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I'm going to say,,, either this is a flawed study, or the title does not speak to all of the content of the study, or I'm sending my kids to boarding school.

from the url: "Why is Helpouts shutting down? The Helpouts community includes some engaged and loyal contributors, but unfortunately, it hasn't grown at the pace we had expected. S…

If this was happening in Manhattan I don't think anyone would think twice about it. What a wonderfully crazy city.

I think these are engineering-wise fantastic. Though, I do worry that they look a little too non-local. When you take care of someone, sure you start at the base of Maslow's law of…

I'm bothered by the out-sized number of negative attacks on this comment. Not because they are negative, but because they are personal. I wholeheartedly believe in constructive cri…

Some companies minimize advertising budget but manage do do very well. Patagonia spends less than 1% of sales on advertising. ( http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/brand-stra…

retirement marks a shift in fundamentals. the financial markets are beginning to price in climate change issues.[0] Bloomberg, being a financial markets data company, is remarking …

then you understand the concept of class? their use of the word banker, in all likelihood, based it's meaning on its understood meaning in the parent comment. given that you did no…

i wasn't taking issue with exchangel.co, per se. i was taking issue with the responses to it on HN. "Best idea ever!" "You should be able to short!" "How about an 'Index Fund' vers…

so, this is my point. your assumption is wrong. very, very, obviously wrong. that isn't at all the meaning of the word "banker" in finance. and it's not "my" use of the word. it's …

I was considering the same. The best advise I got was: Never pay for a Masters. Get into a doctoral program, get the MS for free. If you stay for the PhD, awesome. If not, at least…

please note, i said "left the world of finance". i wasn't a banker.

what's the weissman score?

dear god. run for the exits. the day is finally here. i left the world of finance and headed toward software engineering. side benefit, no fantasy football. nobody pretending that …

question. if, given a programming language is Turing Complete, is it possible that we might stop further development on some of the more,,, crappy languages that are already out th…

no doubt. amazon government.[0] [0] http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/07/how-cia-partner...

I believe you don't know what you're talking about. Forbe's thought it was an open source issue. I don't think many would say Forbe's has a radical open source "agenda". http://www…

yet more downvotes, with no reasoning, on a relevant comment. hacker news is like that significant other that abuses you and you keep going back to. i can't keep making excuses for…

yet another argument for rethinking the open source model.

no doubt. much respect for the police, except when it comes to the "drug war" (i.e. war on poverty / race / ...). in the case of the drug war, eff the police.