Just recently they are tinkering with maps and the new controls are so sluggish and non-intuitive, I have to dig two or three levels constantly. Every so often it reverts to the old interface but the new one looks like it's here to stay. Very fustrating.
Maybe a system where you get the description of the person as written by their friends (also members of the site)? So you have two types of users: people who want to date and people who want to set their friends up with someone. You could also charge per-date this way: if both people agree that the other sounds attractive and decide to go on a date, they pay a small fee to reveal the match.
I don't speak for the OSS community, but I am quite sure not many of them care enough about .NET to develop something like this.
Like every other operator. Att here evens deduct s my minutes for received g voice calls.

But Android has sip clients. who needs voice?

Also there are plenty of skype apk patched to behave the same in wifi and 3g, meaning it will go via data no matter what
"...he brought us home a tear gas canister so that we could see “the gifts that America sends to Egypt”. It was made on Kinsman Road in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, 16134."

I've seen this covered all over the news and can't understand the logic. Despite the fact that the United States has publicly backed the will of the Egyptian people, calling for an orderly transition - there seems to be a pathological need to throw some egg. No one is grabbing the 7.62 casings from the Misr-AKM and saying, "see the gifts Russia sends to Egypt?"
> write a new one saying why it was wrong or what has changed

The problem is that it wasn't wrong, and nothing has changed.
The statement of "I've been trying to track down your email and I can't find it" falls right into the problem with the site. It is obvious you did not try to hard or at all. Robin is active on Twitter, has his own domain name with links to among other things an email address, and if all else fails, reaching out directly to TechCrunch for contact to a writer is fairly simple.
When something seems too good to be true, it usually is.
What got me was

# rm -rf a.tar

But to be fair, maybe it's not that hair-raising if your only experience is with other people's command prompts.
This is disappointing. I can't see them pushing people toward a paid service without crippling OKCupid's features and culture. OKC was built around optimizing for fun and matchmaking - match.com was built around maximizing revenue and disappointment. And I'll miss the irreverent analysis in the blog.

$50M also seems like a low exit for one of the most successful, and probably the most sophisticated, dating site on the internet.

Definitely makes me wonder if the dating space has much money left in it.
Really Google? Grow up and Quit Acting Like a 3 Year Old
Reflector's always been obfuscated; Lutz Roeder had a paid-for version as well alongside the free one.

(You don't think the first thing we tried with Reflector was to reflect Reflector? :) )
I don't recall what platform it's built on, but how about OSQA[1]?

[1]: http://osqa.net
Given my experiences using the web over the past couplefew months while everybody's been freaked out about the economy and avoiding layoffs or just being opportunists, I've noticed a huge uptick in the number of popunder ads and autoplay video ads. Not to mention that modal overlays have caused me to stop visiting certain sites (Ramit Sethi's iwillteachyoutoberich.com, for example), we can look forward to an Orwellian advertising future for OKC.

That is, I don't think your complaints (or mine) will ever be resolved. For every person complaining about user-hostile site design, there are three calling it good business sense.
I doubt it.

IAC, the parent company of match.com owns lots of web properties. It's not like match.com now owns okcupid and will use them as they please. Most likely, okcupid ads may become exclusively for IAC sites (match.com, blackpeoplemeet, asianpeoplemeet, [niche]peoplemeet, other dating properties) and they may make the subscription offers a little more prominent (right now they're pretty hidden on okcupid) but I doubt it'll go much further than that.

Free and paid are complementary. A big chunk of upgrades on paid sites come from people who were driven there from free sites.
It's usually from bulletin boards and other places with no proper +1 feature like upvotes.

reddit's karma system is pretty much crap, so there's still an incentive for some people to use it on it.
Do you have absolutely anything to back up what you're saying, or are you just stating your prejudices?
I'm sorry to be "that guy" but most of HN readers probably do not suffer from ADHD. There is a big difference between being distracted on the net and real ADHD. So please just call it "internet attention span" or something.
VM USA is owned by Sprint, so you get the same coverage as a Sprint customer minus the ability to roam off Sprint's network.
Hearing about this deal makes me feel a little queezy. The only upside (other than congrats to their team) is that maybe now there will finally be some nice atheist / agnostic girls on Match. I realize many people have had success at OkCupid, but their users never really struck me as seriously looking for someone to date. Many are just there to take the quizzes.
You don't agree to licenses, they're given.
But match.com might still ruin the site by trying too hard with the upsell.
Ask HN: Two LinkedIn profiles, acceptable, advisable?
I am wondering whether it makes sense, is acceptable, and/or advisable to have a 2nd LinkedIn profile for yourself if you have both a professional career and also a side business for which you're an entrepreneur? For example, if you are a software engineer with over 15 years experience and a strong reputation, and also are starting a startup, it seems inadvisable to advertise that or even make it known from your regular LinkedIn profile, if only because it dilutes the seriousness of your professional determination. I don't mean to suggest one should be dishonest, however it is surely the case that one would want to hedge against the failure of their new enterprise by protecting their professional appearance, and not let potential employers think that one might just be about to quit the industry.

I'm not sure what LinkedIn says about this, I've seen a lot of accidental double accounts, and I can't tell that they really care. Perhaps their TOS are more specific, I haven't read them yet, and probably should have prior to posting, and will now go do so. But the question still has merits in a general sense, even if LinkedIn forbids it. How does one deal with this challenge?
This is great news for devlopers (or at least me, and I want to be a mobile app developer).

Get an iPhone subsidized, pick up this cheap Android device, and suddenly be able to develop on both platforms while paying <$65 a month for data (plus my regular phone service that I already pay for). A year ago that would have cost a heck of a lot more.

And I'm fine with it being a weak Android phone, I had planned on developing to a low spec device anyway.
Correct. They will likely use the Nerve/SpringStreet/AdultFriendFinder model of ruining the free options so that the pay ones look attractive.
The blog is part of the OKC brand, possibly the part with the most integrity. Given this, the blog is part of the value that IAC was purchasing. Regardless of IAC's intentions, the OKC blog (and the pay-dating article) was part of the reason they were an attractive acquisition target.

I have to wonder whether this deal is related to the "should I sell to these guys?" question last week.
1. I think you misunderstood what cookiecaper meant by this. He immediately clarified with, "If people know you're going to be armed, they're much more cautious about performing potentially threatening or violent behaviors." Which means that he's not counting on armed people to be impulsive at all--simply capable of self-defense.

No sane person would advocate the right to bear arms based upon the idea that people retaliate with bullets against literal impoliteness, and I think it's a bit of a straw man to suggest that's what's going on, especially when cookiecaper explicitly clarified that he meant something completely different.

2. It's a straw man because we're discussing the actual effects of not restricting gun ownership, which in practice result in about 40-60% of the population owning guns, not 100%. If you want to discuss some sort of universal conscription scheme in which every citizen is armed and trained by the state, that's a separate discussion.

"If everyone had a gun" is shorthand, though. In reality you only need maybe 25% of people to be armed before home invasions, for instance, become too dangerous to attempt.

3. This actually does seem to be a problem--not with private gun ownership, but with the police.
This is the device that could have saved Nokia in the smartphone market.
I don't see how that's relevant at all. Google gave them the option of not being indexed. They decided they would rather be indexed by Google than not. The complaint that TripAdvisor doesn't get precise, fine-grained control over what Google does with its index seems like a fairly different issue.
Yes, you can use WiFi only without ever activating it or paying VM. I did it myself:
http://blog.gerundinganimal.com/2011/01/cheap-wifi-only-andr...
Ask HN:  Is NJ a cool place for a startup?
Hi all. Im in stealth mode with my start up in New Jersey and wanted to know if i risk losing out on talent to NYC because of the lower-panache factor of the address. Is it important to move into/closer to the city as I grow?
If there's no contract, there's nothing to cancel. What you can't do with this is put it on a different cellular network (as you could do with an unlocked GSM phone), but wifi should be fine...
Amazon's preview feature suggests Chapter 7 ("Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status") is the relevant one. The introduction also discusses "genetically based behavioral characteristics" and how they relate to labor market success. Skimming chapter 1, it also appears that statistics on transmission of personality traits are given.

Again, about claim 2, if there is better support available, why not quote it directly?

Agreed, Caplan should cite his sources better.

As for Claim 3, I guess it depends on what one means by "character". Caplan's source suggests that whatever character effects do exist, they do not significantly effect schooling.

(This would imply that character traits like conscientiousness and a desire to appease authorities are not influenced much by environment, but perhaps not a trait like being kind-natured would be.)
dd if=outfile of=infile

An entire month to fix.
There are several free programs that will download all of the photos in your Flickr account. I've used this one in the past: http://sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/ and it works pretty well.
http://tldr.it/ does this automatically
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From what I've seen, lots of people have no problem at all mentioning their "non $DAYJOB" stuff on their LinkedIn profiles. Out of my contacts, I see plenty who list a dayjob and also list themselves as the owner/founder/president of a startup, or a consulting company, or some other "side" business.

I actually do that myself... my current $DAYJOB is listed right alongside my startup project. I really don't see it being a problem. <shrug />
I think he answers his own question:

"it is probably quicker to write your own custom app than it is to try and work out if any of the existing apps fulfils your requirements."
Google Unveils Android Honeycomb
The full price for the phone in question is $150, no gimmicks.

Though from the Archos in my pocket that goes for $150, touchscreens have a ways to go before I'm going to care to use a $150 unsubsidized touchscreen on a phone. (Though throw on a keyboard and it might be different.)

Of course, I got the Archos as a testing device, not as something to rely on.
Engadget's Google/Android event liveblog
As usual, "that guy" is correct :)

Sorry for the over-simplification. I edited the original post.
As a former employee of one of the recent acquisitions that you mentioned, yeah, it really was run into the ground. Almost the entirety of the development and operations staff left within a couple months. I don't expect it to last much longer.
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You Don't Really Want a Rock Star
While it wasn't specifically a re-post from a comment (it was mentioned in another article on the subject which I read), you're right about the previous discussion providing more context than this headline.

I didn't expect this link to overtake that article and discussion on the front page, though I should have given I discussed the same thing in regards to the Flickr Delete thing 6 hours ago!
You do realize that Google's legal counsel has very little say in this. Google's engineers are making the call and the counsel is just providing legal advice. The legal counsel doesn't know what is infringing on what.

With that said, you'd probably say that you trust Google's engineers more than me. I'd hope so. You have no idea who I am.
Egypt Returns to the Internet
Interesting market, I like it. Do you already have your first customers? If so, how did you acquire them?
A Food Manifesto for the Future
I guess it depends on your $DAYJOB. If you've cultivated a very straight laced, highly dependable profile for top tier firms, that pay big, and want to feel that they're getting someone who's entrenched in their business for the foreseeable future, a startup reference can be a very odd distraction and just the thing to push you down a notch when being compared to another candidate. For those folks, the question still stands.
They were testing to see if it was true. Many users are doing it, bing is taking data for non-google engineers too.
Amazon.com looks to take on Netflix with new movie service
The "panache" is not the issue... the issue is whether your startup is in a location where young people want to live or commute to.

I worked at a telecom startup located in Bedminster and must say that it was not a convenient location for those who want to live in the city, since it required driving 45 minutes each way...

I would suggest Jersey City (e.g. Grove St.) or Hoboken -- some place that is accessible by PATH or other convenient public transit.
A few techniques:

Form a cabal of vote sharers, who always vote for each other's posts. Post a bunch of semi-plausible content once a day and you'll have tons of karma in no time.

Post quick responses that have little insight. You'll always get votes for being first.

Post LOTS of trivial questions. More people will upvote than will downvote on the whole.
Wrong. Google uses the link-out of other sites to rank the linked site.

So if I have a site that review sites about x, google will use my links to rank the sites about x. It will benefit google, sites about x, advertisers for x, users searching for x. But NEVER me.

now, replace "me" for "google" and "google"for "bing". And you will see how you and google are being hypocrite
Ask HN: Who's hiring Summer interns? (January 2011)
And who wants to hire me?