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Are MBA Product Management Internships Bullshit?
I'm genuinely confused about this.

Everywhere I've worked, product managers are sharp, experienced professionals who own the vision of a product and lead a team of engineers and designers to realize that vision.

Which is why I'm so confused when I see so many MBA students I know getting internships as Product Managers at big, established tech companies (e.g. Microsoft, Dell, Square) when they have no experience working at software companies, let alone actually managing revenue-generating software products.

My thought process is this: if an engineering student got an internship at a legit tech company, it signals to me that they are skilled enough to write software at that company, albeit with lots of support and handholding. But I would be dumbfounded if the people I see taking these product management internships could actually go to one of these companies and do what product managers do, even with lots of help. In my mind, it's as if these companies are offering CEO internships. It just doesn't make sense to offer internships in something that requires such deep level of experience, leadership and skill.

What am I missing here?
Those Clinton voters still have their representatives in the House (and probably in Senate, too), so they are represented in the political system, just not in the White House.
Why not recommend some alternatives?
Easy to say. I want to see how many of the drivers stating such things would still do a full stop at an empty intersection after having biked through it hundreds of times before and it's just one of the many such stops they have on their commute route every day. Basically I want to see statistics/studies. We may conclude then that it's not the fault of the individual if the large majority of us end up bending the rules given the same circumstances but it may be the fault of the circumstances (which are in the control of cities/etc who control public infrastructure).
Our system is the way it is for whatever haphazard reasons got us here. My impression is there wasn’t every any real planning outside of Jim Crow laws to keep minorities out of the electorate.

But we can’t automatically register people because young people disproportionately support one of the two major parties, and that would be ‘unfair’.

And we can’t make Election Day a holiday because the people who work so much going voting is a hardship disproportionately support one of the two parties. And it would ‘hurt business’.

On the other end we can’t require IDs to vote people that would disproportionately hur the other party. And we can’t spend the resources to fix that because it would be ‘too expensive’.
That means sense as user directories used to be kept in /usr.
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Rebel Email API: Send JSON and receive responsive HTML emails
We used to push application logs to https://logentries.com/ "With our free plan you can send up to 5 GB of data per month and store the last 7 days of data. The free product is available at the end of your unlimited 30 day trial."

https://www.splunk.com/ allows 500MB/day free.
No, they want to grow the costs so that same 20% represents more money.
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Hello, we're continuing to do a ton of hiring at Stitch Fix. I'm responsible for a small team working on cross functional projects; Last year we worked on expanding Stitch Fix to support Mens clothing, and then we also built the engine that drives Stitch Fix's Style Profile and made it more flexible. We work closely with the Data Science team, and our goal is always to serve our customers better using the information they provided while not being creepy :-)

Stitch Fix is a clothing / style personalization service. Search Instagram for #stitchfix, which will tell you a whole lot about us, how much our customers love us and you'll get an idea of our business. Come back when you're done.

There are a slew of other super interesting open dev roles across Stitch Fix, including in:

* the Consumer Facing team
* the Warehouse Tools teams
* the Styling Tools teams
* (and many others)

You can reach out directly to me (gal at stitchfix.com) - I'm a Principal Engineer and a hiring manager at Stitch Fix. Here is a job posting roughly covering the role I'm hiring for: https://www.stitchfix.com/careers?gh_jid=455296&gh_src=r8m5v Stitch Fix's "Multithreaded" Tech Jobs blog & site (http://technology.stitchfix.com) has a lot more about the team and other positions (we’re also hiring iOS, DevOps, and UX) (BTW I used to include an ASCII sweater in this post but then Hacker News mods told me to stop, so now you have to go here if you want to see it: http://ascii.co.uk/art/jumper)
I definitely acknowledge a bias and a blindspot on my part.

In my suburban town, the taxes mostly go towards teacher and police salaries. Not much go towards plowing, or etc.

I'm only here because my job is here. If I was able to work remotely, I would move to a patch of desert in Arizona where property taxes are like $200 a year, not $10,000 haha.

It's mostly a case of me not requiring these services. The only government service I've ever willingly used is unemployment insurance, which, I'd rather just not pay income tax instead like they do in New Hampshire.
Besides the winters and pension underfunding, it’s a great place to live for a bit.
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That makes me think of the small but very real business in "new car smell" scented sprays.
Sure. (I've been carrying around 20 * 20 Euro bills. Larger denominations seem to be scary to people who aren't used to them.)
This doesn't seem plausible to me, and isn't really how smelling works anyway.

It's much safer to smell something before eating it, and much easier to reject it if it smells bad.
Waiting for the "Treasury Notes are assuming the government will still exist 10 years from now" from people who apparently hoard cash in 1.2% Ally Savings Accounts
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We are a cryptocurrency production studio backed by a number of well-known investors in the space. We have opportunities across both of our products.

On our payment product, Fold (https://foldapp.com), we're working to implement Lightning and build a cross-currency checkout process. We’d love to hear from any Docker + Kubernetes or Django experts out there.

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Sounds like it's really $100 w/ $10 shipping and then they A/B tested the difference to find the sweet spot for sign-ups.
> currently the LAW is to STOP but instead people roll cause they feel they can get away with it, when the LAW is to ROLL they will start to blow through it (many already do anyway)...

Not true IME, but it may be a cultural difference. Stop signs are relatively uncommon in Finland. I can only recall one intersection with a stop sign in my previous home town of about 20k people. I have not found any stop signs yet in my new place with 140k people.

Most intersections have yield signs or lights; only the smallest of streets have no signs whatsoever.

Traffic works pretty well and I don't really see people dangerously blowing through intersections. Cyclists and pedestrians in particular can be too careful as they often stop and wait for a car to go by even though the car is supposed to yield.

I'm all for letting them roll through stop signs and red lights as long as they pay attention and respect the yield rules.
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I recently purchased an electric bike to commute to work, and I ended up returning it. Electric bikes go very fast, which means that cars often have difficulty passing, and drivers are not quite sure how to treat you. I ended up returning the bike because I didn't want to end up as a splatter on the side of the road. If the US had protected bike lanes, it might have worked out differently.
> Are the movies underwhelming or was Star Wars in the past more amazing because you were younger?

People say this all the time, but the people who went crazy in 1977 for the original Star Wars weren't all kids. It bowled over lots of adults, too. It was a genuine pop culture phenomenon.
Waymo hasn't done any commercial deploys at all. So it is a bit of an unfair comparison.
I would like to second this request. Thank you very much for your responsiveness :)
No kindle version?
I would still prefer we called it FuckOracleScript, or FoScript, for short.
I used to live a mile from a nuclear power plant. Every time they sent their emergency process flyers around town many people freaked out. They should have been happy that there was a plan to deal with emergencies (which could deal with other things as well)
WhatsApp is not perfect and certainly its code not being available for inspection is one of its flaws. However, it did bring security to the masses. I mean I am pretty sure the security it offers is enough for 95% of people. I would not use it for sending documents stolen from NSA, but for the rest of cases - it gets you covered.
Security very often need to be balanced with convenience - with WhatsApp you get immense boost of protection without sacrificing much convenience. One could argue, that you could get better security with Signal - true, but first you'd need to convince all your family and friends to install it.
Fake News / Facebook's impact on the 2016 election is only part of why I avoid it now. I also believe the site caused / causes instagrammification of people's lives. Which is sort of like Fake News of personality or false lifestyle chasing meaningless likes.

I believe other institutions have caused people to live out false lives prior to Facebook as well. But I can actually damage facebook by _not_ posting content and not sharing my life there. I don't even have to encourage others not to. I just have to avoid resolving the domain.
Mozilla used to run some Tor exit nodes. I don't know if that is still the case.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2877592/mozilla-puts-old-har... (2015)
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Telegram may absolutely ignore non-British laws and refuse to concern itself with them. Independent of laws, Apple may refuse Telegram access to the App Store if a guideline is not met.
This isn't really different across the industries, though; is it? Even farmers only do monocultures because of the money. Specifically, it is in their interest to only farm the crop that makes them the most money, if they can. They only diversify if they have to for survival. Again, see the banana and avocado market.

The kernel is an interesting case. It specifically used the free compiler. More, it specifically does not target running on platforms that historically required another compiler.

Though, again, going back to the original point. It is cheaper to build the monoculture. To that point, the risks associated with doing so are not the same as a biological case. Well, they somewhat are, but there is also the risk of development being too expensive not to do this. It all comes back to tradeoffs and this being a decision to make.
I think uncapping the size of the house of Reps and going back to original apportionment would effectively do a similar thing.
It didn't, but companies don't issue debt just to have it sit on their balance sheet. Presumably, the additional capital is put to use in projects with an expected return that is greater than the cost of capital (usually the weighted average between (i) the equity holder's required return on equity and (ii) the cost of debt that is usually expressed in the form of the interest rate, to keep it simple).

Taking on debt is always done with the purpose of creating value. Sometimes it fails, but that doesn't mean failure was the objective.

LBOs aren't evil.
Ahhh yes, I'd bet that's the case as mine failed today too!
I was visiting Amsterdam (from the UK) about a month ago and I was quite surprised (and annoyed) to find stores, even supermarkets, that have gone cashless while at the same time they would only accept Maestro.
I'm a Brit currently in France

Can't get cash from any ATM right now using my Visa Debit card
> “Special interests” is just code for “people whose opinions I don’t like.”

It's code for above-the-median-wealthy, enough to influence opinion outside of the populist opinion. Why you choose to go partisan over a systemic issue, is beyond me.
Can the EU have police arrest an Irish FB employees? I'm asking because I have zero knowledge on how the EU enforces their policies
Where is the recommended place to run one?
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2000 years of warfare between males is more than enough time for natural selection to start taking place. I wonder if the resulting human male is one less prone to aggression and warfare?

Maybe the reason civilization is even possible today is that the majority of our potential ancestors who couldn't deal with civilized life wiped each other out. Or alternatively, the males who survived were really good at warfare and surviving warfare.
Ironically my credit card info literally got stolen at a restaurant last night and most of the purchases they tried to make were declined hahahahah

Honestly, I really enjoy using my credit card. I can buy anything, anytime, online, the customer service department always resolves fraud quickly, and they even pay me to use the damn thing
It is most certainly well-intentioned. Managers take on debt with the intention of creating, not destroying value.
Do bikes in MA have a right to pass a left turning car in the far left lane? That would be surprising.

For right turns it makes sense since the bike nominally has a travel lane that’s being crossed.

(I’m interpreting GP’s comment as if both the car and bike were traveling in the same direction.)
Drones have the ability to be more precise than a typical forward air controller plus manned airplane as a drone can be above a target for much longer and that long duration video surveillance gives the opportunity to find the best time for a strike and to verify that it is the target.

You claim that a person on the ground is going to get better identification but they need to be hidden rather far away so that they aren't noticed and aren't hit. This reduces the typically achievable accuracy substantially from the theoretical maximum. Manned aircraft can't stay on target because of refueling needs, speed, and how loud they are, so you have very narrow windows of opportunity. Most ordnance from manned aircraft are also much larger than those used by drones, so manned aircraft typically have larger blast radius and can kill many more unintended people.

So while their can be narrow specific situations where FAC + F35 can deliver more precision, overall a drone provides much more precision and less danger to others.

This is obviously an emotional situation and many people don't believe that it is valid to kill specific individuals, as many others have claimed on this thread.
I assume that investing in AI risk is nonsense for one simple reason: I have yet to see a single study showing that a single undesired behavior has been stopped or even slowed down.

DDOS attacks are as stupid as you can get from an intelligence point of view, and yet not a single proponent for AI risk has come up with a way to stop even a single one AFAIK. I haven't heard either of a single military program that has been thwarted, and those computers are killing people right now. I also doubt that they could get a Pentagon official to stop doing anything.

Until the AI risk community show that they can do anything other than talk, no matter how small, I'll remain skeptic.
On a related note: http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2017/05/10/join/
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>making voting day a national holiday so people aren’t stuck at their jobs unable to vote.

early voting? postal ballots?
No you can't.

Originally it was called Mocha and went through a series of name changes and branding before Netscape acquired a trademark license from Sun Microsystem and settled on Javascript.

> JavaScript was created in May 1995 by Brendan Eich while at Netscape, reportedly in only 10 days. It was originally named Mocha, a name chosen by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, but was renamed four months later to LiveScript. At that time, Sun Microsystems owned the trademark for JavaScript. Netscape acquired a trademark license and renamed LiveScript to JavaScript in December 1995. It was somewhat of a marketing maneuver since Java was really popular at the time. The languages are not related at all.

Source: http://www.benmvp.com/learning-es6-history-of-ecmascript/
I spend most of my time on /pol/.

Best memes. /b/ has gone to shit in the last few years, /r9k/ can be hilarious although disturbing.
That explains why we create monocultures a lot. I'm specifically intrigued that we typically argue for them. At the least, I would expect us to feel somewhat off about doing them, but deliberately choose to do so for cost reasons. (That make sense?)
The most important evidence for imminent commercialization is Waymo's recent order for 62,000 minivans. If we're assuming a conservative $100k a pop once they're loaded up with all the technology required, that's a $6B investment in depreciating assets. They wouldn't do that unless they were extremely confident that the technology is ready, and given their safety record, I'm inclined to believe them.

The frequently-repeated caveats certainly apply -- they'll only be operating in limited geographies with ideal weather; there will probably be roads, conditions and maneuvers that are restricted. But having actual autonomous vehicles on the road performing commercially useful tasks is by far most important step. The rest will come incrementally.

Exciting times.
I don't think we live in the same EU.

As far as I can tell "Country-specific (debit) cards and the international Maestro payment" are only common in a couple of really backwards countries.
It's perfectly reasonable for them to hold that view. The unfortunate thing is to insist that it's the most rational and/or correct view. To say that they're biased isn't an insult. We all have biases, and it's useful to recognize and admit them.
...And if the law allows them to blow through they'll just start putting armor on their bikes and a bike with armor is just a car and then people will cite the armor-bikes as precedent for why cars can drive through a stop light and cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria!!!