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Yes, it's a fair question, as I tried to explain. Hell I upvoted your reply.

My point was that the answer to the question has no usefulness that I can determine. You can either explain it or not, but please don't assign emotions and attitudes to me that I am not having.

There are a lot of people with various experiences that share some commonality. Ever attend a Jewish wedding? Spend some time in a mosque? Been to Mardi Gras? Had perogies?
Unless you are saying that the "black experience" is somehow different from the "Puerto Rican experience" or the "Eastern European experience" then all of these issues are on the table and should be treated equally.

I don't think you're saying that, so please stop picking on me. I was simply saying that the question had no value that I could determine. These things might (unfairly) be success criteria for a cocktail party, but never a startup. I'd love to be proven wrong. How many ways can I say "Stop looking to people outside yourself and to attributes you can't control and instead go make something happen?" before it sinks in? And what's so controversial about saying that?
Yeah, for sure, I've done very little Rails so I'm not speaking from experience but it seemed that for the variety of problem the author was facing (have to solve a problem "the framework way" for something that should be simple), rails is susceptible as well -- it's just a better set of design choices for the web so it doesn't fall down as often.
As opposed to landing jobs, there are many civil service and government jobs where your pay and and how high you can rise in the organization can be tied to your level of education. There have been numerous reports of people using these diploma mill credentials to game these systems. It may be better now...
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Looks very well done. What I don't like is that is has a slow feel to it.
Wait...but it is the AT&T from the Bell System. The fact that it was one of the spin-offs buying back the mothership probably has little consequence in terms of attitudes and/or business strategy. I imagine the AT&T ethos of old was pretty well spread between all the "Baby" bells and "Mama" Bell.

Also, you forgot the part where shortly after SBC bought AT&T, the "new" AT&T bought Cingular, a partnership between Bell South and the former AT&T. Oh, and the part where before buying AT&T, SBC also bought Ameritech, the parent company of the Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin "Baby" Bells, and Pacific Telesis, the parent company of Pacbell and Nevada Bell.

...and what of the other "Baby" Bells? Well, Bell Atlantic and NYNEX combined to form a company you may have heard of: Verizon!

(source...and a fun read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Company...)
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I totally agree. I'm a native speaker and my Arabic name (ضياء) has no definite, accurate transcription in English for another reason.

Arabic language has many letters and sounds western languages don't have equivalents of and therefore foreigners are completely unable no pronounce.

Another point is that vowels have different characteristics in different languages; height of the tongue, backness, roundedness, nasalization, ..etc, make it almost impossible to write the correct equivalent for some Arabic vowels in English. For example, we have a word (هيل; means cardamom) whose vowel length is between hail and hell that I can't think of any accurate way to transcript in English.
I liked the message of the post being that "you are your own worst enemy," but I think that's good advice for a seasoned entrepreneur. I think a young kid or a first-timer will view this advice with too much naivety, and fall into the habit of saying "we don't have competitors" which will just make them look foolish to investors. You ARE your own worst enemy, but don't ignore what everyone else is doing.
Split evenly. How could it be any other way without silently communicating that one cofounder is more valuable than another?
Are you US based? Please try to include filters for shops that ship to europe... i'd love using your service since i'd rather wrestle an alligator than go clothes shopping.
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Man, you know you're on to a startup idea when your pre-implementation post about that idea can make the front-page.
That works for things like shoes and t-shirts, but not trousers and regular shirts. It sends a bad sartorial signal to tell people just to slap on something with a decent-ish fit.

It's fine for a shop, but bad for something aimed at dressing people properly and teaching them how to do so themselves.
I find it ironic that programmers that would be otherwise extremely averse to dynamic typing are willing to write so much code in the form of a dynamically typed XML mess that is interpreted at runtime
This phone doesn't exist because there's not a market for it. I definitely wouldn't buy that. I, like a lot of others, don't have anything to hide from the government so even though I oppose the wire-tapping i'm not going to inconvenience myself to keep arbitrary data and idle chat secure.
The chocolate ration has been increased to 25 grammes.
I hate to shop. And I'm a man.

Just to add more context so this doesn't come across as quite so snarky: I'm only validating the OP's concept that men hate to shop and offering that as a counterpoint to Ixiaus's suggestion that "the premise that men hate to shop is quite false." I'm a man. I hate to shop. I know many others who do, and many who don't. The OP addressed that in his post quite well.

In fact, I actually like looking good. I'm not a slob and I don't generally dress like one. The problem is that shopping is annoying. I don't have much fashion sense, I can't stand trying to pick a nice shirt out of hundreds of options with a half dozen variables each, and I never am able to tell what actually would look good on me.

A tool that did all the math and picking for me would be great. It's almost like a replacement for a spouse or mom that does the shopping for me.
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I thought the idea was interesting so I followed the link to your site. From the tag line, I initially thought that this was going to cost me $18 every month. It was only after reading the other text on that page that I realised that it's a once a month opt in.
I had a philosophy professor who advocated leaving books of any quality about where people could find (and ostensibly keep them).

He'd leave books around GT Campus apparently when done with them.
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This is a problem of too much abstraction.
They wouldn't speak in MSA. Except in contrived settings, no two people would ever exclusively converse in MSA.

In your example, they would meet one another halfway as you said. One would speak slower and substitute MSA words for colloquial ones here and there.

Also, MSA is not like Latin in that it's exclusively written. It's spoken in various official scenarios, e.g. news broadcasts and speeches. I'm unsure what the future of it will be. I used to be pessimistic, but now with the shared widespread access to the Internet (blogs, YouTube), the Arab world will need a lingua franca again.
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I ran into this immediately as well.
Wont work out :)

This or that questions wont help. You might ask: blue or white? I say depends; you might ask: smart or casual? I say depends.

There are no questions that can 'solve' my style preferences and even if they do, the items I buy will not always follow them (maybe found some really cool green shoes that go with my blue shirt, which I wouldn't have bought if I didn't already have the shirt). I like moccasins for summer and oxford shoes for winter, seasons vary.

Even if you can somehow compile a perfect profile, then how the hell are you going to find items that match it? Very few retailers list things such as colour, season and material separately in a manner they can be easily gathered.

I sincerely suggest you to look elsewhere.
Here's a better page which gives a good overview: https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Game-Sp...
Now, all want a faithful 327x font.

A 2260 would be cool too. http://www.nfrpartners.com/comphistory/2260a.htm
To me, that 50 dollar book allows me to earn random thousands of dollars over the next few weeks usually. I see technical books as zero cost profit making devices.
I've been thinking about building something like this, but haven't had the time. I'm glad to see someone did it!
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Implementation and improvement of similar and new ideas is what we humans have been doing since the beginning.
That's why today we have many similar and better wheels.
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>Couldn't you do about the same with some cheap shared hosting?

Hit Events, i.e. your item is suddenly a hit, come fast and die fast many times. If you're not scalable, when you do get hit with a publicity event, your infrastructure can melt and then you miss out on a huge majority of sales.
That picture is not very accurate. It makes it seem as though USWest simply changed their name to QWest, in reality they got bought by QWest which was a young (founded in 1996) company which had been focusing on fiber optic runs up until they bought a for-reals telecom. I'm sure there are other inaccuracies, that one seemed particularly glaring.
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.

...

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.

"Has YC ever founded a black founder?" seems pretty specific and HN-ish to me.

I'm certainly not going to complain bitterly if the discussion leads to positive change.

Fair enough. What a sad picture in your post.
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Right, not all men hate to shop. I actually mentioned that in my post. But for the guys who hate to shop (of which there are many), there's dress.me.
>I'm assuming here that Iraqi and Moroccan Arabic are not entirely mutually understandable -- is this correct?

Moroccan Arabic is very hard to understand for Iraqi people. In fact, if you're an Arab from the Asian part of the Middle east, you may need subtitles to watch a local Moroccan movie.

>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?

What usually happens between Arabs from close-dialects countries is that they speak their local dialects and use the MSA to express the different, unfamiliar words.

But between very far, quite different dialects (e.g. Moroccan and Iraqi), they often speak MSA, entirely.
(Native speaker here)
We had a dream of taking an ardrino, a wifi shield and writing a session cookie sniffer that will tweet/facebook status updates that says something along the lines of, "X coffee is so much better than Y coffee" and hiding the think somewhere need two competing coffee shops. Seemed like a perfect demonstration of how bad the problem is. We never got around to doing it though.
It's the one mentioned in OP's links.
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>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.

Wow, someone please come forward with the name of this startup. I need new shoes, and if this works I'm spreading the news to everyone I know.
Perhaps I could interest in you in a sales position with my company, http://73primenumbers.com ?:-)
There are over 32 accepted ways of spelling Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi. Here's a dance song to help you remember just a few of them: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danilic/gaddafi-the-duck-sauce-remix...
The FTC is going to allow this - yet they spend time and money on Google and AdMob?
I don't know whether this is the Lorenz they are referring to, but there was another Lorenz who worked in optics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Lorenz

In fact, there is a Lorentz-Lorenz equation. Somewhat more confusingly, when you study Maxwell's equations on a Lorentz background, it is often convenient to work in the Lorenz gauge.
Do you have a link for the return rate? Not that I doubt you, but it'd be some great data to have.
Strange. This is an actual and useful answer to the question but for some reason it's placed halfway down the page.
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Part two:

http://steveblank.com/2009/12/07/someone-stole-my-startup-id...

gets even more interesting, and has a very specific point in it that seems like all startup founders should consider:

Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static. We on the other hand, had moved on. We had discovered detailed information about what customers really needed and wanted and turned our original hypotheses into facts. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Our original idea had been nothing more than an untested set of hypotheses. Truth be told, we were no longer the company in those stolen slides.

While the common wisdom said that our success was going to be determined by which company executed better, the common wisdom was wrong. In a startup success isn’t about just execution, it’s how well we could take our original hypothesis and learn, discover, iterate and execute.
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What you're talking about essentially exists in the form of Western Governors University. It was a project started by the Governors of the 19 western states to supply accredited online degrees to the under privileged (as a new Governor is elected to one of the member states s/he becomes a member of the board of trustees)

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University

It isn't free but the cost is something like $2,000 for every 6 month period and you can take as many classes as you can handle in that time frame.
Why buy them? If you have partnerships then you can sell your product to the entire market. If they buy Sprint then nobody has a reason to go into partnership with them, because they'd be competing with their supplier.
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How did you figure out your pricing scheme and did you suspect people might need and pay for this before actually building it?
That is key continuity.

It works for ssh because you generally know the parties you are trying to connect to ahead of time and have ways to communicate with them (to confirm keys etc).

You do not have the same relationship with 99.99% of the servers you will be connecting to over https. It does not work.
http://shoefitr.com/

They're just at demo stage at the moment. They eventually want to integrate this into your outlet's website.
OK, no more false-modesty. Only judicious humility from here on out.
Side note, but stretching before exercise increases the chance of injury.

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It could be worse. Have you ever tried to get help on Pages or Numbers from a search engine? At least stuff with funky characters are unique and if correctly quoted are handled by the major search engines.
I totally agree with this.
We good skills we could do unlimited things.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, but implementation is priceless.
We have the power to implement them.
I wonder how long it will be before someone establishes a market for "aged and authoritative" user accounts on those sites.

Oh, wait...
So, you'd prefer a coercive, invasive system to limit what you can and can't see and do, vs having available for download someone's religious opinions?

Like it or not, this app falls directly under free speech protection. No one is forcing you to install it and peruse it's content, and if someone does they're the one at fault. This isn't the Westboro Baptist Church showing up at a funeral and harassing people against their will.

Free society == people are allowed to say things you don't particularly like.
One since for sure is that now there is one less choice for the consumer. Not good.
I would like to second the "evoking a personal sense of style".
I REALLY like the idea but it's going to require a REALLY elegant implementation to streamline this.

I'm assuming you're going to monetize by eventually becoming a reseller or acting as an associate of sites you link to (could be wrong). If not, then I would advise this route over charging outright for using your service, as I'd be far more likely to use it that way.

All that being said, I really look forward to your launch so I can try this out. I am exactly your target audience.
It works, but there are slight rendering errors with popups. We wanted to make sure it was perfect before officially supporting it. If you're really keen to see it in IE, you can fake the user agent headers to pretend to be Firefox or Chrome.
The whole thing is mind-blowing.

Shortly, Twitter should be more profitable than Google.

How Google makes money? More or less, they sell queries. They do not know the right price, so they let the market to figure it out. It works extremely well but they are able to flood someone with ads only about 10-20 times a day.

Twitter, on the other hand, is able to flood with ads all the time. Actually, they are able to push ads, instead of having to wait for a query. Twitter is able to auction with more "vectors", such as location, whole feed, followers etc. They do not have to do any information retrieval over this data, it is already provided with the structure.

Twitter does not have any privacy issues. It is already assumed that nearly everything you post on Twitter is public, so no one is going to screw them for using this. The data posted on Twitter is not sensitive, unlike Facebook.

Also, there is a huge value about the way they receive the data. They have a significant edge over the old web, as they get a lot of things before the whole world. What is even better, they do not have to pull this data, people push it to Twitter. They have data faster and they do not have costs related to crawling the web.

So, if for some reason they do not want flood people with ads, they are also able to auction immediate notifications about queries, the whole stream of tweets, some parts of it. They are able to set the minimum price of each auction so they offset their costs. Everyone focuses on Twitter as a marketing channel but there are many, very profitable, industries that live by the speed, die by the speed.

And do not get me started with the control they have over links posted in Tweets...

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I don't seem much difference, but I also prefer when making websites to keep down the number of languages I have to know. Already html + css + js + a server side language is enough, introducing another seems excessive when your templating language could just be js or perhaps the same server side language you already use.

we do the same for our server side templating when making sites, using php for controller & model code, but also arbitrary php as the template language in the view too. it seems to work well, and avoids the need to learn something new.
Yeah the Sensorly data isn't perfect, but it's crowdsourced from actual people's phones, so I trust it slightly more than the official carriers' coverage maps. Their Sprint 4G data is pretty good.

Sensorly is always updating their app and maps, so they might add the Bell and Telus networks at some point..
Yep, that's exactly it : the difference between men and women - or at least me and my girlfriend, to avoid generalization :) - is that we know what and where to buy what we need.

When she goes out 'shopping', it defines a hobby, whereas it defines an concrete action for men. At least I guess :)
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The only identity verification done by the vast majority of CAs is that you must be able to reply to email sent to one of a few email addresses at the domain you are trying to get a cert for. There have even been cases where people have gotten certs for free email providers just by signing up for one of those email addresses.
I see one issue, and have one question.

First, the "issue." Taking the location from what the browser gives you, and not allowing a way to override or specify it explicitly, might lead to weird results. For example, if I found the site and browsed to it while traveling to - say - Boston, but "my" city is really - say - Chapel Hill, then my signup "vote" will count for the wrong place no? Or couldn't variances in granularity affect that... so, if I signup while sitting at work in Morrisville, but I really consider myself to be "part of" Chapel Hill, is it going to work out correctly?

The question: How is this going to be different from http://www.startupwithme.com/ They're already doing a "co-founder matching" sort of thing... How do you differentiate yourself from them?
This quote summarizes the whole issue for me:

Two weeks ago, as it happens, I took my business away from AT&T. The reason? Simple. T-Mobile offered me a better deal.

Lower prices. No two-year contract. And monthy savings because I brought my own phone.

It was a free market. So I moved.

And now, that choice is gone. Sure, you can choose between companies A, B, & C. All of which cost roughly the same, nickel & dime you to death, and make similar efforts to restrict customer freedom.

Did I mention I will theoretically have to pay an extra $50 to use tethering the same way I've been doing since I got T-Mobile?!?
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I think that, regardless of the premise being true or not, there certainly seems to be a potential market for streamlining what's fashionable for men's fashion.
This touches on another thing people forget in the world of business: There's room for more than one. We're entering the music startup scene, where there are lots of existing companies, but just because one of them succeeds doesn't mean us or all of the others have to fail. It just makes for better press fodder to always pit companies against each other like boxing matches.

I've often given advice, helpful links or other help freely to people you might consider my competitors. I think it's just a form of networking, and I'd rather win what success I have on merit and just working hard/smart enough to win over users.
Have you talked to any personal shoppers to see how your thoughts on how men want to be shopped for match up with their experiences?

Most of my more successful hacker friends in the finance industry whose wives are not interested in shopping for them went this route, and rely completely on their personal shoppers. Even the ones I would consider only slightly better dressed than random selection love the service.
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I should add that we're not looking for a team of hackers that are themselves in need of rapid iteration but it is, in fact, the job spec that could do with said iteration :-)