joshbaptiste

It really doesn't bother me at all because it makes sense why the low numbers exists in the first place. Basically the black community doesn't lend itself to hacking in general. When I hang with my friends I switch from geeky to a more hip hop style, they are simply not interested in what i am into and talk more about sport/entertainment topics. The few black friends I have that are in tech only do it for work. To have a Hacker/YC mind you usually have to fully immerse yourself into hacking, eg.. hacking at home,IRC etc.. So I believe the disproportion just reflects the type of people who simply interested. Believe me if you have the next million dollar idea in your hands then your set. The only color that really matters in this tech entrepreneurial space is green.

I cant wait!

meh... If someone has physical access to a GNU/Linux machine you'll most likely get pwned regardless.

Nice, a meet up in my neck of the woods. I will be attending.

Good thing I'll be at Pycon this year, definitely checking out this talk.

Indeed, airline availability is not an easy business to get into and is expensive to maintain. Most of our nodes are dedicated to pricing and low fare search.

This is exactly what happened I clicked this link.

1) clicked link from my RSS reader. 2) Ah great looking page, very simple to the point. 3) Wth.. $5 per page?? 4) closed the chrome tab, to comment on HN and seen that everyone else raised the same point.

Heh.. wonder what yegg of DuckDuckGo thinks of this article.

Indeed, but it was not actually what he said but the way he said it. He abruptly cut the question off as if he was talking to a friend and not the media. This is why Tseng cut in and explained the situation with calmness and professionalism. Had the question been directed at Tseng it would not make headlines.