skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion you don’t get a lot of hard skills at a MBA program. MBA program usually gets you 1-2 courses on any specific topic. If you get a Harvard MBA, you'll get two Finance and one Accounting course, and part of one course will cover econ. Just look at the curriculum http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/Pages/...

I had the choice of getting an MBA or MS in Finance. I went for the MS Finance and took these courses; 2 stats, 2 econ, 2accounting, 2 Managerial Analysis, and 8 Finance courses as my paid for course load. I took non-required courses in Operations management, MIS, Leadership, Business Law, and Marketing at the cheap Grad student rate and sat in the same classes as MBA’s.

Go to my schools website and you can see the simple thought approach difference between an MS and MBA
The MBA program landing page is all about school rank, how to get in, cost. The course work isn’t directly linked to that page.
http://bauer.uh.edu/graduate-studies/mba/index.php
The M.S. Finance page tells you the goals about what they want you to learn, and has the curriculum
http://bauer.uh.edu/graduate-studies/ms-finance/index.php
MBA programs are LARGELY about getting credentials. They are profit centers for universities, and get run that way. Most students are there to punch a card. You can see that mindset in terms of how the websites are set up.
This is a good point:

global economy>us economy>tech economy>vc backed co's>series A needed co's>series A not avails to co's etc.
The takeaway here is its not possible to record audio in chrome (in osx at least) without asking users to either enable Web Audio Input in their settings or disable the PPAPI flash plugin.

It's sad when you end up having to put messages like this in your app:

"Custom voicemails are not currently supported in Chrome on OSX. Please use another browser to record your custom voicemail."
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I was skeptic about them so far, I would love to be proven wrong here.
So if English is derived from Middle English which arose when the existing inhabitants of the British Isles took on the language of the newly arrived Scandinavians... where did Old English come from?
You get to reboot your career and go into a new industry, beyond signals that's the great value of the MBA.
Would we be able to differentiate a massive Dyson Sphere from a black hole?
I can't speak for Danish in particular, but I know the Scandivanian languages are all fairly similar. I know a little Swedish and am learning Norwegian and don't find them to be any harder than Spanish.
You use the onbeforeunload event, which doesn't block the event thread. (EDIT: actually it does, just not while JS code is executing, unlike alert().)

In fact, the HTML5 spec permits browsers to disregard the normal blocking behavior of alert()/confirm()/prompt() (making them no-ops) while this event is being handled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.onbefore... the dialog box is open
Is Mathematic customer driven? I see many baroque details, but I can't imagine them being used often. Graphs and parameters and models that look very specialized: but in many of these cases I know people use Matlab or C. I use Matlab. How does Steve choose which features to add?
Oh right, fair point. When it comes to ORM/SQL generation I don't know of anything Rails does particularly better. Someone told me that in Rails you're more aware of when you're creating new joins. I think that might be useful. In this django query there's an elegance that can come from each call to .filter() or .exclude() making their own join, but it confuses people as well... and not being able to re-use the joins makes it impossible to do things like get around the lack of a 'not-equal' operator in some cases [1]:

Author.filter(books__page_count__gt=100).filter(books__deleted=False)

Really though, in this case I just wish Django would do better than it does now.. or at least better than it did in prior versions [2]. There's hope though, @akaarial appears to be kicking ass and taking names in this area lately.

[1]: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5763

[2]: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10790 and https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18785
Guys here is source code of software start-up product(membership management)
I agree, and when I worked in that world it was a huge pain in the ass. Users don't care about RFCs though, they just want the Internet to work, so you end up doing something that's pragmatic but kludgey. As I pointed out in another comment, Google is responding with a TCP MSS of 1430 (so assuming a PMTU of 1470). It's just what you do so you can get on with your business.
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I was thinking more along the lines of, based on mrb's figures, buying 11 FPGA boards and letting them pay my rent. That's substantial enough profit that if I didn't file properly, I'd be worried about a knock on the door from the IRS.
Rewrote my previous comment, as muddling up both cases as a single obtuse analogy was a mistake on my part.

But can't we say that we have both a moral and an ethical obligation to protect our nontechnical users or our fellow developers from mistakes, lack of training or in the worst case maleficence ?

The business decision of using an externally hosted backend services, what ever they may be
must take into account what data goes into it, out of it and how it's computed on by both you and the provider w.r.t. who the real end user is and how the data is going to live on.

And here I think is the crux of the problem, those questions and their solutions are generally
very hard when put into practice (I dont have a silver bullet, or even a something vaguely resembling a mold for it) so it's not very conducive to being a "Fast" company.

For example, being European, it scares me a great deal that companies, schools and the public sector are increasingly punting the business decision of "how to handle email" to "let's use gmail".

That in no way takes into account my concerns (and often I do not have a choice in the matter of
using these services) since my mail, and by extension a large part of my life is being handed to
a for profit US corporation who "does no evil".

I use gmail privately though, since I did this particular cost/benefit and decided that i dont really care if google reads my mailing list traffic...
We built a simple proof-of-concept library that lets you use a web app as the GUI for native code, if anyone would be interested.
I agree 100%, MBA programs are giving people the building blocks to be an executive decision maker. The building blocks to be a manager, not really. Far too many people walk away with the idea that management by the numbers is the secret to sucess.
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I'm of Chinese descent watching my children grow up in Australia is interesting. While they speak Chinese, they tend to think in English. This means that their sentence structure is totally messed up (from a Chinese standpoint).

Perhaps a similar thing happened in England. The vocabulary is Germanic, but the syntax is Norse.
As an American living in Denmark for two years now, I would agree that that's true to some extent for written Danish, although it also helps that Danish grammar is just not that complex. But from a linguistic perspective, spoken language is often taken to be primary, and spoken Danish is not very close to mutually intelligible, even if you take a very generous view of it. It's nearly impossible for me to even parse spoken utterances into syllables, or produce most of the phonemes, despite some time attempting, because the phonology is just so dissimilar to English phonology. I find the Romance languages generally easier to approach from a phonological perspective (e.g. I can produce and transcribe Italian sounds vaguely competently, even if my Italian grammar and vocabulary is poor).
They rant on it because far too many people don't think it's a pants-on-head retarded degrees.
It's a similar problem when you think about the number of lawyers in America. Individual lawyers and MBAs can have handsome incomes while being a net drain on the economy.

Anybody who has been on the receiving end of a frivolous lawsuit can understand how that's true for lawyers. But it's less obvious for MBAs. A good example, though, is Simmons Mattress:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons...
There are two things with which I take issue in your comment: 1) Finite resources are always the case, so it would follow from your argument that one is always strictly better off with missionaries than mercenaries, which is simply not the case. 2) If there was anyone who could be considered to have infinite resources, it would have been the Romney campaign.
I stand corrected--I had lumped latency and motion blur into my head under "refresh rate". This is, of course, an error on my part.
They might in the next election, after having read the Nate Silver article and this thread.
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this site in combinaton with codecademy is a win for a beginner, to get you started.
Now I don't think she entirely killed RIM, as they have been trying for years to do it to themselves to little avail, but she certainly enumerated the largest problem with BlackBerries-they don't provide nearly the feature set modern smartphones have lead us to expect.
> Sigh. I dream of Mathematica being open source.

I dream of a world where people don't compulsively fantasize that for any given piece of software, it should be supplanted by some other piece of software whose main differentiating feature is that it's a FOSS clone.
The thing that leaped out at me from those galleries is the obvious evidence they were building a headcount empire...

The rock climbing wall and big TVs don't strike me as quite as outlandish as the sheer number of workstations and chairs stuffed in the conference rooms
Which course did you do if I may ask?
WTF? What sort of BS is this? Now I need to spied on as well while I listen to music. F* this s*. Time to cancel my rdio account!
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Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I think that I'd like to see the ability to <tab> off the dialog onto the underlying document restricted. The concept of 'semi-modal' is pervasive but undefined :)
tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b6a7a7bb22039977000ced

I enjoy writing client or server Javascript (yeah, really!), but some of these new features (such as generators) are something I very much look forward to.
If it costs you $X to add 32Gb of RAM to your machine, it will cost an attacker $X * 1000 to add 32Gb of ram to a GPU - GPUs do not come with 32Gb of RAM today, so it has to be custom hardware.

To sum this up, it's one of those ways to make sure that attacker's cost grows much faster than defender's costs, but it's not without cost to the defender.
Some of those 80% might be successful businesses and even exits that make the founders rich in the $20M-$50M range, they just don't have enough traction to be venture-scale startups.

Or let's put it this way:
80% of startups will not reach $100M in revenue.
Does that sound so bad?
Yeah, I had to read that paragraph a couple of times to get it myself. I was really hoping for a 120 Hz panel because I think it could make a big difference. Of course, it's still possible it will support 120 Hz and they just haven't told us yet...
Agreed ... and even more disappointing is when you have to say to your users to use Safari when 2 weeks ago you said to them to switch to Chrome :(
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We used Optimizely (https://www.optimizely.com/) to conduct most of our a/b testing. Optimizely works on the client level (browser), not the server level (CDN).

Optimizely is the best a/b testing software I've ever used. It's flexible and easy to use. I suggest you check it out.
Kafka 0.8 alpha announced (includes replication)
Couldn't have made this ugly site using Bootstrap? :P
I agree with your sentiment. My concern is that this is essentially academic linkbait :P
Or, you know, he could actually just be telling the truth in saying that he is willing to concede he may be wrong on the issue if his assumptions are wrong.
This is why we think German and Dutch to sound quaint and love the Swedish Chef from the Muppets.
A student group I was a sysadmin for had partially switched to Google Apps for mail from a self-hosted mail server, but for those who were still on the local server, some of them had set up their email to simply forward to their university address. University addresses expire an undetermined time after you graduate, so eventually when this happened to someone who had setup forwarding, it would trigger a horrendous forwarding loop of bounce notifications which would forward back and forth between our server and the university server and rather quickly fill up our (fairly small) mail partition and crash the whole machine. Thankfully these days everyone is on Google Apps so if they're doing forwarding they're doing it through that and thus I don't think you get bounce loops, and most people just check that address directly anyway.
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I maintain that my Mathematica license should include access to Wolfram Alpha Pro.
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I think the funniest part of this is expecting web folks to write good GLSL code. That's going to be a laugh riot. Especially, since, you know, they can't make useful guarantees on things like available uniforms, varyings, samplers, etc.
“The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “That’s independent of how much money VCs have or how many companies funded. There are 10 awesome companies a year, and they will get funded. It’s pretty simple.” He says if a company is going to be successful you can see it in 18 to 36 months. If you don’t, that company simply shouldn’t get to take up any more of the Valley’s rich resources — whether that’s talent or people. Sorry.

-- The Finite theory of invention. Or appeciation.
not to forget that S3 has various backups of that data.
How do you see your effort as a Marketer?
Yep, I work in a small, very distributed company. We use Hipchat and specifically have a tab that contains everyone in the company for that purpose. It's good to be able to occasionally just talk shit with folks you otherwise only meet once or twice a year.
The problem with the original argument (if I read it correctly) is that Bostrom assumes that the "growth and expansion sensibility" is a near certainty and that lack of evidence of this type of civilization, and the fact that we exist (as compared to having previously been 'harvested'), means that life does not exist elsewhere.

However, what everyone else in this thread has been saying, is that his conclusion (that no life exists elsewhere) is wrong because there are number of other possible explanations as to why we don't see evidence of this civilization. A quick summary of some of those arguments:

1. The expansion that Bostrom assumes is inevitable is actually physically impossible at the scale he describes.
2. It is possible that we are actually a by product of that expansion (DNA being the 'self-replicating' robot).
3. The expansion is happening, but hasn't reached us yet.
4. No other civilization has reached such an advanced stage yet (it is entirely possible that our 4.5 billion years was an extremely and uniquely fast time for evolution to intelligent life)
5. Super-intelligent civilizations come to conclusions that expansion is not a productive or useful undertaking.

While it is possible that life doesn't exist elsewhere (or at least intelligent life), it is by no means the natural conclusion to Bostrom's hypothesis.
Here's why things are headed downwards - There are way more reasons as well, but these are the most significant:

1) Victim of its own success. Groupon, LS expanded way soon, way fast. Daily deal sites start popping around all over the place creating chaos and irritation for both the merchants and the customers (merchants bcos the same merchant gets solicited by 10 diff daily deal sites - customer bcos now you're unsure which site has the best deal and too much email)

2) The last part of (1) above can be listed as merchant and customer fatigue.

3) Its uneconomical to hire and retain salespeople in big cities like Chicago/DC etc. For this model to work, the sales team should be in a extremely low cost area. Sales team will be one of the biggest expense for such a company/startup

4) Groupon / LS are not proving effective ROI to merchants

5) Novelty factor has worn off -- making it difficult to keep customers engaged. Now, the customer is engaged only if its an awesome deal from an awesome merchant. For the remaining merchants, the purchase pattern is more driven by 'need' -- not so much impulse any more. For eg: Meh - I need to get oil change done. Might as well check on Grpn/LS to see if there's a deal being offered.
I'd like to know this too. I've never used any of these sites.
No, it means that Mr. Goldberg isn't a tech rock star.
This comes to mind -

https://appharbor.com/page/appharbor-status-update
Lots of larger firms participate in seed rounds with six-figure checks, as a kind of option on investing in the Series A.

As the size of seed rounds comes back to Earth this will be less likely to happen.
A friend who went to a top business school after a brace of technical degrees and some work experience said that the only value the friend received was in the network, in the social connections made. There was almost nothing in the curriculum that the friend couldn't have figured out from first principles in short order. I expect the friend would agree with the signaling value as well; the point was more that there was little intellectual heft to the material.
Hey, I'd appreciate any comments on the value proposition and the landing page. Cheers!
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Genuinely asking: Why? What use-cases or advantages do you have in mind?
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I am not very strict about it. I generally try to keep it on my screen. If it starts to horizontally scroll, I will split it up. This used to come up a lot while crafting longer SQL statements. I just started writing them on multiple lines instead of out habit.
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"What used to be an obelisk is now becoming a pyramid."

-- One of the best analogies I've heard in a long time
Second paragraph:

Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, is a West Germanic language,
which the Angles and Saxons brought with them from
Northern Germany and Southern Jylland when they settled
in the British Isles in the fifth century.
Hi Ross, I am on the same boat as richo here. Not really a start up but just an app I put together and wanted some user feedback. The site looks easy enough to use and navigate through. For now I just went with one free test. Depending the quality of the feedback from that one tester, I might buy 5 more tests next.

Cheers and congrats! I definitely see myself using your site over usertesting.com
Right, but if PMTUD is broken, basically large transfers to clients with low MTU don't and never will work, and there's not much you can do about it.

It's not like it's an "unreliable connection" which can be worked around with error correction. It's a "broken connection", which needs to be fixed.
I don't see any reason for the doom and gloom here.

More like Pander Daily, IMHO.
Can you provide examples for the ideal case for you? What would you like to see in Mathematica to make it easier?

As a heavy user of both, my experience is that Mathematica is more difficult initially when writing your code, but is ultimately easier than Excel because the thing you would be doing in Mathematica would be very hard to do in Excel (it is both a technical as well as maintenance nightmare).
Something I've been curious about that wasn't entirely discussed, but briefly touched upon in the article:
Convertible notes are normally assigned some value upon a more 'official' valuation being made by some VC firm. What happens, then, if the company generates enough cashflow to bootstrap their way to profitability and ends up not needing nor taking VC money?

How are the initial convertible notes valuated and equity assigned, in this case?
To be fair, people are much more likely to brag about getting funded than about being unable to get funded.
Because this is The Economist?

Further, the harm, if any, of most degrees is to the person who pays for it. People are generally allowed to do stupid things that don't hurt others. But Mintzberg and others argue that the harm caused by MBAs is to the economy, while individual MBA-holders profit. That would be a tragedy-of-the-commons situation, which isn't self-correcting.
Yeah if you try and work around broken PMTUD though you're going to mess up your application layer protocol SO bad...

EDIT: I suppose you could rewrite TCP MSS on your own firewall or drop MTU on all web servers.... but of course if you're going to reconfigure your firewall / intefaces, you may as well just fix the problem - which was caused by poor device configuration in the first place.
That's not an accurate characterization of the article at all. It's not asking whether managers are valuable; it's asking whether a popular way of training managers is valuable. It's an excellent question.
You're right that the spoken language has a greater claim to primacy than the written - there are enough examples of diglossia around the world.

However, I think you overstate the significance of phonology. Many native English speakers struggle to understand Glaswegians; partly, that's lexical, but mostly, it's phonological. It doesn't mean that it's hard, though, just that the listener is unfamiliar. An American dropped in Glasgow would soon learn to understand the locals, I feel sure.

You say that you've lived in Denmark for two years but still struggle to parse spoken Danish. That seems like slow progress: would it be fair to assume that you spend your time mostly in an English-speaking environment? I ask because I'm trying to work out to what extent Danish pronunciation is hard, and to what extent you just haven't had much exposure.
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Grab gun, aim at foot; getting purged from Google (et al) will not help a news site's bottom line.
I bailed out and sold my 100 btc at 5$ and then patted myself on the back when it hit 3$. I didn't buy back in like I should have and now I am kicking myself in the ass.