skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm - Wikipedia tells me Deutsche Telekom bought what was to become T-Mobile USA in 2001 for $24B. After inflation, that's around $30B in 2011. Where is the $51B figure coming from?
What the hell is a "cultural level"?

How do I gain additional "culture"?
Ask HN: when is the YC Winter deadline?
I know the actual program lasts from Jan-March, but I can't seem to find any past application deadline dates. I seem to remember late October...? Any ideas? Thanks.
Techdirt's Mike Masnick has been all over this issue for a while now. He's featured at least two legal analyses of the issue, both of them seem to show that ICE is way, way on the wrong side of the US constitution.

Also note that Masnick has some very persistent detractors, that he allows to post anonymously. Those detractors are vociferous on this issue, but have basically resorted to weird ad hominum arguments, only occasionally coming up for air to cite some weird legal arcana that don't seem to apply, at least to the more logical among us.

The number and persistence of Techdirt Trolls is quite remarkable. Why do the trolls have so much time an energy to devote to particular issues? It's beyond the ken of mortal man.
German press: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/verkauf-von-t-mobile-u...

Edit: So, I checked where that 51 billion is coming from. The German T-Mobile International article quotes 39.4 billion Euro and references the 2001 annual report, page 131. Here it is (2.4MB PDF monstrosity and German): http://www.download-telekom.de/dt/StaticPage/47/29/gb_d_komp...

The relevant passage (German): „Am 31. Mai 2001 erwarb die Deutsche Telekom je 100 % an der VoiceStream Wireless Corporation, Bellevue, und der Powertel Inc., Bellevue, zu einem Gesamtkaufpreis von 39,4 Mrd. € inklusive einer Cash-Komponente von 4,9 Mrd. € und einer von der Deutschen Telekom bereits im September 2000 getätigten Investition in Vorzugsaktien von VoiceStream in Höhe von 5,6 Mrd. €.“

That passage basically says that they bought 100 percent of VoiceStream and Powertel for together 39.4 billion Euro.

Well, we are still no closer to finding out what caused the discrepancy — maybe the Wikipedia article is simply wrong?
Marco nails it.

The whole value proposition of Twitter, historically, has been that you can make it whatever you would like it to be. Are you Captain Nerd? Load up that stream with the finest of curated nerds and be soaked in their wisdom, go! Are you nuts about celebrity culture? Sports? Food? Just want to keep up with your friends and colleagues? You're covered.

The Dickbar is a violation of that understanding that needlessly undermines Twitter's brand and utility among the fiercest of its loyalists. There are many better ways to monetize the experience here. AdWords-style keyword based stuff being the most obvious, and most likely to be virtuous. Pitch me awesome iDevice accessories and apps all day long – I bet I'd actually care about them. Design sites? I'll check it out! Magic kitchen tools? Where?! Awesome restaurants near me? I will eat there!

Sports? Celebrities? Hell. No.

This is crass and it's a fuck up, plain and simple. Five years from now we'll look back and one of two things will be on our minds:

"Wow, glad Twitter rethought that garbage and built something that truly worked for both users and advertisers. What a powerhouse they are."

"Twitter? Was that like Friendster or something? I think I remember it."
How you treat a waitress or janitor says a lot about your personality. IMO, it's an asshole litmus test.
Oh, now I get it - radiation does not kill people. Anti nuclear power people kill people.

Your example shows one aspect of why people dislike nuclear power: it's easy to see how to avoid getting into a car accident, but apparently less easy to see how to react in case of a nuclear disaster. Normal people wouldn't know that they should check the milk.

Also I don't want to live in a world where I have to check everything for radiation before I consume it.

As for your other question: so now I am a troll, just because I disagree with you? Or because the comments are indented more than x levels? And yes, I have several issues with this discussion. Not the least I dislike emotional argumentation, and I think in this case it is the pro nuclear power people who are actually emotional: they feel that the other side is emotional, and react emotionally to that. I also dislike mindless herds "oh it is XKCD, so it must be cool. I want to be on the side of XKCD" (not that I accuse you of this, but if you remember, I merely took issue with the XKCD chart).

What I get from HN is that nuclear power is also a thing for elitist people, who look down on the stupid people who can't understand physics well enough.
This is an interesting idea that I haven't seen before. Why shouldn't Twitter target trends at me? They know my tweets, and tweets of the people I follow. They could target trends, and ads for that matter, that I'd actually like to see.
"if the possible results include worldwide radiation poisoning"

Well, they don't. We've blown up dozens upon dozens of nuclear bombs, actual factual nuclear bombs, each of which is far far worse than even the worst possible multi-plant catastrophe that could possibly strike, and all we got was a measurable but as far as I know impact-free increase in radioactive cesium levels in people's bones. (Which is even less impressive than it sounds because it's really easy to measure radiation. "Measurable" is orders of magnitude below "dangerous".) "Some plants melt down and everybody in the world gets radiation poisoning" is not a "Black Swan", that's "The laws of physics have been rewritten" event. We can't plan for those at all.

(No, please do not trot out anything about how we "may not" fully understand the science. Again, if there is some weird circumstance under which some uranium can suddenly become conscious and declare its undying hatred of the human race in magnificent Elizabethan English shortly before completely converting all its mass to energy, rendering the planet sterile in the resulting explosion, it still doesn't matter, because we can't plan for such low-probability events regardless. We understand radioactivity matters well more than we need to to run reactors.)

I am all for rational analysis of the risks, but if you're including actual doomsday scenarios in your analysis, you haven't even started rational analysis yet.
Reminded me of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's:

Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do.

Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can be breached.

Become an expert at the rules.

Then break them with creativity and style.
Ask HN:Relocate to India
Hi,
I 'm currently working in USA on H1B visa. Would love to relocate to India. My dilemma is that cannot pack up and move back without any job offers in hand. My current employer does not have an office in India. One of the options that i have is find employment in a company which has office. Finding jobs in India through job portal is difficult given non availability for in person interviews. Would like to network with some fellow hackers to find job in India. Any other suggestions would be great. thanks
Sorry for the double post...didnt have the correct title
Exactly. Doing nothing because "It won't help" is tacit acceptance. Only by slowly wearing away at the behavior can you change it, but you still need to try.
Disagree about deposits actually - for me anyway it's way easier to put things in my mailbox than to drive to the bank.
While they overpaid (in the tech boom who didn't?), to be fair T-Mobile USA has generated billions in profits annually for a while which eases the pain a bit. Plus they're getting a decent chunk of AT&T, which should be in a really good place with T-Mobile out of the way. Mostly I think this was so they didn't have to spend the capital for a full LTE network upgrade, which would be quite an outlay.
I suppose I should have searched a little harder.

This (from the last class) says they pushed it back to Oct 28, so I'm assuming that it's mid to late October, depending on the specifics that year.

http://ycombinator.com/w10announcement.html
I hope you're not a troll. But asking things like "so why don't we evacuate a 50km radius around cigarettes" is trollish. And you should read more. This stuff isn't that complicated. Watch the video at the top of the thread (you clearly haven't, or you wouldn't be talking about plutonium exposure in Japan).
This makes me want to cry. AFAIK T-Mobile is the only US carrier that actually allows you to save money by not subsidizing your handset purchase. I saved $20 off of T-Mobile's already reasonable monthly rates by buying my Nexus One upfront.

More importantly, the phone is unlocked. When I travel abroad, I can simply pop in a prepaid SIM card and I'm set. How many phones does AT&T sell that aren't SIM-locked to their network?
Point of order: Amazon Mom, despite the name, is open to single fathers and generally anyone caring for a child. I mention this because it's worth looking into if you are such a person, even if you aren't a "Mom".

The fact that they called it Amazon Mom merely reinforces the article's point, so this isn't disagreement. I've found it useful and I don't want non-Moms to think it's not for them, that's all. (15% off diapers + 15% off subscribe & save items comes out to the lowest non-sale price for diapers I've found. That is, with a coupon and a sale we sometimes manage to beat the price of Amazon, but it's not something you can count on.)
Here is an idea for Twitter: they could open source their server infrastructure and make it distributed, thereby massively reducing their operating costs. Then they could offer paid hosting of Twitter streams for people who are too lazy to host their own Twitter servers (the Wordpress model).

One can dream, no? :-)
All of the T-Mo 3G phones are 850/1700/1900/2100.
Intriguing - googling around I also saw the $51B number mentioned in http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032011-att-tmobile-acq..., and in contemporary articles http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=6715 and http://www.economist.com/node/449273 - but interestingly both appear to be written before the deal closed. On the other hand Wikipedia offers no citations for the $24B number.

This is a massive discrepancy - wonder where it's coming from...

edit: the $24B figure was introduced into Wikipedia in July 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=T-Mobile_USA&d... and not challenged since. On the other hand the main T-Mobile article gives a $50.7B figure with a citation. I [citation needed]-ed the $24B claim, let's see where it goes.
Display ads have very low click-through, yet that hasn't stopped advertisers from breaking new records in terms of $$ spent. Research shows there is a subset of internet users that click on stuff all the time- 80% of clicks are from 10% of users (that's after filtering out click fraud etc).

Beyond click-thru (which is what most web app developers will focus on), display ads/paid search serve the important function of an awareness vehicle for brands - which is what the major advertisers care about more than click-thru anyway.
What I find interesting about this analysis is the fact that Twitter could presumably "fix" the dickbar by finding a way to make it 1)useful and 2) targeted to the user.

After years of Twitter claiming that they were going to find a way to monetize without resorting to irritating advertisements (and after billions of tweets) they presumably have the knowledge and ability to do this. The question really is, "do they want to"?
There is a pretty large number of mistakes in the probability one.

The covariance measures how "linearly related" two RVs are, not "how related". In the convolution formula for the sum of two RVs, you also need independence of the RVs for the convolution to be the valid approach. In the description about uncorrelated, there's a statement that "the reverse holds only for Gaussian RVs" which is not true, the word "only" needs to be taken out. (The sheet is trying to say the right thing on that one, it's just a language issue.) The N(0,1) is called a standard normal distribution, not just a normal distribution. The last equation on the sheet, for a vector normal distribution, forgets to invert the covariance matrix that appears in the exponential.
Hacker with iPhone take over Times Square screens
You used to be able to trust Apple for manufacturing quality. I now build my own for any work machines and only keep an iMac around for casual browsing/music/video. How the hell did this slip past basic TESTING ? This isn't the first manufacturing blunder that has been swept under the table with Apple, and it won't be the last. If you put down over $1000 for a computer, it should work.
The tax system is also considerably different. Danish nominal salaries are higher than the UK, but take-home pay is much closer and sometimes actually lower, because taxes are about twice as high in that bracket. Someone making 40k pounds in the UK, for example, will take home around 31k. To take home 31k pounds (265k kr) in Denmark, you'd have to make over 60k pounds (500k kr) nominal salary. However, the social services the two countries provide differ as well.
Ya, thanks for the response. I went and double checked what ELB does. I was looking for a way to load balance across regions. I know some services that can do it, but are quite expensive.
Unwritten rules are the most fun to break imo. They can also be the hardest because most people don't realize they are there.
Its an opportunity for those without much self esteem to exercise power over someone that can't fight back without significant loss. Only dumb people piss off the people handling your food, but there's a big overlap between these two groups.
I had to look it up: it's pronounced "cee omega" according to Wikipedia.
Feels more like a discussion topic than Q&A. Interesting topic though.
Obligatory a mac is a pc comment.
Culture is probably both the most difficult and the most important idea in social theory. I think of it as the amount of knowledge and habit you have internalized from the outside world; I internalized saying please and thank you, it is now part of "me." (Not so with elbows on the table). I also internalized punctuality, more or less. I have internalized a lot of books and what one more conventionally thinks of as "culture" (classical music, Russian novels, anything the French make).

One might internalize a predisposition to smooth over conflict, or one might internalize exactly the opposite and learn to start fights at the slightest hint of provocation; if you live in a violent society, the latter serves you well and might be necessary for basic survival, but if you are trying to make a career in an office the former is usually better.
Or stacklayout.com ;)
For some reason it's not saving the company URL for me. It also doesn't like greater than or less than signs (<>)
I recommend building theaters or deploying Great Artists.
Will this be better than Python? I'm still a programming tinkerer so I don't have enough knowledge to evaluate.
I want one of those!
Well said. And sometimes cynicism is the right response.
In case it's not clear, Amazon Mom is very much available to married Fathers too (and the plan is working, I'm getting addicted to Prime and will likely find myself subscribing once my "Mom" status runs out).
Officers in Japan are evaluated on the basis of how many of their crimes are solved. Seemingly apparent murders that don't have strong leads aren't investigated as such - they're reclassified into categories like suicide or accidental death.
That's also evident from the URL: comega_startpage.htm
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I've yet to find any use for trending topics generally. I prefer Favstar's quality curation based on most "faved" tweets by topic.
I found it interesting that a lot of supermarkets in Japan lowered their prices following the earthquake/tsunami.

This is despite the fact that they were disincentivised to do so because obviously the potential for profit on foods and commodities is high after a natural disaster.
Very nice !

I'd pay for this applied to a domain with a date filter :-)
Maybe they don't want to get into the targeted advertising market and see themselves more as general advertising? That said, you still don't see ads for women's lingerie during the World Series and you don't see many beer ads during Dancing with the Stars. There's a balance and I don't think twitter has it figured out yet.
this is a viral movie promotion...spam
why do think so?
Because I am an engineer and I battle distractions all day, I have always thought of hashtags as Twitter's dumbest feature. Back when Twitter was new it took me weeks to understand just why people were complaining about spammers. How could you be spammed on Twitter? I asked myself. Shouldn't you just unfollow the spammer and get on with your life?

But since then I have had the occasion to witness marketers using Twitter. And I have learned that, to a marketer, hashtags are pure heroin. You get to eavesdrop on strangers discussing products. You can count references to your product, and to your competitors' products. So what if this activity bears the same relationship to actually getting out of the building that playing Rock Band does to a real blues jam? It's a rush, and it comes in optimal tiny doses like Snackwell cookies, and it almost feels like productive work. From what I can tell a majority of the marketers in the world have Tweetdeck open all the time and wince reflexively every time anybody on Twitter says anything bad about their pet trademarks. To ask them to do otherwise is like asking a novelist to stop compulsively reloading their Amazon sales rank over and over.
HTTPS is more secure, so why isn't the Web using it?
When you need your shoes polished, that food you ordered served or the litter picked up from the front drive, suddenly the "least valuable people" are just as valuable as you are.

Nobody's "least valuable" unless their entire existence seems to serve to act to the detriment to absolutely everybody around them.
I wonder what the Y Combinator competition will look like in 3 years ...
Can you contend?
We're gonna connect you to all types of competitions your passionate about. It'll soon be time to show the world your skills... and then get rewarded for it.
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The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited
I deleted the twitter app from my phone as soon as I realized the dickbar was something I couldn't opt out of. Now I use hootsuite. Deceit UI, multiple accounts, and I can post across accounts and(something twitter doesn't do) schedule tweets to post at a later time. Twitter had made a serious miscalculation with the dickbar. They've reminded users there are other clients out there they can use. And if twitter decides to shut off API access for those clients, a LARGE percentage of people will simply stop using the service. I will.
ironically, the market does.... it's important to remember though that when one analyst cries wolf, the headline is roughly '[All] analysts cry wolf'... the same way when you hear something like 'Scientists say global warming likely to be caused by oompa-loompa's living at the north pole' it was probably just one scientist and Fox news was somehow involved in the reporting.
Without further qualification, "better" and "worse" are usually pretty meaningless words when discussing something like programming languages. I've only read the first few paragraphs on the page so far, but it seems reasonable to guess it is very unlike Python, at least.
The data roaming on AT&T is actually relatively reasonable, as long as you sign up for their 'Smartphone International Data Package'. You can call to add it to the account before you leave the country, and remove it once you come back, they will even prorate it for partial month.

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/affo...

It's 20MB for $25/mo, 50MB for $60/mo, 100MB for $120, and 200MB for $200/mo.

I usually sign up for 200mb plan if I am going somewhere for a week, and don't worry too much about data usage (email, web, yelp app). Turn it few days after I am back, and all roaming charges had chance to post.
From wikipedia: [The symbol ω is used] in relational database theory to represent NULL, a missing or inapplicable value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega
Ok...we can keep going. If you would have said "YC is like the Marines of startup incubators" and left it at that, it would have been fine. But you didn't say that. You went a lot further than that. You made very specific comparisons including a condescending remark that you and your peers aren't here to just pay their college tuition, etc...

I am quite sure that your intentions were not malicious, but the response to your post is the response to your post.

Did YC teach you and your "best of the best" peers to know when you made a mistake, how to fix it and then move on? If so, now would be a good time to put it into practice, imo.
"People will be suing the government for depriving them of radiation exposure."
Learning to program with a language as academic as this would be like learning about the basics of electromagnetism by building a particle accelerator :)
Worked for me with with full address - http://www.etc.com

I did have to play around a bit to avoid those errors however
Searching for the Source of Our Fountains of Courage
Much of this excellent research project has been "embraced & extended" into C# at this point.
I think part of the thing missing here with regard to the "dickbar" is "context". The short time I used the official Twitter client before changing to another one was that the "dickbar" had no relation to what I was actually interested in.

The UI was intrusive, yes, but what was presented was more offensive. Fix/soften the UI impact and make the "trending" topic more appropriate and things would be less offensive.
It's important to note that Jung's definition of introvert vs extrovert differs from what most people think these words mean.

Usually, people think that extroverts are social and outgoing, while introverts are shy loners.

But that's not how Jung saw them.

For Jung, introversion was a tendency to focus inwards (think daydreamers, people with a rich fantasy life, someone form whom ideas are important).

Conversely, for extroverts the outer world is more significant than their inner world. It's just a matter of different focus or emphasis.

So, you could very well be an extrovert and be a loner. Focusing outwards, on (for instance) a personal project or (another example) exploring the external world alone.

Or you could be an introvert and be quite comfortable in social situations, and not the least bit shy, but at the same time have a rich fantasy life.