skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really do need to look at what you're getting in return from a degree. As far as I can see there are only three things an MBA (or any degree, really) can give you: knowledge, a network, and high pedigree within the area you want to succeed. I would argue that you want at least two, ideally three of these factors present. Let's break it down:

1. Knowledge. Do you think the knowledge you'll be gaining in the program will be worthwhile to you immediately, in the long term, etc? What is the knowledge you want vs what you'll be getting, do they overlap enough (for example, most traditional MBAs don't focus on the problems that most start ups run into at first)? Is the knowledge your getting something you couldn't easily get on your own (for example is there a great professor from whom you want to learn, specialized knowledge that really requires classroom instruction, or is your learning style more suited to classroom instruction)?

2. Network. Is the network that is traditionally associate with the program a network that you want to be part of? Are many of them even in the field(s) you want to be in (linkedin has a good tool for this)? Is the network known to even be useful? Does the network include powerful people in the area of business you want to enter? Does the school leverage its network (i.e. do professors try to get internships at organizations, get important alumni to speak, etc)?

3. High pedigree. This one's pretty self explanatory. In the field you want to enter, will simply having a degree from this program open doors for you?
http://just-for-fun.se/forum/Thread-T4-2014-Watch-Transforme...
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I just received my invite with all the relevant info!

Also, offtopic, but I hope I'll be forgiven: since I really want to go and really want to do keep it low on budget, I want to take on some (smaller, i.e. completable by the event) programming- (or even writing-) related work to cover my costs, at least partially. I know this is a long shot, but with all those hiring threads and stuff I figured it's worth a try.

So if you're a startup at London (or somewhere else, doesn't really matter) and have something I can work on, please contact me. I'm 17, a student at a top Serbian highschool specialized in maths, CS and physics, pretty good with HTML/CSS, JS, with game development experience, great skills at writing optimized C, eye for design, love for cool UIs, cryptography and network programming! You can see my (so far humble) work on my GitHub account (see my HN profile, there's also my email). I also have some promising WIP projects that I can show you if you need more persuasion.

I'll also wear your T-shirt at the event and promote and inform people about your products for you... I can be very talkative, and maybe even get you some new customers!

Please do get in touch if you think you can help me or know someone who can. Thanks in advance to all!
No mention of how much more efficient is it compare to any other generator either...
Speaking about our post specifically, two of the three commenters had "x for ProductHunt" in their bio.
> "Kamen believes that aside from mansion owners, the Beacon 10 is just right for businesses like laundries or restaurants that use a lot of hot water. With commercialization partner NRG Energy, he’s so far deployed roughly 20 of the machines."

If the primary use for a potential customer is going to be heating water, essentially doing heat->generator->electricity->heat->water, how is this a good idea? Surely people who want to heat lots of water would do better if they cut out the middlemen and just did heat->water.

Of course electricity is more versatile than hot water, but if your primary focus is on heating lots of water and you are already committed to making heat yourself, it seems senseless to me to not just apply the heat directly to the water.
if all you're after is two-way data binding and don't necessarily need all the other functionality provided by Angular, it might be worth mentioning that React actually can do that, even though it's not a pattern that occurs that often if you use the Flux application architecture

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/two-way-binding-helpers...
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You learn to use a word processor with spellcheck and get someone else to proofread your resume before sending it out, just like someone who isn't dyslexic should do.
The sample code is probably too predictable and the JVM was able to optimize it well.

In any event... the "myth" that Java is slow is bogus :)
Agreed, the MS 4000's split design helped tremendously with my ulnar nerve irritation. Keeping my wrists aligned with my forearms is the key. I've also been keeping an eye out for a mechanical keyboard in a similar form factor without any luck. The few alternatives that I've seen are such an enormous price premium over the 4000 that I can't justify the expense. Maybe I'll be the second contributor to your putative Kickstarter campaign.
He's pretending python compiles to something sane. FP spoils you with great compilers.
It's not available to everyone--for example, a lot of institutions don't have wireless (lol) and have pretty strict controls on devices that plug into the wired networks.
That's really surprising.

As a US citizen, I've traveled all over the world for pleasure (not business), including to Canada, and had 0 issues.
also don't forget to take a look at technomancy's emacs starter kit, which was very helpful to me when I got started using emacs:

https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit
How does it manage not to connect me with someone that I work with based on just my github profile? I work with plenty of people who don't have a github profile, or if they do I'm not connected to it. I'm probably not connected to most of them on LinkedIn either.
Right. While I wasn't interviewing for a technical position, the interviewer asked me to 'vote off' one of the 50 U.S. states, and to describe my reasoning why (perhaps this is a common question but I hadn't encountered it before). It was basically an exercise in thinking out loud, with a lot of "well, I'd probably want to first consider x, but actually before doing that I'd want to take into account y...". There wasn't any undue pressure, since there was clearly no right answer, so it allowed me to just riff out loud on the problem, exposing to the interviewer how I approach problems.

I use this same technique now when interviewing others.
Reminds me of the Open Pandora: http://boards.openpandora.org/page/homepage.html
Except standard specimen samples are gibberish where these bits are more opinionated
Let's hope it's the long-awaited username animations.
Would they gain better performance if they use canvas intead the dom?
I generally refrain from posting a comment but the current debate is just getting ridiculous. Its more about people hating facebook rather than any real ethical issues. The worst part being, how the IRB's are invoked as if they are filled with ethical gods. A similar situation has happened before as explained here in the NYTimes article by Atul Gawande http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/opinion/30gawande.html?_r=...

The key question is at what point is a certain method a quality control decision vs a research experiment. What Facebook did was an internal quality investigation. What are they supposed to do show posts at random, for this to qualify as an "experiment" we need a baseline. In reality there is no such baseline.
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Yeah I think you're right.

And if all authentication is done client-side with javascript, the attacker could steal your private key and use it to attack other sites.
> this uses mutable objects, but doesn't actually rely on mutating them

That is actually a really good compromise and a style I tend to stick to when coding Ruby/Rails.
More people visited is not sure bring good effect. It influence by other factors. So complicated.
French Company BlaBlaCar Raises $100M to Make Ride-Sharing Easy
I gotta agree with TallGuyShort. As a huge fan of mass transit, I think "motorized" should differentiate between automobile and train/subway.
A lot of posts being downvoted in this thread. This one clearly contributes whether you agree or not. What is going on?
There's also the fact that some people, like me, freeze up in these interview scenarios. I didn't get past my first interview a few weeks ago because I couldn't think straight knowing I was being judged going through this process. As soon as the interview was over and I was more relaxed, I thought of several good answers, like I normally do when employed.
Probably a fair assessment. However, it should "just work" on any Linux disto provided any dependencies are installed on the distro and/or packaged into the toolkit.

If there are system-side dependencies... I'd like it more if they just listed those... then I can determine if my Fedora system, for example, will work or not... and I know what I need so that it will work instead of just guessing.

Looking at the toolkit... well.. it's Java... so it will "just work" provided java is installed on your machine (a given if you are writing or running a java program). There is some native C in there, likely for hooking into the OS and making windows, etc.... that could be system specific... but probably still does not require any external dependencies. So... this toolkit... probably "just works".
What did you have to do at the BIOS & firmware level? It's the first time I've heard of being able to customise that kind of thing.
Thank you for your reply. Next time I try to solve the warning message.
There is a windows service app called gdi++ which replaces the default renderer. I use it but sadly it won't help others visiting your own site
Rinse has an FM license now, so they've gone from pirate to legit. It was funny listening to the DJs trying to curb their swearing (50 pound fine per naughty word) in the weeks after they were licensed.
not everyone finds it easy to walk that distance, or would like to do so at 11 in the night.
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I am very afraid of the day where I can't get a general-purpose computer anymore.

The best pocket machine I've ever had was a Nokia N900. I strongly believe in "if you don't have root, you don't own it".
Sounds like they're making progress:

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/apple-solar-farm-fuel-cell-farm...
Hmmm....smells like BS.
Greenwald doesn't seem to think so. James Risen probably doesn't agree.
> Nobody was asked to "keep quiet"

Given the existence of NSL's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter) there is no way of knowing who has been "asked" to keep quiet.

And when Glenn Greenwald visited the U.S. recently it was far from clear that he would not be taken into custody.
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Performing a piece of music in a high-pressure situation is exactly a professional musician's job, so an audition is quite appropriate. Another analogy could be to ask a professional composer to play one of his pieces on piano rather than listening to a competent orchestra perform it--you're using one thing as a proxy for another. Many composers would ace it--they're great players. Some aren't, though, so you'll hire only composers who happen to be great performers. It's a dumb analogy in another way, though: you only need to know whether you can work with a composer, their work should stand on its own. I suppose if we engineering types all wrote code that went into public repositories the same might be true of us, and we wouldn't be asked to perform like trained monkeys.
First, the article mentions that Facebook does have multiple levels of internal oversight. I really don't think this kind of research can be externally regulated, and attempting to do so would just discourage publication of the findings. Businesses do controlled experiments on their customers all the time, with the most relevant example being A/B testing. The danger is extremely limited, and it seems like overreaching to have some sort of international IRB for all experiments that online businesses may need to conduct to optimize the content displayed to their visitors. Publishing research is a good thing.
Received my invitation about ten minutes ago. So excited!
Herding behaviour. Like sheep, and people. Big topic in behavioural economics, and finance/investment in general.
Does it still take 10-15 mins when one is running a fever of 102? Or when walking on crutches? Or carrying a weekly load of groceries?

Just because you can walk does not mean everyone else should as well. There is nothing wrong with choice, public transport would be a welcome addition to almost every stretch of urban destinations, that does not curtail walking in any way, shape or form.

In short: Walk all you want, just gimme mah ride, is all.
Not sure why you're being downvoted - I was just about to write the same thing. People write stupid things on social media. I expect tabloids to call them out on it. But I expect Bloomberg BusinessWeek's reporting to understand the distinction between psychological context to an accusation, and unrelated character assassination.
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In the US that might be the case, that doesn't make it so in other countries.

In Germany the scenarios in which you are allowed to change your name are all defined by law. While you are allowed to change your name for resocialization or as a protection against harassment, you can get search results removed for reasons that wouldn't allow a name change.

Furthermore changing your name takes quite a bit of effort, asking a search engine to remove search results is a much simpler process.
> So in 10 years will everyone have one?
> “I’d say yes. Ten years from today the probability that you are depending on wires hanging on tree branches is as likely as that you’ll still be installing land lines for telephones. Close to zero.”

Well this seems out of touch with reality. This is how I read it: "Why maintain 1 power plant when you can instead ship and maintain 100000 instead?"
It's 32 now. So in other words, the year of the Snowden leaks actually improved their relative position in the press freedom index.
"... What are the negative connotations? ..."

Shame ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/search/query?keys=shame&x=0&y...
Above all I enjoy the diversity and intellect of the perspectives within HN comments. It's truly a special place with a high caliber of valuable exchange.

Except for the few startups that consider tech power users as their demographic, I think it's naive and counterproductive for many of them to put so much time into getting their links on these sites. If they put the same effort into getting their product in front of their actual customers they would stand to benefit much more.
If you read "Why AM and Eurisko Appear To Work" [1] and the precursor papers it becomes clear that they relied heavily on humans annotating what counted as an "interesting" concept, both for training and for extraction of concepts to publicize. Not necessarily a bad thing (every supervised algorithm need supervision) but it was a little hype-y ("my robot has independently discovered natural numbers!"). They also ran into major tractability problems as the heuristics got more involved.

Under the hood it was basically genetic algorithms over a meta-object protocol to extract well-scoring arrangements from ontologies, which is damn interesting, but combinatoric complexity bites you every time.

Kenneth Haase published a couple of papers dealing with some of the issues in more depth.

[1] http://eksl.isi.edu/files/library/Lenat_Brown-1984-why-AM-an...
Product Hunt started with my startup friends -- mostly guys, not dissimilar from Silicon Valley in general.

You're absolutely right that Product Hunt needs more gender diversity and it's something we're working on. This topic has been on my mind well before it came up in a recent thread on PH (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/made-with-code). Erik and I spent the last few weeks emailing dozens of women in the community to (1) get their thoughts on the product and (2) ask for recommendations of other women they know that might be interested in contributing. We have a long way to go but it has helped.

We're working on a recommendation system to give people in the community the opportunity to invite new contributors. Additionally, we will soon have a new posting flow to allow anyone to submit products to be curated by the community. These won't solve the diversity problem but will help make things more transparent.

If you have suggestions or ideas on how we can make it more inclusive and welcoming to a broader audience, please share.

EDIT: I'm also trying to get more women on the Product Hunt podcast (e.g. https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/480421396690907138). I have 3 scheduled over the next month with women founders and investors.
30 years in the cooler? I would be very afraid of finally revealing 30 years of hard work, only to find out it's irrelevant now...or that we pursued in the wrong direction.

Does not seem to be a very good way to go about revolutionizing any technology...
Yeah I seem to be in the minority in that I find it hard to get upset here. In fact, the lesson I take away is that if you, as a company--especially a highly visible one, do any sort of A/B testing which might be remotely seen as manipulating behavior by anyone (which covers broad ground), you probably shouldn't make it public.

I'm not sure I see how this is all that different from running a bunch of ads with different messages and/or emotional content and seeing how they differential ly perform.
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No. I guess that's a US custom? Interesting!
I have a few years of experiene with Haskell, and recently started Nimrod. It's an imperative language, so the differences are huge of course. I'm more productive in Nimrod. The syntax is great, similar to Python. Nimrod compiles to C without external dependencies, which makes it easy to deploy and easy to bind C libraries. Nimrod's metaprogramming is definitely worth checking out too.
This is the first product, and is targeting areas where cheap natural gas is plentiful. However, because it's an external combustion engine, I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to build a future product where the heat differential is created from a different source, like solar tiles, or through geothermal differences.
By "near secrecy" they mean "hasn't hired a PR firm."
'off the grid' has gotten very overloaded because some people take it to mean the power grid, some people take it to mean all utilities, and some people take it to mean self-sufficiency for extended periods.

An engine that could run off a wood-burning fire and was built to last a couple decades would strike me as really neat - this not so much. I suppose other places have more issues with the power grid reliability, but it's presumably more efficient to maintain the current infrastructure than to get one of these into every house.

Natural gas is also going to get much more expensive if they ever push fracking regulations through - the current pollution from gas leaks is actually worse than burning an equivalent amount of petroleum.
I see. Now that you mention it, I do remember seeing that cross my "Product Hunt" search column on Twitter. That's not the first time someone has promoted their own product in that way but from my knowledge it's uncommon.
Probably Python.
Presuming they've actually been diligently working away, it makes an interesting test of the "we just haven't done it hard enough" hypothesis.
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Re: tattoos - maybe that's only a US thing. Visit any finance tower in Melbourne Docklands on casual Fridays and you will see plenty of the early 20s male staff with full sleeve tattoos on display. And I'd guess around 10% of the female staff have small neck or wrist tatts. Ten years ago that would have been completely verboten.
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The answer is florida, right?
I've honestly been ignoring all of the articles on this subject up to now. Finally decided to read one and see what all of the fuss is, and I still don't see the point. Are we supposed to be upset that they manipulated which things show up on the news feed in what order or something? At the end of the day, it's still just Facebook.
Ha, near secrecy. Sheesh, Lenat is a well-known figure in the AI world and Cyc is a very well-known project that has been written about for years. I don't care if the BusinessInsider author is what, 28 years old, he should do some decent reporting and not use such a stupid headline.
There were a lot of guys at the Apple + PH event a few weeks ago, as with most startup/tech events in San Francisco from my experience.
Marc Andreesson, the same person that believes Snowden is a traitor. Just cant get past his logic
The free to use OpenCyc is fairly nice, I have been playing with it (occasionally)for years. My writeup of using the OWL/RDF dump: https://markwatson.com/blog/2013-08/opencyc-owl-stardog.html
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You're right, and I apologise. Regardless of my personal opinions on Christine Love, what I said was an unnecessary and personal attack, and a diversion from what this thread should have been about: an interesting look at the technical aspects of the Super Game Boy.
> Since when people call him "Doug"?

One datapoint: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/cyc-o.html

So for more than 20 years.
> I understand that in Los Angeles, where the busses are awful...

This seems to be a common refrain, but it's also outdated. Both the bus and subway networks in LA are massively larger than in San Francisco (which, by the way, has the world's slowest bus fleet at 8.1 mph [1]). LA County is massively larger than San Francisco (including the equivalents of the entire Peninsula, Oakland, and Marin) and has sections of very dense bus service (any of the numbered streets plus Wilshire going west from downtown) and sections of very sparse bus service (Malibu). And it's all 25% cheaper than Muni too (with fewer strikes and many fewer naked people).

There are 13 subway stops under construction in LA and the LAX airport connector finally got approved with an actual train stop directly at LAX.

I'm not saying there aren't holes in the LA transport network, but it's better than many visitors realize.

[1] http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-04-14/news/the-muni-death-spira...
Ah ha. There are, of course, organizations that identify themselves as feminist. And yes, you can get kicked out of them, I suppose. But this is not at all the same thing as getting kicked out of "feminism," as you have been alleging to have been the case.

This is more than a mere semantic distinction since any arbitrary feminist group can have whatever arbitrary rule or prejudices it likes without those views' being imputable to all feminists. I certainly don't accept that FEMEN Sweden speaks for all (or even many) feminists or that being kicked out of FEMEN means you can't be or aren't a feminist.