skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what kind of ads does google show to someone who it knows nothing about? Do all those ads I see for "work from home for $5k/month", "get ripped" and [screenshot of a social networking thumbnail of random girl] say more about me or everybody else?
Listened to the beginning few minutes of the first, and went straight to downloading. Thanks for the links.
So... Skype launched their official SIP service years ago. It is called Skype Connect. They wouldn't provide a gateway because that would cannibalize their low cost SIP trunking service. See http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/
Thanks for writing this up. Read the whole thing, took it to heart. Right now I'm making the leap to web developer in a year, without prior experience.

Was wondering what milestone achievements I should hit in Linux, given my goals? Goal details here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3552656
I'm sure there are fines, but how would they even know with this level of disorganization? Do you know how much un-permitted construction happens in SF?
I do value my own time, and I'll say it again – post setup, I really spend no appreciable time keeping my mail server running. My VPS provider handles all hardware issues (with zero downtime in the last two years), backups consist of a nightly cron job and require no manual intervention, and the last time I touched my Postfix configuration was over a year ago.

"Rolling my own filtering" consists of placing a single mailbox_command line in the Postfix configuration file, it hardly qualifies as a time sink. Writing mail filters for procmail takes no more time than doing so in Gmail, the difference is that the former lets you write much more expressive and fine-grained rules.

And yes, SpamAssassin does have a built-in learning Bayesian classifier. Which I previously used to learn from anything that I manually classified as spam, but these days I don't even get any spam to invoke it on. See sa-learn(1) for details.
That love manifests in your treatment. Having moved to the west at a young age from Eastern Europe, the contrast in attitudes has often struck me.

Over there you appreciate the level of sacrifice your parents made to make your existence possible, everything they give you is a gift. Over here it almost seems like the child automatically deserves the world from their parents for the great injustice of having been born.

Now I'm not saying parents west and east are different in wanting to give their child the very best they can. It's the attitude of entitlement towards what is given that differs and I still struggle to grasp the western perspective.

Apologies up front since I don't think I was able to capture my thoughts on this topic with a great deal of eloquence here.
I don't have a time to test the product now, but please hire a designer.
Waaah, waaaah! Are these self-entitled vermin seriously trying to claim poor house?

It's not anyone else's fault you choose to live amidst a hyperinflated housing bubble, so quit bitching that it's so expensive. The rest of us don't whine about not being able to afford Manhattan penthouses.

This type of sob story only reinforces the external prejudice that the Valley is a phenomenally insular echo chamber, wholly disconnected from all semblance of national or global reality.

(Yes, I'm a coder, not a business guy.)
What happens when Google suspends your account and you loose all your email, docs, etc? Your online identity (you no longer have your main email address) gone?
There's a lot of great insight in there, but he's talking about senior executives, not technical contributors. From the article:

if you manage a junior employee and they ask you about their career development, you can say what comes naturally and generally get away with it. As we saw above, things change when you deal with highly ambitious, seasoned professionals.

I've worked with Ben and I know that if a highly-valued technical contributor turned in a resignation he would make a counter-offer to keep them.
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"Then somebody somewhere fucked it all up"

This somebody was the Baby Boomers, which sounds like your generation. Not only will BBs be one of the very few generations to leave this place worse off than they found it, but BBs have also screwed up parenting to the point where we now have to have a "radical" parenting movement ("Free Range Kids") that desperately tries to restore some some sanity.

I grew up in Eastern Europe during communist times, which was very old-school and worlds apart from today's parenting, but still managed to provide me with a great childhood. If I want to bring up my kids in the same way (lots of independent, unsupervised play from very early on, real responsibilities), then I'd be viewed as some kind of pariah and my neighbours will probably call child services.
>so, there's a huge world of SIP telephony, and another huge world of Skype users. And they don't talk to each other.

They do talk to each other, users pay for the privilege.

Think of it as a win/win for skype/sip providers. Just not a win for the users.
Aside from being a great RFC, it serves to note that 1 April RFC submissions to the IETF are due by 18 March!
Fastmail is a great service for a modest price. Definitely worth it unless you want (or need) to spring for MS Hosted Exchange in which case I'd Rackspace.
It was killed shortly after MS bought Skype, but it wasn't MS that killed it.

A year+ before, Asterisk users received an email saying that the contract would not be renewed.
"Not only will BBs be one of the very few generations to leave this place worse off than they found it"

You mean as opposed to fighting world wars and stuff like that?
Your conclusion is right but your argument appears to be lacking.

> You integrate this over the path that your center of mass takes, which is going to change linearly with your scale k (d).

But if that's how you define d, then it is the height h! Here you are assuming that d scales linearly with k. Later you are saying that h is invariant with respect to k. Which is it?

Jumping is impulsive, not sustained, so your force times distance formulation doesn't seem appropriate.

Thompson has a nice analysis in his classic treatise On Growth and Form, which is all about dimensional analysis applied to biology. Here is the relevant excerpt:

http://books.google.com/books?id=8FrORfyp7bsC&pg=PA36#v=...
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Neggers can neg me if you want. But the truth is the world is getting browner, yellower and more female.

If you can't deal with this because you're a grumpy old white man, I suggest that instead of writing little passive-aggressive blog articles, you should really go fsck yourself.
this service does not allow to call a skype user from a SIP trunk. What they offer is just a regular SIP-to-PSTN service, plus a way for skype users to call into your SIP trunk.

I am paying Skype for PSTN calls already. I wouldn't also mind paying them for SIP-to-Skype and Skype-to-SIP (with any public SIP destination) calls if there were such service.
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Stop dreaming and start working.

Meet more people who do interesting work instead of just reading about them.

Quit the job as soon as it becomes content free. Start up asap. Take more risks.

Write code. Talk to users. Build something people want.

Stop being afraid of bureaucracies, even the biggest ones.

Sadly I think I was told all of these things, other than the last one, by someone or the other. Usually not in person, but via an article I read. See point about meeting more people.
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there's plenty of ways to assign a numeric alias to a SIP name. For example, I run a virtual PBX with my internal numbering plan. I could assign internal numbers to skype names, for example.
In cases like this, I prefer to equate Stallman's idea of freedom to Illich's idea of conviviality--a convivial empowers the user, and gives her the ability to mold it and use it as she sees fit. If you just distribute only a binary, you aren't distributing a convivial tool. When we lose control of the tools we use, ultimately we lose some of our freedom.
Definitely. Companies that think that the ".NET" part is more important than the "programming" part are going to be clueless about other things as well.
People will be too stubborn to play this game. Or maybe my friends need to get off Facebook every now and then.
see my other comment below. I know about SkypeConnect, and it's only usable for particular types of businesses.

the win/win for sype/sip providers is only when the calls go through PSTN beween them.
There's an online service called Blue Jeans Network that lets you have a conference call with Skype, H.323, Google Talk, and Microsoft Lync participants.

http://bluejeans.com/
This is very similar to the way we're raising our daughter (9). She gets herself up and dressed in the morning and off to the buss top (too far to walk to school). We do things together, but it's not our job to entertain her. She finds her own entertainment, and often that means playing with other kids in the neighborhood - fine, so long as she's home by dinner. She knows if she's late she misses dinner and if that she misbehaves at someone's house, then that privileged of being able to come and go with the other kids in the neighborhood is gone.

She has daily and weekly chores that she's expected to do. She doesn't get an allowance for that - it's just a normal part of contributing to the family duties, and if she wants something, she does extra chores to earn the money.

She's a great kid, never have had a behavior problem out of her. I think part of the reason for that is in addition to just giving her a whole bunch of love, we also respect her and hold her to a standard that we know she's capable of.

That's very much how I was raised, and I have a great relationship with my dad and a lot of respect for him. I hope this leads to a similar relationship with her, and so far it seems to be.

It's working out. She does stupid kid things from time to time, like all kids do, but she's learning to think for herself and make good decisions, too.

Proud of my kid.

Last summer, though, I got a call from a neighbor down the street telling me that my daughter wasn't allowed to come down there and play with her kid anymore, unless I walked her down there, because it was too dangerous for my then 8 year old child to be walking down there by herself... Mind you, you can see their house from our front yard. I feel really badly for the little girl who lives in that house. She's 8 now, not allowed out of the yard, and has no other friends in the neighborhood.
yes, and I'll never run it on my voip server :)
I didn't understand your point.

If you are jewish it is straightforward to move to Israel, but it is a lot more complex to move to US legally. So, Israel received a lot of people from the diaspora giving them instantaneous citizenship plus economic incentives to move.
as I mentioned in above comment, I already pay for skype-to-PSTN calls, and I wouldn't mind paying for SIP<=>Skype calls as well
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Ask HN: PHP + mySQL framework for prototypes?
I'm a fairly novice programmer with basic PHP + mySQL, it works for me, but I'd like to get into using a framework to speed-up development of prototypes.

Possibly one that uses basic MVC, and has a mySQL class.

There's this: http://toroweb.org/

Any other recommendations?
It's unconscionable that _you_ pay 100$/person for cell service.

I pay for my and my SO's cell service. The combined bill is 55$/mo. That includes unlimited calls, unlimited txts, and for the time being 20k/s data bandwidth. Note that I did not pay extra for the data.

And yes, I'm within the US, using a division of T-Mo.
I'm actually talking about officially supported ways of communicating, not hacking
These are two different kinds of moats. Yes, Facebook has very strong network effects that create an advantage. However, it's a mistake to underestimate the strength of Dropbox's engineering complexity and strong product design. It wouldn't be simple for anyone - including Google or Microsoft - to just clone what Dropbox has done. Apple, Google, or Microsoft would have to decide that they were comfortable treating platforms other than their own as first-class citizens, and be able to defend the incredible emphasis on simplicity all the way through the product's lifecycle. Facebook would have to dedicate themselves to QA and quality-rather-than-velocity in a way they've shown they don't like doing. Anyone else, well, like I said: good luck.
>could be a response to a larger underlying prevalence in alcohol abuse

You have an interesting theory, I'll hands down give you that, its a compelling perspective and I've never heard our nation's alcohol relationship in those terms, but that having been said, I feel like our nation is one that historically has overestimated our problems with alcohol. It may be a response to prevalence, I'm not going to take that away, but there is also the factor that we perceive the same prevalence differently.

I grew up near the Vermont/Canada border, the first time I went up there to drink I was 14 and we were raging it hard in some Quebecois' basement. I went upstairs to take a leak and almost shit a brick because unbeknownst to me, their parents were chilling upstairs watching TV and were fine with the fact we were getting wasted and hooking up in the basement. One of the girls that had gone up to cananda with me was puking her guts out in the basement bathroom and refusing to speak anything but broken French and they were completely fine with this. All the Quebecois' parents knew they were off getting trashed and were fine with it too, hell the mother of the family me and pukey mcgee were staying with us bought us our booze. A few years later I had a handful of friends at my place in the states and we had a few shots in the attic over newyears. My parents found and were pissed, my, and everyone that was there's, parents yelled at us quite a bit.

So we might have more abuse here, but we certainly define abuse differently.
yes there are some services like this. I tried Comfytel about a month ago:
http://txlab.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/comfytel-com-one-more-...

the problem was, about 30% of calls didn't reach my skype client. I guess Comfytel uses one of those dirty hacks. Probably bluejeans too.
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You don't need to know that ls lives in coreutils; dpkg -S /bin/ls tells you that, although it is true that you have to learn a little bit about how dpkg and apt work to get to that point. You do need to know what package ls lives in to figure out which tarball to download from Apple's web site.
Offensive like an offensive smell, not like an offensive remark.
Not sure why you're surprised after including a baity and condescending title.
Because the word hacker isn't a badge of honor.
I don't think so. They have an easy to use client, and a huge user base. I guess they will also add ipv6 support as soon there's enough ipv6 adoption on the residential market.

I also don't have ipv6 at home from my cable provider, and they don't even tell when I can expect it.
GCC is the most significant piece. So your point is that nearly all modern software is built on top of GNU, but some only use a small portion of the GNU stuff. I think you agree with my original point ;)
I have almost 2.5 GB's and also have zero problems with GMail's default search. Comes back in less than a second.
Exactly. Alcohol is for helping me forget the stupid things I'm going to do. Why anyone would want to remember them in vivid detail is beyond me.
Er, BBs are after WW2. Vietnam and Iraq were not WWs. And yeah, those people, my parent's generation sure did screw it all up.
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as the OP, I actually meant the exact opposite. "Just build something awesome" is a horrible directive. It should be "Just build something awesome that people will actually pay for with more than time and tweets."
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I prefer a mobile data plan that’s throttled after a certain bandwidth use to paying overage fees. What I don’t like is marketing that as “unlimited”. (I think all carriers in Germany only have plans like that. Some market them as unlimited, some don’t.)

For example: I pay 13.50€ per month for 1.5GB of data (for my iPad). After those 1.5GB my speed is throttled, I do not ever have to pay more, though. I like that. I want it to be like that.

The only thing I don’t like is that I can’t yet buy additional bandwidth at full speed from my carrier. (One carrier recently started doing that. 5€ for every additional GB. But it’s not automatic, you have to manually initiate that. I would prefer that massively to overage fees.)
The author claims "Lion breaks the web". This is false, and the majority of people commenting seem to simply ignore that the problem he sees is caused by third party browsers that attempt to copy a feature in the included browser, but fail to implement the usability/UX part correctly, thus causing the issue.

How is highlighting that "froth"?
Sorry I didn't see this earlier. We are actually working on making HIPAA compliance easy in the cloud by providing a platform where developers can easily encrypt/track/audit their data and establish compliance to auditors. We plan to do this using a custom-built stack + a centralized management console. Do you have any feedback on something like this, or would it be okay if I could contact you offline? My email is in my profile. Thanks
To me it's the people in the US who are the responsible ones. I moved here a while ago from Australia. Being blind drunk in Australia is for the most part acceptable at every level of society. Here in the USA, I'm sure it's acceptable somewhere but my experience so far is that it's viewed more like you're a fool who just never learned how to pace yourself.
aridiculous, you're right that devs/tech people hold a lot of cards in the modern economy… they can do all you said and more. But they almost never do. Holding the cards is worthless when you don't know you're playing a game, much less that you have a winning hand already.

That's why most "startup guys and girls" work and scrimp and suffer and sleep under their desks for a minority share in nothing, while VCs (the business types) laugh all the way to the bank.

Because taking outside capital is like forking over your hand of cards AND promising to only play tiddlywinks in the future.

Whoever holds the money, holds the power. Unless the other party wakes up to realize that they don't need the money.

The fact is that for the past decade (and getting better all the time), it costs virtually nothing to start a profitable web-based business. Almost no one truly needs the money men at all. Tech types still think they do, though. They want the security & validation & ease of being handed a great big whack of cash. Which means they end up the person without power.

The amazing thing about developers, designers, teachers & writers is that we not only own the means of production, we carry them with us IN OUR HEADS. We walk around thinking we need to appease the factory owners so we can get to work, but we don't.
That's what I meant, the previous poster claimed that BBs screwed stuff up as opposed to previous generations - but previous generations did stuff like fight world wars and drop atomic bombs around.

What exactly did the BBs screw up. Do you want the good old values of early 20th century back? Women belong into the kitchen? No sex before marriage? And what not...
Massive one in the UK too: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253068/Massive-22bi...
Does it work with incompressible fluids? Can someone test one with water?
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toro actually looks pretty clean - if you have to use php I'd say go for it. also - check out red bean for rapid orm style db development. BUT I'd also advocate checking out python, ruby, clojure, node js if you aren't already bound to PHP...
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And funding and startups become about the glory, the dream, and not the actual results (e.g. breathing good, solid life into a dream… and making good money).

You might enjoy my essay since we're obviously in agreement: http://unicornfree.com/2011/fuck-glory-startups-are-one-long...
French here. Indeed the view of the articles seems idealistic, but it rings true in lots of aspects.
If you are interested in learning more about the cultural differences especially around children education, there is a great book written by a French psychoanalyst, now living in the US called l'Autre rive. You can download it for free in French or English on his website http://www.pbaudry.com/
I read it a few years ago before moving to New York, and from my experience, most of it is true. I found it interesting to put words on things we don't necessary noticed and try to find the reasons behind them.
In this interview with NPR's Planet Money, Marco tells the story of how he started Instapaper as a site for personal use and then turned it into a side-business. Eventually it grew to the point where he could make a living off it. He discusses the economics of Apple's App Store vs. ad-supported web sites and his experiences with choosing the optimal price for his app. It's a very interesting interview. (18 minutes long)
Not necessarily.

There needs to be real innovation on business model, but there are local services from 2000 era that are BETTER suited to today than then.

Kozmo.com is my prime example.

There is need for a local delivery site where you can find affordable delivery of anything in your area. They need to employ all the bike messengers and others, adopt the task rabbit scale of service and branch out to delivery, errands etc.. on an affordable scale.

I flew to NYC with one of the founders of Kosmo back then and expressed how much I loved the service and wished I could use maps (something like google maps which didnt exist) to be able to view various stuff near me; "Show me all indian restaurants within 1 mile" etc..

He didnt think that there was any value in such granular searching.

Anyway - I still want these services, but I think this nation needs a rude awakening on how much shit should cost.
I chose Sprint as my smartphone carrier after seeing a TV ad talking about how they don't throttle their data at all.

I have the unlimited data plan for my mobile device, and am quite happy with it.
I also purchased from Sprint a netbook with an embedded WiMax (4G cellular) internet connection, and unfortunately, there's no unlimited data plan available for it. I have to settle for a 12GB/mo. plan for about the same price as my Blackberry's plan. It's now the first month I've had my netbook, and after bringing all my offsite files in locally, I'm stuck using public WiFi for the rest of the month since I already used up my 12GB, + $250 for an additional 4GB.

The only problem I've had with Sprint so far is that the netbook's WiFi didn't work out of the box, and I couldn't use it to do my big offsite backup's download. I eventually got the corrupted apps reinstalled & afterward contacted Sprint support to try to get a credit on my overage charge, but they would only credit a third of it citing that I should have waited until it was resolved before finishing my big download project.
Which website will crash superbowl sunday?
Well, for one, putting both your businesses at risk for the sake of a door is a bit of a deep play. A former landlord of mine is just now getting busted for putting in an illegal apartment seven years ago. I personally wouldn't want something like that hanging over my head. What if I want to do more construction in the future?