skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't, the parent probably just didnt know the name of the course being taught (or didn't reference). I'm a current UChicago Booth student. My bet is that the parent poster was auditing a class of Building the New Venture. The following classes are Entrepreneurship or Venture Capital focused (in no particular order):

Building the New Venture
Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
New Venture Strategy
New Enterprise and Small Business Management
Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: New Venture Challenge
Entrepreneurial Internship Seminar
Commercializing Innovation
Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Selling
New Venture and Small Enterprise Lab
Private Equity/Venture Capital Lab
International Entrepreneurship Lab - China
E-Business Technology
Developing New Products and Services
Laboratory in New Product and Strategy Development I
Technology Strategy
Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Firm
Statistical Insight into Marketing Consulting and Entrepreneurship
Innovation in Energy Markets and Opportunities in Renewable Energy
Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions

You'll note that many of those are Lab classes - meaning that we work with real companies/firms on real issues they are dealing with. I'm likely missing 2-3 classes.

One of the people responding to the parent noted about how different the UChicago method is: focus on real data, real experience, and hard analysis. I'd say at least 30% of our class has some sort of hard math/science/engineering background.
I strongly disagree that you only get one chance for a first impression. Minimally, you get one chance at a first impression per customer.

None of you saw my site when it launched, because you were not among the 70 people who were subjected to that horror. (Those brave souls gave me many insights on how to make it better.) For the 60% of 5,000 people who visited yesterday who had never been to the site before, the past 3.5 years essentially didn't happen. To them, my site launched on Valentine's Day.

I also think people vastly, vastly overstate the degree to which you will develop a "reputation" or "brand" as being (whatever you are currently). Large companies pay Madison Avenue staggering sums of money to get people to remember them. They do it because it is inherently hard work. 99.99% of the time, a user having a negative experience with your site ends with the back button. 99.99% of the remainder, you get an email with, ahem, variable levels of politeness. Respond to it with grace and humility, and you'll avoid almost all long-term issues.
Turn those statistics around,

The disturbing thing is that some 30% of the electorate think she's so great she should run the country, 45% think she's pretty swell and some similar number didn't think she wasn't an automatic disqualification for the McCain campaign. More amazing is that these numbers are the numbers after the election, when she was revealed to be a dimwitted, incurious, manipulative, unethical and generally dishonest person of the highest caliber.

She's had the traditional upward trajectory of a shooting-star politician: local council, mayor, governor, and VP candidate (notice mostly executive positions, not legislative). At each stage she could have backed out and gone to the simple life of fishing and hunting while her husband ran snowmobile races or whatever in between trying to get Alaska to succeed from the Union. But she didn't, she kept stepping up and up and up, demonstrating a near limitless ambition. This is not the kind of thing one can indefinitely keep at bay with a few speaking gigs and some TV time on Fox.

She's not an ideals person (she can't even get through an interview without reading notes off of her hand), or somebody of a unifying or consistent internal vision, what she has is limitless ambition.

Considering that most people had never even heard of her before the election, and she still has this kind of following afterwards (despite these obvious shortcomings) would make me want to get her out on speaking engagements and doing favorable TV spots as much as possible for the next couple of years.

Mark my words, she will be a candidate for President in the next election cycle starting in a year or two.
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They asked for consent. (Multiple times, in my case). You can argue that they weren't clear enough about exactly what they were getting consent for -- and I agree they weren't -- but they asked for it all the same.

The "storm" around this is reflecting really poorly on tech news blogs, many of whom are reporting this as if users had absolutely no say and just landed with a public profile. It's flat wrong, and we should stop promulgating that here.
I believe every one of those words was at one time used in a professional medical context (your "original intent"), to mean a specific thing. Over time they were all co-opted by laymen (us) as insults. Anal-retentive is another such term that's been co-opted, although I think it's still in current medical use.

Words are subject to fashion, just like clothes. 100 years ago Hillary was a male name, now it's more commonly a female name (in the US anyway).

"Where do we draw the line with allowing words to be used outside of their initial purpose?"

You can't. People are going to do whatever they want.
If we could only turn these egos loose on a race to the moon...or something similar The X-Prizes are great but these guys are putting more money, research and effort into building faster ships when there are much bigger, and more interesting, problems to solve.
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The average install/uninstall process is ridiculously easier on Mac OS X. Literally, it's:
1. Drag the single icon (regardless of instruction set or sizeof(int)) into your Applications folder.
2. Double-click the icon.

Oh yeah, step 1 is optional.

Certainly if Mac OS X were primarily used for installing command line tools / daemons, a package manager would be a stark omission. But that's not what the incredibly vast majority of its users do with it. For the average Mac OS X user, application management is more pleasant than for the average Linux user.
My goals? To eventually get into more AI / statistics / datamining (currently I do primarily UI development) / graph analysis.

I've tried to teach myself the math involved, but I've come to the conclusion that to really learn it I'll need courses in it. It's mainly the math, I think, that I'll have "trouble" (actually have to study) with - not the programming.

Without loans, I'd have to work full time to support myself. This would cause my performance at school to suffer, unless I took a barista/service type job. Which I'm not sure I could support myself with (to be honest, I don't know how the baristas here in NYC do support themselves with it). I've been out of the service industry since my first go-around at college, and have no desire to return whatsoever.

With loans, I'll be able to concentrate fully on the work involved, and perhaps have time left over to build a few cool things that I don't have time for now.

A BS degree program will get me the background in maths (Bayesian theory, calculus, linear algebra, statistics) and advanced computer science (ANNs, GAs, compiler design) that will get me to the place I really want to be: advanced/next-gen datamining and knowledge systems. I'd really like to be working on how to analyze how people connect and predict trends based upon it. (Yes, I understand that many privacy people, including myself, have issues with such a thing. It's something I'm fascinated with, but have moral qualms about implementing. Also, lack of experience/know-how.)
Apples to oranges...

For one thing, CPUs don't have to do anything when power is not applied to them. Your disk has to keep all its data regardless of whether it has power or not.

Ignoring that, storage is something you need a lot more of than addition circuits or whatever; if you look at the diagrams of CPUs showing what transistors show what purposes, you'll see a lot of them are the cache. Because there is more need for storage than computation.
the article explains the reasoning behind why this sort of accounting is allowed. that is not the issue, the issue is the abuse.
Trivial. The main issue with the technology is that it doesn't work yet :) When it works, you can bet that hardware manufacturers will adapt it as necessary.

And BTW, there are lots of SSDs that aren't laptop-hard-drive size. The ones in the eeepc are just mini-PCI cards -- very small.
If only I were eligible for dual citizen status (and thus decreased education costs) in any of the countries my family originated from. Unfortunately, said lineage is much too far back (3-9 generations) to make any dual citizenship claims in any of the countries (UK, Netherlands, Lithuania). If any of you know the opposite to be true about that, please let me know.
Uh, there is already storage available that's much smaller than this; microSD cards, for example.
This source article goes into depth on the original hammer issue and contains more information than the linked article:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+case+for+the+$435+hammer-a...
Because stuff like this
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article702...
is now pouring out, and realclimate.org is implicated in the climategate scandal, so you might want to go somewhere else for unbiased information
Here is an example using history sniffing to guess the gender of a website visitor.

http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h...
Sorry, I forgot to post the link to the poll numbers themselves:

http://www.pollingreport.com/p.htm#Palin

Observe how her unfavorable ratings have been going almost monotonically upward since the election. The more people hear about Palin, the less they like her.
You label it denialism. I think it's closer to robust skepticism.
Actually, I think there's still room for a WP plugin based on your project. I've tried WP-Typography before, and while I love KingDesk's intentions, I didn't like the complexity of using the package (not to mention that it requires XHTML strict and my WP theme is all 4.01, a boat I imagine many WP users are in).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_information
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Either the Google folks never thought about the privacy issues they were igniting with Buzz; or else they did think about them and decided they weren't important. I don't know which alternative is worse.
"Unbiased information." That's a good one. Why I linked to realclimate.org is because, unlike so many denialist sites, they cite the actual studies and the data that are the basis of our understanding. In that sense, realclimate.org is one of the absolute least biased sites you can possibly refer to: they are biased only in that they accurately and dutifully report on the data.

By the way, when you refer to "the climategate scandal," you really don't do yourself any favors. There is no "climategate scandal" other than that a well-coordinated group of hackers (in the negative sense of the word) committed criminal acts in order to embarrass scientists and undermine the perceived validity of their work. Indeed, in that sense, "climategate" is much like the Watergate scandal, and you seem to be throwing your lot in with the villains of this story. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren't evil, manipulative or duplicitous, but merely ignorant. There's many good (read, well-cited) sources dedicated to debunking the poisonous myth that is "climategate," such as http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2009/12/the_climategat.... For more general information, please see http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to....
I flirt with ideas, sneak off into the bushes with ideas, have affairs with ideas, but I can't finish anything. If it's not procrastination that kills me, it's not getting ideas to the stage where they're public. I know there are a lot of procrastinators here, but does anyone else get distracted part way through each idea and jump ship to working on the next shiny thing?
It's mainly the math, I think, that I'll have "trouble" (actually have to study) with - not the programming.

Have you considered finding a study partner for learning the math? Or a tutor--if you live near a university, you could probably find a math major that could use some spare cash.

I'd really like to be working on how to analyze how people connect and predict trends based upon it.

Working where? At an existing company? There's not too many options there, so you'd want to plan toward landing a relevant job (whatever that might take--and a degree alone isn't worth all that much; professional networking is). At a start-up? In that case, debt is probably the last thing you want.
Cmon, you seriously think Michael Richards was using angry shouting and shock value as comedic techniques?

Can anyone honestly think that lashout was funny?
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Are you forgetting homemade porn? That seems like a much larger segment than those others, but is realistic by definition.
Yeah, I suppose that's reasonable - in fact, it's probably true.
This article didn't cover what will happen to the JSR process. IBM has a huge investment in java but is now a direct competitor to oracle/weblogic. I'm worried oracle will not be as open with the JSR process and IBM will be less inclined to help make an Oracle product better. I'd really like to see a commitment to the community process that made J2EE great. As far as startups using java... Tomcat and JBOSS application server are free and scalable. Framework combo's i've used are spring/struts/jsp spring/java server faces/icefaces spring/spring web/jsp.
Yes, I do label it denialism. Propagating myths like the ones azgolfer is propagating over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125626 shouldn't be called anything else. As I said elsewhere, I welcome real and substantive debate. What I abhor, and am loathe to see taking root at HN, is the utter and complete denial of the massive body of evidence demonstrating AGW. Rather than pointing out problems in an intelligent and thoughtful way, what I see taking hold here is a never-ending parade of unfounded and demonstrably false assertions in the support of the denialist position.
Sorry if it isn't HN-worthy.

I personally found it to be so humorous and clever that I thought you guys would get a kick out of it. :)
> Furthermore, was Silverman really making a statement about political correctness and free speech–or was she just going after Palin?

Both. So, here's the events in not-quite-chronological order:

1. Rahm Emanuel calls recalcitrant liberal democrats "retarded."

1.5. Palin is outraged.

2. Rush Limbaugh mentions the "retard conference."

2.5. Palin is not outraged, because "satire" is okay.

3. Sarah Silverman accepts this bet and makes a comedy routine that is incredibly outrageous, but obviously satirical.

Is it okay? Of course it's not okay, because Palin is a hypocrite and only cares about the issue as far as it is political leverage; she's been accused of using "the r-word" on multiple occasions from multiple sources.

So then Silverman's satire is a political joke of high caliber and razor wit. But, it's also highlighting a larger issue that people have with doing generous things for selfish and calculated reasons. The actual substance of her talk is basically that she wants a special needs kid because this makes her an awesome person.
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Respectfully, this is a batshit crazy idea. History sniffing is a gaping security flaw. The thing we need to do with it is eliminate it. What we don't need to do is arm unscrupulous developers with arguments for why the behavior should be protected.
Actually, I'd argue that among the top 7 business schools, there are certain distinctions between them that will appeal to different people with different professional goals.

MIT, UChicago, and Stanford all seem to appeal more to engineering types and offer a more quantitative / scientific focus.

Wharton is known for their emphasis on finance and is usually ideal for people wanting to become IBankers.

Columbia has its roots in Benjamin Graham-style investing and you'll see a lot of students there go on to those types of hedge funds.

Harvard is more regarded for its emphasis on management and heavy use of case studies, and the people that go there tend to seek out consulting or rotational programs within the F500.
That article is about one of the IPCC authors validating a 'denialists' claim. It is the climategate scientists that broke the law, but the statute of limitations had expired (it is only six months, the law is seriously flawed), so they haven't been prosecuted. Here is another example of someone going directly from the raw data and finding no warming
http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2010/01/global-warming/
We trusted them with finance and look what happened, why should we trust them on something that is way more important but also a thing that can be way more lethal when done wrong.

Icelandic legislature and business elite is not to be trusted, certainly not with your human rights, what are these people thinking?
Shorter version: a bad workman blames.
The approach he advocates is basically to "shotgun" projects and make a little bit off each one:

http://blog.cubeofm.com/how-to-become-rich-even-if-nobody-is...

...which was widely criticized as advocating spam:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112043

Just to put him in more context.
pretty fast as well. Good Job!
you work for google, right?
Any suggestions?

Flag content-free political junk. Ignore the rest. Don't take it personally. Submit interesting technology articles instead. And please don't contribute to the noise by complaining about it.
I can't say I've read all (or even most!) of the articles posted on HN about this topic, the ones that I have haven't been climate `denialism' but rather scepticism and more specifically scepticism towards individual claims... There were some people outright rejecting AGW in the comments, but even that wasn't that common.

I'm of the opinion that the AGW hypothesis is correct. I'm very confident of it. (In particular because one can derive a correlation between atmospheric CO2 and average global temperature directly from the properties of CO2.) On the other hand, I'm sure that there are many individual pieces of evidence that are false.

It's good that they're questioned and subjected to rigour. False evidence for a true hypothesis is not something we should accept.

This is how science works and it not a bug but a feature.

The political spin being put on it is a minor irritation that will go away with time.

And be thankful you don't have relatives who tell you that global warming is a government conspiracy to give power to the UN demonstrating that the Antichrist is near. That is really irritating.
I can't imagine what you'd think of Malbolge[1] then.

[1] http://esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge
I don't think that was his point.

His point wasn't "poor people are poor because they spend too much", his point was, "maybe spending too much is part of what keeps them poor." Obviously there's a lot of factors reducing economic mobility anyway, but poor spending choices certain don't help.

The best example of this would be addiction. A lot of poor people are addicted to tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, etc. This puts a huge damper on any ability to save they might have.

But I'm sure he knows that sub-optimal spending decisions are just one of many reasons that poor people stay poor.
Niall wrote about this in 2008 (see post/url of post), and there have been several interesting write ups about this across the various outlets.

I'm pretty sure it's beeing used in loads of places by now - there's probably (/should be) a jQuery plugin for it, even.

I'm wondering why this is making it to HN now, 2 years later?
That's nice, but the claim was that there was something wrong with not having an abortion in certain circumstances. I'm trying to nail down some of those circumstances.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with saying 'n-word' instead of 'nigger'. You can call it anything you feel comfortable with. If you take offense to others saying 'nigger' then I apologize, that was not the intent. Do you also get offended when you hear some rapper saying 'nigger' in a song or interview?
I thought Joel's point was a bit better way of putting this: sales acts as a multiplier on product quality (and vice versa). So if either factor is zero, your total revenue will be zero too. If you try to sell a crappy product, you won't get any bites, and if you have a great product but never try to sell it, nobody will know about it.
I second the bit about traveling.

I relocated from Austin to San Francisco to Japan and with each move, I drastically reduced my lifestlye. It's just as PG said: you don't really miss anything.

And I dealt with books by getting an e-reader so I could carry my library in my backpack.
Its hilarious.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm

Phil Jones is backing away from that "massive body of evidence",

As to its "mass", no one outside of the believer community has seen it. It's not reproducible. Every time someone checks something, the result is far less than originally claimed.
Why talk about dividends? As you should know, Warren Buffet isn't a fan of dividends, and brk pays no dividends. There are quite a few tax benefits by using stock options which I cannot be bothered to list them all.

The most important benefit is that the company can use the money saved to invest right now instead of paying it upfront in taxes. The employee also saves by being able to decide which tax bracket he falls in and when to liquidate and incur taxes (likely when a Republican is in office).

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2233.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/business/07tax.html
> (In particular because one can derive a correlation between atmospheric CO2 and average global temperature directly from the properties of CO2.)

Except that if you actually do the arithmetic, you find that the "heat trapping" properties of atmospheric CO2 concentrations can't produce the claimed temperature increases. That's why the AGW folks talk about the feedback effects, effects which are dependent on other things.

Note that the paleo record shows much higher levels of CO2 in the past (2-10x) with comparable to today temperatures....
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Not sure about the legal implications but there are a couple sites that have their terms of use / privacy policy under creative commons. Wordpress has their ToS under CC share alike: http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
It's definitely hilarious and very clever, but probably not HN-worthy. Here's the original source: http://www.myapokalips.com/show/23%23comic
The focus of these kinds of articles always seems to rest much to heavily on there's too much evil porn and not on there's not enough good sex education, which I think is the real issue.