skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or offensive and then we can put you in prison just because.
What makes you think that being a MBA equates to having business skills? Being MBA is just being MBA.

People who don't get higher education and just start their companies fresh out of high-schools will have WAY more business skills than MBA.

I'd say that 2 years of running your own business gives you more business skills than 5 years of MBA education.
And for a small fee I know a lawyer who can make the veil thicker...
> if you check out the feature in the bottom right (Full Ownership) you can see details about how easy it is to take your data elsewhere

There isn't a lot of details there. The sentence I quoted above is longer than the details in the "full ownership" box.
GPS positions you using very accurate clocks. GPS satellites are continuously broadcasting messages, where each message contains:
1) their position when the message was sent
2) the exact time when the message was sent.

With enough satellite signals (4, given that you're locating in 4 dimensions --- 3 spacial and 1 time. Note that if the GPS receiver had a very expensive clock you could locate with 3 satellites, or if you knew your exact altitude to a high level of precision as well, you can locate with just 2 satellite signals).

Now notice that if you're solving a 4 dimensional equation, you can't have two of the spatial coordinates have precisions of less than 10 meters while one of them is inaccurate to the kilometer!

In practice, if you have a "good enough" clock and a "good enough" barometer, you can hone into the approximate city, or 100 meter radius circle much faster --- after picking up just two GPS signals. And for a lot of apps, this lets them begin the initial computations quicker.

The one part I'm not sure about is whether the long time is computational, or in actually waiting until you find 4 or more signals. Maybe somebody with more experience with GPS can clarify?
My understanding is that if you know your exact elevation you can determine position with only 3 satellite signals instead of 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS#Basic_concept_of_GPS
The vast majority of them though. The iPad 2/3 were the blockbusters in sales and the 4 is the same as the 3 externally. Few people have the Mini so far and it's pretty obvious cases would not be compatible.
My wife now watches Shark Tank with me and is becoming rather shrewd in evaluating businesses. We both hate the product placements.

Speaking of business model that drives away customers. Did you know you give up 5% of your business to appear on shark tank because of the exposure? With or without the deal. That is why they do the follow-ups on companies that did or did not accept a deal. It's good for the shows owners.
T-Mobile in the US used to discount their post-paid plans when you brought your own phone. They stopped doing that but started offering some pretty great prepaid plans:

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

I am on the $30/mo unlimited text, 5GB of HSPA+ data and 100 voice minutes plan and it's great. I reduced my monthly bill by 60%.
Contact info to register complaints to the company (Enfour) is here:
http://www.enfour.com/richard/index.html
Though the comparison HAS to be between 2d canvas and WebGL due to IE not implementing the latter, it does feel a tad unfair. Maybe someone with more knowledge could chime in about what optimizations are possible 3D that aren't possible on a 2D canvas.

It would also be interesting to see how FF and Chrome performed on the same 2D canvas test.
Touch sensitive plastic skin that heals itself?
I wouldn't consider someone with an MBA a black mark, but the author hits the nail on the head -- an early stage startup needs someone who can execute, not just come up with ideas.

If that person with the MBA has the skills and more importantly the desire to get in an get their hands dirty executing on their own ideas, then great! But from my experience, most MBAs want to come up with the ideas and want others to execute them.
For those not reading the comments --

"I would add that this problem seems to be happening with many, if not all of the Enfour dictionary apps, not just the Oxford app that this story is about. And Enfour seems to be attacking customers who post low reviews on their App Store pages.

And this has nothing to do with having a jail broken iPad or iPhone. It is happening to everyone."

".. Enfour is attacking people leaving bad reviews in the App Store, but not by triggering their Twitter accounts. Enfour is actually responding to the bad reviews by posting negative comments about the reviewers themselves on the description pages of Enfour’s apps. You can see these when you access the iPad store, but you have to click “more” for them to appear. I don’t think they show up in the iPhone app store."

Sounds like a great company all around.
When 10K people sponsor an kickstarter, it will be under $100 and sold in SkyMall.
I will say that I just switched from a iPhone 4 to a S3 and it seriously makes the iPhone feel like a toy.
Sad to hear this. The Loosecubes team was always amazingly friendly and helpful. They built a beautiful service, it's a shame to see it shuttered.
Yes; TMobile will sell them. The pricing will be much worse than the Play Store pricing, though (I think around $200 on contract and $600 off), so probably not actually a good idea.
Cool, thanks. I'll sign up.
You can add to that the whole subsidize issues. Lots of opportunities in the EU but very few who are really knowledgeable on how to optimize/maximize that subject.
One example use case I saw recently in my circle of friends: person A tweets "wow, there's a great special on sashimi bowl at the place near the university", person B tweets back "@a hey, I'll be in the area Friday, how about we go for lunch? anyone else interested?", person C (common friend) sees the conversation and tweets "@a @b hey, I'll go too". Finally a group outing is quickly organized.

Mostly I see it used for quick conversations, funny remarks, organizing small events, saying when you're going for a trip...
vote with your wallet and your taste buds and your health. All three suffer when you buy Starbucks coffee.
I think the original Kickstarter backers might already have theirs.
Did you know that YC takes 7% of your business, whether or not you get funded a demo day? Shark Tank may be a better deal. Or not. But it is ridiculous to argue that based on the fee for a prime time infomercial.
For the ubernerd, we have this too: https://github.com/netflix
Well, his whole thing is over engineered. He doesn't need a PIR sensor (the LEDs can just be on all the time), he doesn't need RGB addressable LEDs (he can just connect an LED to a GPIO port with a resistor). He also doesn't need a computer with the power to handle a web server.

So, what you need is a machine that has WiFi connectivity plus GPIO plus a few components. I'd suggest that you can do this with a Raspberry Pi plus a small WiFi adapter.

Using Amazon.co.uk pricing:

Raspberry Pi Model B: £42.89
Raspberry Pi Power Supply: £3.95
Edimax WiFi Adapter: £8.15
Some LEDs + resistors (est.) £2.00
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£56.99

Which is $90. Of course, if you have any of these things (like an old USB WiFi adapter) you can cut the cost further. Or you can do as I do (see link above) and reuse old equipment. My bus monitoring project was done for the cost of the LED display from SparkFun ($12.95).

And the Pi has a lot of power to do other stuff. I have other ambient stuff in my house running off a single Raspberry Pi plus it's doing CCTV motion detection as well.
Ignoring OS is the only way to make a fair comparison, since OS preference probably trumps the feature and price delta ( whether you prefer WP or Android).
Are you using a connection pooler for postgres? Like pgbouncer or something.
Maybe when the "brands" are gone, Facebook will stop driving away users.
Distribution partnerships for startups
We're mostly a Java company, but certainly not only a Java company.

We have a core of folks who use Python (like me), we just haven't open sourced any of it yet.
What does that friend want to use the tablet for? Anandtech found the screen on the Surface to be superior for watching video, despite its lower resolution. Does the friend want to share his tablet with other people in his household? The multi-user support in Windows RT is obviously superior to the complete lack of such functionality in iOS. Does the friend need to occasionally edit Office documents?

I don't think there's an obvious answer to which tablet provides more value - it's very context-specific.
I also know of a lot of tech people with the ideas and the skills, but no idea how to successfully execute them. I'm on the tech side of things, but I've experienced what a good PM can do for a team.
And with T-Mobile you can get the same plan for cheaper if you aren't on a contract.
I want to make snapshots right in VMWare, because it gives the additional advantage that I can quickly switch between them.

E.g. I have snapshots for a clean Windows installs with a different set of development tools.
If you follow the link to the more detailed blog post, Andrew shows how he was able to speed up the data transformation script by a factor of 60 by using ALTER TABLE statements to cast column types after the fact rather than rewriting every single INSERT. A little more dangerous perhaps, but still an impressive improvement.
Your analogy should be narrowed according to the facts of this case. Assuming that the author's guesses about the app's behavior are correct, this is a case of software checking for one specific tool — a tool that's strongly associated with piracy. A defendant in the physical world wouldn't necessarily have a reasonable expectation of privacy if there were indications that he or she was engaging in unlawful conduct. So it's unfair to say the app's behavior would be obviously illegal or that it's comparable to a secret inventory of all of someone's physical items. That said, I'm not justifying the hijacking of the author's Twitter. That's not an appropriate remedy by any standard.
Just wanted to add: Schoenberg's historical view of western music was one of a sort of slow "climb" up the overtone series, from early music utilizing almost exclusively perfect harmonies, to modern (in the west) compositions that use quarter tones, etc.

> Pure major chords sound more "pleasant" in a pepsi-challenge type of study. So does pure sugar in a taste study. That doesn't mean the perfect meal is a pile of sugar cubes.

Love this.
532x Multikey Index Insertion Performance Increase for MongoDB
I think the only differences might be how insanely handles anchor links and video links.

I played with it a bit to get it to go the specific links I mean when I type in long queries. (clicking a video link if available up there, clicking an anchor link if available and emphasized with "jump to".)
This proposal is really important to cross platform vendor agnostic support:

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-medi...
Will MOOC's Become the Next Generation of AP Courses?
Higher education is embracing free megacourses online. Today a major education group said it will consider recommending some Coursera courses as college-credit-equivalent.
It's certainly not "curtains" for a career. It might lead to changing jobs. Then again, it might lead to getting promoted.

A few years ago, I showed up for an interview in a suit, tie, and wingtips. A coworker hired about the same time, showed up for his in tee-shirt, baggies, and Teva's.

He was a better fit for the corporate culture and stayed for seven years. I left after about a year.

On the other hand, in the US, either get it, or don't. Making a big deal and asking permission is a sign of weakness.
Nice idea! Would love to see more things like this made.
What start-up can you establish with maximum 1000 $?
The simplest possible "mechanical cell" would be a self-contained machine that can reproduce itself given only raw materials and energy. This could theoretically take place on the molecular scale; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo.
There's an official apology on their Japanese website where they refer to it as a bug:

http://www.enfour.co.jp/news/121105apology.pdf (JP)
Norman D. Cook has some very nice papers about harmony and tri-chords that make the case that intervals are not what matters when it comes to characterizing more complex harmonies:

http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~cook/
To be fair they said they needed the money to "finish tooling and create a mass production line." Which is different than starting from scratch.

I'm sure you are right about the advertising/marketing angle of kickstarter, but it doesn't preclude what they suggest it's for as well.
You'd probably like this interface better: https://github.com/netflix
This doesn't seem any different than the language wars that take place here. In fact, you could cherry pick anecdotes to support hate towards any demographic- age, hometown, music preferences, etc. An MBA proves nothing more than the candidate was interested in pursuing graduate level education.

I'm a solo technical founder. I write code, marketing copy, and proposals. I'm a product manager. And my MBA curriculum covered areas that would be a huge help to product managers.

If you auto-reject CVs with an MBA, you're missing out on a great talent pool. Perhaps you should only give "black marks" to candidates who are clueless about what it takes to manage products. But don't tie that to the MBA.
Do the actual statistics bear out the theory that inflation is significantly higher for the things that low-income groups purchase? See, for example, this graph:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=CPIAUCSL,CWSR...,
Panic Attack Leads to Hospital on Way to Golfer’s First Victory
I would happily hunt down the person that is allowing nudes of my girlfriend to exist online. No one has the right to display her body to the world.
Wow! SO NICE OF THEM TO SUPPORT LINUX TOO!
To make it work in Haskell you would need to wrap the elements in a FoldElement type and the functions in a FoldFunction type, and then allow not total functions or some Either/Maybe style defaulting, and use case analysis to unpack each FoldElement.

It could be useful if you are building a general framework (like a calculator, or a game AI decision engine) for user-defined functions.
I am Financing my Startup with my 401k
question: is the lack of LTE really that big of a deal? how much slower is this other thing nexus 4 uses?
Saying Netflix can't be associated with open source because they don't have a Linux client is very close-minded. Netflix sent an engineer to a recent BSD conference to talk about some of the custom caching servers they use in their CDN. He went into detail about how they designed the system and what they learnt. They've published a huge amount of information about how they've built on top of AWS. What about these actions indicates that they're not dedicated to open-source? Probably the only reason they haven't been quicker to develop for Linux is the same agreements that allow them to carry so much content - the developers have been quite clear that they would love to have a Linux client.
Determining item similarity based on product attributes
Transparency Report: Government requests on the rise
One of the best hires I've ever made is a classic finance MBA -- top tier investment bank analyst program out of undergrad, HBS, private equity. The key was that:

1) He was referred to my startup by someone in our network, so he had at least a basic understanding of how our company worked.

2) He offered to come in as an intern just to get his foot in the door, and was extremely humble about his value to the company; basically recognized that he wouldn't that productive at first. (We brought him in as an analyst and he made because a lead PM in about 7 months).)

There is a lot to like about people with that background: extremely smart, hardworking, with hard analytical skills. If the two basic criteria from above are met (basic understanding of the business, strong desire to come in and learn), then I would strongly recommend snagging an MBA if you can.
So the "no contract" or "no carrier" version is only available in the Google Play?
Inflation perception is higher at the lowest income groups because inflation is higher for things they purchase

True. It's also causes more impact because the delta comes out of a smaller pot in the first place.
What a repulsive link. Those images are really distasteful.... Not the pregnancy part but the staging of it. As if your entire being revolves around your stomach, and therefor so should everyone elses.

Sorry, I'm sensitive to this kind of thing. As if her life suddenly has meaning, so now she has to compensate for all the lost time. Congratulations, though.
Doubtful.

In the same way being an hobbyist programmer will never give you the same skill set than a CS degree. It's highly unlikely you are ever going to study extensively algorithm, os and databases design, compilation or declarative and functional programming all by yourself because objectively it's not something you need to get the job done. Nevertheless, this knowledge becomes really useful as soon as you start designing complex system.

Doing an MBA (or an MSc for what it's worth, MBA cult is mostly anglo-saxon) is exactly the same thing. You will study a broad range of subjects and business areas and see different theories on them.

Don't misunderstand me, practical knowledge is invaluable and running your own company gives you a good understanding of your area. It's just than MBA will give you a broader if less practical view.
What's difficult about partitioning a USB stick, as opposed to partitioning an HDD?
The only way to fairly compare devices is to ignore the single most important aspect? No, I don't think so.
Might want to fix the link that plugs your startup.
Mind if I ask who you're hosting with?
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Google’s Nexus 4 phone and Nexus 10 tablet Sells Out In U.K. Within Hours
i imagine there's a load of cultural baggage here, but the two mbas i know did it in evenings, while raising children, and holding down jobs (that they were good at). the fact that they got theirs is a credit to their determination.

more than that, i helped one of them on some module, because they knew i "knew about computers" and it turned out that they were learning how to configure firewalls (!) (in a very abstract way - the idea was to understand what a firewall was, not how iptables worked - and we got top marks for that assignment ;o). i guess it was some kind of i.t. security basics. anyway, the breadth of what they were covering surprised and impressed me.
Resellers don't sell it at the same price as the play store does.
So they created a weapon and accidentally fired it at someone? In most jurisdictions, that would still be an offence.
Facebook’s 2012 YTD Revenue: What Taobao.com Sold In One Day
How Climate change is affecting your daily coffee
"It's not a sustainable business of course"

A business doesn't have to be sustainable to be profitable.
The GPS location is faster when you have a good initial guess. So in cold boots it should lock into position faster.
More a sociopath than a moron.
I don't believe Jeff is being dishonest, but it did occur to me that if one was paid out to advertise a product, that's exactly how you'd do it.
I don't know the FB advertising system inside & out either but like Cuban, I'm miffed by this. The implication here is that companies essentially don't own their own "likes." What value do they have outside of being a vanity metric if you can't reach them aside from coughing up thousands of extra dollars?
Absolutely. I have an MBA after being in the software industry for a while. MBA fresh out of undergrad is insane and all of the MBA programs I looked at required years of industry experience. I'd really question the value of a MBA program that lets in 22 year olds fresh out of undergrad.
Demand for travel correlates strongly with economic vitality. Lots of travel is not a bad thing per se. The externalities of travel (pollution, congestion, etc.) are where things get bad.

In many places, congestion is an equilibrium state. In other words, demand for travel will continue to increase until bounded by congestion. Here we're seeing where a bicycle-based system starts to encounter a scarcity of capacity. And, as it turns out, that's a lot of bikes doing a lot of travel, with primarily positive (e.g. improved public health) externalities.

This is a good problem to have.
According to newegg.ca: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&...

The corsair usb 3.0 "voyager gt" is cheaper and faster.
I like the idea. Ignore the haters, listen to the prospective customers.

Congrats on the launch :-)
"* The site itself isn't ostensibly "commercial""

How is that even the case? If the site turns a profit for anyone (or if run as a non-profit that allows the owner to collect a salary), it should be considered "commercial".
"In the same way being an hobbyist programmer will never give you the same skill set than a CS degree." Never? Despite the countless examples, including Torvalds and Carmack? I really disagree on that.
As another data point, YC's fastest ever exit was ran by an MBA.
Burnished by Starbucks, upstart Square battles payment giants
My process oriented goals for next year: Fitness, Side/Work Projects,Schmoozing
As with all new ad platforms you have to test the ROI. Apparently in his businesses he didn't see the benefit and did what all good marketers would do, pull your inventory. As Facebook tweaks it's EdgeRank Algo I am sure they will figure out how to get the most "bang for the buck". If not their stock price will continue it's slide.
urgh this guy oozes arrogance
You are quick to judge an MBA based on their education.

People are judged by their education all the time. Why should MBAs be exempt?

Though I do agree that the arbitrarily judging of someone based on what learning they have done in their life is ridiculous. Though I can't help but feel that even you have done the exact same judging: "Maybe if people working in startups weren't such elitists and thinking you don't need business skills to run a startup, you wouldn't have so many fail." Not having an MBA doesn't mean you do not have business skills.
Looks a world better, great job!
You're conflating this post, which is about Apple more or less mistreating developers, with Google's conscious decision to produce $200 ARM thin clients. They're not really the same; Apple still wants you to develop on their hardware, they more or less shackle you to it.

Based on what you described your development stack is supported on Chromebooks. That's cool. Eclipse used to run on my 11" netbook as well, it doesn't mean it was a good way to develop, nor was it designed to be.
One could interpret this as Facebook being a "victim" of their own success - they have so much demand for advertising that they have to limit access to their userbase in order to ensure that the advertising retains its value. Perhaps, as Cuban says, uninformed business owners think they're paying for something other than what they're getting and demand will dry up once advertisers get wise. Or perhaps Facebook's conversion rate is just that good.