skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expect AT&T to make major public commitments to increasing the number of American jobs through this transaction.

The spin on this will be fascinating to see if it plays out as the a lot of jobs are expected to be eliminated as part of a merger.
I'm not sure I'd trust the site on that - it doesn't even know that Bell and Telus operate CDMA networks here in addition to their new GSM.
Interesting idea. Went to http://dress.me and saw a "Your site is ready, please replace this index file" message and was immediately let down. Thought this was a release announcement.
I suppose a cellphone might recognize a 7-digit number and prepend the phone's own area code. A landline can't do that, of course.
I'm 27 and I've only met one black programmer. That is rather strange.
Nice but why the restriction on keeping logs? Surely it can't be a disk space concern, text is nothing. If my team is going to use a chat app I want to be able to reference the logs at a later date.
Business analytics provider Profitably raises $1.1M
Mr. Arends makes a very strong argument. And really, if you need a shorthand way to understand this issue, all you need to know is that the Bush Administration stripped away the limits on one company's ownership of spectrum. Republicans talk a good game about the "free market", but it's internally inconsistent talk; you can't have a free market if the number of players in said market gets below a certain level. 4-5 is probably a pretty good guess at what that level is, and in the GSM market, we're now down to 1 player if this deal goes through. Since many customers are forced into choosing GSM for compatibility when they travel, that's an effective monopoly, just like Arends says.

I'm an AT&T customer. But I'm not optimistic about what this deal will mean. I know what it won't mean: cheaper and better service, as guaranteed by a healthy fear of competitors.
And we're hiring: http://profitably.com/jobs
I already use a service like this: my wife. Sometimes she brings clothes home, I try them on and she returns what I don't like. When I do feel like shopping, she makes it a very fast by bringing clothes in quantity back to the changing room. For going shopping my reward is that we always go to a Thai or Chinese restaurant for lunch afterwards.

I do go shopping voluntarily when we need to buy a nice dress for my wife before going on a cruise vacation, etc. She likes to get something that I like.

Way back when I was single, I bought some clothes pushed on me by sales clerks that later friends mentioned didn't look so great on me. For single men, I would advise waiting until you have a girlfriend with good taste - then stock up using her advice.

Dress.me might work, but it seems like it would be difficult to do using only questions on a web site.
It's all about access. YC can only fund the best applications it gets. Those often come from, I'm guessing, people whose creative sides have been nurtured while also getting some kind of constructive exposure to programming. Just like anything else, the socio-economically disadvantaged often don't get the access or education they need to wield or understand the power of programming. I do think that is changing, as evinced by the programs and organizations that have sprouted up to address the issue. But it's a slog.
They _need_ to make some version of that bird picture into a t-shirt.
I voted Python. I've used it with many frameworks (which one is the right one depends very much on what you're trying to do). Also some PHP in a very dark past. I like Python because it is so versatile, due to the large number of available packages and bindings you can pretty easily write your front-end, back-end, admin scripts, all in Python (even the client code if you use Pyamas, but haven't tried that myself yet).
Many programmers may be self-described geeks, but they must have been exposed to computers and programming at some point in their life. I think his point is that such an opportunity doesn't exist for most black youth.
I suppose that's more plausible in the US, with its large number of schools. In Canada, if it's a school I've never heard of, chances are I'd look it up just out of curiosity.
To paraphrase Erasmus: In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a super-hero.
We could, but I doubt it would work. I acquired interest in programming after I realised it was a powerful skill to have. I remain interested because every so often, I am amazed at the results it can produce. While I do not believe it is actually a superpower, I think it might be productive to market it as one - one that YOU, too, could possess. I don't think the majority of kids want to be modest and work quietly in the background, but I think most kids have fantasised about being superheroes. I mean, many adults still act out superhero roles by playing RPGs.
Sprint integrating Google Voice, outs Nexus S 4G with Android 2.3
So, let me get this straight, you wrote an app so that your sister-in-law could get set up as the rebound girl for the "perfect" guy?
OPA, which happens to be a "truly" web language (i.e. server & client).
A great under-explored market. Hurdle would be there needs to be some sort of feedback loop of how the piece actually fits ON the customer IRL.

- Every body type is different and every label has different sizes/cuts.

- how the outfit fits makes up 90% of an outfit looking great

- target market lacks the ability to judge fit for themselves

BTW, I'm not a fashion expert but I married one.

tldr: sartorially skillz are important
There's a startup that does 3D scans of shoes and allows users to determine the perfect fit by asking about shoes they already own (can't remember the name). IIRC, they plan on doing clothes, too. That would be the ideal.

I once tried comparing official clothing measurements from various vendors online and came to the conclusion that they were all lying. Short of 3D scanning or painstaking measurement by hand, there isn't an easy solution. It certainly seems like a problem ripe for the picking.
We might even release it, eventually :)
Only just saw this! I'll drop you a line now.
> Don't need specifically black role models but it would help.

That is exactly what the OP is asking for.

To tell about my experience, I did not grow up with "black programming" models. Even to date, I can't think of a single black man over 50 who is a programmer that I know personally or professionally.

I got into programming for the same reasons I assume many other HNers did: computer were readily available for my use, and I enjoyed the logic exercise. Once I found something I was good it, it was irrelevant if other people thought it was 'cool'.

Luckily though, I grew up black in a black nation so accusations of being 'white' was the furthest thing from most peoples minds. You weren't 'white', you were just 'uncool'. I think that's a significant difference because one is an attack on your identity, and the other merely on your social credentials.
If it's inspiration you seek:

http://mixergy.com/lawrence-watkins-great-black-speakers-int...

http://mixergy.com/ephren-taylor-interview/

Both are black founders - but there's so much more on Mixergy that you should check out. Andrew Warner is pretty awesome at that stuff.

I particularly liked Ephren's interview, I've been listening to Mixergy for a number of months now and he is still a stand-out for me.

EDIT I just remembered that Peter Gruber tells a great story about Magic Johnson pitching him on a chain of movie theaters.
http://mixergy.com/peter-guber-interview/
I'm thinking this is a highly political issue I'd rather not see Apple wade in on.

I value freedom of expression over any particular political party or political/religious belief (including this particular inanity). Do I think fake ass religiously oriented programs don't work should be published? No. Do I think it's apple's role to choose whether to publish them? No, I do not.

Objectionable content is about keeping the store safe for kids. Honestly, many parents would consider things around gay dating (http://www.grindr.com) objectionable. Definitely enough people do to qualify for "many people" to be an apt description. Should apple remove that app? Oh look, now that it's an app you agree with, you don't want them to censor it.

Freedom of Expression > Pretty much everything else.
Sorry, no, my intent was not at all to paint you as being racist. What I meant as "typically German" is that most Germans, even those who are not particularly racist themselves, have something of a blind-spot for noticing the depth of racism within German society.

And sure, there are families where race is a non-issue. I could list examples as well of where I've seen things go the other way, but that's side-stepping my point: surely you'd agree that in many, many families it would be an issue?
>I would advise waiting until you have a girlfriend with good taste - then stock up using her advice.

Maybe don't mention this plan on the first date though.
Now, just work on hording.
OK, cool. The shorter time is probably just because I only ever got as far as writing toy apps.
No. It's a duopoly in the making.

Sprint & Verizon are going to have to hook up next.
Hey - sorry that this happened. We'll look into it right away.
Do give it a try after a while!
I use a hybrid of the English language when communicating on the web :D
He's saying asking for censorship of an idea you do not agree with is not the right way to go.

Use other attitudes to attack the app. Honestly, attacking the app any other number of ways that DIDN'T get it press would have been much more effective. It would have disappeared into the void of a quarter million apps.
I worked on the Sprint side of this a bit, had the same question early on and the answer I got was that it didn't change minutes of usage calculations...so...nNo change to how numbers behave from a billing perspective. If you're calling a mobile number and have AMA, it goes in that bottomless bucket. If you're calling a landline, it uses Anytime minutes. Same story for shared lines-- no change to how minutes are used.
Carpentry is a Super Power. The point is not that we are superheros for knowing how to build, but rather that learning to build is so cool that its like having a super power, for what it enables you to build and do.
I know what you meant by naturally. I also think we could discuss this for ages and not come to an agreement. I don't subscribe to evolutionary pop psychology, we're simply not speaking the same language.
Sprint landing page - www.sprint.com/googlevoice
Great line, and still memorable after many years.

An interview is research. As is looking for a good picture, or finding obscure facts in various offline sources.
Rails has a lot of the same frameworkiness. If you're writing a big webapp, Ruby's a more appropriate language (Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("id")) isn't exactly beautiful), but Rails is just as much a framework as SEAM is, up to and including the sort of problem the author complains about. It's just a better one for many applications.
I think you're right, Matthew, but it needs to be more clearly stated, especially since this thing started with Python, PHP, Ruby and Other. That "Other" covers a lot of big players even if they aren't sexy.
This seems like a rip-off of threewords.me
here let me help you for your next idea
fiveideas.me
maybe some of your friends will give you better ideas through this site.
Yes, but the discussion right now is do blacks need black programming models in order to become interested in programming?

If merely access to computers and exposure to programming is necessary, then its obvious why we don't have too many black programmers today. In the 80s and previously, computers were expensive and it was unlikely that someone from a lower socioeconomic bracket would have easy access to them.
"Curing" Gay People? There's an App for That.
Nothing in OOP says that object state must be mutable. It's just as simple to have objects that always maintain their instance pointers and internal state separate from one another and use message passing for transforming that state. Such an architecture is completely capable of running on multiple cores without too much context switching or other synchronization overhead issues, especially if the object message queues are lock-free. However, one of the keys to such an architecture is making sure that there are no shared sub-allocators being used by the RTL for memory allocation.
I can't imagine Python without ctypes. That must have been terrible.
That's along the lines of what most programmers do, and each defeat is chipping away at inefficiency. You're doing your part in the greatest productivity revolution in history :)
For example, if we know that YCombinator funds double the proportion of the rest of the industry, that would be interesting and new.

Based on the other comments here, it seems as though the sample size would surely be too small to give us any meaningful amount of confidence in such statistics.
Errrr.... NO. The problem with goto is that it breaks the execution flow. Switch doesn't do that. A switch statement is much easier to understand than an army of if statements. Aside from personal conjectures, there isn't a single argument provided against a construct that is found in every modern programming language.
I find it helpful to see what other people are using so I can either guide myself towards what I should learn next or know that I'm on a track that's going to be supported for the foreseeable future.
Hi naada,
(I am the lead developer of this application)
Thanks for saying "wonderful idea". Too bad that you cannot yet say "wonderful execution"! I have too noted this error a few times. I hope to get back to you in a while, after resolving this error.
now if att would get on board...
Looks like it's built on Cappuccino:

http://cappuccino.org/

It's only recently become viable to use because of the performance improvements all the browsers have been making to their javascript engines. Last time I tried 280 slides it was painfully laggy (http://280slides.com/Editor/).

Not that I'm belittling the effort, it's pretty amazing work nonetheless.

But have a play with cappuccino if you want to see what's doable!
This picture describes your breakdown:
http://www.wikinvest.com/images/0/00/Att_history.jpg

(AT&T old and what has spawned out from there.)
I'm not saying anything about the topic. It's really the specific discussion, which at the time I wrote my post, was rather non-specific. Questions I would personally find interesting might include:

"I'm black and interested in applying to YCombinator. Does this matter?"

"13% of the population is black but 25% of the YCombinator founders are black. Why is that?"

"I'm black and pitching my company to VCs. I've noticed that they seem excited after they read my pitch but in person they barrage me with objections and then they don't return my emails. Is it my skin colour or do all founders face this?"

It just seems to me that if HN is going to discuss this, there should be something HN-ish about this and not simply a general, non-specific rehash of a jillion other discussions about the participation or lack of participation by blacks in tech. But you know, I'm just one guy, so who really cares what I think? I'm certainly not going to complain bitterly if the discussion leads to positive change.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/11/diversity.html
Thanks, that's a great idea -- sorry for the slow response (PyCon got in the way)

We already support a bunch of Python modules -- for open source ones it's just a case of using pip to install them on our server -- and we've always intended to allow people to upload their own. Making it easy for people to share extension modules they've written with other people (hmm, and maybe even to charge for use, app-style) would make this much more powerful.
I guess the issue there is that the service could get the stigma of not counting towards a degree requirement. Employers see some random Lorenz university and think that it could possibly be a decent university vs the online school which they know all about.

Given these guys are already enacting a check box degree requirement they probably would be irrational about something like this.

I'm glad that the programming field is in general a lot better about this, recognizing that the degree isn't the be all and end all of an applicants ability to do a job.
The ability to embed this into your own site is a big effin deal.
I would love to have a chat with you about your experience, if you don't mind that is?
In Chrome and IE its one or two clicks. I don't know why people tolerate Firefox's silly "ZOMG THIS SSL CERT MIGHT BE WRONG" 90-click UI. Joe Averge is still going to run through the clicks. Badgering the user with more prompts has been shown to not increase security and only frustrate power users.
We'll drop you a mail to understand more on why you couldn't find direct facebook connections.

And yes from monetization perspective - so far it does look like that business folks will be more willing to pay for such a tool.
Thanks for checking it out and sharing feedback!
You are right, I should be more precise with my terminology. By "regexp" I meant "regular expression". Regardless, neither term implies implementation as a DFA, however regular expressions, and the subset of regexps which are equivalent to them, can and should be compiled to an optimized DFA.
Libya, Nostradamus and the World War III..
Correlation could mean causation--perhaps you think the candidates are good as a result of their prepping.
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I am announcing the private beta of my first web app (http://getfounder.com). The beta will launch in just one city, which will be determined by the number of entries on the location-aware sign up page.

As this is my first public release, I'm looking to the HN community to offer me feedback on what I should/shouldn't be displaying on the homepage. I'd be grateful for any advice you had to offer.

Thanks, and I hope to see some of you in the private beta!

Colin
Whenever I mention libertarian principles on HN I get a mixed response, but this is one situation where we must demand individual rights. We need to elect politicians like Ron Paul who oppose big government intrusions into our privacy. This country is supposed to be a bastion of liberty and we go to war to "protect freedom" and "democracy" and yet we are less and less free every day. When we see articles about Chinese "human rights abuses" many are quick to condemn them and other countries perceived as less free than ourselves. Yet I have observed that the US has been headed in a very totalitarian direction for at least the past decade while China has been headed the opposite way, towards more and more freedom. Yes, the Chinese have filtered Internet today, but in the last century they've moved from Feudalism to Communism to a mixed economy. We have gone from having the most freedom in the world to having a Department of Homeland Security, TSA, NSA, Patriot Act, full-body X-Rays, and country-tapping.
The Three Categories of Cloud Computing: What's Your Flavor?
Clickable link:
http://getfounder.com
M&A Issues: Consideration
I know "guys who hate to shop" is the target mass-market, but maybe the beta can be pitched towards the niche of guys who either love shopping or at least love evoking a personal sense of style.

As one of the later, I have to say that actual shopping is a pain and if I didn't live in a little town replete with boutique attendants I probably wouldn't shop.
The Feynman Variations on BBC Radio 4 (now)
Wow. Just when I was thinking about looking for greener pastures, Sprint does something seemingly user-friendly for once.
> Much like Latin (now), it's simply a written language.

Really? Suppose a Moroccan and an Iraqi are talking. Suppose also that these are educated, literate people who understand MSA. Wouldn't they talk in MSA, or at least something halfway between their local dialects and MSA? (I'm assuming here that Iraqi and Moroccan Arabic are not entirely mutually understandable -- is this correct?)
Yes, that's what I thought. They were told "Sign up for our mailing list and get a free ebook" in the text. The header was "Ebook - [title]". And then a big email input box with a submit button. But after that, they still had to double-confirm their subscription by clicking on an email link sent by Mailchimp.
afaik all the consensus "good" Windows phones (HD7, Focus, Venue Pro) have touch buttons, though. They don't totally ruin the experience, but it's really annoying that they'd do something so dumb as to squander much of the advantage of having a hardware button to begin with. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Should I drop out?
I'm not that excited about this phone. Has the guts of the Galaxy S line that was announced over a year ago. The difference is that it has WiMax (nice) and NFC (with very few uses currently). Not worth a 2 year deal for a phone that will be 3 years outdated when the contract expires.
The problem is that there aren't enough IPv4 IP address for this. Each SSL cert requires an IP address. So if you have 200 sites on one virtual setup with one IP, only one of them can have the SSL. The connection needs to be established before Apache or IIS can be told what site to serve.

Maybe v6 will solve this, but right now you simply cannot do this. Or maybe the spec can be changed somehow (ask for host first then start SSL handshake?).
Shared state is anti-concurrency, but objects don't share state, they hide state behind well defined interfaces which is inherently modular. Actors and objects work together beautifully. Objects handle the behaviour and the Actors separate out threads of control. It all goes to hell when stated is shared, but that's a completely different thing.
If you watch the slide show: http://ycombinator.com/ long enough, a black guy will show(< 3 mins in).
Thanks, now I'm not going to pay attention in class... :)
You're right... if you're going to call it pop psychology then you've thrown the entire theory in the bin before discussion has begun.
This is based on http://tryfs.net, which GitHub reckons is 52% F# code and 48% Javascript (server-side code run through CouchDB). I don't think F# is all that common for web development.