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by lbarrow 14y ago
I had trouble getting past his claim that an MBA costs $100,000 per year. A quick search reveals that for HBS, tuition is $53,000 per year. Maybe he means the total cost of the degree is $100,000?
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by lbarrow 14y ago
One of my first jobs out of college was with MobileWorks, a YC company founded in part by foreign graduate students at Berkeley. I wouldn't have been employed if the founders hadn't managed to navigate the atrocious laws preventing foreign
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I had the enormous privilege of having a teacher who assigned both The End of Education and Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman my junior year of high school. I can't recommend them enough; reading them was one of the formative
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Groupon to compete with Square -- launches Groupon Payments(grouponworks.com)
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I think the blog title is a bit sensational here. 'Patent trolls', at least as I understand the term, do not produce products. That's the whole point: they're trolls because they do nothing but sue people, without adding any value themselve
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by lbarrow 14y ago
http://www.braintreepayments.com/ just expanded into the EU and Canada! (Disclosure, I work for Braintree.)
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by lbarrow 14y ago
From a mathematical perspective, this is actually not that surprising. Think of the act of clicking the first link in the Wikipedia article as a function that takes in the page you're on and outputs another page. If you call this function o
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The author is basically using a linear algebra tool for creating orthogonal basis vectors of a matrix of stock prices. (The PCA is like eigenvector decomposition, but it works on rectangular matrices too. In fact, unlike many operations, it
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by lbarrow 14y ago
One possibility is that for a startup founder, there usually is a great variety of work. One hour you could be writing code, the next answering a support email, the next pitching a prospective customer, and so on. It could be that by switch
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by lbarrow 14y ago
It's great to see that the list of changes to make does not include anything enormous, ground-breaking or incredibly difficult. The author is basically proposing a few subtle changes to the tone of the hackathon -- I'm glad to see it had su
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The WSJ's failure to mention reddit speaks to how little they know about the situation beyond the numbers.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Jeff Atwood said it best: performance is a feature. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-fe...
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Did you not read the announcement? FB is not acquiring the technology.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
I interned at GazeHawk in the summer of 2011 as a blogger. It was my first job in technology as well as my first real job after graduating from college. It was one of the best summers of my life. The GazeHawk team is incredibly talented and
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by lbarrow 15y ago
If you're having trouble getting your HITs done or ensuring quality work on Turk, MobileWorks (YC S'11) is essentially a better version of Turk that takes care of these things for you. (Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at MobileWorks.) Your expe
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Great for them! I've used Rapportive for a while and always been happy with the service, even though I've never paid a dime.
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There were only one or two questions in the mathematical part of the test that I would consider regurgitation -- the rest is stuff modern students should be able to do.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Exactly. I'm not in a position to comment on the amount of funding in the early-stage startup world, but this particular comment by Parker reads like another executive whining that engineers are too independent.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
You might be interested in talking to this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221094
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This isn't reddit.
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I suppose it's dependent on how you read the article. I assumed that we were supposed to be sympathizing with these people -- although we both realized how ridiculous that would be.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
This sort of article is why serious people tend to roll their eyes when the Wall Street Journal comes up. Their agenda -- to humanize and sympathize with the 1% -- could not be more obvious. Why should I feel bad for someone who describes l
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by lbarrow 15y ago
This looks interesting and potentially useful, but that didn't stop the New York Times from making fun of it in this article about RIM: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/research-in-mot...
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by lbarrow 15y ago
This looks pretty cool, but why can't we just get a channel for it on justintv or twitchtv?
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' You should not expect to design everything once, build it once, not do user testing, and then blame your crappy product on the meme that "Apple doesn't do user testing." ' I couldn't have said it better myself. I thought about talking abo
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by lbarrow 15y ago
(GazeHawk intern here.) That's definitely a good approach if you presuppose the existence/obviousness of distinct page elements, which is a whole beast in and of itself. Right now we allow our customers to define "Areas of Interest" in our
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Show HN: Get advance warning of future US recessions(recessionprediction.com)
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Waiting For Superman is right-wing propaganda. Here's a really good NYRB article that explains exactly how distorted that movie is. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-ch... Also, Finnish schools are entirely unioniz
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A claim that may actually be true in this case.
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This is awesome! I'm really happy to see a start-up that contributes to scientific advancement in a meaningful, direct way. This service offers a straight-up efficiency improvement over the old method, in which most universities tried to re

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