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I think it's evident of how strong this narrative of the day is that newspapers keep churning this stuff out despite the fact she unanimously lost the case as decided by a jury of her peers.

If she had won, how many newspapers do you think would be publishing articles giving Kleiner Perkins the benefit of the doubt?

Easy to cherry-pick a successful one.

As much as I find the idea of crowd funding an interesting, potentially innovative idea that should likely be allowed, I cannot see a situation where it doesn't end up creating literally the exact same scenario as unregulated penny-stocks.

A huge slough of shit companies who can't get funding from respectable investors and then proceed to aggressively pursue the average joe with 10k in the bank to invest a few grand "in the next big thing!"

Someone please tell me how I'm wrong.

The hindsight bias of this statement is almost comical.

Nassim Taleb once said something interesting on this subject like:

"You need skills to get a BMW. You need skills and luck to become Warren Buffet. Journalists later wrote 'Taleb says Buffet has no skills!'"

While I agree student loan debt may be unsustainable and start defaulting, I don't think it's as disastrous as the subprime crash because (from my understanding) most of student loan debt is on the books of the Federal government, and is not being monetized in anywhere near the magnitude that subprime mortgages were being sold on a global market.

Everything is connected. If there's a collapse in private equity funding, you could see consequences such as a decrease in advertising on major platforms such as Facebook, which would hurt their earning and market cap. I definitely think it would have some systemic consequences, but not at the magnitude of early 2000s unless it's triggered by a general equity market crash or some sort of global debt crisis.

The problem with ebooks is the false ownership. I much prefer ebooks, but as opposed to a physical copy, unless I get my hands on the pdf or epub file when I "buy" a book in iBooks I don't actually own that book.

You're missing the point of a black swan. An event is a black swan to the Turkey, not the Butcher.

I completely relate. I find myself drawn between so many things I never end up truly immersing myself into one thing for long enough to get the big benefits I've identified at the onset. Something else always comes along that I end up jumping to.

Because a lot of people including institutions like Goldman Sachs and the FX brokers were short-selling the CHF (selling borrowed CHF on the open market hoping to pay it back at a lower price denominated in another currency). Except the trade went against them because it was worth more denominated in other currencies. What I don't know myself though is how they were expecting it fall if it was pegged. Perhaps they announcement coming but thought it would fall in price instead of rise.

This is a product of a systemic issue with "journalisms'" current business model and how they're paid.

Ryan Holiday sums it up pretty nicely in his book Trust Me I'm Lying.

After reading it and having it talk about so many things I was unable to put a finger upon until now, I've become extremely distrustful of media in general.

It's pretty bad actually, communities like HN or getting news directly from trusted sources on emergent networks like Twitter is really what's left.

The web has spawned "iterative journalism" and floods the internet with all the bullshit that passes it's ethical standards. This met with a general lack of peoples attention spans has created a god awful state of journalism.

Someone decided to ban it despite its overwhelming popularity.

Sweet! Do you have any recommended books for learning iOS with swift?

Looks awesome!

Are you experienced with Objective-C or did you just pick up swift?

How would you recommend learning swift without covering anything more than the basics of Objective-C?

How do you figure?

The funny thing is I had just posted on hear to ask about how others help improve their reading retention, since I've been feeling bad about forgetting thing after I read them.

I'm getting really sick of trash articles like this on HN.

If these dull journalists had the slightest clue how to create a billion dollar company, they'd be busy building one rather than whoring themselves out for page views like this.

I was thinking Seattle...but not like I'm biased or anything cough cough

Mind if I ask what city?

Then you would implicitly alter the future by acting on it.

This is why click-bait journalism is terrible.

You have a headline that makes it seem like an interesting answer will be revealed for tough conflict, only to have a rambling series of anecdotes that doesn't address the headline and reads like an advertisement for a book.

This is beyond a discussion of meritocracy.

What this would do is not further a meritocracy but change the supply/demand equation in way that like others have pointed out, resembles a race to the bottom.

Here in Seattle many people use it, and I know of people who use it in Chicago

Non-paywalled link:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-web-is-dying-apps-are-kil...

I'm unsure what I am seeing here. I thought the Samsung gear was Samsungs' competitor to the Oculus Rift?

A continuous feed that reported the problems and frustrations of people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Ah the irony of an article lamenting something they're currently using quite heavily.

Because there hasn't been anyone whose made money offline?

If it's a Mac create a separate desktop instance, one work related the other personal.

I found one of the article comments particularly funny and noteworthy:

"Question: How do you convince investors that you can teach critical thinking skills? Answer: Screen for students that already have those skills."

Put the %2.8 acceptance rate in an interesting light.

Anyways I think this is interesting and valuable if for any reason that it's a new, and different idea and some lessons of value may stem from it.

What I liked the most was the 2 year "Go do something novel" task. I think the most valuable form of education comes from attempting to do something non-trivial and more focus on that is interesting.