skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally I'm not a fan of self-posting but I wanted to follow up with the discussion that went on here last weekend on this subject (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472408) and let anyone who's interested know that AppCraver was the offending party.
I'm an HBS'er who has also started 3 companies over the past few years (including one while at HBS). I'd say HBS definitely emphasizes supporting entrepreneurship, but it's not the way that you'd expect. HBS is a great place to start a company not so much because you learn about entrepreneurship in the classes as much as the place is so well setup as a platform to support people starting companies.

Yes, HBS is all about the case method for its classes. It's actually a great way to learn. It is very time consuming, all-encompassing, and incredibly powerful if you commit yourself to it rather than blow it off the way many post-consulting, post-finance students may. The case studies will give you some tools that are really helpful in organizing a business, but they will not show you how to do it. The only way to learn how to start a company (in my opinion) is to actually do it yourself. The reason HBS is a great place to start a company is that you have access to all of Harvard, MIT, Babson, Boston University, several world-class hospitals, and many venture capitalists in the Boston area. HBS offers a protected time where you can get successful entrepreneurs (your professors, case protagonists who come in, classmates, etc) to help you come up with ideas, get in contact with people, and create something of enduring value. You are surrounded by classmates from any industry you could imagine who are connected at the very top who are excited to just have lunch and talk about whatever you want to talk about.

While it's true that many people out of HBS go to work at a company, the statistics show that more than 50% of HBS graduates ultimately do start their own companies, often only a couple years after leaving HBS. If you look at the sorts of companies they start there are many really great companies, not just random me-too sorts of small tech companies based on relatively thin IP.

I think it's really easy to dismiss a place like HBS as a place that just churns out consultants and crappy I-bankers. In all honesty I looked at HBS, and MBA programs in general, like that a few years ago too. I was a techy who thought most business people only had a limited amount to add to any true entrepreneurial endeavor. I still think that's the case for many business types and surely HBS still pumps out its fair share of consultants and crappy-douchebag I-bankers. Nevertheless, there are also some world-class entrepreneurs there. People who will and have changed the world in far more significant ways than most technical folks who think the way I used to will ever really appreciate.

Also, just for the record, I know there are a group of HBS'ers who do read HN regularly and have attended Startup School. I for one have not signed up for hndir.com yet and I'm guessing most of them haven't either. I have my yahoo mail account that I'll use to sign up for random sites, but I'm a bit more selective about how I use my .edu account and it's not clear from the website that they won't use this for spam. Overall I like the idea though. Just my 2 cents.
> Byron Scholls once told me that the Black Scholls Model isn't widely used because it's right. It's right because it's widely used.

I think the quoter or the author meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Scholes
The reason any government would want to build a foreign currency reserve, as I've stated in another post, is to help mitigate a currency crisis. In the case the Renminbi has a large drop in value, they would start pumping dollars in and pumping Renminbi out. By decreasing the supply of Renminbi, and giving folks a supposedly more stable currency to hold onto, they can fix a currency problem.

If the Bank of China were to spend US dollars domestically, it would be exactly equivalent to printing Renminbi and spending it. It would be just like a stimulus plan. There's nothing different. Remember, Bank of China must print all the Renminbi necessary to keep the exchange rate at the peg. So watch this:

1. Chinese government spends 100 million USD for public works project
2. Businesses receive 100 million USD, want to convert it to CNY, bring it to USD-CNY exchange market
3. Government prints CNY to soak up 100 million USD

We are right back to where we started, except now there is more CNY in circulation.

Now if we relax the assumption in step 2 that businesses want to convert to USD upfront, we still have the same problem, because it just delays the conversion. While USD is in circulation, there will be some converted to CNY at every transaction (for wages and taxes and things like that).

If the government wanted to enact a stimulus plan, and I think they already did, then they should just do it in CNY.

Note: China does not maintain a strict CNY-USD peg. CNY is pegged to a basket of currency.
Well, then. Explain how the value comes in. How am I supposed to use Twitter in a way that gives me something back?
fog bugs is free for startups.
they also have a hosted version.
Definitively worth checking, IMO
I can't help to notice that all the apps he's talking about that add to the overall memory load are Microsoft apps.

I'm using an open source editor, gmail, xamp, and some webbased servuces and I'm having no problems with 1GB of memory.
Debian comes in three easy flavors: Stable, for those who cannot crash, testing, for those who don't really want to crash, but want some more recent software, and unstable, for people who don't care about crashing and who want up-to-date software.

I know many people who run sid (unstable) on their (desk|lap)tops. It has all the power of debian and apt, without the long release cycle.
Most likely only those planets exposed to our sun would have had any warming similar to us (or cooling as is happening now), but I would need some help mounting an expedition to find out for sure. :)
Some of us can't afford Mac Pros. For me, Macbook Pro is about the limit of what I can afford.
If you want a reasonable release cycle, without the drool-proofing of ubuntu, try Debian sid. It's the unstable branch, and gets rolling updates and the like. It is also reasonably stable.
Most young scientists I know don't have much of a career plan. They get a research grant to continue to do something that interest them after the PhD, apply for another grant after that, and continues until either they fail to get a new grant, they get tenure, or they get to tired of the process and go for a non-research position. Maybe they get kids and feel the need for a more stable source of income.

I'm just saying that it is not the hope of a big reward that keep them going, but a genuine interest in their current work. So knowing about the tournament market doesn't make much of a difference.
Thank you, couldn't have said it better. Who cares if entertainment is low-brow? IMVU isn't doing anything illegal, nor immoral, and honestly, if you have 600,000 active users you are clearly doing something people want.

I define worthiness by the measure "are you doing something that benefits people?", and on all accounts IMVU is successful at it. You don't need to be curing cancer or ending hunger to be doing something worthwhile.
the current generation of macbook/macbook pro's unofficially can handle up to 6 gb's of memory and i think that a pretty nice desktop setup is just to use your laptop but have 1-2 additional screens and a nice keyboard and mouse pair.

Though honestly, as far as I can tell, the main utility of having multiple screens is to physically separate your work from you fun visually and hence make it easier to focus.
Free is weird for people. It causes them to make bad decisions as to the value of things that they looking at. So people do mind paying for things that they see a value in if there is a free alternative. Even if the free alternative is not as good (relative to the price difference) to the expensive one.
In denmark all access to thepiratebay has been blocked by the major internet providers. When you go to any piratebay page you get this: http://www.maximise.dk/temp/STOP.htm (translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&...)

It's based on a court decision where IFPI (association of record companies) sued Danish Internet providers, claiming that since illegal content could be downloaded from thepiratebay all access should be blocked. Unfortunately they won, meaning that I can't read this post (Well, I can, but non-tech savvy users can't) and that I can't get linux torrents, and other legal content.

Looking at the court case Google, youtube, and many other sites should also be blocked since they also give a user the possibility of locating and downloading illegal content. But I guess these targets are too big...

It's absolutely appalling and a clear breach of free speech.
More, of same, here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
A dozen mobile startups to pitch at Mobile Peer Awards
I have a 15" MBP with 4GB of RAM. Whenever I'm in the office I connect it to a 22" LCD, time machine backup, external mouse, keyboard and storage, etc...

I think of it more as a moveable desktop than a laptop but I like being able to carry all of my files, settings and apps around with me when I travel (and still have everything properly backed up). Give me a decent network connection anywhere in the world and I'm almost as productive as if I was sitting in my office.
a mere 17" of screen real state and 2GB of RAM is just not enough for the long-term.

Compare this to the 48" of screen and 6GB of RAM I get from my Mac Pro

You run four 24" monitors?
I'm on OS X. 1GB would not work. I have 3 GB. Activity monitor is showing these top 5 rsize values:

Safari 550 MB. Safari leaks memory, and restarting it then reopening all tabs is quite slow.

kernal_task 322 MB

Textmate 300MB (not normal)

WindowServer 136 MB

Mail 106 MB
I think that if you make enough money, you get to mix in circles with people who can make you happy. But I could be wrong.
While we are on the subject of philosophy, I find on something of a philosophical note, the interesting ways and manners in which truth can unveil itself. Of course "unveiling" has a distinct meaning in Heidegger, but I am using this more generally, just to mean how the "deep truths of life" come to us/emerge/unveil from unexpected sources. I am reminded, then, in this case of a 'Charmed' episode where Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty) is trying to save somebody from the Angel of Death. She ultimately is confronted by the Angel of Death who tells her that he is not good or evil, but simply inevitable. She has to let go of her hatred of Death and see him as simply part of the natural course of things. Thus death from the point of view of hairless apes like us or the point of view of galaxies or even the whole universe, is in fact neither good nor bad, it simply is. Fearing it does not make it not so. Thus, one way or another it must be accepted, it must be seen as an inevitable part of the "rerum naturum". I really think on this subject the only way to sort of deal with our own annihilation or the fear thereof is to say that as long as we are fearing it, we have not encountered it. To fear, we must be alive. Therefore we have not an object of fear to fear. What is it to fear without an object? Anxiety. Undirected fear is anxiety. It is the antithesis of rationality. As human beings we must seek to be rational. We must seek to free ourselves from irrational fear. It is not rational to fear that which by definition we can never experience. We cannot by definition "experience" annihilation. We cannot experience annihilation, anymore than we really "experience" falling asleep. One moment we are drifting off in bed. The next moment the alarm clock goes off. Death is the same thing, except without the alarm clock. Either way, there is no "experience", and therefore no object of fear. Death is not bad. Death is not good. Death is inevitable, as Prue Halliwell came to see. I take comfort in knowing though that as death is inevitable so is birth. And perhaps even out of the ashes of the current universe new big bangs could spring forth, as some theories hint at. And so life (and death) goes on, ad infinitum.

We are, as Gregory Corso wrote in one of his poems, 'Homer', "alive, as always, forever ignorant of that death you'll never know."

Fearing the inevitable which cannot be even experienced is just not rational. The only thing to do is enjoy our moment in the sun. We all die, but spending our time fearing this just means we are not ever really alive, and that is just sad. Myself, I will leave eternity to the multiverse, and enjoy my brief tenure as a gene-carrying robot for all it is worth! :-)
My early childhood religion always taught me that man was special, so I think there would be an impact if we were to find intelligent life elsewhere. In fact, I feel like that idea that man is so special is used as an argument against evolution. They use the 'disgust' of hearing that humans could be related to modern day apes, and thus is not so special.

As you said, religion would have to adapt, but that is an impact. I'm more curious what path they would take. As you said, they could deny them full privileges of being sentient...that is they are less than human. Or they could accept them as being on the same level, but that would require a small alteration to their beliefs.
I'm just saying that it is not the hope of a big reward that keep them going, but a genuine interest in their current work. So knowing about the tournament market doesn't make much of a difference.

There's an intermediate state between flaming out, and winning the Nobel prize, that most people in the biosciences believe is accessible to them.

They think that if they follow the 'rules', which most of them have followed, to good effect, for their whole lives (good grades, good work, etc.), they will with high reliability be able, over the course of their careers, to keep getting funded for doing interesting work, and that they will be able to have at least lower middle class lifestyles while doing so.

It's not clear to me that this is the case. It can work out this way, but not necessarily very reliably.

And I think a good number of people entering grad school would make different choices if they knew this; and the ones who were passionate enough, and tolerant enough of risk to enter science anyway, would probably end up doing some pretty amazing stuff.

Which they likely will end up doing anyway, so it's not that the system is broken. It just ends up attracting a pretty large group of people who aren't necessarily cut out for it.

[related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470181]
Green Trees, Information Radiators, and Photo Frames
Indeed. On my system (2GB), I use Vim in urxvt with zsh.

From top: .1 + .4 + .2= .7% of my ram. I could add in Postgres or sqlite and Apache (or even a lighter weight webserver) if I really needed it, and still probably not use my swap.
No, two. I just meant as a total area. Unless 24 + 24 != 48... you've confused me.
Greatest. Demo. Ever.

I'm going to have to buy it now just for that. :-)
Two 24 inch screens is not the same size as one screen with a 48 inch diagonal.
Note that Wilson's two solutions both have the "side effect" that companies need not pay for IP from outsiders. (The "can only sell to operating companies" proposal means that operating companies need not buy because the inventor can't do anything if they don't buy.)
Thanks man, i found it through twitter (another reason for Hackers to join twitter).
Does a book have options?

This dealership would have driven it if I asked them. But people typically want to drive their own new car.
How Google's layoffs and project cancellations are affecting its culture of innovation
The Price of Money in China
growing a company that's specifically built to rapidly experiment and learn is a powerful idea. I'd say that the initial problem or market insight - the "hypothesis - can sometimes matter less.
A true entrepreneur has to predict the future.

I think this is a horrible misconception. If you want to build the next billion dollar company, perhaps. But if your satisfied with building a multi million dollar company, all you need to be able to do is take a reasonably critical look at the past. What sort of products have people characteristically paid for, despite the quality of available options being low? Answering that question doesn't require prediction at all.
Turning crack dealers into chief executives
Okay, I figured that was the misunderstanding.
Mapping a Global Plan for Car Charging Stations
NASA Tailplane Icing Video
You're forgetting that in any field that isn't controlled by a monopoly, every single competitor always wants more leverage over the other players.
Worst-case for religion, I guess, would be the discovery of obviously super-intelligent beings who claim that belief in God is an evolutionary defect.

Seems to me that Judaism is a major world religion that applies for Jewish people, although there are many kinds of people in the world.

Christianity is a religion of mankind, hence the need to dehumanize native peoples. The logical progression would be that Christianity would simply follow the lead of Judaism, i.e., Christianity is just for men.

Of course, that's a big-picture, long-range guess. One of the reasons Christianity is so resilient is that there are so many versions. What would happen would be a thousand different possible ways forward. Most wouldn't last 200 years. A few would succeed.

The "man is special" disgust with coming from monkeys thing is just a limited reaction to Darwinism. It's already dying off. Within another 300-500 years it'll be completely gone. There were similar reactions against Copernicus.
The 17" MBP is very nearly the same price as a Mac Pro, and nothing says you need to buy one of those. You could build an impressive Linux desktop for far less than either of those machines.
Unless that article is dated 1862, the verb tense is wrong.

The US Military has offered a "path to citizenship" for over a hundred years through naturalization law that isn't under the control of the US Military.

Note that the article even mentions said law, pointing out a 2002 change, passed by Congress and signed by Bush.
I noticed that as well. I run Ubuntu, which could be part of it (although that's not to say Ubuntu's not a little bloated as well). Just to test this, I opened up every program that I could think of which I use on a regular basis:

- Firefox, with 20 tabs
- Skype
- Pidgin
- Three terminal windows, running Python, vim, and CherryPy
- Songbird
- GIMP with a photo loaded
- Two OpenOffice Writer files
- Geany (a text editor) with nine tabs
- Nautilus
- Three large PDFs (books) using Evince Document Viewer
- System Monitor (not much)

And I'm only at 1.2 GB! (No swap, out of 2 GB total.) I rarely have all of these programs open at once, either.

While I agree with his point in general, it might be overall more effective to avoid relying on apps as bloated as Visual Studio. Then, you can save some of the money on computer upgrades and avoid any negatives that might be associated with developing on a high-end computer. (Of course, I'm a moron for suggesting that there might be any.)
Screen real estate isn't reasonably measured in inches; resolution makes a ton more sense. My laptop's display is 1600x900, which is plenty of room for three terminals side-by-side. The screen itself is only 13.3" though. On the other hand, I know plenty of people with 20" displays that run them at really low resolutions, such as 1024x768 or 1280x1024.

Why couldn't you use Spaces on a laptop? My old powerbook G4 ran spaces just fine; I used 6 of them; one for email, one for a browser, and the rest for terminals. I never had a problem with it.
If Chrome doesn't look native, why does the toolkit matter?
Nine Reasons Why 8GB Is Only Just Enough... For A Smug, Self-Righteous Windows Developer.
I've never seen someone document software bloat so effectively.
This article really annoyed me.

Yes experiences can produce happiness in people who crave experiences but what of people who don't?

For what my opinion is worth here is the story behind Money and Happiness: Money does buy happiness but only if you really think through what your end goal is. So the guy who buys a bunch of stuff with his money and isn't happy didn't realize he was buying the stuff to get respect and that the stuff wouldn't actually get him that result. So he ends up not happy. But that doesn't mean he would be happy if he'd traveled Europe instead.

Happiness is an individual pursuit. I'll give you an example from my own life (if I might be so bold as to hold myself up as a template for happiness)

I think I've done pretty well for a guy in his 20s (I have a few hundred thousand dollars to my name). That money makes me very happy. But you know what I buy with it? Nothing. Zip. Nada. What I wanted out of life was the freedom to do what I want. I love to program and I wanted to spend my time trying to help the world. That money allows me to take a job where I make way less than I could elsewhere and still be confident that I won't starve and that I can retire someday if I want to.

Not an experience, not a possession but it makes me very happy because I focused on what I wanted from my money and found a way to get that out of it. That, to me, is how money buys happiness. There's not hard set rule like "spend on experiences" it's just a matter of honestly asking yourself what you really want and then logically finding a way to go after it.
8GB is almost barely just enough, but that article is fluff.

No one has all those apps running at once, and the numbers are exaggerated.

The real reason 8GB is just enough: open task manager and look at the virtual memory size for your applications. All that can be a lot faster if you have the memory to stick it in.
I think you must be looking at the total memory for the apps (including shared libraries, etc), because I ran OSX with 512MB for five years without much trouble. I typically had mail, opera, and tons of terminals open, and there was still typically around 40MB of free memory. Upgrading my laptop to 2GB did allow me to run safari and webkit and iTunes (now that's a hog) at the same time, which was definitely nicer, but I never really felt crippled by only having 512MB before that.
Already submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481974
Earth is complex product. Tides, created by the Moon, are important to mix water and to clean coasts. Metal core of the Earth is producing magnetic shield. All that is created due to collision of Earth with large object, which is comparable to Earth, and capturing it.

It is unlikely, that our Galaxy will contain too many systems created by two objects with comparable mass, because such systems are unstable. We can calculate this number by comparing number of star systems with two comparable stars in the system to number of regular stars.
I agree with you that using less bloated software could be an option but for some it just isn't an option and they are bound to use (at least some of) the bloated software because of the platform they are developing for or other dependencies...

I think what we can take from the article is that companies bound to use such software have to invest a bit more for their hardware, and to be honest, the costs for the additional RAM probably are pretty negligible compared to the licensing costs for the "bloated software".

Of course 8 GB is a pretty high number but it doesn't come with that high a price anymore.
It's usually reasonably stable, but occasionally there will be severe breakage when major components are being updated and reach the repo's at different times. This happens more with X, Gnome, KDE ... but sometimes when major system libraries are upgraded bad things can happen.
Will this only work on ye actual reddit.com, or can you point it at a private install?
KDE 4 is available in Sid.
Does HN have an API, or would it have to be scraped?
The only laws on the Internet are assembly and RFCs