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Hi from Sprint - it works great for me, I've been testing for a couple of weeks. This is actual back-end call routing as opposed to VOIPing the call through the app on the phone.

http://bit.ly/sprintgooglevoice
As if they'd let you live.
I can't seem to find out much about delivery on the site - is that a service you're going to provide to the chefs or do they have to cook/deliver the food themselves?

Either way, great work guys!
Step into the 1970s and not need to do those things. If you had to type stuff on a typewriter, you didn't spend hours picking out a pretty font, you used the one you got: the typewriter font. Nobody cared if your publishing wasn't professional quality, theirs wasn't either. You didn't IM your friends inane updates regarding your current thoughts on whatever Sarah Palin said five minutes ago, you sent them actually interesting letters. For that matter, you didn't have 1000 "friends", you had 10 real friends.

When someone asked "Who was that guy, in that movie? You know, the guy?", you didn't look up imdb.com on your smartphone while everyone watches you type on a tiny screen, you said "dunno" and moved on with your life. You didn't spend ten minutes debating between buying the 4ft or 6ft USB cables and finding the best price online because you didn't need to buy USB cables.

Yeah, things have changed, but progressed? Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to go back, but that's more to do with being accustomed to this lifestyle, not because it's particularly better. We do more because we're expected to do more, and we're expected to do more because somebody else started doing more.

"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
"If we mandate competition, it's not a FREE market."

In addition to the other fine replies made, I want to highlight this to strongly disagree with it. In fact actually having a free market requires aggressively protecting it when a given market naturally coalesces into a monopoly or oligarchy. Trust-busting isn't an anti-free-market position, it's a pro-free-market position. The anti-free-market actions come from governments picking winners and enshrining monopolies/oligarchies through regulatory capture.

In particular, when advocates of other social organizations level this as a criticism of free market, my response is to point out that when you have lack of mandated competition with some form of government-selected winners, be it communism, socialism, or "crony capitalism", you don't have a free market at all and the criticism is more generally applicable to the social organization being argued for by the person raising this criticism.

In a free market, a new company always ought to be able to come along and completely destroy an existing company if they do a good enough job. If you don't have this, you don't have a free market.
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Personally? Because I think an HN upvote will have more effect. True story. NB: I live in South Carolina.
Yes, I'd love to hear when the site launches too.
This is literally one of two ideas we have been flipping between.

What we found was that all the current mobile gifting services lacked local businesses, were mostly SMS based and, the surprising problem, were partnering with the merchant. This means they are not "everywhere" nor are they granular - Not personal enough ($25 at Target). We tested a few last year and found that when we went to redeem the gift, either the merchants had no idea what we were talking about, even with phone and print out in hand, or the redemption process was a pain in the ass.

We also found something that surprised us. We assumed people would think it was rather impersonal. However, finding new ways to say "thanks for helping me move", etc., people found to be much more fun and personal - We also implied a level of custom-ability in gifting and had no interest in partnerships, big box or otherwise.

It is fantastic to see someone else taking this on as I personally think there is something huge here. There are so many nuisances to this and it is very interesting to see how each company is tackling them.
I'm discouraged by the fact that this may well be the worst logo in the history of technology.
I know of Freenet and Tor, but haven't heard of Phantom. Because the word 'phantom' returns a huge number of irrelevant Google results, I haven't been able to find the project. Care to throw us a pointer?
Analysis: higher prices, fewer choices if AT&T swallows T-Mobile
Hi, I'm one of the team developing MindTime and thought that perhaps I might help in the discussion. While you definitely seem to use Future thinking as your lead (the brief description points to our lead perspective more than anything) it does not mean that you aren't also using a good amount of Present or Past thinking in the mix. My experience with COO's is that they are often Future/Present or Present/Future thinkers. Especially in software development. The nature of the beast requires a strong ability to stay with what can often be a moving target and changing sets of variables or assumptions while driving things toward concrete goals. The more in-depth description provided in the FB app should give you a fuller picture of your thinking style.
> I mean, I hear this "people lie" thing, but when was the last time a brick-and-mortar business website you saw lied about where they are? What benefit does one have in saying your business is actually located in New York City rather than Miami.

All I know is, I remember the web before Google and I remember how much spam every single search pulled in on the engines that were susceptible to keyword spam. I think that's a pretty solid piece of empirical evidence that if you give people the ability to do it again they will. It doesn't matter why.

> The people you want turning up are the target audience because those guys are going to pay you money.

Spammers simply don't seem to think like this.

> If the cost for lying in the tag is sufficient (i.e. Google won't rank you as high), then you've got a motivation for telling the truth.

This might work. I know, however, it would be yet another arms race.
Most people nowadays probably buy a $500 laptop and a $200-300 game console. What if you could replace both of those devices with a dockable iPad that runs around $600 ($500 for the iPad and $100 for the dock and controllers).

Sure, it's not going to be as good as a $299 PS3, but it will be much better than the PS3 at things like email, browsing the web, and doing computer related functions. When you get home, drop it in the dock and watch Netflix, or play some games.
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Each chef does his/her own delivery at the moment. The availability schedule sets the day/time that you would likely get your meals.

We definitely imagine offering a delivery service for chefs in the future!
You would think, with the big deal Obama is making about how we need to do everything we can to encourage more start ups, he would offer some kind of 2 year tax free grace period. I understand that we need to tax to some extant, but how much more likely do you think start ups would be to succeed if we didn't have to worry about taxes eating away our already limited money during the first most crucial steps?
You need to qualify the question i.e. I use Linux for some servers but OSX for desktop
I suspect many of them view it as a psuedo-hobby, where at least part of the business costs can be discounted as "personal time". For those more invested in the platform than just a hobby, possibly they see running multiple apps as diversifying that risk.

If you aren't feeling charitable, there's also the timeless explanation of fantastic stories of money made combined with poor judgement.
Or you could just ask good interview questions that don't require knowledge of computer science trivia, like asking the candidate to write a program that plays hangman.

Of course, depending on the application computer science "trivia" could actually be part of the job requirement. E.g. if you're trying to build a scalable web service, maybe it really is important for the candidate to know when to use a heap.

I think a more or less unequivocally bad interview question is how to figure out if a linked list ever loops back using constant space. Maybe I'm just extrapolating my own stupidity, but I don't think that's the sort of thing people can reliably be expected to discover for themselves on the fly, so you'll just end up filtering out folks who haven't heard the answer to the question already.
500? Sounds good to me. Meet me in the options market.

Edit: Bought 10 July 28 puts and sold 10 July 27 puts against it. If AT&T is below 27 by July expiration I make $500. If the stock is above 28 by July expiration I lose $500.
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I have a feeling your comment will get dismissed as irrelevant snark, but I have a sinking feeling it's much more accurate than anyone would like to admit. AT&T is pretty well in bed with the government, which gives it political cachet that Google can't dream of getting without wrecking its credibility.
I believe there is a strong cultural bias to where people go when they graduate. In France, the situation seems to be the exact opposite to the one in the US: there are 6 times more engineering schools as there are business schools.

France being a country where business is something regarded with suspicion while in the US it has such an aura, which explains this state of affairs quite well.
Alas, the Java hate. MALLET, Mahout and Lingpipe are written in Java too and don't suffer from it.
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It's incredible that L'OrÃ©al placed 40. I wouldn't want to work for a company that has non-printable name apparently.
From my very brief test of both:

The main difference is that cloud9Ide is a general purpose IDE, while akshell is intended as a tool for Akshell platform development.

Akshell is an IDE (version 0.3 currently) to create javascript apps on the Akshell infrastructure. Which seem to be based nodeJS, or something similar:

"The Akshell engine is based on Google V8. It compiles JavaScript code
into native code; so execution is utterly fast."

The Akshell infrastructure seems to be composed of a javascript/html framework, a relational database javascript API, the IDE to create apps, a git server to host code, and a infrastructure to handle deployment and scale of apps. It claims that the platform will be open sourced soon, so you will be able to host apps on your own server.

The cloud9ide is a more general IDE, with syntax highlight for various languages: javascript, ruby, python, html, css, coffee script, XML, PHP, and more may be added in the future.
Some features provided are integration with github, nodeJS debugging, team chat and team management, an extensions mechanism, and themes.

I find syntax highlight to perform similar on both IDEs.

Cloud9ide license is free for open source projects, with a monthly fee for private projects.
I couldn’t find license terms on the Akshell Ide. Currently they are on open beta, and I suppose that pricing terms will be announced at a later time.
I'm focusing on cost because I don't see how a video lecture can be dramatically better than an in person one, but I can easily see how it could be just as good. This could be a failure of imagination on my part.

A model I'd like to see attempted - 2 hours of lecture (video) + 1 hour of recitation (human supervised), in lieu of 3 hours of lecture+recitation by a human. Now a single human can teach 3x more classes. That's a massive reduction in costs, but I don't see how it can significantly increase educational outcomes.

There is one caveat - I expect lecture quality would improve a bit. If only the best teachers record videos, then lecture quality will be better than average. By definition, human-delivered lectures can only be average.
A designer will get you either PSDs or HTML/CSS - then you can hand that off to a developer who will build the javascript and server-side.
It actually ended in January 2009.
Yeah, and that doesn't even bother me, because I love living here and wouldn't trade that 1.5% for a suburban commute. To start with, I don't have to own a car, so that alone probably puts me ahead on income (the cost of rent puts me right back behind again, though).

I am still upset as a Red Sox fan that a bunch of that money went to subsidizing the new Yankee Stadium, though.
The story makes the point that Google spends a lot of time and effort making itself appear to be a great place to work, whether or not it actually is. This is important because it means more people will apply there first before applying elsewhere and that gives Google a first mover advantage.

That being said, any company looks better on the outside than on the inside. I don't know if it is universal but many, perhaps even the majority, of folks I've worked with where they were at their 'second' job, have remarked that some of the problems they thought they left behind, were where they arrived. The grass 'appears' greener but its still grass :-)
Everyone's ripping into this, and I'll be honest: I just wrote a long rant about what a terrible idea it is, but I thought about it some more and deleted it. And as a gift card, I still think I'm correct, this is not a great value proposition, primarily because you can't actually use the money (which comes in via PayPal) to buy stuff wherever you are. As someone that still remembers all too well being in college with $3 in my pocket and an overdrawn bank account, the greatest thing about gift cards was that they let you actually buy stuff immediately even if you have no money. The Paypal involvement bollockses that up, and that's not good; it also makes the fact that you're sent to a physical business kind of annoying, since you can really only use the money for online stuff unless you transfer it out of Paypal first.

But...

I had similar "who would ever use that?" thoughts about Foursquare when it launched, and had to revisit my feelings after seeing its success. It turns out that even if there's little value in the actual services provided, people really like the types of game mechanics that location-based apps make possible. This, IMO, is where GiftRocket should be focusing: they really should be pitching a game experience instead of a mere gift card.

I can easily imagine people setting up scavenger hunts, races, treasure maps, etc., if the site was set up to make that sort of thing easy and fun. You could even set up entire Amazing Race-style multi-leg races if it was done right. There are a lot of possibilities, and I could see the same sorts of people that get really into Foursquare getting really into this.

Don't get me wrong: I think this is a pivot that may need to be made, it's not where they are right now. As-is I don't see much emphasis of any game-mechanic in the marketing (and for that matter, the most likely fun applications, races and multi-leg treasure hunts, don't seem to be possible to construct), and the exclusive focus on sending people to businesses may not turn out to be the best approach unless they can start to sign on businesses to sweeten the deal (I'm sure they can line up things like 10% off if you redeem a gift card there or something like that). But even that's a bit of a shift, and it puts them more in the discount-seeking business than the gift card one.

Or I could just be wrong. This is a YC company, so they're sure as hell going to get enough eyeballs to battle-test the idea, and maybe the sheer novelty of it all will lure enough users to make this work even if they just stick with the current model.
Within Silicon Valley, I think the most desired employers are Your Own Startup, Your Close Friends' Startups, Quora, Square, Palantir, Facebook, and Google, in order of increasing size.
Also, in addition being spammers, they don't publish any negative comments on their site.
My company makes videos along these lines as well. We have found a sweet spot between 5-10 minutes per video (the shorter the better). Even breaking a long video into smaller chunks can help.
Umm, I dont think Bill Gates at the height of his prime was ever a Role Model :) Even for Nerds..
Thanks for pointing that out - I was wondering about why I was seeing 4.0 since yesterday when it updated itself.
Virgin Mobile USA is Sprint. They have a $25/mo plan.
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It is actually extremely murky, because there is no single document which states what the constitutional status is, there is a patchwork of legislation which refers to England and Wales, then there are the Wales-specific acts such as the Welsh Language Acts, and then there's the devolution and the devolved legislation (which establishes that Wales is to some degree independent within the UK). The constitutional problem, in a nutshell, is that Henry VIII introduced the Laws in Wales Acts to create the legal entity "England and Wales", but there had been no legal entity "Wales" before he did.

Also, if Wales is already a country, why is independence the stated aim of Plaid Cymru :)?
"hate to shop" doesn't mean "slob". As a hacker (not going to speak for males here, and this applies to many female hackers too), I (and many other hackers I know) take an analytical and deconstructing attitude towards clothes: I care about comfort, and I care about meeting whatever expectation the people I care about making a good impression on want. Nothing else.

Ideally, I would like all people in the latter category to stop caring about choices of clothing as a factor, but that won't happen any time soon, and meanwhile I choose to put up with the way the world works by acting accordingly to get the result I want. Ideally, I want to spend a minimal amount of effort achieving both of those goals, so I can spend time hacking on something useful.

So, I'd welcome anything which helps me put less thought into the the myriad incompatible standards for "fit" and other factors that determine comfort, and less thought into the myriad unwritten rules that form the collective expectations of shallow people ("fashion").
Thank you both, looking at both of those now.
> Two blog posts early on (one on NY vs. SF, and another about my time at Goldman Sachs) went viral and were what first put us on the map. To this day, people stop me when I’m wearing an AdGrok shirt and ask if I’m the guy from the blog. We’ve gotten meetings with major companies who might otherwise not return emails because of those posts. Pick a fight. Pinch a nerve.

It was interesting to know that these blog posts had such a positive effect just by unearthing a controversy, something out of the 37Signals playbook. Hard to argue against free marketing despite potentially stepping on a few toes.
"If it weren't for the fact that the iPad 3 is likely 12 months away with another set of similarly impressive upgrades I'd recommend all iPad users upgrade to the 2nd generation model."

Huh? But couldn't that be said of almost every iPad or iPhone or even any other tech product just about every year?

I personally never kept the first iPad because, even though it was a fun product to use, I really didn't have a need for it. I knew I'd need a new laptop though and the 11" Air has been fantastic for me in that role.

I wouldn't mind having a larger touch screen device, but not something as large as the current iPad. A 7" iPad - maybe, but preferably a larger screen iPhone, that would really do the job.
Does anybody know what version of DokuWiki was being run? I'd be interested to know whether this was a 0-day exploit (and if so when DokuWiki will be patched).
Great looking design! Interesting idea, and a cool way to try new things. Will keep an ear to the rail for when you guys start moving North (way North in this case, I'm in Canada :)
Solar Powered Clothing: The Future of Mobile Charging, 2 Years Out?
Ask HN: Should you bother hiding your website's secret sauce?
I'm looking for a cofounder, so I end up explaining my project to a lot of people. People wonder how I will accomplish it, but it only becomes obvious after I explain it (or show the demo)... I hear "Ohhhh... or that's interesting" and that freaks me out. I feel like I just gave it away.

I know I sound like every other paranoid freak, but I'm learning as I'm building so it's very slow. And I'm sure someone else could build it while I'm still looking things up.

Wracking your brain over nonsense like this comes with the territory, but I'll take any advice I can get.
It says on the FAQ that MMS messages will be sent through your Sprint number and not your Google Voice number.
I agree with this - it is really weird to me to dismiss an entire language and ecosystem because many of it's popular tools are configured through XML. You don't need to follow along with what everyone else is doing.
From Freemium to Paid, to the cover of Hacker Monthly. The Bidsketch story.
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Re: Replacing Humans

Depends on what level you are talking about. There is close to zero advantage to having a lecturer explain first year calculus to 450 students. That practice should be eliminated immediately and replaced with Khan (or Khan like technology).

It's embarrassing how many higher level education institutions haven't cracked that part of the puzzle. Save the budget and populate the Math Labs with (reasonably paid) Grad Students where the students are doing exercises, instead of paying (a typically horrible at presentations) mathematics professor to "Teach".
Agree completely. You need to democratise the concept of a 'personal shopper'.
The SF payroll tax limit is $250,000 now. It changed recently.
Number porting works fine except that text messages take an extra 48 hours to start appearing after the number is ported.
No, but I probably will be in the fall (when I apply to YC.) Namely AlphaLab, which is out of Pittsburgh.

http://www.alphalab.org/
Huh? But couldn't that be said of almost every iPad or iPhone or even any other tech product just about every year?

Yes, but there are outstanding rumors that the iPad3 is what they wanted the iPad 2 to be but couldn't due to some technical issues. So the current "iPad2" is actually a bit of a stopgap release to get something out on their normal cycle.

Source: http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-staffer-ipad-3-is-the-one-to-...
I do a lot of machine learning, and I'm not sure how useful this is. Machine learning technology is not currently automatic enough that it can be effective at the command-line level. By moving one level down the stack, to the API and library bindings level, it becomes a lot more effective.

What I'm saying is that to use command-line machine learning, I would have to couch it in a bunch of scripting. At that point in time, I might as well use library bindings. So command-line is not a selling point for me.
If library versioning in Python is bad, how would a JVM language be better? In my experience, there is no widely-used post-build-time system for declaring or checking dependencies except for OSGi, which is not spreading like wildfire as I expected it to. The Java model seems to be to bundle all your dependencies into a single deployable app, performing all dependency checking at build time and carefully isolating your app from other apps in an application container. I.e., don't even try to solve the problem of sharing libraries between applications.

Oddly enough, C has superior runtime checks (dynamic library loading using major version numbers) and install-time checks (*nix package dependencies) compared to dynamic languages. It is very, very strange to me that other language communities have neither embraced alternatives such as OSGi nor worked to transfer responsibility to native package managers such as dpkg or RPM. C et al. under Linux have set a standard that other language communities don't seem interested in matching, much less exceeding. As far as I know, the standard answer for deploying a security update to a Java library is to rebuild and redeploy the entire application that depends on it.