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I don't see him attacking the whole population of MBAs.

> The problem is that a large proportion of MBAs ambitions seem to have moved away from entering a large corporate to becoming part of the burgeoning startup scene, and this shift has not been reflected in the course content.

He's really talking about inexperienced, fresh-out-of-school MBAs.
Stupid question here: why wouldn't the brine be of some use to the food industry.. Isn't salt big business?
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Dropbox now serving 100 million users
For all the comments about no trial version, they cover this at the bottom of the page by saying they'll gladly refund if you're unsatisfied.
Have you ever used Android 4.2? This phone ships with a new OS version that I don't think is out anywhere else yet. How do you know in advance that you will subjectively not like it? I hate Windows Phone 7, but I wouldn't dare say I hate Windows Phone 8 since I've never seen it IRL. How could I make such a judgement? It's not purely subjective, either. What's the point in having more RAM or a bigger screen if the OS doesn't handle those well? Or, if it handles it exceptionally well, that should be noted as well.
Wow that's pricy!

Over here in the soviet UK you can get a £10-15 pcm contract that gives you unlimited (not tethered) data and a reasonable about of other stuff, so long as you bring your own phone.
He's bluffing, and could have easily said Orkut or Pinterest.
9:11 AM PST - 8GB sold out.
WSJ launches page dedicated to Entrepreneurs
Uh, so? Judge pieces of work on an individual basis.
A Simple / Perfect Illustration: Steven Sinofsky Maybe Wasn't A Team Player
I wonder when will the stock be available again? And will it be a much larger stock? I'm not rushing to buy, but I hope to have some order this week.
Is this a Mac app, or a hosted service? Or something else entirely? I have literally no idea from this page, which means I've already closed the browser window.
Why is it stupid to compare the performance difference between canvas and WebGL? From where I'm standing a developer would have to make a choice between using that extremely poor performance to create a very crappy game, or it can use WebGL to create something that is a bit more presentable.

If a developer has to choose between these 2, which one do you think he will choose?
Some time ago I wrote a blogpost about how you can maximise the profit in your pricing using a bit of hacking.

http://www.maximise.dk/getting-product-pricing-right/

If you use the idea I'd love to hear about it.
It did sell out in other countries...
To be clear, it's not an auto-reject, it's an early warning mechanism.

I see the relationship between MBAs and cluelessness as one of correlation not causation.
This would have been my first thought. Another thought is the difference in the effect of wage inflation between higher and lower incomes.

I intuit that people on higher incomes are more likely to see rising salaries in real terms (either by growth-in-job; internal promotion; or selling themselves to the highest bidder).

The other side of that intuition is that those on lower incomes are more likely to be stuck in dead-end jobs, getting whatever across-the-board "cost-of-living" increase their employer decides to award. If (as is often the case) this is below CPI, then the inflation in the cost of their basket of goods is effectively higher for them.
That is actually not true, according to a past contestant: https://www.quora.com/Shark-Tank-TV-series/What-is-Shark-Tan...

Quotes from the first-hand account of a Shark Tank contestant:

> "I was strictly forbidden to have any contact with the Sharks before taping. I had never even seen any of them in the flesh until I walked out onto the soundstage and the cameras were rolling. "

> "The Sharks also have absolutely no idea what is going happen with each company that comes on, they haven't even seen the pre-roll that the audience sees (where the camera follows the contestant around their home town, etc)."
The power of owning the channel is a huge advantage, I wish more people understood. Email marketing used to be the best, but email read rates are usually less than 20% and it's over a few days. There is a better medium to build an audience that guarantees they get read...And definitely agree about not spamming or abusing the privilege.
Operatic systems are very simple creatures fundamentally. They just move bits around. They don't require anything more theoretically complicated than a linked list.

That is not to say you can't learn to do theoretically complex things without school, but when you're learning about DFA's or register allocation or the like, sitting down with a textbook and working through problems is often the best way to learn.

I'm a largely self-taught programmer, and I'm always running up against the theoretical background I don't have. Try writing a compiler for a modern language without understanding type theory, and try learning type theory by doing.
Most startups don't fail for reasons of business management and business strategy.

It's also a little weird to say that we're elitists because we're not hiring the elite of the business world.
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Nexus 4 (8GB) - Out of Stock

Also, I can't believe that Google of all people, can't run a store that can handle load. Instead, it's server errors and mysterious blank pages and "Sorry, a problem happened" pages. Disgusting.
It went live at 10:30 CT
I wish you could pay for a developer account just so they will bother to manage their bug tracking system.
Cool, we will take a look and give you some feedback.
That seems a difficult route given that the user had to explicitly give twitter posting access permission to the app in question...
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Project Omnivore: Three Years of Gorging on Data
Honestly, I find this kind of funny.

"iPhone app goes rogue and starts defaming users via twitter"

That's not and issue people had to deal with 50 years ago haha.
Considering the troubles they've been having keeping the thing in stock, I doubt "diverting potential customers away" is really a huge concern for them.

The specs and promo page are available at google.com/nexus. The play store really doesn't have anything other than a buy button.
I don't think LinkedIn is good for this at all. I see things like earnings press releases on LinkedIn, or "XYZ, Inc. invents new 2nm transistor that won't be around for 300 years." on LinkedIn. LinkedIn presents itself as a social network for professionals, and I think they cover that quite well.

Twitter doesn't quite fit nsns's description as a 'Companies Only' social network, as much of it is social. I don't necessarily know that anyone would willingly sign up for a companies only social network, despite what companies may dream and pray for :-)
I got an order in for a 16GB Nexus 4 after about 5-10 minutes of shopping cart and payment errors on the Play Store. My order's timestamp is 11:50am. Looks like it's all sold out in the US... before the stated 12pm PST release time. I think Google pissed a lot of people off today.
This is so exciting as a Android user and such a repeated slap in the face as an early adopter of Wallet.
I considered this myself once. The thing is, when you begin a start up you are investing yourself already. If you go for VC, you may get less return if you succeed, but the ability to do it all again if you fail.
Well, apart having personal advice on tap from a range of experts, the fact that on demo day your idea will be in front of the best VC groups in SV, access to YC alumni for help and advice, I can't imagine why people would give up 7% of their nascent startup either!

(this is sarcasm btw.)

More seriously: you're giving up 6-7% of your company in return for a whole swathe of things that are very likely to increase your chances of succeeding significantly. Most people don't have ready access to the kind of personal networks that YC offers: the combination of that access, plus the social proof of having the YC imprinteur massively increases the likelihood of success for many, many startups.

And I'm saying this as someone who's very unlikely to ever apply to YC, but even I can see the benefits in applying, as do many others who choose to go to YC even if they don't in fact need the money: the fringe benefits are worth far, far more than the cash.
NACL and Keyczar are two viable alternatives to DIY crypto. I'd use NACL before I considered trying to DIY an AEAD secure transport; there are more things to get wrong than properly authenticating your data!

You are always better off not working directly with crypto at all. For that, consider using PGP/GPG for data-at-rest (if you're in a JVM language, you can use Bouncycastle to get access to PGP) and SSL/TLS for data-in-motion.

In our practice, password reset tokens and encrypted session cookies continue to be the top source of exploitable crypto vulnerabilities in web applications. You don't need encryption to build either of these features; send 128 bit random numbers that key a database row instead.
The problem is that you got that reach before for free. It's the change that's upset people. If Twitter started charging companies for tweeting there would be a similar backlash.

People feel betrayed by a company desperate for new revenue.
It makes sense for him to want to leave considering Facebook is really just providing a newsletter service, and it was the marketing that the companies have done to drive them to their Facebook pages. It should be a mutually beneficial relationship, not one where Facebook is trying to milk both companies and consumers. The problem is they aren't making 'enough' off of consumers, and therefore are trying to go after companies too. It's chicken and egg problem, and now that Facebook has 'everyone' on it they are trying to milk it. Yes, there is value of guaranteeing that X number of followers will see a post in their feed - which true fans would want to see anyway (and based on algorithms likely would or would be an active visitor to their Facebook page), however Facebook is trying to prove their $100 billion valuation by essentially trying to extort companies, whereas it should be a slightly above cost of reaching (as the minimum). Facebook is trying to charge Advertising prices for something that is at its foundation a service being provided; Facebook has no monopoly on containing fans. If Facebook doesn't change this quickly it has no chance of ever becoming a $100 billion company, because by that time Facebook won't be freely marketed by big companies linking to their 'Facebook pages.' Facebook's abusing the relationship, and like anyone in an abusive relationship - it won't end well for the abuser, they won't get what they want. - at least not once more people realize it's abuse and they don't need to be in that relationship.
I've commented about the Shark Tank 5% before [1]; I believe it's quite reasonable, why don't you?

Have you seen Dragon's Den (UK)? I saw Shark Tank first and thought it was great but the more hardline Dragon's Den grew on me and I believe I learned much more from it.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3948913
There's a temp charge on my credit card, but nothing in Google Wallet, and I never managed to see the confirmation page. Crossing my fingers.

EDIT: about 20 minutes later it showed up in Google Wallet as pending. There is hope!
the promises are enticing. I went to sign up but your signup form breaks on mobile(chrome on a galaxy nexus with 4.1)..

I cant afford macs for my sales team. A web or windows version would be nice.
It was available and I think I managed to get one. I have yet to receive an email confirmation, but it shows up in my list of past purchases from Play. I bought it around 8:40 PST.
This works for me http://www.google.com/nexus/4/
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Gizmodo and its parent company have a documented history of ethical slips. A tattooed guy with a shotgun isn't inherently unethical or guilty, in my mind. But I don't watch a lot of TV or movies, so I'm weak in the stereotyping department.
Can anybody recommend another Android device that's competitive in terms of quality? I've been holding off buying in hopes of geting the Nexus 4, but the prospect of holding off again and perhaps having the same experience as today isn't very appealing.
While this is technically impressive, if you had gone down in the middle of the night for a few hours would it really have mattered? Apple.com takes down their entire site for several hours at a time every few months, and they don't seem to be hurting too much for it.
I saw the buy option once but when I selected the 16 gb model it disappeared again. Disappointed.
The point of the article seems to be that head injuries can produce genius.
I really don't think they care about this. This is the third time I have had this kind of experience with Google. Google IO 2011 and 2012 had the same sort of experience.

I have had a phone in my shopping cart at least 5 times, only to have it disappear. This is unacceptable.
That's ridiculous. People are judged by what they've gotten done in the real world. Nobody says, "Oh, that guy just dropped out of college; he must be smart, so let's hire him."

They don't have a bias against education. They have a bias toward experience.
Common Lisp has a bunch of these kind of operators defined "variadically": equality, relational and arithmetic ops, min, max, gcd, lcm, etc.
Compare their budget servers against other budget servers and they're going to lose out on CPU, RAM and bandwidth tier for the price you pay. Not everyone who is cheaper is offering inferior service, either. While I am sure I could negotiate a nice deal with Softlayer, I'd rather deal with people who are offering a better value up front. But perhaps I'm biased, as I tend to provision quite a few cheap machines for ESXi farms and I don't need nor want anyone's support beyond prompt hardware replacement and their network performing as expected.
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I've been saying this forever;

"If your whole role is to come up with ideas & strategies for the product but you can’t make them happen yourself, and have a very limited understanding of how you could, you are pointless."

Best product managers and/or designers are usually the engineers working, using and breathing the product.
Hey, let's keep it civil. How often do you hear "Good to see New Zealand in the news!" or "This is a great thing for the South African startup scene!"? People have patriotic pride, but beyond that they like to see interesting things happen around them and see the positive economic impact that a successful startup brings.

This has nothing to do with Americans specifically beyond the fact that there may be more Americans on this forum than other individual countries, so there are more comments. There's no need to come on here and spew anti-American sentiments like you are so coyly doing right now. Americans aren't leaving hateful comments on stories about other countries startup scenes. This is a story about a successful American startup doing their business in America in a fashion that is not the same as typical established American companies in their industry. And somehow you're surprised that local hackers are pleased by this?
Not everyone who advocates opensource is a developer. I am an end user of Netflix. I would like to see Netflix run on my Linux laptop and I don't care if Netflix talks about the underlying architecture in open source conferences (M$ does that too) or how they use opensource for their infrastructure. The only reason they don't support Linux is because they know it's a small user base. If they really want they can come up with a solution just like they did for Android (and ChromeOS too I guess ?) Even if I do agree with your reasoning about the inverse relation between content and Linux, why haven't they yet come up with something that provides altleast limited access to their content for Linux users ?
Just curious, but which applications' experiences do you find to be improved enough by LTE to offset the hit to the battery life?
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Interesting, I thought I was being restrained. While certainly angry, I didn't mean to shut off conversation.

Re: reasonable position

If you have an epiphany that you've been operating on stereotypes (which in this case are racist, IMO), and you want to share the wonder of having your eyes opened to something you couldn't see before, the first thing to do is not to stream those now-understood-to-seem-racist misconceptions -- especially with no discussion of them. You could, instead, talk about what you learned, or why you believed those bad ideas.

And I don't mean why, as in, "because some friends had a bad outsourcing experience." I mean, why are you operating on stereotypes and unfair reductions, especially when you already admit they are wrong.

What would you think if someone said,

"Amazing job. I know it's racist, but I always thought blacks were too busy sitting on their porches drinking 40s that they bought with welfare money. I know too many friends who've had bad experiences with black people. It must be really hard to run for President."

Would you think such a person is having a genuine epiphany and sharing true insight into their own misguided worldview? I would think that the author of the comment is doing a bad job of it, at best. At worst, I would think that person learned nothing, but would like to say something anyway.
His comment wasn't argumentative or anti-Shark Tank.

The owners are well aware of both situations, and it's their right to make the choice. For some businesses, that 5% is well worth the prime time informercial. And I imagine everyone who's received a YC offer has accepted as well.
> Another measure is per-passenger MPG(e) A bus now looks a whole lot better, and a full Model S with jump-seats is more efficient than a full leaf in terms of per-passenger MPGe.

All very true, but still very weaselly IMHO. Since the Leaf hauls five passengers, what you're really saying is that the Model S is acceptably efficient only if you're always carrying six passengers. I'm willing to bet that, assuming your Model S even has the child jump-seats in the back, this is probably well less than 10% of the use cases for the kinds of people buying this car.

And of course it's true that an ICE is less efficient than an electric motor. That's not what was claimed. What was claimed was that "any electric car will be more energy efficient than one using an internal combustion engine", that is, dismissing the Volt and C-Max.

I'm not saying that Tesla shouldn't have done what they did: they were very smart in developing a competitor to the BMW 7-series. The long range is smart, and the lack of an ICE backup is smart, and the high-end market is smart. It was the right decision to make. But it is nonetheless still fair to say that the Model S isn't a particularly efficient car in comparison to its electric and plug-in hybrid competition.
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Well, to continue the tortured analogy, the stranger was invited into the home, they didn't break in. Then they presented a release form to the homeowner saying they could impersonate him on TV, which the homeowner signed. Only then did they go on TV and "impersonate" him, saying things he didn't expect.

I don't think it's so cut-and-dry as you are making it out.

It's definitely shady, but I dare say there's nothing illegal here.
Yeah, very true. That makes much more sense why people are upset. However, I still think they should just take a step back and just look at the cost of more "traditional" alternatives that, what it seems like, are never even questioned for their price to value ratio. An extreme example would be how the Ford Explorer launch on Facebook generated more traffic than a Super Bowl ad [1].

[1] http://www.socialsyntax.net/2012/02/facebook-trumped-super-b...
The title should be "Why we have never hired someone who wants to be a Product Manager". The MBA angle/title is total link-bait and a cheap way of stereotyping anyone. These type of posts, in the past year, have turned HN into the perfect example of double standards.
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I kindly suggest that you change the title. The points you make are very good. But the title does not do the blog post justice. It takes away from it.
One of the key points when creating a headline for an HN post is to not use the word Why with an abosolute negative. It makes the community go in with a negative approach. You may try the following headline example and get more views/upvotes/comments:

Why we've had bad luck interviewing MBAs.
This one talks about your experience without sounding link baity. It also relates directly to your experiences.

In regards to your experiences. I think the issues with MBAs come from their conventional business education. A lot of them are not prepared to worok with startups. There are some good people out there, but it is not the standard.
9mm luger is easy to identify for someone familiar with handguns. However, 9mm luger is one of, if not THE most popular handgun ammunition in the world, so in my mind, it doesn't even imply circumstantial guilt.
I had no clue who he was before watching Shark Tank. But it greatly impressed me when he straight-up called the woowoo "ions" guy on his bullshit and outright called it a scam [1].

Watching the YouTube video you linked it doesn't look like he seems to enjoy the T-Mobile product placement. Have I been brainwashed into liking him because of my earlier experience?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XfXt93s1YE
If you are constantly getting spammed by a fan page that you explicitly liked or followed, then the appropriate answer is to unlike or unfollow it. There's no reason to curate information that you wanted to get to begin with.

What if Twitter implemented something like this where certain tweets from a person you are following do not appear? How would that feel?

This strikes me totally as a money play and not for the user.
What was the "acquisition cost" of those 1M+ Facebook fans (likes)? Ostensibly, this is "double dipping" on the part of Facebook from the perspective of businesses and brands who've been marketing their FB presence in aims of adding subscribers they can reach.
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The main determiner of whether this is gutsy or foolish is what age he is. If he still has two or three decades of earning potential in the workforce in the event his company craters, he can recover.
Well thanks for scaring my pants off, Tony.
>top tier investment bank analyst program out of undergrad, HBS, private equity.

Clearly a five year delay.

Seriously though, let's not overanalyze here.
It makes sense to have a push button for a gas engine, but for some reason a hybrid camry I drove also had the same push button, and it was impossible to know what that button did. I put the car in reverse, and nothing would happen. Of course, I could put the car in park, and walk away and it would shut itself down. So the button is only needed when starting the car, and it must be pressed before shifting.

I think this is a smart move by Tesla, because I found push-to-start in a toyota hybrid confusing.