skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MBAs are different from engineering degrees in that while a MBA from a top school is super valuable, a MBA from a so-so school is, as far as I can tell, worth very little. Keep in mind that one-year MBAs from disreputable schools are often advertised to working people.

I mean, you do learn things; my understanding is that it's sort of a 'survey degree' that gives you a shallow treatment of a lot of different business disciplines. If they would have let me take the MBA without an undergrad, even at a so-so school, I would have done it a few years into my own adventure running a business, and I think it would have helped me. If you have management experience and skills, a MBA even from a not so great school can help. But I think the difference between a MBA from a meh school and a MBA from a top school is overall far greater than the difference between an engineering degree at a meh school and an engineering degree at a top school.
Not so much setting up shop next door as an advantage, but moving miners closer to the pool you mine with would. If that happens to be near chearper hydro power, better. But I don't think that power companies mind being able to make more money. With ASICs and GPUs being the constraint against a competitor, power is a lower concern.
A few months ago if you ignore the safety driver [0].

If cars with safety drivers don't count, nearly a year ago if you move to Pheonix and get lucky [1]. They're apparently planning to launch in more cities "soon" (though I can't find a list or date) [2] and they've recently got permission to start charging passengers and intend to by the end of they year [3].

So I think "decades" is an exaggeration.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16742924/lyft-nutonomy-bo...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15415840/waymo-self-drivi...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/waymo...

[3] https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/waymo-now-a-full-ride-hai...
And, of course, the most important result of the paper is 13 million degrees of Kevin Bacon:

"The largest family tree in the processed data spanned 13 million individuals who were connected by shared ancestry and marriage (Fig. 1C). The tree included public figures such as Kevin Bacon..."
Amazon is in fact searching for and proactively blocking counterfeiters by using image searching, machine learning, etc.

There are literally multiple teams with lots of software engineers working on these problems.

Currently entry into brand registry is a requirement for these programs. You would be shocked to see the head count and money Amazon is spending in this area, they are investing heavily.
Their competitor's website (which has slightly nicer sorting/filtering functions, imo) is here: https://www.passportindex.org
I'm not as certain about that. Potentially optimistic, but I could imagine bikes taking on a larger role as we move to self driving cars.

If you read threads about biking[0], people seem to be motivated to bike more than they are motivated to drive. Although these same people are stymied by negative conditions. Self driving cars could improve biking conditions by opening up roadways, making them safer, providing better point to point transit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420271
I grew up in the 90s. My dad would tell me about the plotters they had at work. I remember many of the old dos programs from that era would have plotters listed in their printer options. (Anyone remember Banner Mania?)

I never actually saw a plotter in person though. We just had an ink jet at home and lasers at school.

This is a pretty amazing post though. I never knew how plotters worked, or even realized how elegant their protocol was.

A lot of people talk about how kids will never appreciate x, y, z today. I remember in high school when a friend of ours got his first CD burner, a 16x. We had been struggling with 2x/4x burners (I even had an old SCSI burner). We were both like, "You will never appreciate that."

That's why posts like this are so important. I think a lot of people growing up will appreciate learning what technology was like; seeing simulations of old BBSes on 9600 bps modems. Sure, they'll never have that feeling we did of dialing BBS after BBS and downloading shareware, typing on FIDO net or photo copying our parent's drivers license so we could download dial-up porn, but if it's well written about -- it's still something we can pass down to the next generation of engineers about the way things were and how far we've come.
Hypatia: The stone that has minerals not seen on any rock on earth
The problem i have seeing this comparison is netflix was making good money in their original mail business as far as i remember.

Their venture into digital was ahead of the curb, allowing them to be even more successful and expand their business beyond distribution.

If the self-driving-taxi is right around the corner i guess that can save uber, but it's not like netflix was on a timer to like uber is to transition their business model.
Yeah I've tried some of these extremely hardened configurations but ultimately there's too much breakage. My config now is basically:

- uBlock Origin in default configuration

- No 3rd party cookies (breaks some things, but not too many)

- Clear history and cookies on exit

Combined with an /etc/hosts file, and rather frequent browser restarts (generally daily).
Based on the numbers we have, the average earnings per mile is close to $0.545, but the medium profit of $3.37 seems quite off.
Khan Academy probably has this covered.
Spoofing is in the eye of the beholder. A router first and foremost routes packets toward the right destination, there is no such thing as a "spoofed source IP" without context. Policy about what traffic is allowed to come from what pipe is always error prone and increased complexity.
Because they're spending it on other stuff. Lots of those thousands and thousands of engineers are working on developing other products not the least of which is self-driving cars.
Doing it in the same process has always been easy. The whole point of Spectre is you can do this in someone else's process.
Better to link the final version - http://sci-hub.la/10.1126/science.aam9309
I guess what makes driving different than other low-wage jobs is that it’s a relatively easy job to obtain if you already have the vehicle: you don’t have to do a bunch of interviews, you don’t need a huge amount of ability, you can start making money pretty much immediately. Having a reliable income can be important (as opposed to jobs that limit your hours, etc.).

Of course, it’s obviously a terrible wage. Anecdotally, the drivers I’ve encountered were all doing it for extra side income and not as a main job.
There's a word for that. Gaslighting.
A shame Google doesn’t just link to the Khan Academy course.
I think the point you’re missing is that the normal course of business for most products is that many distributors compete to sell the same item on Amazon. Go look for example at Canon cameras, you will see 10-15 different legitimate sellers all offering different prices, all on the same detail page - you have to click through to “this item available from xxx sellers”

If you’re interviewing sellers, what do you ask them in the interview? “Are you selling counterfeits?” What are your grounds for allowing them to list an item?

If you want to inspect a new listing, what do you want to inspect? Maybe you inspect the first shipment. Fine. People will figure that out and send a small first shipment of real items, then start sending fakes.
But if you're already the only legitimate source for that SKU what do you do? If a counterfeiter orders one of your items then duplicates the packaging including the SKU/UPC will it get commingled with your product even if it shouldn't?
It's the same article, same content, same title, but different publication date.
I am speaking about spending habits, you seem to be talking about relative cost of life events. I don't have kids but kids are usually not what people are referring to since kids are a cost increase for all parties, rich and poor.

Basically, if I usually buy a certain Ikea table if I need a table, I still buy that Ikea table, and it still feels too expensive to me, regardless of the fact that I earn a lot more now. If I get an apartment that I like, I don't have any desire to get a more expensive one. I only want a more expensive one if the current one is really bothering me for some reason. I'm still uncomfortable with purchases of certain amounts, or buying things for myself in general (particularly, clothes and furniture). It's physically painful to spend certain amounts of money.

There's a set point in my brain for how things are supposed to cost, and that point is very hard to move. I.e., it takes actual effort to explain to my brain that I can spend more now. There's nothing automatic like the general wisdom suggests.
As a passenger, I'm very often in $40K+ vehicles. Even on a 60 month loan, that'd be over your $600 number just on car payments.
Is it any worse than burning the electricity with electric cars? The energy burned is never coming back in either case...
I mean, why one is environmentally friendly and the other not?
You don't need a task runner (with Python)
This might sound weird, but we should teach rhetoric in schools, which includes these kinds of dishonest player verbal tactics, because my thinking is that if we can name and speak openly on a meta level about these types of manipulative tactics, we can defend against them more effective.

Similar to teaching people how to hack for the sake of improving computer security, or maybe more similar to the old fantasy trope of the monster / sorcerer or whatever losing it's power if you know it's name. I feel like most people know of these tactics, but they can't call them out effectively, because it's cumbersome and awkward to do so.
I didn't mean to say that it only happens in high tech. But:

(1) I'm in technology for 20+ years, and didn't know this sort of thing happens, and

(2) Technology people often like to think that we're in a meritocracy, in which smart/good people do well, regardless of whether they're male or female.

These stories, along with many others, have shattered my naivete. We're just as bad as everyone else -- and maybe worse -- and need to actively combat it.
I'm in the same boat as that guy and I donate to Wikipedia every year. I love the service. I'd happily pay Dropbox for 100GB. Instead I did a bunch of referrals and I now have 18.5GB which more than enough suits my needs.
It's not the absolute value of the signal. What they're measuring the amount of water compared to hydrogen.
Some of this conversation isn't as exclusive and the tone it has.

Many of these dependancies are open source. Nothing prevents you from copy/pasting the code and then maintaining it yourself. Then you alleviate the "hard to change" problem and you can vet it thoroughly inside your own team.
Thanks for sharing, I think it's important for the world to get better at understanding these sorts of problems. I've dealt with plenty of mental health issues myself, and can definitely empathize with the frustration you're feeling. I hope things get better for you.
I wouldn't take on anyone who does it part-time, as a cofounder. Startups require a lot of focused energy. And I've never seen any succeed from part time founders.

If he's holding back, then don't take him as a cofounder. He doesn't believe in the idea or the team enough. You can still give him an employee deal, e.g. salary + up to 5% or so.
This seems interesting, but what technology are they planning on using, and how does it compare with other projects around the world? This comes up every now and again it seems, and then dies away again (eg PBMR - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_modular_reactor).
Urban areas are easy. Snow is a hundred times harder.
But the power plants are producing the energy anyway. What would be the benefit if it wasn't being used?
Agreed. I was just talking today about how I missed the days of yanking trial CD-ROMs from magazines to get that next free month with a cardgen. I love seeing old technologies like this still in use, especially with modern libraries, etc. It's the perfect mix of nostaglia and discovery. I am picking up an HP7470 tomorrow and can't wait to play with it.
Ugh, seriously kid, I’m not sure I can argue with someone who doesn’t understand the difference between net sales (your 60B in 4Q17) and operating income.

It must all seem like a vast capitalist plot to you and no one can tell you different.
Hard is a life's work... e.g. WhataboutBerni, bro!?!?!
Dangerous is a car bomb... e.g. those journalists nobody ever talks about.

* flag my balls you cunt!
Excerpts from “Racism” by Ayn Rand
What was your experience level when applying / how long ago was this? SO Careers/Jobs is pretty different now to when I was using it in 2015/2016 and now I'm virtually getting no responses despite seemingly appropriate fit. Maybe it's just me but it's proving to be a time sink.
> The threat from the British far-right is is now coming from a younger generation, according to the latest study from an anti-racism group.

Quality journalism.
I put mine in. A lot of people put "startup CEO" as a resume item now. It's hard to tell who released 12 apps with 50 downloads each vs whose apps are actually solving a real problem.
Your smartwatch can help hackers steal your ATM PIN
Near-Earth Asteroid 2018 DV1 Flyby Livestream
One of Amazon's leadership principles is Earn Trust

It's why their customer service has always been recognized as one of the best.
Want to get into events? Start small
So how does one hack emotions to remember better?
There are tons of new tools for brands that were launched in 2017 to help brands proactively prevent this sort of behavior.

Apply to the brand registry with your trademark info and you’ll have access to tools to proactively protect your brand.

Amazon is taking this sort of behavior very seriously and has added systems in place to help prevent this.

In addition to the brand registry you might also want to check out their transparency program.

https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-grows-transparency-prog...
From the wobble you can determine the approximate mass of the planet and how long it takes to orbit it's sun. I suppose you might be able to deduce some things about the shape of its orbit as well.

Knowing what a planet is made of would require some other technique. I think the best you could do from looking at the wobble would be to say things like "planets that orbit stars like this and having a mass of such and such with an orbital period of so many days are likely to be made of the same things that other planets with those characteristics are made of".

On the other hand, we can know pretty easily quite a lot about what it's host star is made of by examining the light it emits.
Power plants produce more energy in response to increased demand.
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Awesome stuff! The water droplet one looks amazing.
Yeah, nobody does this.

You just install the driver app on your personal phone.
HN Needs a tip button for things like this. This is amazing. Thank you
Maybe people don't want to interact with you because of your behavior?

If, as a man, I am basically an asshole to you, then maybe I don't want to interact with you, period.

And let's be clear: I don't know you, I don't know whether you are a robot or whatever, I just know what you wrote here. And what you wrote here makes me hope not to have to interact with you in real life.
Although it keeps you out of parliament. And I think the proportion of Australians with dual British citizenship is greatly exaggerated. (My nearest British ancestory is on the other side of Queen Victoria.)
I always liked the Saxon books[1], since they involved so much spaced repetition if you did the problem sets that it beat the symbolic manipulation into your long-term memory.

[1] http://amzn.to/2FH3bXL
Know of any resources to make this easier? Or more info about how to track those relationships?
Electric cars are moving a person from one place to another, often displacing fossil fuel engines that would otherwise be used. Bitcoin miners are... facilitating one of the least useful currencies for doing transactions?
I think I agree with the biking in general, self driving cars will probably make biking a lot safer both by reducing the chances of an idiot running into you, and reducing the number of parked cars on roads (riding beside parked cars is scary, because you are never sure when a door is going to open into you).

I don't think that I necessarily agree that this means bike shares will succeed though, I think private bike ownership has a lot going for it.
Where does the "industry’s targeted $75 per megabit per second per month for dedicated bandwidth" figure come from? Is it a satellite industry figure, or submarine cable cost, or normal terrestial fiber haul cost, or...?
What is Lustre?
An opinion: The most serious threats to user privacy from advertising companies are the "features" of the browser that allow data to be sent to or from the users computer without any input from the user. In other words, the features that let developers of websites trigger GET and POST, to "push" media to the users computer and allowing "pulling" user data indiscrinately, without explicit consent and sometimes without the knowledge of the user.

For example, there is the feature of automatically loading resources, such as images. No user input required. There is the feature of automatically loading the contents of iframes. No user input required. There is the feature of cookie headers sent automatically. No user input required. There is the feature of XMLHttpRequest triggered through Javascript. No user input required. There is support for HTTP/2. Imagine websites pushing media to users computers with greater efficiency than ever before (advertisers rejoice). No user input required.

If one is serious about regaining control over the sending of user data to these corporations and websites ("privacy"), then IMO one needs a browser that either lacks or can disable the features above and any others that allow media to be "pushed" to the user without any user input. Such a browser would only execute GET or POST upon user input, not upon input from other sources, such as websites.

Perhaps users could have two browsers: one for commercial activity and running "web apps" and another for non-commercial activity, which may not need to be default compatible with "web apps" that push media to the user. This is an alternative to having to become an expert in browser settings.

Instead of disabling features or installing add-ons, the later browser is incapable of pushing unsolicited media or leaking user data because it lacks the necessary features to do so. (I have been using such a browser for many years now. While this is probably not for everybody, I like it.)
“The only way to find the counterfeit is to inspect each shipment by hand”

This is basically what the Amazon transparency program is. Is tracks each item from manufacturer all the way through to your door with unique code scanned along the way. You can use the app to see where it came from.
> I have enormous difficulty establishing professional connections.

> I have been on HN 8.5 years.

I think I can solve that conundrum for you: HN is not the right place for looking for professional connections.

So maybe your problem with getting professional connections is looking for same where none are to be had.

Look elsewhere.

Nothing to do with gender.
If we can detect wobble, can we detect composition? (If someone observing us was more advanced, if they can detect wobble they can probably deduce composition?)
I had a driver once mention a promotion uber was running for their drivers if you hit "X rides' in a certain time period you'd receive a $Y cash bonus - the catch was the system made it extremely difficult but not impossible to achieve the goal through subtle gamification techniques.

Big picture tech/gamification has reached a point where oversight/legislation of some sort is long overdue. No restrictions + profit motive with our current understanding of human psychology and dopamine triggers is a recipe for a bad time.
sure, that will much complex. I would like focus on basic scenario.
this site is so broken on firefox mobile they should be embarrassed.
and the beginning under 2. Definition and Etymology
I've worked with plenty of startups that bring on a top-flight sales person who is referred to as a co-founder, but typically the equity grant is much lower than a typical co-founder (more in the 5% or so range). There are a number of reasons for this, one of which is that the typical first salesperson comes on board after months if not longer of product development work.

That being said, there is a reason that salespeople are traditionally paid on a commission basis. Is there a reason you want to ignore that convention and, instead, detach compensation from being directly tied to each sale? This seems like an odd move, particularly when the prospective co-founder does not see himself as a salesperson.

You can grant equity on a non-time-based vesting schedule (i.e. performance-based vesting based on sales performance), if you are not ready to start paying cash or want to grant equity for some other reason.

But this person is simply untested in this role and you will not know in a couple of months whether he should have a significant equity stake in your company. So, traditional time-based vesting (and particularly with a magnitude of shares like that that would typically go to a co-founder) is a choice you are likely to regret.
Being case insensitive is a PITA for implementing any numerical algorithm you read from a paper. Most mathematical symbols are single-letter, and quite often both capital letter and its small letter counterpart are used in the same paper.
That's just not how it works. Eventually you have to present actual evidence in an actual court and it won't be "this software you never heard of said so".
lol <3
Doesn't your question prove the GP's point?
Rise and Fall of the Coding Bootcamp
Maybe it's because I'm in Israel, where I'd like to think that things are better than the US (although I'm far from sure that's true).

Maybe it's because I'm self employed, so I don't have regular "colleagues" to tell me these things.

Mybe it's because I (and other men) didn't make it clear that we were willing to listen, although I sure hope not.

For whatever reason, I believed that sexual harassment is occasional. Not as pervasive, and not as constant as the growing number of stories has made clear.

The more stories we hear, the better (I think) things will be. So keep telling these stories.
Even though Japan and Singapore are tied at 180 a piece, they don't have the same 180.

Japan but not Singapore:
India, Ethiopia, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Falkland Islands, Guyana, and Venezuela

Singapore but not Japan:
Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Cuba, Brazil

I think you have to give the tie breaker to Japan because India is #2 in the world based on population and #6 based on GDP.