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by tryitnow 9y ago
Really? I thought it was the 2nd incarnation of the Klan that was known for anti-Catholicism. I thought the first incarnation was basically pro-Confederacy terrorists who probably cared little about Catholicism.
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I'm so sick and tired of articles like this that make no mention of how the person financed themselves to do all of this. I give the guy credit for teaching himself and hard work - but articles like this just aren't newsworthy any
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by tryitnow 9y ago
So Indian IT companies are training their employees? Ummm, don't see how that's newsworthy - good for them.
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This is pretty standard practice for all companies, isn't it? I mean would we be surprised if an oil company or tobacco company were doing this? I think the problem here is Google's attempt to position themselves as being one of t
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by tryitnow 9y ago
So I briefly scanned this paper. "The results show that our modeling and portfolio construction method are effective and they provide a quantitative methodology for venture capital investment." I really can't find evidence fo
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Because their goal is to get published so that they can move along in their careers. Their target audience doesn't require these 11 steps. My question would be why don't donors and taxpayers (who are funding research) demand that
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by tryitnow 9y ago
You're setting up strawmen here. Any belief system will have extremists - doesn't mean that belief is bad. Perhaps we can judge belief systems by the proportion of extremists they produce? Postmodernism and Nihilism don't l
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I love what you're doing, so let me tell you what's holding me back from jumping on board. Traffic. You want more housing, but that almost always means more cars - and how do you handle that? But it's more than just traffic
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Actually, I would imagine that the YC model would benefit greatly in a world of legitimate ICO crowdfunding. YC doesn't really make their money from deploying huge amounts of capital. In an ICO crowd funding world YC companies could f
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Really? Could you be more specific on how regulatory fees and government service fees are a bigger problem than massive, gaping wealth inequality and the power differentials that go along with it? And what's the solution? Deregulation
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I'm an MBA and I just don't see the value of business schools preparing students for startups. The MBA skillset is only valuable at a certain maturity level. Before you hit that level focus on engineering/product/sales
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by tryitnow 9y ago
> although there currently are just over 42,000 high schools in the United States, only 2,100 of them were certified to teach the AP computer science course in 2011. This boggles my mind. Only 5% of high schools are even certified to te
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I can't say for sure as I haven't read it, but my general impression of Sapolsky is that he's very good at explaining things - in other words not unnecessarily abstruse.
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by tryitnow 9y ago
This is a great story. But...someone who has the intelligence and work ethic to do this probably wasn't going to be homeless for long. Honestly, there are probably millions of people who pull themselves together like this - it's
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Considering that I am currently procrastinating on HN, this is probably the last thing I need to read right now.
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Pretty much everything mentioned in this post is standard fare among the major self-service BI vendors now - and if they don't have it it's on their roadmap. I would say the big advantages of Power BI are 1) Cost: In some cases it
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by tryitnow 9y ago
This might be what they're trying to buy here, dunno if it will work, but they've got the capital to try out a variety of things.
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Thanks for the research. Whenever I see ROI numbers my BS detector goes off.
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by tryitnow 9y ago
As someone who evaluates and purchases business software on a regular basis, I agree with this. Business users will pay more for something that's useful. And you don't want to lock too many customers into low pricing early on - i
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by tryitnow 9y ago
ML really requires more than a tutorial. Just bite the bullet and take Andrew Ng's ML class. To understand ML you've got to have at least a basic understanding of the math. And it's really not that difficult, especially if y
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Really? So instead of my business paying a lot in taxes I'll have to pay a lot for education. Doesn't really seem to be much of an advantage.
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by tryitnow 9y ago
What measure would you use instead of the per capita rate? How else would you correct for population size?
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Resume-driven development - never heard that term before. Now I have an excellent descriptor for what I see all too often. Maybe O'Reilly should release a book on RDD?
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by tryitnow 9y ago
It looks like two things are being tested here: 1) Toxicity of e-cigs 2) the validity of this new testing device created from a 3D printer That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. A demonstration of the toxicity of e-cigs should be bas
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I don't think it was about a lack of a reseller agreement. > the company filed a lawsuit against Mr. Hallatt for trademark infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin and false advertising. It was pretty clear the
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As much as I like to side with the little guy, I think it's pretty fair for an establishment to restrict whom they sell to (as long as it's not based on a protected class like race, gender, orientation, etc). Despite being banned
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by tryitnow 9y ago
As another commenter mentioned - this is probably due to selection bias. My best guess is that bootcamps aren't a bad deal for smart motivated people.
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Quick note to the founders: You need to add more genders. A lot of early adopters in the Bay Area have friends who are non-binary or are non-binary themselves. I don't want to be forced to mis-gender people who don't identify as
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I'm not a fan of BLM, but I am pretty sure you're mischaracterizing their efforts. From what I've read they seem focused on targeting institutional racism - and police reform is just one component of that. Their approach is
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> There’s just no place for “average” companies looking to be worth and sell less than $500 million. At least not with VCs. Ummm, yeah, that's right because those investors are called growth equity investors. They don't get t

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