skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is empirically false. A recent look at 39 $1B+ companies founded in the last 10 years: 33% had an MBA founder, to say nothing of the MBAs that have played significant early-stage exec roles (e.g., Facebook's Sandberg, Evernote's Gullicksen)[0]

Amazon also does not appear to be "anti-MBA."[1]

A broader misunderstanding comes from the fact that MBAs are all a particular "type." Top MBA programs are going to have everything from engineers to Peace Core volunteers. Is there any reason to suspect comp. sci. majors who spent 3 years at [insert reputable tech, consulting, banking firm here] and then went to get an MBA are systematically worse for tech jobs than those who did not?

[0] http://bostonvcblog.typepad.com/vc/2013/11/unicorns-and-mbas...

[1] http://www.amazon.jobs/team/university-mba-graduate
Obamacare is closer to car-insurance, with the caveat
that even if you don't want a car you still have to buy
the insurance. THAT is what has most of the nay-sayers
agitated.

I must be listening to different nay-sayers than you.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2014/07/24/bill-oreill...

Bill O'Reilly, who is frankly a good conservative voice, clearly thinks that "Obamacare is Socialism"... that it is about income redistribution.

Which tells us a few things: Bill O'Reilly hasn't read Obamacare, and he also doesn't understand what "Socialism" means. Otherwise, he'd be attacking Medicaid.

And Bill O'Reilly is actually an overall intelligent guy. I do enjoy listening to him a lot of the time. His opinion and views are generally very reflective of conservatives. So when Bill O'Reilly gets it wrong, it reflects poorly upon conservatives as a whole.

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Without getting into the Obamacare debate, you have to admit that a fairly large portion of the conservative crowd doesn't even understand what "Socialism" is. That's what I'm trying to say.

Obamacare is a massive example. The individual mandate has absolutely nothing to do with socialism or income redistribution, but is instead a provision to eradicate "pre-existing conditions" clauses in insurance companies.

Socialism is... like the US Postal Office. The Government ownership of a service that the Free Market could take over. (ie: FedEx / UPS)
I have mixed feelings about an impending Flight to Substance.

It's a good thing overall, but it can be bad for talented generalists. If there's enough demand for smart people that science and "real technology" companies will train talented generalists up into the specialties they need, then it's good. On the other hand, genuine research and technology have been so under-funded that the culture has become parochial and unreasonably elitist (against talented generalists). I deal with a ton of PhD bigotry in machine learning. (I don't have a PhD, but I read papers and I'm more current and, almost certainly, more effective than someone who stopped reading papers 5 years ago.)

For example, there used to be BA-level science jobs. There still are-- but they're filled by PhDs. Real science has been under-invested for years and we're paying a price because a lot of our brightest people don't have any experience with real work, because they can't get jobs on projects that actually matter.

In the 1970s to '90s, Silicon Valley wasn't pedigree-obsessed and talented generalists could "just fucking build it" without having to acquire permissions and credentials. What happened later, unfortunately, is that smooth-talkers moved in, outcompeted us on social polish, and are now raising huge sums of venture capital on lame "social media" ideas and build-to-flip bullshit. Right now, the genuinely talented generalist engineer loses in both theatres. He can't get a proper role in the Substance world (real science and technology) because he's not a PhD with at least one paper per year since graduation, but he can't get a proper role in the generalist's promised land of Silicon Valley because the smooth-talking douchebags with lame ideas have taken it over. Between "ultra-hard" science that requires either 5+ year job tenures (to make it worth it for employers to train people up) or advanced degrees, and that typically involves a decade between innovation and profit; and the "easy" social media stuff that any idiot can do (scaling such services is genuinely hard, but tech talent can be back-filled later) there is a "moderately hard" space that is under-explored.
I'm currently reading The Design of the UNIX Operating System [0], so this is super interesting for me to watch. I love how he creates a spellchecking program live, while being filmed.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-UNIX-Operating-System/dp/01...
Rural China is basically one of the three poorest places on Earth, with the average person earning $2 or $3 per day. It's comparable to the poorest locations in India and Africa.

I'm not sure how that's even remotely a valid comparison or point of reference to the standard for American poor.
It is an intranet web application, they can use the native Android version when using mobile devises.
Sweden, Too much time, Masterthesis was submitted.
An Open Source Project for Drones (now how cool is that?)
Reminds me of a popular 4chan/reddit draw, you just need to add the 'tail'.
what's remarkable for me is that this post got 50+ points for something that clearly misinterprets BS ;)
Just tell them that then... no harm in being straightforward.
Doesn't work. "This app is in development mode and can't accept more users. Contact the app developer and ask them to use the Dropbox API App Console to apply for production status."
>You can look at tons of formally successful businesses that took in too many MBA types and lost their edge (e.g. IBM, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, et al). Google is also starting to go in that direction. Amazon has actually been fairly successful in avoiding that culture (partly due to their own internal culture being almost anti-MBA philosophy).

If you don't back that statement with some data, it is really difficult to believe.

>Engineers for engineering managers aren't perfect, but at least they aren't so far removed as MBAs are. At least once in their lives they knew what it took to deliver, and I'd prefer to train up an engineer into a decent manager than take in a pre-trained MBA.

So an engineer with an MBA is a worse engineering manager than an engineer without an MBA? MBAs come from various fields.
FYI: Manning uses female pronouns to refer to herself now.
"World News Daily Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental, except for all references to politicians and/or celebrities, in which case they are based on real people, but still based almost entirely in fiction."

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/disclaimer/
Maybe I could use the Edison as a foundation to build something I've been after for a while.

I'd like a 'thing' that would attach to the back of a pair of bookshelf speakers and allow me to stream music through the speakers via Bluetooth. The 'thing' would also need to act as an amp. I had seen 'The Vamp' but this doesn't offer stereo.
> Bootstrap is really targeted at and most beneficial to those who aren't full-time developers.

That statement is false. I'd say Bootstrap is perfect for almost all full-time developers. The only exceptions are the PSD slicing css "developers" trying to implement things like that cartoon.

Most "full-time developers" work on projects where functionality trumps style. Bootstrap's default style is good enough for those projects and it saves us tons of time.
I just meant to point out that the comment " I personally don't really care if..." is crazy. Of course he would care if anybody started using private, encrypted, documents for purposes he did not approve of.
Car insurance doesn't protect you, it protects the other drivers on the road. You can decide to risk it, and if your brand new car is totaled, its on you [assuming you paid cash, if you finance it any lender will also make you get collision and comprehensive]. What you can't decide to do is forgo liability insurance so that if you hit someone else's car they have to extract the payment from you rather than from a well-capitalized insurance company.

Of course this is all state regulated (and this is US-centric, but so is Obamacare), so it can work differently in different places.

Health insurance nominally protects you, though some make the argument that it protects society as a whole from any individual burdening the system.
This. Apathy is a hell of a drug.
I wish they had patented truly novel ideas like pipes, hierarchical file systems and "everything is a file" and then licensed it so that anyone releasing software under an open source license can use them and not others.

That would have put an end to others like Microsoft, Apple etc from taking all these innovations and then further "innovate" with 'phones with rounded edges' or 'performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data', patent them and extort money out of free software. Not that there was any way they could have known that.
> but that doesn't work for the benchmarks game.

fyi

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...
Well, the key thing is the `reason` here. In C++ we use RAII, so this is the reason to have a member constructor/destructor functions instead of non-member create_something(...)/destroy_something(...) (aka C style).

But, for instance, `sort` is a good candidate to have outside of a class - and it actually is a global function - std::sort.
The man who set up his own toll road, without permission
why can't you just do this in chrome console? f12
To be fair, booting the Cray would require a good sized power substation. The power bill would be... impressive.
Monsieur, the Drink Robot, Raises $2M
“tooth in eye” surgery
Can someone recommend a good web hosting site
SO my friend got asked to find a good free web hosting site, he normally find good hoster, he found a good one for www.high-net-worth-immigration.com/, but the owners of this new site he got dont like anything he showed them so any recomendations ?
But do you need to control it with your phone? It looks awesome if you can just release and that's it, without the need to control the camera.
Conference speakers becoming a reflection of the people
It is fascinating that the individual motivations of players fits into such predictable mass movements.

I think this is at heart, the power of statistics. The simple numbers for a group of values shows a predictive strength based on certain highly predictable measures.
Nice. And do you think it will be good as a first book as well?
> Because most American's don't even know the meaning of that word.

I'll have to agree with you on this one. To me it always sounds for a split second that whoever compares it with socialism is joking, and then I'm reminded that Americans say this in all seriousness.
I wonder, what's the Republican and Tea Party members views on public education? Are they against it? 100% free market education? (serious question)
Drag over some text to highlight it, dragging your mouse all the way to the right of your monitor.
Judging by saeguaiga's other comments, you appear to be correct.
Another fascist wins the central bank prize.
What does a free education get you in most of Europe exactly, when most of Europe is poor beyond what the average American can even imagine?

People like to pretend Europe is only Germany, Britain, France, Norway etc.

Moldova, Czech, Belarus, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria and so on. These are countries that are dramatically poorer than the US. What does the amazing free education there get you? A $300 or $400 per month minimum wage.

An amazing social safety net where you're among the poorest 50% on earth? I don't get how that's something to celebrate.

I've known plenty of poor people, having grown up in dirt poor Appalachia, and growing up poor myself. I've never known a single truly poor person that couldn't get free healthcare from the government.
@diogoleal, Thank you for the summary. I will share it with others at my work place.
Currently, decentralized technologies seem to be quite futuristic, but not impossible. Benefits like better efficiency and resiliency over centralized technologies are substantial and clear. Adding onto Sherlock quote – [If you have something more efficient and] "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" [and must happen].
The question remains – when this will happen?
> Jesus, one trillion passphrase checks a second.
> Well I know what I'm changing this afternoon.

Too late, they already have a guess in place.
It makes me sad when I see a device like this advertised as just another way to take selfies. It could be so much more.
Dronecode: Linux Foundation, 3DRobotics Create Open-Source UAV Software Platform
Connections? Also drones are the hot thing right now.
Show HN: Trunk – Private links for you to collect and distribute digital content
Remember, the panopticon works... People grow to fear even considering certain actions when -- right or wrong -- they feel them hopeless. That's thought control right there.
I found the same article on facebook, maybe this is a hoax
Thank you. So I think that I can build what I want in 3-4 months, but most likely will not be able to support that operation just yet. And I will not want to scale down just because my MVP is done.
5 top tips for Windows 10
Facebook's iOS Infrastructure
I decided to just start with a robust set of media queries and then build my site from there. I can control the code, the UI/UX and pick and choose which plugins or design patterns I want to use. For me, this has been the best option.

You can control all the code in Bootstrap. Download it, edit the hell out of it. That's not really an advantage of rolling your own.

Does it take a little longer? Sure, but in the end, I control all the code and can pivot and modify the code a lot faster to suit my clients.

You can modify your own code faster to start with, but really that's just because you haven't learned Bootstrap. Once you know it well it's no harder than changing your own code.

It also saves time having to dig through oodles of documentation to try and find out if some functionality my client requested is supported by Bootstrap and how to implement it.

Digging through Bootstrap's documentation is pretty much always going to be faster than writing your own code.

Building something in-house is very, very rarely a better option than spending time learning something that tens of thousands of people use every day. You simply can't test your own code to the breadth and depth that the community goes to with Bootstrap. This is the same reason why we don't all roll our own jQuery equivalent or SASS compiler. Open source's big advantage is that it's a collective effort that we can all freely build upon.

Lastly, one massive advantage of Bootstrap is that other people know it. Once you get to the point where you're working on projects that need more than one front end developer that is a huge advantage over an in-house library because all the advantages you see for your own code the other developers will see for theirs.
Is this a serious thing or are people always blinded by 'FREE'?

There is no way of getting information about the company on the company website, you have to go to the company web app.

So you get free unlimited storage, ad funded and to target you better with advertising they look at your content. This is hidden in the Terms of Service. https://beta.hive.im/terms/

At the company web app, there is no information about the company, the backers, the people etc. The 'about section' of the company is a bunch of marketing speak https://beta.hive.im/about/

There is an address if you look hard enough - in the Privacy section. https://beta.hive.im/privacy/ It is in Hong Kong. There is no information about team, backers etc.

Best of luck to anyone that tries this.
The book is really about building a CPU from transistors. If you already know how memory and an ALU work, you probably don't need to read this book. It is incredibly well-written though, and you might just enjoy it nontheless ;)
C11 §7.21.6.1

If the format is exhausted while arguments remain, the excess
arguments are evaluated (as always) but are otherwise ignored.

but that's just a consequence of stdarg, which does not require all supplied arguments to be consumed.
I wondered whether this paid homage to other notable leakers before him.
The problem I see with the product so far is that all the images appear to be renders, and not actual product shots.

Also the demo video shows shots from what appears to be a drone; is it the actually Nixie, or is it another drone used to exemplify what the Nixie would be able to do?

I want this to be real.
To me, "business" in any generic sense just seems incredibly boring. It always has, it always will. I could care less about what the trends are or where I perceive the money is.

In contrast, "technical challenges", have and will always be of interest to me, even if they are pointless, like the Euler Project or going to ground on some obscure syntax question.

It seems likely that sharp graduates coming into tech because they perceive they can make a lot of money there or because they perceive it is a good launching pad into an executive lifestyle is not going to be a net benefit to the technical community in the long run. This group of people, as a whole, will never share in the ESR-style hacker ethos.
The MBA is not the problem.

Not understanding the business of the company is the problem. It usually helps having a technical background, true, but that's not always necessary.

Not to mention once in a while we get a story on HN about someone who knows about the technical side but fumbles on the business side and having trouble because of it.
There are already things I won't post (or even take!) digital pictures of: my kids in the bathtub. Growing up, all my friends' families had photos of the kids in the bathroom, etc, but now .... I am fearful that such things would be taken out of context as part of a witch-hunt.

The surveillance state, coupled with the Justice Machine (which has no empathy or accountability, it sometimes seems), makes me very fearful to post anything political. We've seen how J. Edgar Hoover persecuted people __because he could__. Imagine if the keepers of secrets were not just patriotic, but actively villainous? There's no way we would know, or be able to hold them accountable for it.
I wouldn't say Microsoft or Apple stole these concepts. Patents are horrible. Those proprietary systems would exist anyway, but without patents, the users of them can also benefit from these ideas.

Are you aware that Apple's OS X is actually based on the original UNIX source code? There's nothing proprietary about that.
> Nixie is in development.

What kind of development? Are you trying to figure out if you can do it? Are you building the first prototype? Do you have a prototype? Are you working towards making it mass-producable?

Don't just waffle, actually tell people where you are. Otherwise you run a good risk of being mistaken for snake oil peddlers.
Elon Musk:

"I wouldn't recommend an MBA. I'd say no MBA needed. An MBA is a bad idea. [...] It teaches people all sorts of wrong things. [...] They don't teach people to think in MBA schools. And the top MBA schools are the worst. Because they actually teach people that you must be special, and it causes people to close down their feedback loop and not rigorously examine when they are wrong. [...] I hire people in spite of an MBA, not because of one. If you look at the senior managers of my companies, you'll see very few MBAs there."

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201311/profiles.cfm
Can it crawl non port 80 addresses? My site is in testing and it's on 8080. bughunt.io comes back with no response.
So putting together: Quality Video + Small Size + Aerial Mobility + Flexibility + Weatherproofing(presumably, even just sweat on a wrist or fog could be a problem) seems incredibly ambitious (and of course, super neat).

However, I can't picture something comfortably wrapping around my wrist that also has enough battery power to have any significant flying time and deal with basic weather conditions, like a breeze. Just in trying to remember tiny copters and things I've had in the past, it would be kind of amazing to me if the power supply and utilization has advanced that much.

Any new action-cam is going to be referenced against the ubiquitous GoPro, so I feel ok making a comparison. I have a GoPro Hero 3+, and filming at 1080 the battery only lasts a couple hours. Turn on the wifi, and that time takes a significant hit. As far as I can tell from the renders in the video, this would have a smaller battery than those in a GoPro, but would need to provide more power, since the thing is flying. Maybe I'm wrong about this, again, just eyeballing form the renders.

It's a neat concept, and when I first got a GoPro I was surprised by how damn small the thing was, so I imagine camera boards will only get more intriguingly small and effective. I do wonder about the lens though, as it appears to be tiny. Perhaps more is explained in the video which I watched on silent. Would be nice if there was some text to parse somewhere for people without sound.
Gnomoria for Mac OS X
Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002)
You could also have advanced optics like multi aperture cameras that could fit the form factor better.

Or collapsible structures.
Why Hubspot’s IPO was more than just an IPO
For those in the know, the prospects for an investment banking career just haven't been the same since 2008—2009, so it's not surprising to see graduates go elsewhere.
I use plex and host all the content on my local HDD. You can buy 2x3GB Raid drives for under $200. Much more cost effective imo. I wonder why you use Dropbox to store all that data?
> Whenever someone makes a system to select for the best

For the "best", let's be a little clear: We're not looking for just the best looking application to YC, how to get into YC, or even how to get funding on Demo Day at YC.

Instead we're looking for how to make a big splash, say, a company worth at least $1 billion, in the real world of real business. And this company is intended to be quite
new in some important respects. The company is necessarily intended to be significantly exceptional.

Then,
there's a nagging issue here: The best that we
want and are looking for may not be much like the rest in either results or qualifications and approach. So, looking at the rest, or even the ones accepted to YC, or even the best of the YC alumni, may
not be a very good way to look for the best for the future results desired.

E.g., starting in 1942 or so, can't expect to get an A-bomb by drawing heavily on the lessons from the history of bomb making. "Q. So, let me get this straight: You intend
to build a bomb with the explosive energy of 20,000
tons of TNT. And for your second time at bat, you
want a bomb of 1 million tons of TNT? Just one
little question: What size airplane did you have
in mind to lift such a bomb off the ground? A. Sir,
we were thinking of a B-29, and for the first bomb,
taking off from the Marianas. Q. But a B-29,
the whole thing, doesn't weight anywhere near
20,000 tons. A. Yes, Sir, we do realize that.
Still, we believe that we know what we are
doing and will be successful."

Can't expect to get the first good microprocessor by drawing heavily on
the history of electronics back to discrete
transistors and vacuum tubes. Can't expect to
get an iPhone 6 by looking at telephones back to
black plastic with a dial and a four foot long
cotton covered cord.

Instead, for such examples
of exceptional success, need work that is powerful and
significantly new, i.e., necessarily not visible in the
rear view mirror. Sorry 'bout that! :-)!