Codhisattva

Sounds like Chernin wants to make a news wire.

One difference software engineering has with aerospace engineering is that the people building the rocket get all the time they need. Since it's rocket science it's pretty much a given that if it's rushed or a PM or CEO puts the pressure on (with people working triple shifts for instance) then things just literally blow up.

In software the coders rarely have the option or will power to push back against unreasonable deadlines and fantasy launch dates. This is especially common in corporate cultures where a chain of command makes those calls and large scale plans are built around dates pulled out of the air. At best the coders are given lose-lose choices: miss the date or ship a broken product.

That's a funny defense of ASCAP. Keep in mind that ASCAP is a middle man that Pandora is replacing.

Silver affirms that public opinion polling is accurate - as long as you know how to read the data.

Not to diminish Silver's work - I'm just saying the data he uses needs to be accurate in order for his models to be accurate.

So basically this is the most popular article about Gittip?

Great essay but I think the point will be lost and the typical HN community member won't get it.

This entire TOS thing should just be eliminated. It's inevitably a bunch of ridiculous legal mumbojumbo and does little but eliminate accountability and give lawyers busy work.

tl;dr programming (almost 50 too)

My thought exactly. Is that something Google Play provides developers?

ARM chips are cheap so it's a big business model switch. Not easy to do.

Kudos to xkcd.

Worst infrastructure ever.

Silliest headline ever. As I recall in 1984 the world had Tandy, Leading Edge, Epson, Dell, AT&T, NEC, Atari, Commodore and countless others were all competing with IBM and Apple.

Now this is going nuclear against Google.

Redbull is generous to fund science. We should thank our corporate overlords.

Value is always subjective. Beane's analytic model doesn't calculate value it defines a model for winning games and analyzes players based on the model.

2 thoughts - "under appreciated" is a better way of thinking of it. And, there's no accounting for taste.

Looks less like the "thinking of many business type people" and more like the thinking of teenagers with stunted maturity levels. I doubt there's a 'business type' among them.

I'm sure there's a helluva lot more opinions than those two among the readers of Hacker News. The best communities are diverse.

"If you rent a server from Amazon, you have no rights" is a silly statement. It is a privilege to do business with Amazon and either party has the ability to severe that. You do not have a right to use a server that Amazon provides.

Rights are not granted by anything. They describe the extent of government power. That is all.

What bunk. Stock wealth isn't real wealth in any sense of the word. It's a potential but is rarely realizable at the spot price.

Articles like this do nothing but propagate a myth about the stock market.

Title suggestion "Outwitters Outwits One Man Left".

The data comes from the Federally mandated campaign finance reports. See http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml

So the data comes from the candidates themselves and the data is heavily scrutinized for accuracy.

Avoid fast food and chains. Shop carefully. Vote for labeling laws.

So who's the product now?

With that in mind, I tend to think that the only items that come closest to having intrinsic value are food and potable water.

Depending on your math interests you might find a coding career in computer vision, digital signal process or 3D graphics.

And there's always the "quants" on Wall St and high frequency trading algorithms. Boring in opinion but there out there.

You can always solve the experience problem. Just start coding.

But 60Ghz. Sexy!

There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". All value is perception and subjective. Complicated arguments may enhance perceived value in others but keep in mind the subjective nature.

Once confidence collapses, "intrinsic value" flees out the door.