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Apple Reports Second Quarter Earnings(cnbc.com)
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In This Snapchat Campaign, Election News Is Big and Then It’s Gone(nytimes.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
One of the metrics, as mentioned in the article, is the probability of a child being in the upper quintile of income, given that their parents were in the bottom quintile (hardly wining and dining with VCs). In SF, that probability is 0.122
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by JamilD 10y ago
> But the way to stop people stealing to survive is to help them find some more productive way to survive. I agree with this completely – ultimately, you have to find a better and more sustainable solution. But right now, some people kn
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WebGoat: A deliberately insecure Web Application(github.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
I agree San Francisco has its problems, but calling it a failed city is grossly overstating the problem. San Francisco continues to have a high degree of social mobility relative to the rest of the United States [0]. [0] http://w
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Vox Media to Start a “classic Gadget Blog”, Circuit Breaker(nytimes.com)
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Facebook Aims to Drive Down Tech Prices to Expand Its Reach(nytimes.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
In San Francisco, if you leave anything worth more than a couple hundred dollars in your car, it's as good as gone. It took me a while to get used to the level of crime in SF too… it's so different from even North San Jose or Moun
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> “We are not going to criminalize people for being poor,” he said. “That criminalization is only going to make it harder for them to get out of poverty.” No, but we should criminalize people if they commit crimes. Laws exist for a reaso
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This Is Our Country. Let’s Walk It(nytimes.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
I found that going to talks and events to meet people can be extremely effective. I love living near a university, for example, to go to public colloquia and talks — you meet the most interesting people there, who often share the same inter
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by JamilD 10y ago
I can understand this argument. The term "proxy" immediately brings me back to the days of trying to bypass the high school content filters using sketchy foreign proxies…
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by JamilD 10y ago
The last part of this reminded me of my favorite part of BB10, when I briefly used it: BlackBerry Hub. It was so freeing to have my texts, Facebook messages, emails, etc in one place. People noticed I responded to messages faster, and I was
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by JamilD 10y ago
I think that the point of the downvote button on HN is to reduce the visibility of comments that don't contribute to the discourse, not to dismiss dissenting opinions. This is helped by the fact that it's used sparingly and is onl
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by JamilD 10y ago
And who gets to define who has ideas that are unacceptable anyway? Who gets to accuse ideology x of "repackaging and resubmitting ideas"? Whose speech do we shut down, and whose do we allow? > And you think debates are health
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by JamilD 10y ago
Exactly; is our ideology so fragile that we can't tolerate or allow dissenting speech?
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What is the moral distinction between one of their innocent people and one of our innocent people?
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by JamilD 10y ago
> The President must distinguish "them" or "us", otherwise he has no business leading the country in a war. Starting from the 60's, the concept of MAD and a truly global, total war made this distinction irrelevan
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I don't think the issue is with the simplification itself, but with the illusion of complete understanding. There's nothing wrong with making a concept easier to digest, and to introduce a topic to an otherwise uninformed reader,
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by JamilD 10y ago
It's truly a shame that cronyism is becoming a larger part of the technology industry. Let's hope Theranos acts as a warning to VCs, and not as an indication of things to come…
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4/20's Enormous Mess, by the Numbers(sfist.com)
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That's missing the point of the article. The author says that the candidate's thought process behind arriving at the solution provides insight into the candidate's skill. There's no reason to implement your own binary
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And don't forget to drop out after a year of college! You've made all the connections, so what else is there to learn? There are some exceptions to this pattern though, like Jan Koum and Andy Grove. We desperately need more of the
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by JamilD 10y ago
A role model for young women with parents coming from old money, with both Beltway and VC connections? It'll be great to have another role model in tech for young women, but incidents like this do more harm than good…
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by JamilD 10y ago
Submitted twice earlier today: 129 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542664 105 points (discussion is here): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542568
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by JamilD 10y ago
The tone of it was more like: love your job for whatever hours you are there, even if it's 80 hours a week, and if you don't love it, you're not a real engineer, you're in the mediocre majority, and you don't deserv
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by JamilD 10y ago
He's seen certain results, and been through certain circumstances. Unless he has proof that those circumstances -> results, making conjectures is exactly what he's doing. This is ignoring the fact that effectiveness is not th
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Dupe; discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542664
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A faster horse is also very, very useful. It's not revolutionary. I can get 90% of the relevant information from my phone.

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