That's awesome you set this out for yourself. Almost every bright person and genius I know are all self taught, kudos for jumping in the pool and the best of luck. Keep us updated.
Hi Aaron I'm interested in this space too, especially around the latter. The issue with money transfers U.S & regulatory practices hindering any innovative development on the international front. What have your experiences been with facecash in that area?
Glad to see you guys going strong. I attended the meetup back in 2010 at that small coffee shop. I'm no longer living in the area however; I wish you guys lots of good engaging conversations.
Seems like they went after everyone. 2012 has not been so good for these types of sites.
Some info on the phone I found on some site: <================================================>
In order to use Republic's $19 per month plan, you must purchase its specially modified LG Optimus smartphone. A clone of the Optimus S available from Sprint, Republic's Optimus includes software that manages the switch from Wi-Fi to cellular networks automatically. The software permanently runs in the background, so it is likely to have an impact on battery life when compared with a normal Optimus smartphone. The Republic Optimus costs $199 without any contract commitment.
It's several things but to your question on average people pay upwards of 50 dollars for phone service this is significantly cheaper.
Thanks PG, you must wear many hats.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079246
Check this one out.
This is a space that does require some disruption.
Good job.
I live in the Midwest but if and when i do come by the bay(Hopefully soon). I will contact you before hand, bring some bagels and stop by for a chat :).
+1 I like the idea, this seems like a pretty interesting way to build a relationship with tons of like minded people.
By that same judgement your parents didn't teach you the virtue "if you don't have something good to say, you should keep your mouth shut"
I have a friend of mine who found himself in a similar situation. He is working on his PHD now. He approached the school staff and set up something where he would pay everything out of pocket even given his meager means this guy worked hard to pay off every penny.
This is nothing that is impossible, i hope it works out.
Since your so keen to rules and such you may need to re-read the rules we abide by here on HN.
Wow seriously guy?. Wtf take this to reddit, if you don't have anything to add to the discussion then shut up please.
Do you have a link for reading the published papers from the varying groups. I'm interested in this also, thank you btw.
Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming/
+1 For MIT open courseware..
my advice is to just dive in you will pick it up.
varikin thanks alot i did not know about minnebar, checking it out.
+1 for Minneapolis i live here and love this city, lived in other cities with better tech scenes, but imo this town has alot to offer.
yellowblkpk i'm assuming you live in the twin cities too, do we have good meetups tailored to an HN like community here? i haven't found anything good yet.
Thanks Adamgedde I support the community of hackers everywhere. And especially to lose such a towering figure within our community it's definitely painful.
condolences to the family.
Thanks Adamgedde for posting this on HN. I'm from Minneapolis and we lost a great figure in this community.
R.I.P Luke you were an inspiration.
Cool take on the roulette theme, but as far as signing up on your site goes i can't even enter my number. For example i enter my area code but i'm unable to continue to enter the rest of the number for some weird reason the cursor skips back to the area code box.
edit: i'm on chrome.. works on IE tho.
Some funds are invitation only, but good luck.
..no.
Check out kaiser permanante.
Wow, thanks for the info.
Pretty interesting to see an early look at facebook HQ in palo alto. Mark used a quite a lot of "so's" in the interview. Seems like the "other things" he talks about besides just being a college directory has worked out pretty well.
Quick question to HN users that are more informed. at this timeline who was funding facebook?
I'm trying to analyze data from Google on the amount of press that a vendor at the Minnesota State fair got this year using Google. So far i'm unable to get anything using Google insight or anything.
The vendor debut a new delicacy at the state fair called "Camel on a Stick" and i'm helping in getting him a better idea on feedback which has been great in the press but we need something substantial. for example it went from 400 hits on google prior to its debut to over 54,000 hits after its debut.
HN community i ask for your help in this endeavor thank you.