skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting perspective on the value of a MBA: specifically as a path to be an entrepreneur. Traditionally (say 20 years ago) much of the MBA was focussed on specific career paths: Investment Banking, Strategic Consulting, and Large Corporate Management Track.

I completed my MBA in 2006 while my school was shifting itself from the traditional aspects above to include a more entrepreneurial focus. If you asked me at that stage for a budding tech entrepreneur is there value in an MBA, the answer would mirror the position of the writer.

However, some schools have made significant strides in developing their programs and themselves to support entrepreneurs (or people who want to pursue that pass). I have been stunned in the way some schools now offer almost entire programs around entrepreneurship. Is that enough to overcome the cost?

I don't have an answer for that, but here are my thoughts:
1. Many, if not all of these programs, now have incubators/competitions as a part of the program with significant seed funding available
2. Similarly, many schools have developed networks with local VCs getting that initial access to funding and offer amazing access to coaching and angel investors
3. Maybe a little esoteric, but that 100k might give you that one piece of credibility/analysis etc that gets you that first round of funding, or helps you avoid that one mistake that could jeopardise you business and/or any funding you needed to keep your business running.

This is not an easy choice, but increasingly, some MBA programs do offer a LOT of value for the $100k
An accelerometer measures acceleration, not movement. You need some kind of optical sensor (even the camera) to make it usable as a mouse.
Tangentially related - Anybody know anything about the progress or success of the BloomBox from Bloom Energy? They were billed as a close-to-magical way to produce energy when they were first announced, but I haven't heard much about them since then.
Another issue: say you develop bug free software for some platform. That is well and good and certainly better than a buggy app, but to have a bug-free system (platform plus YourApp), the third-party platform has to be bug free: bug free kernel, bug free middleware, bug free drivers, bug free chips and circuit boards. Also, don't forget that whatever language you're working in has to have a bug-free compiler and run-time support.
Doug Lenat is, to me, the most confusing case of someone in AI. He programmed a general problem solver (Eurisko) to use (meta^n)-heuristics that solved a major strategy game, coming up wih a creative plan no human thought of, and yielding insights on the field of heuristics and the "Representation Language Language".

... and then "went dark", "officially" working on this tedious, brittle attempt to compile common sense into a graph, which yielded nothing in practical application.

It's like we're in a movie and we're about to get a big reveal that he's really been using Eurisko to solve major untouchable problems.
I don't think that's racism, I think that's business. Taking someone from Penn Station to Grand Central Terminal is pure profit, because it's fast and you're guaranteed a fare once you get to Grand Central. Taking someone from low-density area A to low-density area B is less profitable, so you don't see many cabs in these low-density areas.

I see this in action all the time, because I tend to bike late at night when bars are closing and people need cabs. If a cab does end up in Brooklyn, because they were required by law to take someone from Manhattan there, they tend to beeline it back to Manhattan, avoiding streets where they might encounter a fare. Smith St. / Clinton St. is one pair like this. Clinton St. is a residential street that leads to the Brooklyn Bridge. Nobody naturally wants a cab there[1]. Smith St. is one street over going the same direction, and it's all bars and restaurants. It also leads directly to the Brooklyn Bridge (actually, the Manhattan Bridge; they're very close). But you see most cabs opting for Clinton instead of Smith, so they don't get stuck picking up someone in Brooklyn that wants to go even deeper into Brooklyn. Instead, they try to get back to the highly-profitable Manhattan as quickly as possible, even if it means going empty.

That's not racism, that's just the reality of how you make money as a cab driver.

(The cabs that can't pick up passengers in Manhattan all take Smith St.)

[1] Except people like me that have noticed this pattern. I do see cabs stopping for fares on Clinton, since they have to if flagged down.
How does it compare to http://www.litech.org/tayga/
This is what Paul used: http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams
This sounds very similar to what Chariot (https://chariotsf.com/) is trying to do in SF. Filling a gap between MUNI and taxi/uber/lyft?
Thanks for the interesting expansion. This technique isn't actually unique to functional programming languages, but rather languages with good type systems and compilers. It just so happens that a lot of functional programming languages have that.
I worked for an insurance company for five years. I sometimes tried to suggest some IT type upgrades for some of the data they had. It all got shot down. And this was just in hopes of getting better organized internally. I think they really don't even know what info they have. It was a pretty crazy-making situation.
IRS says free software projects can't be nonprofits
In summary: is a cofounder. Tinder brings in a new CMO (after company was founded), name him a cofounder, rewrite history so she is no longer a cofounder, ignore her complaints about harassment, proceed to fire her. Then when this story breaks talk about suspending the "cofounder" that was doing the harassing - acting as though it is new information.
To be fair you can write vim plugins in python, and a fair number of people do.

It's also, I'd argue, a fail from the Atom guys to make their plugins run in coffee script natively, rather than allowing people the choice of compile-to-javascript/native javascript to write plugins in (this has definitely hurt adoption for the creation of plugins that do more than trivial things or syntax highlighting).

The thing about atom that is compelling for me is apm (the command line atom package manager); its really very good.

(Yes, I know you can write 'pure javascript' atom plugins, but its complex and it's clunky; you have to manually implement the coffee script inheritance semantics. Fail.)
Thanks very much.

It turns out default mem settings in VirtualBox weren't large enough. On IRC they recommended 2.0 GB of ram and that worked for me! ready to rock...
Are you sure that is right? Penalties for contempt of court, for not having a process or for always denying requests as a process I can imagine but can you link to anything referring to the penalties for making wrong judgements in this area.

I'm quite sympathetic to the idea that the rules may be wrong or could be made better but I think that there being some control in this area is a good idea on balance.

The FAQ someone linked to refers to balance of freedom of speech and data protection so there is the possibilities of complaints from both sides.
Matlab uses () for indexing, and I find it awful - you can't tell the difference between indexing and function calls, making code much harder to understand and reason about. It can be pretty confusing for people learning, too (I teach it to undergrad engineers, and don't get a say in the language choice).
That's a good point, pull is nice. You could also run the push events at a higher frequency too (I think ondevicemotion events typically run at 20Hz, which is abysmal). My larger point is that if possible we should update the existing standard to provide push and pull from the same interface/abstraction, and that it shouldn't be limited to VR.
Our product (http://grasswire.com) was recently also on the top of HackerNews and ProductHunt (Show HN:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954327 , ProductHunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/grasswire). No TechCrunch writeup yet.

Not all posts are created equal, so it's important to note that we never hit #1 on HN to my knowledge. We were #2-4 for the majority of the day, and fell off the front page about 24 hours later. We also had a blip where we were removed before we could show our post wasn't a dupe, so we lost an hour there.

HackerNews Traffic:

HackerNews day 1: 5,750

HackerNews day 2: 1,115

HackerNews day 3: negligible

HackerNews Total: 6865

HackerNews was posted on a fairly slow Friday, so it's probably different if you post Monday morning. We had 82 total upvotes on HN.

On ProductHunt we were/are one of the top products ever, so I have no idea what it's like if you don't get a lot of upvotes. We also posted to ProductHunt on Monday morning.

ProductHunt Traffic:

ProductHunt day 1: 1,273

ProductHunt day 2: 465

ProductHunt email: 1,114 (this is rough, because I only have it as "direct" traffic, so I'm estimating what our direct traffic is on a given day and subtracting that out. But we're new enough this could be off).

ProductHunt day 3: 247

ProductHunt total: 3,126

Day 3 is today, so I don't have much data, but ProductHunt certainly has a slower drop if you're going to die. Though, again, that's probably only true if you have 150+ upvotes on ProductHunt.

But that's quantitative. Let's go qualitative.

As far as the feedback we got, HN was 10x better. Almost all of the people commenting on PH work for PH, so I assume there's a lot of dog fooding going on. It's a very young product, so it's understandable, but I can't see that growing unless there's more happening there.

Some negatives of ProductHunt are that I've had people go through and tweet at everybody who voted for us (including me) because your twitter account is publicly listed when you vote. That's kind of annoying.

Overall, why not post to PH? But it has a lot of ground to make up before it catches HN. Anecdotally, I check every single "Show HN." I've maybe clicked on two or three things on ProductHunt, mostly because I don't care enough about other people's products to seek the site out specifically.
Umap
Yeah, 'cause language issues and library specifics are far more interesting than dry algorithms.

This seems bass-ackwards. Library specifics, and to a certain degree language issues, are exceedingly amenable to recourse to documentation. An understanding of algorithms, less so.
To answer myself: http://www.jool.mx/intro.html points out tayga is stateless. When you don’t have an IPv4 address for every node you want to publish to the IPv4 side, you might be forced to use a “stateful” NAT64 instead: Jool
Description:

uMap let you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.
It's hard to describe the extent to which no one is even trying outside of Silicon Valley and very large corporations.

You guys have actual graybeard sysadmins. There are actually people who understand security research and exploit development on your staffs. Even if they don't have the power they need, someone in the room is sufficiently paranoid to at least want to practice better security.

Come to the Midwest sometime. It's dark out here. For starters, it's all Windows Server all the time - not even by choice, but just because nothing else ever occurred to anyone. No one has more than played with Linux at home. Security consists of buying magical appliances and antivirus software (from your VAR's salesperson on a site visit, through your VAR, through their distributors, through their distributors), and that's if you're lucky. "Security consulting" and PCI auditing consists of selling Nessus scans (again, if you're lucky, more likely some no-name proprietary tool) at $100,000 a pop. You're lucky if the Network Admin has ever even heard of the myth of the paranoid graybeard UNIX sysadmin. I personally know at least 60% of the people in my city who are qualified to configure high-end Cisco gear - I can count them on my hands - and they're nowhere near experts.

A "security expert" has maybe been to a sales event marketed as training and knows, at most, that if you absolutely need security, you should install Norton or Symantec anti-virus software. No one ever inquires into the horrendous security engineering of the proprietary LOB applications they're completely locked in. Encryption is on the "yeah, it would be nice, but let's not get our heads in the clouds" list, even in healthcare.

No one thinks it's a problem that we all share the same code for the doors and it hasn't changed in living memory despite extensive staff turnover, that the cameras haven't worked in years, that they key to the server closet is kept in a neighboring desk, that the that everyone's passwords are on post-it notes under their keyboards, that all administration accounts have pretty much the same password. No one thinks it's a problem that half the switching equipment is in an unlocked closet in a patient-accessible hallway. No one thinks it's a problem that we don't even bother with badging. The "security policy" was copied and pasted out of a kit without even having been read.

Don't bother with companies who employ someone who's heard of Matasano or Bruce Schneier. Don't bother with companies whose IT contractors employ someone who's heard of Matasano or Bruce Schneier. Don't bother with people who know what pf is, who understand that VPN is not a Cisco product, or who might ever have bothered setting up appropriate ACLs on their network shares. You don't need to find a place where a skilled adversary overlooked something. There are hundreds of thousands of businesses that pay top dollar to IT firms that don't even try.

Hit a small business in the Midwest, medical or otherwise. They won't even notice.
Intelligent cars draw investors to tech stocks
As someone who loved TextMate, ST, and Atom (but now use Komodo): The similarities between Atom and ST are much greater than those between TextMate and ST, in my opinion.
You've never bought a hot dog at a ballgame?
Nobody got in trouble in the U.S. for reporting on/distributing the Snowden leaks. There weren't any newspaper raids. Nobody was asked to "keep quiet". Anyone who did censor did so out of mutual interest.

Press freedoms have not been eviscerated here. It's a trendy narrative, but in reality you have enormous freedom to distribute content which was illegally obtained as per the Pentagon Papers cases and others. The worst thing we have here is cozy relationships between the media and the government, but alternative news sources are available everywhere and Americans are relying on them more than ever.
The D front end was just relicensed from GPL to Boost. (The front end is shared by DMD, GDC, and LDC.)
for starters, Jool is a kernel module and should have way better performance. Also Jool is stateful NAT64, while TAYGA is stateless
Ah the lost art of analog design.
No mention of the cost of the output electricity?
Is It Racist to Ask People Where They're From?
Poll: (Emacs, Vim, Other) x RSI
Your dominant editor, and whether or not you feel you have at least a moderately concerning case of RSI symptoms (regardless of a formal diagnosis). Choose only one. No editor wars please.
Vim, RSI
Vim, no RSI
Emacs, RSI
Emacs, no RSI
Other, RSI
Other, no RSI
I've been in secondary a number of times (business related, frequent border crossings).

They're not interested in you as a person, nor are they interested in holding anyone. They're entirely interested in detecting fraud and crime, and the people are secondary to that.

When you're in there, keep that in mind. They don't care about you as an individual, in a completely neutral sense. Just take in the surroundings (ever notice that it's just a normal workplace to them? Seems weird, but they're mostly relaxed at the office), and answer questions comfortably and respectfully. You'll be out in good time, depending on the lineup.
This depends heavily on field. My girlfriend (who works in philanthropy) is getting one. I (as an entrepreneur) wouldn't touch it, other than to read her textbooks and homework assignments.

It's most useful when your field is heavily credentialed. HN tends to attract folks who look down on credentials and like to believe they'll succeed on merit, but the reality is that every success happens because somebody else believes you can do a job well, and in many fields, that somebody relies on very imperfect information. In philanthropy, for example, not having an MBA is basically a hard blocker for ever reaching a leadership position, because your job is to convince rich people you can deploy their money effectively. Many of her classmates are in middle-management positions at big companies, and advancement there is similarly restricted to those with credentials. I've heard that strategy consulting basically requires an MBA beyond the Associate level, because again, you are selling your perceived expertise to the client.

As an entrepeneur, though? I doubt it. I look at my girlfriend's coursework and the homework assumes you have 10x the information and 100x the resources that you actually have as a startup founder.
Multisig would be good, especially if it's actually a address keypair, as it would allow you to verify the balance held exists.
Is it? Legality aside, if you define the limits of unacceptable behaviour then you're also saying that anything outside that is acceptable. If you hire decent human beings, hopefully your team can use their judgement and empathy to tell whether something's OK or not, rather than "S/he shouldn't have been offended, I wasn't breaching the rules laid down in the HR handbook! Grow a pair!"

(On the flipside, if you hire decent human beings then nobody's going to be looking in the HR handbook to determine how far they can push harassment without being fired anyway.)
There are two glaring problems with this paper:

1. The algorithm is just a bunch of arrays and loops in one giant block. This is the easiest possible case for compilers that optimize through specialization. Even a bad specializing compiler will be good at this but will blow up when faced with a big piece of code with lots of functions and data structures.

2. The runtimes are only ~2s, which is not long enough for the JIT-compiled languages to "warm up". I suspect Java in particular would have had the exact same runtime after warming up, because in an easy example like this Hotspot will generate the exact same instructions as the C program.

EDIT: I stand corrected. I downloaded his examples off Github and ran them the same way as the paper. I get 1.87s for C, and for Java... also exactly 1.87s.
I think Snapchat should have sold when they had the offer. Of course it can't last much longer. They'll have to spawn something separate or acquire someone (think FB -> Instagram).
Easy Method For Making Stem Cells Was Too Good To Be True
Proving you and your passport photo are the same person after weight change
At a guess, I'd put the chance that the person interviewing you has seen this at about 0.1%
Assuming it completes. I can easily imagine a page with a news ticker that updates once every few seconds.
This is a great story. It's a look at how people really live in a modern city and the border between formal and informal commerce. One of the key research targets in modern sociology and economics and political science is the emergence of institutions like dollar vans.

It's very difficult to get a public system to cover every route and part of the city that needs transit, but most city authorities are reluctant to license cheap private jitneys. The public system employees are usually well paid and organized to oppose competition and private taxi companies charge much higher than market rates and are very well positioned to spend some profits defending their oligopolies.

There are eight first world megacities -- cities over ten million population. I wonder if they each have an emerging institution like this.

I understand that in Los Angeles, where the busses are awful and the infrastructure is laser focused on exclusive use of private motorcars, has dollar vans in the Spanish-speaking communities. I'd be interested to learn if the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean speakers use those or if they have their own.

In Mexico City, the city has simply licensed dollar vans with just the minimal oversight necessary for public safety. They've all painted themselves green and white and the informal routes have firmed up but there is still -- decades later -- no map, public or private, of the routes of the most common form of transit in this modern city of 22 million. The routes are set and reliable; there's just no central authority to collect information.

Tokyo has built the most extensive rail system in the world by far. I don't know if that has been enough to pre-empt the emergence of informal vans. Seoul has been building fast to catch up building a similarly extensive network.

I wonder about London, Paris, and Osaka.
San Francisco has a "Jitney Bus" that attempts to correct the horrendous hole in transit between the Caltrain commuter rail and downtown.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-One-Man-Traffic-Buster-...

There is also a startup called Chariot that is building a private bus line to downtown SF; this one has a surprisingly different appeal than the ones in the article in NYC: the existing public Muni bus line from the Marina to downtown is notoriously slow and crowded, so perhaps commuting professionals would be willing to pay a little more...
You can't just change your name everywhere.
Microsoft's Smartwatch Could Launch Around The Same Time As The iWatch
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The "study" does not account for nuances in each language. JIT'ed java code will run at native C performance... because it essentially is native C once it's been JIT'ed. The tests did not account for JVM warm-up time, nor allow the code to become "hot" before running their tests.

They also executed their test code on poorly performing operating systems not designed to execute high performance code, ie. they ran their tests on consumer desktop general purpose operating systems instead of a more specialized system designed for the task... or at the very least a more specialized OS such as a flavor of BSD or Linux without the desktop and other generalized packages.

I don't really consider this a well done test, and the results are only surface-level... certainly nothing you should base a serious decision on.
The article does as well. In this case, I suppose the heart of the story is about how douchebaggy the guys are -- there seems to be no question that Wolfe deserves credit for what she's done, but since she declined to comment, we only have the actions of the men involved to work from.
Not to mention the complete lack of power points at the gates...
Are your customers likely to be other startups or related companies? If not, then probably none of the above. "Wherever your customers hang out" is the right answer.
How to Recover from Initial Startup Failure
When's the last time you saw an iThing with a spinning HD in it? Everything's SSD now. And the computers are going that way too.
Startup Documents
Thanks for posting. I saw grasswire when it was posted on PH and immediately took to it; I think you're doing a great job with "visual news".

Re your question:

Overall, why not post to PH?

Because, for the most part, you can't. You have to be invited to do so, making it (near?) impossible to get on unless you know someone who knows someone who already has access.

What do you mean by "Almost all of the people commenting on PH work for PH"?
Does "RSI" mean "Repetitive strain injury" in this context?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury
Which concepts did you find the most applicable? For me it is applying functions to collections in different ways, eg. map, fold, etc.