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by mikekij 7y ago
I totally agree. A business school professor of mine, Stuart Diamond, wrote a book called Getting More about using these ideas in negotiation. His theory is that you should always be leaving money on the table. If you're not, you'
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by mikekij 7y ago
I don't have an informed opinion on Lambda School, but it seems as though most of the concerns raised in this article are true of universities as well, and in some cases, worse in universities: Lambda makes money through some financial
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by mikekij 7y ago
Serious question: how much does this differ from what would be expected in a Poisson distribution? Does this line up with the Pareto Rule?
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by mikekij 7y ago
I'm confused by this article's complaint that the instruction was so poor that it requires students to "self-teach", and use materials outside of the coursework to learn. In my experience, and sufficiently technical topi
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by mikekij 7y ago
This extends to individual meals too. Lots of meat eaters feel some desire to be vegetarian, but have a particular dish or two they “can’t live without.” The environmental and health impacts of even avoiding meat in 50% of meals would be en
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by mikekij 7y ago
No. Unfortunate coincidence.
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by mikekij 7y ago
This sounds like an awful place to work. Are you a software developer? There have to be a thousand better companies that would love to have you working with them.
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by mikekij 7y ago
I'm so glad to see you bring this up. In my graduate physics training, I was taught to be extremely cautious about statistical significance, error propagation, and error bars. I remain skeptical of our conclusions about AGW, not becaus
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by mikekij 7y ago
As a Tesla optimist, it seems like their biggest constraints are cash and the distraction of quarterly earnings calls with analysts. Apple could use that huge stockpile of cash to allow Tesla to continue playing the long game, without havin
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by mikekij 8y ago
I am so happy to see this. I have supported Patagonia as a consumer due to their commitment to corporate responsibility, specifically their (more) ethical clothing manufacturing practices. When I’m in the Bay Area and see every private equi
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by mikekij 8y ago
Physicist (MS, not PhD) here. Started a healthcare software company and went through YC. The problem solving strategies learned in my physics training have been incredibly helpful in starting a business.
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FDA warning: Scores of heart implants can be hacked from 20ft away(zdnet.com)
3 points by mikekij 8y ago|3 comments
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by mikekij 8y ago
Spoken like a local!
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Critical flaw lets hackers control lifesaving devices implanted in patients(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mikekij 8y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 8y ago
Is this why Philadelphians call water "wooder"?
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by mikekij 8y ago
This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it. First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that a
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by mikekij 8y ago
I pay for WSJ, but am somehow constantly required to login again and again. It’s almost infuriating enough to make me cancel my subscription.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Best comment.
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by mikekij 8y ago
I think you should come do sales for us! The dynamic you describe plays itself out in almost every industry. Most biomedical engineers didn’t get into their field to implement cryptography. We’re hoping that a dedicated toolkit for securing
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by mikekij 8y ago
Great question! We’re currently focused on intradevice security, or securing the data within a particular device. That seems to be the FDA’s focus currently. We hope to help medical device vendors interface with HL7 / FHIR systems secu
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Launch HN: MedCrypt (YC W19) Medical Device Cybersecurity
30 points by mikekij 8y ago|14 comments
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by mikekij 8y ago
So then I guess my feedback is that exits between $10M and $100M (which are the bulk of >$0 exits for venture backed software companies) should assume the company has only raised ~30% of the exit amount. e.g. A $50M exit for a company th
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by mikekij 8y ago
Great concept, and really helpful for most non-legal savvy early employees. I noticed that an employee getting 1% options in a seed stage company doesn’t seem to get anything unless the exit is > $35M. Not sure that applies to most seed
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by mikekij 8y ago
It feels unfair to be forced to pay the federal government taxes on money you’ve never seen. If the state takes $10k away from your paycheck before you ever see it, should this really be treated as income for federal taxation purposes?
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by mikekij 8y ago
“Basically it's like they're not even trying to filter much anymore.” I believe their acceptance rate this batch was still <<2%. That’s still a pretty fine filter IMHO.
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by mikekij 8y ago
This is a fascinating case study in AI. What do you think is the most common thing a person would start to draw on this system? If you said a penis, it looks like you'd be correct. By the time I came across this site, anything I starte
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Stanford Undergrads build AI-based drawing prediction system(seoi.net)
7 points by mikekij 8y ago|4 comments
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by mikekij 8y ago
I loved teaching high school physics, but couldn’t see owning a home and raising a family on $47k a year. Went to grad school and work in the medical device field now. While I’m happy in my current role, I would likely have stayed in educat
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by mikekij 8y ago
Fair, but you could say it's rational to choose to invest in Lyft over Uber due to Uber's new CEO.
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by mikekij 8y ago
This is a really bad sign for things to come in the EU and US. Laws requiring companies to "seed a vulnerability" will not end well.

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