skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've seen, Stanford (and maybe Harvard) are kind of in a different league here -- people actually do go teach there after a successful business career (and not even at retirement; some do it in their late 30s/40s/50s).

They also do a bit more than act as trade schools to teach skills. There's the huge networking value (only worthwhile at GSB, HSB, (+maybe MIT Sloan or UPenn Wharton for very specific disciplines too)), and they do teach some useful information beyond technical skills.

They are still probably not the best opportunity cost weighted use of time for most people (unless you want to work in the highest levels of large companies or government), but they might have some net positive value; lesser MBA programs have negative value. Getting an employer-funded MBA while living through a 2y lockup period after M&A does seem like a great choice though :)
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The "VCs let Facebook get away" theory seems to imply that Facebook could have been built in Mass.

Could facebook have been built in MA?

In SV, Facebook could poach from Google's mothership and the alums, not to mention Yahoo, etc. Are there enough comparable people in Mass?

And, even if there are, are they available? Doesn't Mass have enforceable fairly-general non-competes? Do the Mass companies that currently employ the folks that Facebook would have hired use them?
I hate the fact that the relationships aren't 2 way on G+. Today my wife was going through people to add on G+, and she kept asking me, "Who is this person, it says they are friends with you." And I had no idea who they were. They were people that had added me to a circle, but I never added back.

Yet Google tells other people that we know each other. They make no differentiation between a 2 way relationship and a one way.

This looks like spam heaven to me.
I think what makes people question the data is that the average hours of work per week match up pretty well with the time a teacher spends at school, which is insufficient to cover duties like planning lessons and grading papers (see for example any work-to-contract strike).

In any case, the ATUS specifies that its questions are about work done for pay/profit or free for a family business (since teachers typically work more hours than stated in their contract, a lot of work they do is not for pay).
To put it crudely, because professors don't know shit.
The biggest difference is that Spotify is curated content. On Grooveshark, if you search for an album, you may get three copies, each missing songs and improperly named. Spotify has one real release of the album.
I'm the source! Although you can identify excess inventory on sites if you know what to look for and pay enough attention. Browse around the NYT site and you'll see ads for the NYT, Google Adwords, and probably Google display stuff. This is excess inventory, usually. Ads for your own company are called "house ads", the others are generally referred to as remnant inventory.

Now, someone will almost always pay $.001/CPM to serve ads, but it's usually not a great deal for a publisher. Ad serving costs are higher than you'd expect, a pageview might end up requiring calls to 10 paid ad tech services for instance (demographics, audience categorization, etc). The NYT is likely losing money when you see remnant advertising, they'd be better off not serving that impression at all.

There are also a number of companies that just won't run remnant stuff, or won't run ads for reasonable sounding CPMs. Conde Nast, for instance, has fixed CPMs that their sales people can't bend from much. They feel that selling for cheaper would dilute their value. Some of the properties even feel like cheap looking remnant ads make the site seem less "premium".

The last sentence here is pretty telling: "since the site had excess ad inventory pre-paywall, the decline won’t affect the ability to satisfy demand for premium units".

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/04/21/ny-times-sa...
Those are two totally different questions. To grow a complete trachea in two days would strain credulity. To get a glass template lined with cells in two days seems quite reasonable. Not sure about the specific cells that they used, but other cell types that I have had experience with will become confluent after starting off at a modest concentration within 24-48 hours.
Bill Gates is an outlier but that isn't helping your case. A lot of people TRY to become Bill Gates and fail. Those are the people risking a lot. You don't hear much about them though.
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Twitter: "A free version of SMS, based on the web" - yeah, I think people would have wanted that.

Facebook: When Zuck wrote Facebook, there had already been multiple letters-to-the-editor in the Harvard magazine asking to put the facebook (lowercase - the orignal paper based version) online. His FaceMash project had shown him the demand for social web applications was real.
I work in mobile software, and I don't know anyone who thinks "how things turned out on the desktop" is a good guide for the future. See also, http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/06/the-post-pc-era-will-be-a-m...
It's ambiguous and either interpretation holds. '900 Mbit for half a second' is meaningless and requires correction. Either for -> in or Mbit -> Mbit/s.
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it won't make any difference since by the time it launches Facetime and Huddle (or something else) will have taken over.
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what spotify has over its competitors is distribution through facebook [1]. this single factor makes the rest of their competitors numbers (and quite frankly their own numbers) more or less irrelevant. keep in mind, too, that it says "users" and not "paid subscribers"

[1] http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/05/25/facebook-to-la...
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Dear PyPy developers: while I'm happy to download binaries and run them out of my home directory for something I use all the time (like Firefox), for less-frequently used tools I'd much rather set up an Ubuntu PPA to install things system-wide and have them kept up-to-date without my having to think too hard about it.

Unfortunately, the only PyPy PPA I can find on launchpad.net[1] hasn't been updated for a year. Please set up a new PPA, or update the one you have - a lot of curious Python tinkerers would love to try out PyPy on their pet projects!

[1] https://launchpad.net/~pypy/+archive/ppa
> "But these stories of hero teachers spending 12 hours a day, every day working to prep for class sound highly improbable to me"

The stories I hear about are the ones of teachers working ~12 hours a day because they teach several different subjects a day and constantly have mounds of documentation the state requires of them on every student. In addition, they have large classes and spend hours and hours grading and providing valuable feedback on homework/projects and exams.

For the sake of the discussion, some sample thoughts about what the "good" teachers think about:

What about considering the larger questions? Why are the students in the course in the first place? Throughout the course, are they being inspired to continue their studies outside of class? Why is the material on the syllabus actually on the syllabus -- what purpose does any of it serve the students? Is this purpose taught in such a way that it is understood by the students? Are they often intrinsically motivated to learn or are most of them just seeking a good grade? How can you structure each activity, lecture, and exam to ensure or encourage students to be intrinsically motivated and care about their learning and development? How can you help students desire the knowledge long-term, rather than just for the course or for their studies...? Are the students learning to think about the subject at a deeper level -- more like the experts? How can you encourage such thinking? Is the learning environment or atmosphere itself safe and welcoming -- encouraging students to ask questions without fear of failure or looking dumb, and is free from stereotypes and negative expectations -- does it encourage free-thinking, discovery, negotiation of meaning -- does the teacher feedback encourage all this? Is the learning functional or is it just leading to correct answers? Do the students to the proper extent have control over their own education/learning? Are the expectations in place to encourage this? Is it thought about what should be expected of the students once they complete the lesson, section or course? What deep mental models does it appear the students have that prevent them from learning to their fullest? How could those be tackled? How can it be encouraged to collaborate on finding answers? How can the course be taught by having the students asking the proper questions rather than being told what to think?... and so on.

Taxing...
what if they were not your target users? I would never close down a potential project by asking just a bunch of forum users. Maybe people who would pay never hang out in forums. They always google for their needs. You should run a campaign in google adwords and see how many hits you are getting. Then you can decide if you want to close the project or not. The verdict is still out IMHO

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I too am an MBA grad, and my experience tells me that entrepreneurship is not a skill that can be taught, but rather can be aided with some practical understanding of law, accounting, and marketing tactics, which, along with a nice network of smart people, can absolutely be gained at a top MBA program.

An MBA is neither a necessity nor a setback en route to a successful career as an entrepreneur. That's why you can quickly come up with stories of the Mark Zuckerberg's, Andrew Carnegie's, and Steve Jobs' who never graduated college, but just as quickly come up with stories of the Mark Pincus', Phil Knight's, and Jeff Skoll's who got MBA's and became immensely successful entrepreneurs. In fact, MBA's as a whole have a pretty good winning percentage. This could be due to a number of factors, very few I would guess actually having much to do with the education obtained in the MBA program courses themselves.
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I hope they do get recalled.

If only everyone recognized the reason for this licensing debacle and revolted over it.

Damn patents.
Why wasn't some of the cash treated as tax-free return of capital?

If all of your investment was treated that way, you'd just be hosed on the profit that you made on the deal. Yes, that ignores the time value of money, but ....
I went to grad school on CS for a year, focusing on AI. I then realized that I was more interested in improving reasoning in people rather than machines, so I switched to Ed. Psych. I can still recall my astonishment at how much lower the quality of grad students in the education school was. A very few bright ones and a whole lot of "dumm".

One anecdote: I was focusing for a while on better ways to teach algebra word problems. I put up some examples and not one education grad student, or the professor, could solve even one of them. I'm talking about stuff like "a boat goes 5 miles in an hour against the current and ..." Nada.
> wouldn't that imply that beagle3 is making at least $379,150 + 2X this year? I would consider someone with that kind of income to be rich.

So what?

Seriously - do you think that the US govt or NYC is likely to do better with that money than he would have? Based on what?
also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421636
This returned about 6.5 million for me too. The strange, interesting tidbit I noted was that the user #s by no means conformed to Benford's law: I clicked through 5 pages of search results, and all of the user #s began with 11 or 10.
This has a little bit of the feel of those Craigslist AirBnB stories that came out about a month ago. Could they be farming HN now?
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> Go only allows named global functions, and lacks a feature that Pascal had.

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}

What do I lose by doing that versus having 'func bar()'?
Are you referring to the "Rothschild" family?
or get into the debian repos.
It's not an entire continent - Spotify is only available in a handful of European countries. They've also spent a lot of time in invitation-only mode. Plus if they tie in with Facebook that will be some amazing marketing incomparable to anything they've done before.
Just to make it clear - WebRTC is at least 6-12 months away from being usable in any browser.

The first part has just landed in Chrome[1].

This isn't exposed to the browser in anyway yet, so the APIs need to be agreed on, build and released.

Even in Chrome, the best case for that is months, and that is for the unstable stream.

If you want to build cross-browser applications, hopefully WebRTC will be released as a plug-in. It is unlikely that will happen any quicker than Chrome integration though.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/blog/firststeptowardchr...
I think that social applications like Facebook or Google Plus are a fantastic example of a case where "my friends all use it" is the primary draw, though.

They exist so that you and your friends can interact (and view ads, of course). So if your social circle refuses to use Social Platform X you have very few reasons to use it yourself. Regardless of how silly you may think the reason you friends have for avoiding it, the fact of their avoidance is enough to make it not particularly useful to you.

Sure, you should still understand the reason that other people want to use these platforms. But, having understood that, there's no reason to use them if they aren't actually of use to you.
Boston is certainly no Silicon Valley (and perhaps never will be), but I'd argue it's still a great place to start a company. Through MassChallenge I had an opportunity to really connect with the community up there and can say from experience that it's a vibrant and helpful one that is turning out some great companies. The article is probably correct in the way it characterizes Boston VCs. But the local VCs are only one small part of what makes a city startup-friendly.
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I would humbly suggest that you drop ELB in favor a software based solution that you control like haproxy. ELB just isn't up to the job unless you are a really big customer of Amazon's.

Also, if you are using small or micro instances, you probably don't want to do that either. Don't use anything less than a large instance if you want even semi-decent performance.
Of course it wasn't your responsibility. But if you'd done that you could have spent the next few days hacking on your project instead of looking for lodging, and you might even have been able to collect the exterminator fees from him.
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That is a heck of an edit. Why didn't you bring this great assertion out in the first place?
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I use claws-mail for email and it comes with an RSS plugin.

It's very useful because the RSS feeds are treated like email. You can mark individual items as read, important, tagged, and so on. As well, you can use the email client's normal search features to search for text in the content. I use this feature a lot to categorise interesting topics.

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BTW, I use it to read HN. HN's RSS feed only offers topics that have been voted up (I think), so I see only worthwhile topics. Helps sorting the wheat from the chaff.
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I wonder how far DropBox would have gotten if he'd gone on Reddit and asked people if it was something that they might want? It was the video that sold it.

I think his concept to test before coding is right, but if he'd shown people a video of his idea (even if it was totally mocked up) he might have gotten a totally different reaction.

Programmers because we have plenty of practice are pretty good at taking ideas and envisioning them as completed software. In other words we're good at connecting the dots. But that's something the general public cannot do - they've got to see it.
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The creator's website appears to be: http://boagworld.com/design/where-are-my-rounded-corners/

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We want to give you more money. It also gives you a little more legitimacy to an already impressive product.

As the great patio11 said[1]: Charge more. Nothing uber crazy since you have to compete with the likes of Github and others you're competing with, but $1 sounds a little ridiculous. But maybe that's part of the gimmick ;)

Great stuff, keep it up!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641545
Looks they try competing against Cloudera and its HUE by having their own distro/management tool. Guess it's good news for hadoop eco-system.
1) "Red Hat vs SuSE" in linux analogy - such distro competition generated some confusions & lots of 'ahead power' to many sub-projects, e.c. kvm vs xen.
2) Fragmentation of piece of technology is dangerous? I don't think so. Hadoop already has a unified code base in Apache where both Hortonworks and Cloudera's contributions go back. I think "fragmentation" at the this layer where standardizations aren't always required is good thing.
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This explains many mysteries from Starcraft 1: bad replay file after patching, small replay file sizes, low network traffic usage from multiplayer even on big maps.

The hash value sent between player also hints the mechanism for drop hack. My guess it that the hacker would pretend to be the victim and send a bad hash values to every other players. The hash check would fail and the victim would just end up disconnected from the game. Haven't heard of such hack in SC2, wonder how they fixed it.
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It never was completely free: there has always been a limit on the number of hours per month you could stream music.

Anyway, your analysis is wrong, because you think your usage predicts everyones usage pattern. It doesn't. I'm a happy paying subscriber and will stay one for a while to come. If I hear one new CD a month, it's already worth it. Even if I don't, I love being able to just legally browse and listen to almost any music I can think of.
I agree with everything you've said, especially about them no longer being interesting, but for one point.

You couldn't listen to any song and as such it didn't eliminate the need to buy (or pirate) some tracks. Certain record companies had yet to sign on and quite a few major bands were missing from the database. Bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and ACDC (there are numerous others, these are just the bands I like which were missing and really stuck out to me).

I was a paying customer for around 9 months using the service to sync offline playlists with my Android phone (wirelessly, as there were no other solutions that allowed me to do this easily), but I canceled my subscription when they failed to acquire more of the artists I liked and other solutions came along to allow me to wirelessly sync playlists to my device.

There are better ways to handle your online music now. Spotify had a real chance at becoming top dog, but in my eyes, they didn't innovate and provide the features the public wanted quickly enough.