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No, shii's with Red Hat.

I don't think the db is public, it's being sold for a price.

Apologies, I inferred that since this piece was written on blackweb20.com , you were saying the reason the two youngsters weren't getting attention was due to their racial background instead of age.

Exactly. Remember some kid back a few years ago that was always getting coverage on TC for being 15 and some sort of tech god or something? What exactly did he do to warrant all this attention other than connections and knowing people in insular, navel gazing little ol Silicon Valley? I recall he later went on to start a startup called Teens In Tech which apparently was just a Wordpress:MU install for other rad techy teens. Not sure how that panned out, but the last I heard of him was some fiasco involving MacBook for posts scandal or something when he became a writer for TC.

Age IMO should not matter when it comes to the tech or startup world. A meritocracy has been the norm for awhile now, regardless of age. I think these two young kids ought to be applauded for their work so far (hell, I had no clue what a startup was when I was 11, much less had a captive audience to pitch one to) and be encouraged in their endeavors with guidance and mentoring. They seem really driven and have great potential to succeed in whatever they aim for in life. The barriers to entry on the high perilous seas of online and mobile startups are lower than ever and with the right encouragement, they can go far in realizing their dreams. Good luck to them.

There are few minorities at pretty much every startup event, if you discount east Asians that is.

tl;dr Wayne Sutton confuses lack of interest in conducting srs bzns as racial prejudice/racism when it probably has more to do with age and quality of idea. Also what exactly do said children bring to the table? If the young man there had a prototype already in the works built by himself, that would be something.

Honestly, I never understood the idea of pitching startups at events like these to garner funding or co-founders, with no actual code/product/etc no matter the age, skill, or race of the individual. Always seemed a little quixotic and irrationally exuberant. pg and co seem to not mind however, as they seem to have gotten pitches (and accepted them) for non-existent startups. Wasn't Reddit at 0 when it was pitched and accepted into original YC?

Then again, there's a quote of pg somewhere saying nearly everyone has a product/some code at least now when pitching to YC.

Addendum to your moral: get a job in finance and don't waste your time making CRUD apps and being Super IT/DBA Guy at some uni's bio research lab. Much better pay, and if you're lucky you can train on in maths and the like to move up from day trading to being a full on quant. Then you can have the midlife crisis after you've amassed some capital and connections to start your special startup in SoCal.

HN is mirrored on tons of sites. The fact that it's the default on somewhere like jimmyr.com for 'coding' should tell you how well-known news.yc has become. Don't think it's full of erudite hackers only anymore.

Please stop upvoting this blogspam posted constantly by unixroot. He's clearly doing this to promote his site, thehackernews.com

I imagine he's made a killing lately with all the Lulzsec drama that gets reflex upvoted. Just more noise and blogspam. He submits several stories a day exclusively from that domain, thehackernews.com

500+; the downvoting threshold should be enough.

Mandating business and rich folk to keep x% of assets in country is not unreasonable (it's what Putin has done in Russia, and so far it's worked over there). But I think the bigger worry for the leader group is the huge population of poor and 'middle class' Chinese living in rough conditions with little to no hope for betterment, worsening conditions in lots of sectors, and growing wealth gap. To see city after city of gleaming malls and towering housing developments but almost completely devoid of actual residence was astonishing last winter when I visited for 2 months.

This coupled with the ridiculous on-going property bubble, yet lack of affordable housing, sky-rocketing food prices, and other social and economic ills makes me wonder how the Politiburo and Party in general will act to control the situation. What is happening in all the massive, empty cities being built everyday is ridiculous and makes the USA's housing bubble look benign in comparison.

Thank you for the article, tokenadult. Quality translation as well.

Don't believe me, just search through Twitter convos[1] between them. It's pretty funny actually. Lulzsec does something. th3j35t3r gets terrimad and says they are all that is wrong in the world. Lulzsec chortles `u mad bro`? GOTO 10.

He's actually laid another ultimatum (for the umpteenth time in the last 3 months) promising revenge. His first act seems to be that irc.lulzco.org is down. We shall see if anything else comes from his indignation.

[1] http://bettween.com/lulzsec/th3j35t3r

He's just a troll/internet tough guy having verbal warfare via Twitter and IRC.

Most decent sized chans have their /prog/ board. See shii's Overchan[1] for a comprehensive list of chans on the WWW.

Shii personally runs a pretty nice chan called 4-ch[2] with a large and decent DQN[3] textboard. (S)he founded this chan after being banned from 4chan and SomethingAwful. I don't know whether shii still frequents 2ch or Futaba.

I don't consider the English chans online for programming to be all that great. Most (if not all) are textboards with few postings and lots of trolling over the last 3 years. I don't know the state of the huge Japanese ones however, as I do not frequent them or read the language.

[1] http://shii.org/2ch/

[2] http://4-ch.net/4ch

[3] 4-ch.net/dqn/

This is from the textboards (see the dis. subdomain) not the img. , which is where /b/ and a ton of other imageboards on 4chan are at. Textboard posts never die. There are postings you can find and bump up from 2004 till now. Imageboard posts that have merit also last awhile; 60ish posts in, they just sort of last for a few hours and if they're good enough, they get archived on chanarchive.com (formerly 4chanarchive.com)