skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth pointing out that this problem is also present in Europe. We don't pay for incoming SMS's (thank god for that), but the telcos have an effective monopoly which they use and abuse to make sure no one can come up with any effective and profitable phone-based service (beyond those spam sites selling ring tones).

For example, they offer a way to charge customers via "Premium SMS", but the margins that they take on those are insanely high. See http://www.txtlocal.co.uk/prices/ for example... If you want to charge your customer 25p, you will only get about 7p of that. Makes Apple's 30% cut look almost free.

Telcos are, worldwide, abusive monopolies. Given that communications are so important to our society, I can't wait to see the back of them, and the beginning of a new era in communication innovation.
Not me it doesn't. And I found out all about Sequoia Capital by simply typing 'us'. As in USA...the country comes up to the left of the search results to tell you what domain you're searching in.

Incidentally, since SC doesn't have a 'Europe' division, I nominate myself to create it. Well, you never know.

I disagree with your view about the design; it may break all kinds of rules, but I found it eminently usable and intuitive. The only thing I'd add is a history queue, so you can see where you came from rather than going outside the interface to hit your browser's 'back' button. Overall I found it a lot faster to navigate than most sites, including the older one. I approve of this minimalist trend.
Please tell me you are not serious.
Design quality is pathetic !!! Although, I guess lot of hard-work must have gone in this, the end-result shows an amateurish attempt to try-and-do-something new. It takes a good 15/20 minutes to understand why I need a uzvy. Instant Gratification should be the key word while designing and developing sites like these. Plus, who has time to 'figure' out websites like Uvzy when I can get my needed service or information done seamlessly from other networking sites ?!!

I still wonder why the Uzvy team thinks its cool to write -
"initial impression of our UI throws a lot of users off and is intimidating, but after about 10 minutes of using Uzvy many users "click" with it..."

When they should be treating this as a PROBLEM AREA !!!
Am I the only person who clicked on the little menu at the bottom?
Everything your parents told you was a lie. Well, not really - raising children is fundamentally different than raising adults.

Only adults can raise themselves.

Do the drugs. Have underage sex. Steal a car. Get into a fistfight.

After this, you will realize that life is not prescriptive/deterministic.
I found the last part amusing. Andy's idea for fast data connections is that their speed should double every year. That brings him to a 100Mb in 2017.

Here in Europe ADSL is already 20 Mb for most connections and cable is offering up to 120 MB now. This is now, in 2009. I expect 100 Mbit connections to be the norm in 3 years here in western Europe.

Is the difference in network speed between the eurozone and the States that big? Hearing Andy it seems so, and that difference is to stay.
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I'll downmod 99.999% of all posts that contain 'ROFLOL'. Not trying to be an ass, but we can do better. ;-)
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No comment on the site itself, but this has to be the worst name for a startup I've seen this year. It's completely un-pronounceable, un-spellable, and un-rememberable.

I actually opened a new browser window, and attempted to type in your domain name immediately after reading it, and I still got it wrong.

Find a new name today.
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Nice to see someone getting emotional outside of us.

We didn't think it was cool (actually mostly uncool) but were just relaying our observation to date. At this point, everything is up for potential change and thus a problem area to be honest until we get lots of users and activity so do share any thoughts, etc. on all aspects of the service. Thanks again!
Have you ever found being Au-based a limitation on your online efforts?
I would call it a surplus of skills, but a surplus of paper. The problem is that the paper you get at the end of your higher education isn't worth that much anymore. Experience is still worth something, though. So an employer is better of to take the experience indicator, since the education indicator isn't that useful anymore.

The problem isn't that there are a few hundred-qualified applicants. The problem is that an employer has no tool to filter those applicants, so the applicants can't do anything to be more qualified than the others and the process becomes quite random. My thesis is that given a good graduation result the next best thing is to learn socials skills and tricks in the interview process. In the end HR makes a gut decision.
I wonder why services like Moneybookers are not popular. It doesn't charge a fee, it's available World wide and very simple to use.
I must admit I would never have guessed that that kind of thing would be worthwhile to implement. Kudos and good luck to DailyBooth.
> It's been the "meme" in far more than HN headlines for years, though.

That is true.

But I'd hope for HN to be populated by people that have a larger part of their brain switched on than the 'lizards' portion of it and a glut in this type of titles in the last week or so is what prompted my post.
OT:

The text formatting and layout of that page is just gorgeous.
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This problem could be avoided by designing the machines to be as visually simple as possible. Remove all unnecessary features and homogenize what remains. This would have the incidental perk of making them look much better.

If this isn't enough, a photo of the machine could be shown on the screen and the user asked to verify that the real thing looks identical.
Introduction to Yoga
An interesting read by an interesting engineer. Bookmark his site and devour at your own pace.

Highly recommended.

First, multiple baristas may be processing orders using different equipment. Blended drinks may take longer than a drip coffee.

Client side caching and processing is also at play. The cashiers usually fill the drip coffee themselves.
high quality doc is almost as rare as it is valuable. A noble task, kudos and may you not loose your steam!
"But we’ve got this great idea for putting things out"

Radiohead invented BitTorrent? ;-)
He will say "Thanks for that" to his parents when he will be "thirty-something".
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Looked decent. Although a little confusing, I think once you get used to it, one should be able to make most use of the website. UI probably could change. I somehow liked the name. Short and simple. Although not sure what it means. Atleast this website if far different than most of the other grouping website.
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It will show you easy steps to make a wedding label and then use the label to pull off your theme. Add a touch of class to the wedding and really pull out all the stops with this easy to do technique for making a wedding label.
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sigh. It's "mediæval", people. How can you expect anyone to agree with your analogy if you can't even get that right?!
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I apologize for not responding sooner. This is after all a discussion, and not a forum for simply venting.

As for logicians as philosophers, perhaps I am in the minority when I disassociate them soley based on their results. Maybe that is perhaps defining the problem set based on the solution. But in general logicians follow the rigor of mathematics, and as a result their accomplishments are timeless. But when they are older often simply abandon the rigor for treatises on the "meaning" of the Incompleteness theorem or the futility of logic.

As a young man, Russell classified himself as a mathematician. And to paraphrase hi, he became a philosopher when he slowed down, and then a politician when we slowed down even more.

Perhaps the split on mind/brain understanding is again the birth of the science of psychology. Kuhn's work is obviously sociological in nature, yet it is untested. In the regard, perhaps philosophy has a place as a proto-science. It is were ideas gestate before rigor.

But you ask, "So what?" My answer is that these discussions and time spent are not much more than entertainment for those engaged; but they are portrayed as the most noble art and purest pursuit of man. The general populace scoffs when an actor demands respect for ill-conceived political views or an artist is uncovered as a faux-intellectual. In my opinion it is the same when the the twenty year old with tweed jacket and goatee settles down with Nietzsche in the university commons. That's a past time activity; which is fine. We all enjoy a football game, a movie, or a stimulating books. But when we partake of them we know what we are doing. We aren't lying ourselves and others that we are going to make the world a better place by watching the telly tonight.
I bet you will find your bounce rate considerably high. For me, if I can't find out the purpose of the website in the first 30 seconds, I am gone. I must admit I am not the most patient person I know, though I don't consider myself to be the most impatient person - somewhere around average.

My main concern would be the fact I don't see any viable uses?
Don't just howl with rage. Try an idea that does away with banks altogether.
No, Moneybookers is popular globally as well and it's cheaper plus more reliable and secure.
Me too, graduated with a degree in the hard sciences, 1974. (They're called that for a reason.)

Then I worked as a fry cook, then a dishwasher, then a radio station librarian, then a DJ, then a lumberjack, then a carpenter. THEN I got a real job.

Don't misunderstand: kids graduating right now landed in the shit. You're right: the greedy bastards have worked us over good. But guess what kid: we're all in it, and it's always been that way.

Heard of anyone who worked all their life to build up a 500K retirement and just lost 60% of it? Two decades ago I listened to a guy tell me that he paid into a pension for 30 years, and when his company went down, it was ALL GONE.

Rodney Dangerfield: "It's a jungle out there." Bank on it.
Relationship brokerage and "finding who in that organization I need to cold call".

I spend about 3 hours a day chasing up someone in a massive hierarchy and when I find them, it's usually the wrong person and I need to backtrack and restart the search from another point up the department tree.

I would pay $100 for every successful match, and up to 5% of the project fees if and when I get a contract based on this lead. We need people outside of the startup scene, people in boring industries who know other people.

I have become an alcoholic taking people out for drinks every night just to find out they don't exactly know who I thought they did know. Launch a startup that allows company employees to snitch on their bosses and sell future project plans, acquisitions and RFPs for $$$. If I can get a 48 hour head start and discover the plans before anyone, I will make it up to you BIG TIME, secretly and privately.

It's about time social networking got a little shady ;-)
I saw a great writeup explaining how it is cheaper to send an equivalent amount of data to one of the Voyager spacecrafts, than it is to send it by SMS.
I've been using GWTCanvas which comes with the gwt-incubator library and it works really well. I've seen it work on Chrome, IE7, FF, the Android browser, and the IPhone browser. I haven't played much with text, but arbitrary shapes and transparency works great.
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You struck out too.

A better reply might have been:

"No, I think they're onto something. I feel it in my bones. They should grow this thing and worry about a business model later."
I came searching for lulz. I found none. :( http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/search?q=lulz
capitalization is obsolete: http://jmtame.posterous.com/capitalization-is-obsolete
We can observe this as a natural experiment: what are the rates of street crime in Japan vs. the US?
The output would be a pulse train though, not a discrete value.

You could average that out with a capacitor (which would introduce some latency), then sample the input of the capacitor and output the resulting number. The problem with that approach is that you'll end up with less significance than you'll need for most applications (getting a 10 bit a/d to work reliably is pretty tricky, more bits is voodoo).

By the time you follow all this to its logical conclusion I think you'd end up with operational amplifiers.

Analogue computers exist, and even existed before digital ones in a certain fashion.

They are much more tricky to build and are not as universal as digital computers.
Bankers and government officials work together on this so don't really expect each other to bite the hand that feeds them.
I think the current popularity of MMA has to do with two things:

1 - the broadcast of competitions like the UFC

2 - the recognition that no one martial art is superior to the rest, so it's essential to cross-train in a variety of martial arts to be maximally effective
I think 1k is too high. > 100 would probably be enough to get rid of trolls. It's not hard to get to that point, but you have to put in legitimate effort to do so.
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It's an opinion piece in the opinion section. That means it's likely not hard facts (otherwise it'd be in the news sections). It's a fairly emotional piece in an outlet where this likely hasn't been seen before. Even though we have heard the arguments hundreds of times over...
For the several millions of people Internet = Facebook. For tens of millions - Internet = Google.

What browsers you're talking about?
How many startups are frantically typing random 4 and five letter combinations into a domain name search box trying to come up with a name for their company? Without wishing to sound critical, that's exactly how this name looks, but I understand the problem.

Sometimes it works, but this one doesn't really. it's hard to pronounce, spell from memory and to even remember. I just looked on godaddy, and you can buy plenty of 4 and 5 letter domains, some of which are pretty cool for under $1000.

Your domain name is essentially your brand, no amount of cool features and nifty programming are get you around people not engaging with your brand. It's worth the investment to get something that works.

One other little thing is this - the red and yellow logo you have bottom right. I thought this was a Mac D logo at first glance and that immediately put me off, they own that colour combination and even without looking properly at the image, their brand is what's in my head. That's the power of branding for you. Obviously this is just a glance, but that's often all a visitor will give your site.
Ah crap, I struck out too? At least I got the joke :)
It was definitely up and running before he applied to YC.

Since then he's also launched a music startup, but I'm guessing that's not part of YC. (Can't remember the URL, though.)
The title of the article is completely misleading and is full of factual errors. Really, WSJ? Was this piece just written for traffic?
Not bad if you can get approved.
In software, you can write code, why bother writing theses?

Write some useful code, open-source it, promote it with talks on conferences.

Noone wants your "research".
I had to read that title 5 times to parse it. Don't capitalize verbs :-)
Auto-Play is the devil.
That makes for a change. In the UK Adobe CS3 sells for £1000 more than the US. It's possible to fly to New York from London for £230-280.
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The good news is that improvements to any one of these can make a powerful impact on your business and therefore your income.
Maybe for the radio part of it, but between cell tower and service center (and vice versa), SMS goes over the signaling links - which are also used for call setup, notifications, WAP push, and routing queries.

Theres nothing free about them, theres no such a thing as free in the telco world - everything costs someone something, though I agree, SMS is extremely cheap for the carrier - definitely NOT worth paying 20 cent for. Carriers love SMS for that exact reason.

Having said that, SMS can also cause the carrier a world of pain... I obviously can't provide any details, but one specific network had a problem where two thirds of all signaling traffic was caused by some virus which a large percentage of their customers' phones were infected with. This was costing them many thousands a day! Thankfully, we were able to block these messages at an early stage in the transaction and reduce network traffic by a substantial amount and over the air traffic by about half.
I think he was referencing average household speeds, and he didn't implicitly state those ARE the speeds.

To homes, five megabits today should be 10 megabits in 2011

He also said that those speeds are possible now, but restricted by the carriers.

These data-connection speeds are technically doable today, with obsolete voice and video policy holding it back.
A Flowchart for “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
I'm not a charting guy, but flow charts sure are versatile.
There are 3 account types on Paypal: Personal, Premier, and Business. A natural person will usually have Personal or Premier. Personal accounts cannot receive payments funded by credit cards. This restriction tends to force non-consumer use of Paypal into a Premier account. In particular, eBay sellers must use Premier accounts.

Of note: previously, Personal accounts did not charge money for receiving payments. Almost no one uses Personal accounts to receive payments, because they cannot take payments by credit cards, cannot be used on eBay, and cannot be used with APIs (last time I checked). Premier accounts have always charged money for receiving payments.

What changed: when you send a payment, you have to specify what the payment is for. There are a few options:

Payment for: Services, Goods, eBay Items
Personal payment: Gift, Payment Owed, Cash Advance, Living Expense, Other

Here's the change: if the sender codes a payment as one of the three "payment for" options, the recipient gets charged. This is unremarkable for 99.99% of people receiving payments on Paypal, because they've had premier accounts for years (to receive CC payments), but it inconveniences people who were using Paypal to receive payments funded from Paypal balances.

Note: You can still receive payments, for free, if they're both funded from a Paypal balance and coded as Gift, Payment Owed, etc.
Me too! I seriously thought that this was going to be a howto about some new Google API called Book Deal that had Lawyer and Author objects until I saw it was on nytimes.
Definitely a north-american thing, I have not seen it in any other part of the world.
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Samsung F200 Red featuring different features and very good look. If you are looking for change of your phone then the F200 must be your next target because of its features and terrific look. The phone is measuring such suitable dimension of 89.5mm x 32.6mm x 19.8mm (3.52″” x 1.28″” x 0.78″”) pixel resolution.
This matches project. See http://www.disnetwork.info. I have the technical solution and nearly finished implementing it. I'm currently working on the protocol documentation, which means in depth review of it. Some key information to described the system are not published on the web site. It is just the outline and some detailed discussion of some aspects of it.

Development is unfortunately slow because I'm bootstrapping. Who would invest in a project equivalent to inventing the web ? If you know anyone, please let me know.

Note that this technology can't be owned and should become an open standard. But this is not incompatible with earning money from it. So I have a business model, but it is hard to predict if it can succeed.
I don't think so. How much would a private sample-return mission cost (I assume you mean unmanned)? A billion at least?

You'd need a million seeds sold at $1000 each, or a thousand seeds sold at a million. I don't think you can command that kind of price at that level of supply either way.
Really not a good comparison. a) the culture is so much different - a lot of acting for the good of the group rather than the individual, and b) there really aren't _that_ many people who study martial arts.
So, let me get this straight.

You give your money to Zopa. Zopa divides it up into chunks and combines it with money from other 'lenders' and gives it to borrowers (which it has performed credit checks on). The borrower pays a fee, a part of which is given back to the lender. Also, if someone defaults Zopa goes after them.

How is this not a bank?
Macs are similarly much more expensive in the UK. Perhaps the difference is the UK has a greater percentage of the population involved in the creative industries (particularly ad agencies and visual effects companies) than the US?
Creative way to illustrate the song.

OK, it is just a bit of fun and maybe not very HN-like, but I can imagine it did take quite a bit of thought to make and it is a powerful representation.

If only every business/technical illustration I saw at work was as clear and concise as this was...
When I did a coaching program for Judo (NCCP Level I, to be exact), I was taught to never allow pre-pubescent children to do strength training. Callisthenics are okay, because the resistence is limited by the child's body weight, but weightlifting of any kind is not. Something about building up too much muscle around the joints, leading to arthritis later on.

EDIT: I just went looking for sources for this, and I cannot find any. Unless someone has better Google-fu than me, take what I said above as an extremely suspect anecdote. It seems that the major risks are that coaches will push children too hard, causing damage to muscles, tendons and so on.
If they just have an extra "channel" in the eye in addition to the standard three, a RGB image would look the same to a tetrachromate as it looks to us. However, the rest of the world would look much more nuanced and colorful to them, hence the RGB image will look flat and colorless, like say an image where the red channel has been removed looks colorless to us.

It's basically impossible for us to comprehend how rich and colorful the world looks to e.g. birds which has tetrachromatic eyes.
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I do like the name, but agree that the design could be a little better.
This is an article which uses the popular 'hate the bankers' line to try and show something new.

I don't think the bankers with the big bonuses are going to get worried anytime soon. Banking is not really about personal loans and microfinance. If anything, banks do these things to keep customers coming in the door. The really big banks, the investment banks of the world, don't even do mortgages, because there's not enough scale. 50 million in loans isn't even the skin cells on the pimple on the bum of international banking. Until peer-to-peer finance can build a house, shopping centre or a bridge, I don't think those multi-million dollar bonuses are in any danger.

This is a bank, just with lower overheads and accordingly lower margins.
I like my bank. Good ol' CommBank