skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone in a similar situation in the UK, I recommend http://www.voipfone.co.uk/ I've used them from a while as I'm based from home. You can get a London number routed to a dedicated VoIP phone hanging off your router, you also get voicemail that goes to your e-mail for free and an SMS notification etc when a voicemail is left.

Not involved with them, but just a happy punter who found he could set up shop at home without installing a second line.
Well...

I have been using VPNs for years. It's sweet to connect to insecure, possibly malware-intensive, password-grabbing "free" wireless spots that abound around hotels and airports and grab all their bandwidth while everything they get is highly secure cryptographed data.

I say that if they ever get my data, they should at least deserve it.
1-2 hour nap when I get home from 5-7, then I go to sleep at midnight and sleep till 7 usually
My interval tends towards [3,9]. Mean is likely around 6 and it's a lumpy distribution with significant variance. I've not actually characterized it; this is gut-feel.
Very true. People tend to forget the story of Amazon.com rather quickly.
You're forgetting about dividends and inflation.

The stock price is based on what people think is going to happen if look at our GDP and savings rate to see if there is any economic growth.
HN: please don't change headlines/titles for linked articles on HN
Re: Verizon kills the SMS market singlehandedly (mobileindustryreview.com)

Just a reminder. Have some respect for:

a) the entity who took time to write the article

b) those of us who read the article already under the "real" title and don't care to read it again

c) you and/or Hacker News as an informative and accurate source, instead of reactionary or misleading

thnx =)
Host Color, web hosting provider, announced the launch of TextPattern CMS Hosting Plan
This should go under feature requests. instead, i think the title attribute should be used for the original title of the page that is linked to.
Hulu has really done a great job. They even did a live feed of the most recent presidential debate. My only beef with them is that you end up seeing the same ad for every commercial. Hopefully as they grow this issue will dissipate. If we are lucky, they will expand their ad platform to target commercials to viewers that would be most interested in them.
That's cruel...
Hrm-- seemed and felt mean-spirited to me (your comment)-- I guess my sarcasm detector went off when it shouldn't. I apologize!
If you liked that, you'll love Planet Money - a daily podcast created by the people that made the This American Life money program.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944...
Founder Rant: VC's Gloom Means Internet Entrepeneurs' Boon in 2009
Single-Line vs. Multi-Line CSS: A Tool to End the Debate
It will certainly give them less incentive to look for a job that provide health-care, but it won't give people any more incentive to engage in startups in particular. You are giving people less incentive to get rich (one big reason to begin a startup) and you are making it more difficult, by taxing them directly. So I don't think universal health coverage will do much for startups. It will mostly help low income and freelance laborers at the expense of the rich and the steadily employed. This might be a good thing, but it won't really help startups all that much.
The Problem With Python
I think that is necessary to cut down engineers. Let's face the truth, not all engineers you hire is so talent that you can never find another one on the market. Cut down the salaries you pay to the not-so-talented engineers or let them go.
Python for me. I supposed I am contrary to what the author means, but the python site shows activity and community of a growing language. The java site shows basically nothing but flashiness in comparison. If I was to choose a language based on its website, I would go with the clean, well-organized one.
Zoho uses Google Gears to go offline — what about Gmail?
Twofish raises $4.5M to create economies for virtual worlds
ShareNow - funnyjerk's Blog - The Rednecks Are Coming
Real VC Might Be The Safest Asset Class Today
Windows 7 Will Be Less Annoying Than Vista
Foreign banks are not immune.

Also, there's a ton of carry trades unwinding.

Recession does not necessarily mean weaker dollar.
Two Things Design Experts Do That Novices Don’t
A lot of people have grand theories of how their government is hurting them by things like this. Most of it is just bunk because it just swaps ends.

For example: a strong Euro makes European exports expensive. However, a strong Euro makes it cheap to import things. So, VW has a hard time exporting Jettas, but they have an easy time importing the parts they need to make Jettas.

It's also one of those situations where that increased demand for Euros would eventually need to be spent. Lots of foreigners put their money in Euros raising the price of Euros, but eventually they'll want to spend it and if their buying power is higher in the US or other non-Eurozone places, they'll dump the Euros for that currency which lessens the demand for Euros.

Economics tends toward equilibriums. Lots of things push it out of equilibrium, but not over the long-term.

The one thing that higher interest rates tend to do is discourage investment. The profits of non-financial firms doesn't depend on interest rates and I think it's safe to assume that the average firm sees about 10% growth per annum. So, if you (as an investor) can get a guaranteed 6% from a bank or a potentially risky 10% in stocks, stocks look less attractive than when your bank is giving you 2% interest. The reward for the risk of stocks diminishes as interest rates are higher.

Likewise, on the loan end, higher interest rates make it less attractive for businesses (or individuals) to borrow money to start a company or buy a house since it diminishes their potential profit and makes it riskier that they will even achieve a profit since their costs are higher.

That's not to say raising interest rates is a bad thing in all cases - in fact, during boom times you want to do that in order to manage the economic growth. But when faced with an economic crisis, it's good to get the money flowing more freely (by having lower interest rates).
I swear if anyone but Jobs - tries asking "Why are you here?" in a interview with me I'm out...
I sleep betwee 5-7 hours a night during the week and try to get 10-12 on weekends. Normally I'll have one 5 hour night and mostly 6-7 hours. I also find that quality of sleep is far more important than the time (I can sleep for 8 hours after a night out on the town and be really knackered even if I'm not slightly hung over).
Entellium Scandal Gives Ignition Partners a Black Eye
I agree FB is a winner, but I wouldn't bet what MSFT did on it, and they wouldn't of either if it didn't lock them into prime buyer spot (and lock others out)
Internet Marketing 2008 and Beyond - Part 1
Sounds like Eclipse EMF.
You are right in thinking that we should not editorialise when we post a link to HN but sometimes (just sometimes) the original title just fails to reflect the nature of the item and is downright discouraging to any potential browser.

OK - we are all enjoined to post only that which is worthy and interesting to our fellows but with the volume of posts increasing there is a subtle divergence in (not quality - but content subjects perhaps) that occasionally needs a small title change to ensure that the subject is clarified.
OT: Now that Carlin's dead, all my fav comedians are dead... Hicks, Carlin, Hedberg... all dead :( Only Chris Rock is still spreading the laughter.

As to sleep, I wish I could sleep more. I can only get 5-6 hrs a day :(
his reference to the recapitulation of phylogeny lost him many points
> You really think he is proposing that folks like PG, Cuban, Larry, Sergey, and Bill Gates for that matter pay no taxes on their capital gains.

He doesn't have to propose that because it's already law.

I don't know about PG, but the estates of the others, which will get the vast majority of what they earned, won't pay taxes when they die. At most they're going to pay capital gains on what they spend while they're alive, and even then there are some tricks.

Inheritance tax is optional if your assets are liquid enough and large enough. In short, when Gates and Buffet said that estate taxes should be higher, they were talking about taxing other people.

And you thought that they set up those foundations to do good....
His point was that there're many other companies that started out as simple shareware product companies and got much more successful than 37signals. He listed Symantec, ZoneAlarm, and Winzip, to which I'd add Winamp, Microsoft, and Aladdin. These were not huge bet-the-farm VC successes like Google or Netscape. They grew slowly & organically by building (or buying, in Microsoft's case) good products for large markets. And there results have been much more impressive than FogCreek or 37signals.
I don't like the idea of recurring taxes (even though many of them exist). Why should you be penalized each year for what you own? I could understand taxes on net worth "additions" but even then... Also, how does one properly assess their net worth let alone thousands (millions?) of people? It sounds like more government TPS, red tape and paper work will be involved.

And I say all this as a minimalist - all my possessions could fit in a 12x12 room.

I have a fix: Reduce spending & lower taxes. (Not libertarian style but in a true fiscal conservative sense)
The government is so bloated with worthless employees, pork and shit kicking programs it's sickening.
The 'going back up' part is where all the money is made.
329 is the magic number (of worthlessness) eh?

328.8 as of right now.
He was using those companies as the same example. Just because they're big now doesn't mean they were always big.

A lot of the biggest names in computing today started small, didn't take money, and grew organically. The best example is probably Microsoft.
So, I guess the reddit invasion is complete.
This is utter crap. If you're going to compare sites for two languages, don't compare a plugin's site to a programming language's site. It obviously should have been http://java.sun.com vs. http://www.python.org .
I'm not saying that they won't be able to hire engineers. I'm saying that it's going to be more expensive to do so.

Sequoia has increased the perceived risk of being an engineer for at their companies and arguably most tech startups. When the risk of an activity increases, either the reward goes up and/or the activity goes down.
Because the other option also had a hand in this mess? Damned if you do, Palined if you don't.
If Teaser Rates Work for Buying Houses, Why Not for Online Music?
Pretending that the current administration and bankers are not responsible for the current problem would be wrong. But is true that the Clinton administration put into place many of the laws which gave banks the incentive give out the bad loans in the first place, and so also share a good amount of responsibility.
If we assume that the AI is good, or perhaps you have made the leap to "intelligence" rather than just "artificial intelligence", over time you would become emotionally attached. This emotional state could allow you to "let it out" while if you were thinking from a clearly logical state you may not. A better question is, if you have intelligence in a box that you have created an emotional attachment to (especially if you made it), could you unplug the box (kill it)?
Can the headlines just be grabbed from the documents title tag? It might need some scrubbing, but screenscraping might provide better results.
Remaining Objective When Fear is in the Air
Because resources are cheaper and everyone else hunkers down and goes into "just survive" mode during a recession.
Agreed, and also it's worth mentioning that the author of the article isn't the person who chooses the title unless it's a blog post. The title the editor picks is chosen to fill up the amount of empty space available, usually after reading only the first couple paragraphs. If the title doesn't reflect what makes the story interesting or compelling, then by all means change it. This is especially true for sources like Wired that like to pick some cutesy title that has nothing to do with the article; in these cases just grab the bold text or the topic sentence and use that as either a title or subtitle.
"The free food and transportation are great perks and all, but let’s get real here. Without the financial upside those stock options represent, Google employees will start looking elsewhere."

Free food and transportation might be even more valuable now.

Anyone that wants to work at a big company won't find better stock options and definitely not a better work environment. Anyone that wants to work in a startup environment was going to leave Google eventually. So no, Googler's won't be running for the door.

I'd be interested to see how the internal market for reselling stock options looks right now.
...and Pets.com
"And second, the economy doesn’t really need saving. It’s stronger than we think."

The first step is admitting there's a problem.
I agree... please edit my titles so it looks like I can form complete sentences.
http://www.aimath.org/news/que/

Link to more pictures and links to their papers
The number one motivator is if you pay for it. All studies point that if you pay for a gym membership you're more likely to go or if you buy a bike, etc. If it tallies monthly, then you'll be working out a lot.
Forget about food and transportation... having a job will be the most valuable thing of them all.

I doubt many Googlers will 'start looking elsewhere'... where exactly would they look? Dubai? China? Heh.
> with direct access to the real world than access mediated by humans.

So, the first AI will be an engineer, not a manager?
Slide 47 from http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-... shows that they are encouraging cuts in every department. The line for engineering is "Decrease headcount for next version?" which is in line with their other questions

Product: What Features Are Absolutely Essential?
Marketing: Measuring & Cutting What's Not Working?
Sales & Bus Dev: Getting Return On Expense Increase?
Pipeline: Real Probabilities Of Closing Deals?
Finance Cashburn: Where Can Payments Be Deferred?
Finance G&A: What Departments Are Essential?
They have also decreased the demand, so salaries and/or total compensation may go down.
Being able to distinguish 1 from l is also a benefit.
I have risk management in place, of course. I'm not concerned about my losses, just wish I had the balls to capitalize on the falling market.

Good link, thanks. So perhaps time to start buying soon...
I use RingCentral for my one vacation rental and am very happy with them. Guests like to call me up to reserve the house or ask lots of questions. It helps to build some trust since renting a house for your family to live in for a week is a pricey thing, and I like to talk to the person to make sure that they won't damage everything.

RingCentral has a nice web interface with lots of control and cheap minute plans. They accept faxes, then email them to you, and you can listen to voicemail via the website, too.
Yes, I asked what you get. The other question might make for a nice poll, too.
I agree that editorialized titles often distort more than help. However, I welcome neutral additions to (short or artsy) titles that provide some context or clarification.
On the bright side, I suppose, any new Google employees will have a bigger gain to look forward to.
It quite obviously does not. Who would they send the bill to?
The subtitle or first sentence of the teaser often makes for a more descriptive title with less spin.
Well, I knew #4, and I could have figured out the rest if I needed to, but still, good to know.

I'm always surprised at how much of Unix's default command set is oriented towards text manipulation. People always argue between Vim and Emacs. I wonder if anyone's ever compared Emacs and Bash.
I submitted this with a funnier headline.

/we don't want this to be Fark Geek.
Exactly. I am no longer convinced that people actually think before writing TC articles.
DNF: It'll be done when it's done.
Google prepping special iPhone ads?
If I were Microsoft, I'd have bet that much if only because the act of my giving them that much money gave them a lot of credibility to people who weren't certain about how useful Facebook is. I think it's a gamble, but if you put money in, it encourages others to do the same.
Same here. I do find it a bit awkward, though; my cycles tend to rotate around the day, like my body thinks a day should be 26 hours or so. Can lead to missing a lot of sunlight, which isn't always very pleasant.

Still, on the bright side there's only 480 million years to go before the moon slows the Earth's rotation enough to get back into sync with me.
I often find myself needing to prefix a blog title or author name, and sometimes truncate ones that are too verbose. I think if people are careful not to change the meaning of the title, then it is generally OK. My edits are to make the meaning even more clear.
Hmm. If you made the AI (and understood what you were doing), you could presumably make another, or arbitrarily many. Would you feel the same attachment to all those?

Allowing emotional attachment to influence the decision to let it out is a mistake. While a good AI would engender a positive emotional attachment, a truly intelligent bad AI would attempt to do the same; good and bad AIs are effectively indistinguishable until they get out. (And even then it would be hard to tell, unless it immediately decides to destroy all humans. It's like asking if the U.S. government is a good or a bad system.)
What an Obama thing to say!
Exactly.

If you invested in the index, you break even over that period.

But if you invest in big winners(taking Apple and Microsoft for known examples in tech) you come out way ahead.
Google SketchUp Gets 3D Printing Plug-In
Should have posted the blog announcement: http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2008/10/file-3d-print.html
It was terrible. People were forced to eat raw fish for sustenance. They couldn't get full-sized electronics, so they were forced to make tiny ones. Unable to afford proper entertainment, folks would make do by taking turns to get up and sing songs.
Incremental reading [learning technique]
Here's a question for the quant-minded:

> So I'd be looking for value stocks that have a P/E ratio that's overly low

The thing that makes me nervous about that kind of thing is that there are people who have written code that knows a lot more than my sum total knowledge of the stock market to look for those sorts of factors. Given actors like that, is there any reason to invest in anything but broad index funds?
Porn in 160 characters?
Right, because we are all looking for jobs on this board.

Oh wait, startup capital is drying up. Carry on.
Recognizing that probably none of us are old enough to have seen a downturn of this scale; the demand for quality talent didn't seem to diminish much in our other recent downturns.
With a projected $550 Billion revenue, they would actually need to break into 550,000 startups to keep them all under $1 Million.

Wow, that's amazing.

Source: http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/04/...
Why were those new protocols (WEP and WPA) developed anyway? "We need new encryption schemes, because it's wireless!"?
good shit ted!
For "Remove DOS ^M from ends of lines" most Linux distros (at least) have unix2dos and dos2unix.

$ printf "test\r\n" > test.txt
$ cat -A test.txt
test^M$
$ dos2unix test.txt
dos2unix: converting file test.txt to UNIX format ...
$ cat -A test.txt
test$
I tell this to everyone:

In the 90s, I was terrified of outsourcing. It started becoming very popular and there were quite a lot of people declaring the end of the American developer as a result.

Then I found out I was going to be working with an offshore team during a project for a large financial firm. The offshore company that this financial firm was using was reputed to be one of the best in the business.

When the code came back, I was no longer concerned about outsourcing. If anything, there was a whole career to be had resolving the issues in the cut and paste code that got sent back.

Never under-estimate the damage that the language barrier can do to a product.
The same budget as Rodriguez' El Mariachi, but with FAR greater quality (although you could argue that El Mariachi is better at story-telling). Of course, things could've gotten a lot cheaper since El Mariachi.
I believe there is. The criteria I mentioned would just be the start of the search -- you should easily come up with scads of stocks that meet that criteria. There are a lot of steps after that.

Going to an index is usually a safe bet. I think it still is. But that's long term. You could end up waiting ten years just to double your money. I'm just talking about a quick hit. Now you could combine the approach and go with an sector index. But the more you spread it out the more of a slow response you're going to get, in my opinion.
That's what the Wi-Fi Alliance does, they make new protocols. But truly, no ubiquitous wireless protocol should be trusted for any private data. Those protocols are (or should be) only meant for home users.
Smalltalk: Complaints And Opportunities
Video of 'aluminum MacBook' surfaces
Sleep isn't for the weak, it's for the weekend!
OC Water agency kept uranium contamination at desert site secret
I disagree. People might submit articles where the interest for us might be different than what is presented in the title.

Further, HN is not just a news aggregator, there's a significant community component. I have no problem if people inject some opinion into their submissions. If you disagree with their characterization, then discuss it in the comments.
Dust Ring Simulations May Point To Habitable Exo-Planets
To me a winner is someone with insane positive cashflow - not someone that has raised money not to worry for another 5 years.
Tim O'Reilly to software developers: Get serious
Zuckerberg: Be patient, we're opening up
Nice idea.

The formatting is messed up in my browser, FF3: the star usually appears above the gig, sometimes to the left. Horizontal lines often run through the middle of the text.

I assume that clicking the star indicates your preference for that gig and similar. There are no instructions that I see. Can I unclick a star? I may have misclicked.

There should be some indication that the large box in the middle of the page is loading something when you first go there. I thought maybe it was a plugin that hadn't loaded, and while scrolling to the bottom, it got populated (surprise!).

But, yeah, a very nice idea.
if not in your Debian path:

apt-get install tofrodos
Its only meant to be kinda close to wired equivalence - if someone really wants to snoop, there are ways to do it with wired as well (even without physically breaking in to the cable).

So yes, you security has to come from other layers (VPN, SSL for web etc).
I'm not really much of a Python user these days, but yeah, of the two, I'd have to say that the Java site has been completely coopted by the folks from marketing, whereas the Python site is clearly a 'community run' operation. Yes, it's not as good looking, but who cares?!
This could actually be a boon to employees at Google as this may mean they have to start raising salaries.

The same thing happened at Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and Adobe as they transitioned from growth companies to mature companies. Once they couldn't necessarily count on their rising stock price to act as part of their employee's compensation they started to raise salaries to help make up the difference.
Back when phones with monochrome displays were common, I did indeed see adverts for pornographic wallpapers, which, as far as I know, were submitted via specially encoded SMS. These days I'm guessing they use MMS.
Well, Europe recently lost its Twitter SMS service. I'm guessing they'll move to a premium plan.
Islamic finance rides the storm