skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main questions as a T-Mobile custoemr:

1. Will I be able to keep the same plan I'm on now? I'm assuming the answer is yes unless I make any changes, at which point they'll try to force me into a new AT&T, which will suck.

2. When can I buy an iPhone for use on my T-Mobile plan? This will still probably a good year away, though I hope it'll be faster.
Get rid of all the names, launch a new brand (see Scion). The cars probably aren't half bad, but I haven't even thought to look at them when buying a new car - frankly, because they're Buicks.
Don't yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.
Cold calling != marketing

Cold calling = sales

... And should be evaluated like any other sales vehicle. How much time & money is it going to take v/s how much revenue is it going t generate.
Anybody losing $1M PER WEEK makes you question how the fool and his money got together in the first place.

Good to see at least a little justice in this world. I wouldn't wish bad things to happen to anybody, but if it has to happen to someone, well, the guy who is so foolish with his money would be tops on my list.
You think Apple might have launched on T-Mobile, the last-place network?

Nationwide wireless networks are extraordinarily capital-intensive. Absent a massive technological shift --- which may be coming and which AT&T and Verizon are powerless to stop --- there are always going to be a (1) few (2) very large companies providing cell coverage. It may be more expensive to launch a nationwide wireless network than it is to launch an airline.

Meta, responding to your aside: respectfully, no. I'm trying to avoid typing for the sake of typing. I asked a serious question; you answered it; I responded to it with my take. That's how the system should work.
Only three big companies. There's got to be a point when these mergers hurt competition. I like T-Mobile because it offers cheaper postpaid plans without a contract. I don't think AT&T offers these and their plans are generally more expensive.
I wish the works themselves were available in English too. I believe they are all in Latin.
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Cool. I never did quite that, but I was a volunteer firefighter and a firefighter instructor who literally crawled on my belly in smoke-filled buildings, with a fire burning inside, with nothing but a flashlight and a 2" hoseline, and with flashover a possiblity at any moment... and I trained guys to do LP gas firefighting where the simulator generated so much heat that guys routinely found their helmets partially melted after a training drill. Wonder if I should put any of that stuff on my YC application?
I've never read that policy, but what's interesting is virtually every brand on Facebook uses "Like gating" (you have to Like the page before seeing the real content) for contests and promos. Either that doesn't fall under that policy, or Facebook just doesn't care.
Link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/conf...
Most people do not own smartphones. So the majority of customers don't need a large upfront investment to get a portable phone.
Having the government decided which technologies can be used might have had some benefits here but it seems like there would be a lot less work on making technologies better and a lot more work on lobbying if that were the case.
I'm in. I've been a happy Tmobile customer for years. Not looking forward to ATT ruining it all.
Technology lock-in. Admittedly, it's rather pointless for me to argue this, thanks to phones locked to specific carriers, but competition is severely hindered by the fact that I can't just pop in a new SIM from a different GSM carrier. Instead, I have to buy a new handset and, as phones become mobile computing devices, I'll have quite a lot of setup and data porting to do.
I know that many apocalyptic predictions from environmentalists turned out to be false, that the ClimateGate letters show strong evidence of politics and groupthink affecting the field, and that even taking the environmentalists' dire predictions at face value does not provide an economic justification for the remedies they propose. As long as there are some smart, well-trained people questioning the "consensus", I will be slow to make up my mind.
Exactly. I had a comment ready to go but I didn't want to get too negative on the OP so I deleted it. He forgets that kids his age will die this week doing what his fantasy analogies describe. As someone who served 4 years in the military, I found parts of this post offensive.
That's a good point. Thanks. But featurephones are also subsidized, aren't they?
Wanted to thank you for this post; some of your quotes about co-founders describe the trials and tribulations we've already been through in the 6 months we've been working full time on our startup. Great read!
Agreed. Do you think T-mobile will allow termination of contracts without a early termination fee? I'm guessing probably not, but I'd jump ship if I could avoid the fees.
This actually sounds wonderful. I think a lot of entrepreneurs would actually find that extremely helpful. It would be great to get an e-mail out of the blue from someone who heard my team's pitch n months ago and was genuinely interested in how far along we'd come and if we'd met the goals we had in mind then. Startup idea? Goalcheck.com?
How the hell does an unmitigated ad hominem attack get that many upvotes?
I will not give AT&T my money. As a happy T-Mobile user I am strongly against this purchase. I really hate that the US Cellular system is split by Wireless technologies and that my only options for GSM are basically AT&T and T-Mobile. Where will I go? Credo is great, but my phone isn't based on CDMA and I don't want to switch phones just because I switched vendors.
I was waiting for this to happen. TMUSA is such a weird egg in the basket considering it is totally different then the TMEU.
Koush.. I just wanted to thank you. 1) for not taking SCEA up on their offer, but more importantly, 2) for Clockwork Recovery. You are pretty much one of the only reasons we all have these great rooted Android phones. Thank you.
Getting a job in venture capital
Well, I read it as "If you think you don't need funding, you're wrong".

All paths go to "seek advice" except the path where you're raising money, know how much, know the terms, and know the investors.

If the author (is it you?) thinks it's ok not raise money, the diagram should be altered to reflect that.

Maybe a bit like this:

.. -> [Raising Money?] -> [No]
-> [Do you need to?]
-> [Yes] -> (Seek advice)
-> [No] -> [Profitable yet?]
-> [Yes] -> [Cool, good luck]
-> [No] -> (Seek advice)
My father is a physical laborer (the kind that loses body parts over the years) and he is getting quite old. If I become rich the most important benefit to me is to be able to guarantee him a comfortable life in his old age. That is the kind of security that a 6 month rainy day fund cannot provide.

I've yet to meet an anti-materialist from a poor family or a third world country. Such worldviews are a luxury for the children of the rich.
When I first started interacting with APIs that use JSON I wanted a JS library to automatically convert a JSON structure into, hopefully semantically correct, HTML which I could then easily style with CSS. At the time I couldn't find anything but I did write a simple piece of JS. I show an example of how I used it to style tweets on my site: http://nirmalpatel.com/json2posh/
I just hope they reminded the VC exactly why they were leaving, so he had a chance to think about his attitude.
But with only two providers of GSM, you already have emerging cartel pricing dynamics. It's not even as good as airlines (which are also somewhat collusively pricied), where you usually have 5-6 choices for any trip.

More competition is good, but, from a pragmatic perspective, the loss in competition (such as it is) might not outweigh the gain in efficiency for AT&T and T-Mobile subs.
Can you post a link to your blog post?
The kiosk originally spelled it with a single "p" -- it's since been corrected :)
It costs an additional $19.95 a month for unlimited texting on the (at&t) iphone plan last I checked.
Actually, I'm going to go sign up for an invite over at phpfog... it looks like something I could make real use of. In a way, this incident may turn out to be a boon for the folks over there.
I've been doing startups for over 10 years and haven't raised any VC/angel money :). The chart is about when to ask for advice, not a chart to path your startup career.

In any case, I do think you should seek advice if you are bootstrapping. You read it as seeking advice to raise money, whereas I meant seek advice generally about your startup. I think people benefit from having mentors, which I tried to write up here btw http://ye.gg/mentors
French space agency selects Apache Commons Math
Timely chart about the relative levels of radiation dosage involved in every day living, medical procedures and exposure to nuclear power plants vs. what's harmful for you from XKCD:

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/19/graphic-chart-showin.ht...
> Wireless really is a mess in the US. Europe and Australia have really benefited from choosing one technology (GSM).

How are pricing plans in the US when you are roaming beyond your state? I live in Sweden, where I have a decently priced data and call plan.

However, as soon as I go outside of Sweden, which is a small country (9M people), I have to pay roaming charges. I don't mind so much the call charges, but they want €4/MB ($5.60/MB) for data. Which essentially means that I don't use data roaming at all when out of town unless on Wifi, and I don't travel much in Sweden. Ok, so I can get calls when I travel, but I hardly use the phone for calls, I use it for the data access.

Yes, I can get another SIM, but then I have to tell everyone who may call me that I have changed number for that week, which is not really workable.
That link discusses this theory at http://earthsky.org/earth/did-a-supermoon-cause-the-march-11.... The td;lr version is "no because the earthquake didn't happen at a point with large tidal stresses."

More generically the Moon's orbit has not changed appreciably in a long time. The orbit is elliptical. And periodically that lines up with the Sun-Earth axis. This fact has not changed in millennia, let alone in the last 30 years.
"Everyone has 10 million dollars"

I got a good idea of what it feels like to be rich by going to a third world country. Even though I'm just barely scraping in at average in Australia, I was seriously freaking loaded by an order of magnitude compared to most people in Ghana and could afford to take the nicest cars (taxis) buy beer regularly and eat at "real" restaurants rather than roadside vendors. I was able to buy 5 or 10 dollar mobile recharge cards whilst most of the population purchased their recharges in 50 cent increments from street vendors.

I'm sad to say that my biggest reaction was frustration. Everyone I met was trying to get my money somehow. It seemed like every conversation would turn into some sort of scam opportunity or even just wanting to get my help somehow.

I thought "I can't help you people! I'm just normal, I don't have that much money!". It wasn't until I was actually on the plane home that I realised that I'd just experienced being rich. It seems as though it's all relative - that the "rich folks" don't see themselves as rich because when you're rich, you just get bigger expenses.

Of course your standard of living improves, but it must be hard to ever feel so rich that you're happy just giving money away to everyone who asks (and I'm sure that you get asked a LOT).
He said something along the lines of "I'm very sorry for my friends rude behavior. Nobody should should act like that". I think the angel investor got the point.
Verizon was not a GSM carrier.
This is an impressive and informative argument. It's a shame that it's aimed at a straw man.

I use the term "dynamic language" to refer to a well-recognized (though not perfectly agreed upon) set of languages. I didn't choose the term "dynamic," and I've never tried to argue that since they're dynamic, they're better/more fun/more expressive than non-dynamic languages. Hence the straw man.

I use the term simply to distinguish between, say, the set {Java, C, C++} and the set {Python, JavaScript, Ruby}. Most people are aware of this usage and immediately understand the distinction. You could call the latter set "cranberry languages" instead of "dynamic languages" and it would be okay. As long as everyone understands the usage, it's a functional (no programming language pun intended) term.
Yes. They're usually free on a contract.

Not that they're that expensive new. But if portability was easy there would even be an omnipresent resale market for used phones, so even boring phones retain resale value, as is common in other countries.
So, if you're not a homeopath and your position on homeopathy is in opposition to 99% of actual homeopaths, it's very likely that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and should be summarily ignored by any rational person?

FYI, I'm a former scientist, so I have some idea of the scientific process. It's actually pretty rare for a field to declare outside opinions worthless. The only other fields I'm aware of which try to do this are math ed, labor economics, and psychometrics of race/gender.

I'm also not sure why you are attempting to conflate not being a climate scientist with being uneducated. That's simply ridiculous.
In GM's largest market, China, Buick is a well respected luxury brand. Your perceptions don't matter to GM because China is where GM's future lies.
These days, cell phone plans in the US are generally national plans with no domestic roaming charges between states or regions. International roaming still hurts though.
For some people, it's not enough to win. Others must lose.
The link appears broken to me. Is there a mirror?
I find these articles to be long on puff, short on content. The take home is: big data is really important, and some people think their startups will make buckets of money either storing/ analyzing it or selling software to process it. I don't really need 800 words (and a bunch of unwanted javascript and tracking cookies) to tell me that.

Here's what I would like: 12 technologies or techniques for handling big data, and why, with examples. Or a tutorial on a complex analysis that merged 3 really big datasets and came up with something useful (I dont need Hadoop to count words, thanks). Or a list of mathematical background every data scientist must have. But I am afraid the people who read these articles don't actually know "their asymptote from a hole in the graph", and that they don't have examples of big successes (maybe not yet, I grant...)

My daily job is merging building permits and tax assessor parcels to get small area population estimates. This seems like "big data" to me (though nothing like, say, all the twitter messages or google searches or FB friend connections); if someone could explain to me why -- and how, exactly -- I should move away from my SQL queries on and string matches, I would be really interested, but I all read off of this hype is BIG, BIG, BIG, AUTOMATICALLY DISCOVER EVERYTHING, MAKE MONEY, BIG, BIG, BIG.

Just my little rant...
Exactly. Take the time and small expense to officially register the copyright. When they clone it and slap their name on it you can sue for damages and you'll win. It might even be a profitable business on its own if you act as intermediary for those actually posting jobs... a "job dilution protection service" that costs them nothing but makes you money.

edit: at the very least, in the US you can issue a DMCA takedown notice.
It is strange that a book about the great Scottish economist should have a faux-German title.
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Me too, the even more plus plans from T-Mobile are great and most likely exist because of the parent company. T-Mobile also has great customer service and is my favorite US cellular provider. AT&T is worse in nearly every way except coverage area and now we'll have even less competition in the US, where prices are already too high.
Too subtle. Easy for him to think it's fine to treat a waitress that way and that he can still function with 'real people'. He needed to be reminded that this is a sign of a fundamental character flaw.

Not to rub it in, but on the chance that this might lead him to redemption.
Marvelous...

We have a company leveraging their government-granted-duopoly in the broadband marketplace to strengthen its market share in a closely related market (mobile phones). It's a good move for them ... They're stretching their net and once it's across the whole Internet, get ready to pay some real rent...
I just wanted to comment on the excellent picture choice. Didn't realize it was a cup of coffee until I read through the article.

I then imagined myself as the entrepreneur, staring down into his coffee on the table, pondering the deal. I don't think I would've had the same visual response with a stock photo of a coffee cup. Not sure if that was your intent, but good job either way.
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A blog on the measurement and simulation of plumes
As far as I know that cannot be done with standard Amazon tools
It says "50BG Dropbox" :-) I guess someone didn't proof read their photo editing.
I needed to make play sound in a browser today, and luckily remembered this story. You have saved me a day of raging around the internet trying to get sound to play in browser x.
seems like you're conflating insider trading with all forms of manipulation & "real" cheating. Enron wasn't mainly insider trading - it was fraud by fudging their numbers. My argument is to use greed to incentivize more market information that wouldn't have been public - so Enron's are found sooner. This will lead to a smoother market because of:

- more accurate and timely information (stock pricing)
- firms increasing transparency (info) to remove financing volatility
- Current SEC 10k's, etc. are of little value as we've seen. It must be forced to prevent loopholes - insider trading does this from the inside.

What I'm not saying: That market manipulation (ex. Pump and Dump) should be legal - thats another issue, and provides no value (information or otherwise). That's anti-competitive behavior with no societal benefit I can see - and hence should be regulated and leaked using insider trading ;-)

Other concerns:
- Fraud in insider trading: Perhaps it should still be illegal to lie about your inside knowledge, and further firms that trade would have every incentive to confirm the data with other sources.
- Risk pricing would be far better than luck if there were a lot of data points for each company due to multiple leaks over time and other business intel. The Street already know these CEOs, etc. - they don't exist in vacuums.
- Your startup risk pricing ideas don't address the differences I cited - who is insider trading startups? That'd mean investing based on the inside numbers the company has - which is already normal for investors to have access to, and if a founder fudges those - it's fraud.

Your concerns about risk pricing are due to this "real" cheating, which insider trading helps discover, and hence eliminates risk.

Am I off base here?
Are you really sure about this? It sounds equally plausible to me that not knowing both the source and target languages would give one an advantage of not relying on ad-hoc, hard-to-model, human judgements. Being monolingual is more likely to enforce a discipline where one develops an algorithm which would work effectively on all natural languages.

IIRC the 'candide' group was (not intentionally) composed of scientists with no knowledge of both english and french.. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aberger/mt.html
Well, how did Sony in your opinion acted when stopped me to play new games while keeping the possibility of running Linux in my property? I can not find the word, but your "complete asshole" expression could work as an approximation also for that case.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way that he treats waiters, waitresses, janitors, clerks, and other lower paying service jobs.
Sprint plans with unlimited texting are still much more expensive than similar in Europe. Their 450 Minute "Everything" plan is $50/mo with a 2 year contract. That might be good for the US, but its not good relavitely speaking.
Just as an example, I looked through vodafone UK's 24 month plans and I found 600 minutes and unlimited texting for the equivalent of $32 per month.
A lot of people I know don’t want to pay $500 up front for a phone, but I think there is a lot of path dependency in this. It’s a lot more common in Europe to pay $500 or even more for a smartphone. When I lived in Denmark I did that at least twice. Americans are willing to pay $500 or more for an iPad. A non-trivial number paid $600 for the first generation iPhone, although not enough for Apple to continue with that model in the US.

Even if iPads or other tablets become subsidized by carriers, my guess is that a lot of tablets will still be sold without subsidy simply because people are used to it.

Another effect of being able to simply swap SIM cards is that there will be a larger population of useful old unlocked/unlockable phones out there with expired contracts. A lot of early GSM competition in Europe was driven by smaller carriers or MVNOs who could simply send you a SIM card to put in your old phone.
Funny how he treats 'static typing' as the natural order and 'dynamic typing' as the special case. I would have pegged it the other way round. Machines are typeless, its all numbers until somebody puts (or doesn't put) a type system on it.

Plus it's rather meaningless. Bald is a hair color. Clear is a paint color. Silence is a syllable.
That's not insider information. Trading on real data is insider trading. Manipulating the prospectus is fraud. There's a big difference.
T-mobile has an excellent policy of easily unlocking phones if you just call and ask. In the worst case they make you wait 3 months into your contract before they do. This policy will be missed.
Another one: It's very hard to resist the urge to spend Way Too Much on something you already liked. Like spending $100k on a Crestron control system for your A/V network if you like gaming and media. Or a Ferrari if you like cars.

If you fail to resist, you end up on the hedonic treadmill pretty quickly.

(My vice: investing in startups. I guess that's better for the ecosystem, at least.)
I don't want to do business with a company that so willingly spied on American citizens. I just renewed a contract on T-Mobile. Now I need to see if I can get out with no penalty, and see who is left to send my business.
> That’s one argument, and, to be honest, it’s quite a successful bit of marketing.

who markets the dynamic languages? pls show me this person/firm. i'll try to hire them
You could do that sort of classless message passing in a static language. In fact, isn't that how message dispatch in Obj-C works?
Just because a method for decoding pictures is patented does not mean all methods for doing so are as well.
Misleading title - fear affects more people and hence, by some kind of measuring, might do more damage in some cases. It doesn't imply that if you are exposed to both radiation and fear, fear does more damage.

Besides, the fear is a real consequence of such disasters.

As for the calculations of "only 500 people died of radiation" after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I am not sure I trust those. All kinds of stories seem to float around (also for Chernobyl), I would like to see some serious studies determining who died of what. Since radiation might kill slowly, it could be difficult to study.

Also the comparison to other toxins is plain silly and betrays the article as a propaganda piece.
Thanks for your kind words. My background is in design and I have a lot of fun working on those little graphics. All the best - Paul.