On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection - <AUTHOR> http://stevecorona.com/on-keeping-a-journal/

<comment><USER3> \+ 1 on journal-keeping.

I've been keeping a diary for the last 8 years or so. The act of writing about and reflecting on each day is useful - but it's also very helpful to be able to look back on what your daily life was like in the past. It's easy to forget what you were _really_ thinking about several years ago, and a diary is a great way to give yourself some realistic perspective.

Brief pitch: A big problem I had in getting started with diary keeping was that I'd get busy and not write anything for several days, and then I'd have trouble remembering what I did, say, last Tuesday. Sometimes, to be honest, I forget what I did _this morning_. I gather this is a common reason for losing the diary-keeping habit.

A few years ago I scratched my own itch on this and built "Remembary": an iPad diary app that collects photos, tweets, Facebook updates, and RSS feeds and organizes them by day, giving you some context to help you remember what you did each day. It's a bit like the iPhone app Momento, but iPad-native and focused more on writing rather than just collecting feeds.

If you're just getting into diary writing or have tried before but have had similar problems getting traction, you might want to check it out. I'm wrapping up a major version 2.0 update that should (hopefully!) be out in a few weeks. You can find out more at <http://remembary.com> (I'm about to revamp the site too).

It's cheaper than a Moleskine (if you already have an iPad anyhow), is easily searched, and can be backed up to DropBox or email, too.

/pitch

<comment><AUTHOR> Very impressive app. Love the "It's cheaper than a Moleskin" tagline, haha. Once I get another iPad, I'll check it out. I use Evernote (which has a terrible UI), but I have so much data it's next to impossible to import it into any other system.

<comment><USER3> Thanks! By the way, the upcoming version will also work on iPhone/iPod Touch.

I'm currently in that crazy-making pixel-perfect OCD design polish phase that takes so long in iOS apps. If the design gods and the testing gods smile on me, it should be out before the end of the month.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> I get a cheap page a day diary (A4/Letter) off the market each year. Lets keep this thing low tech. Backups via phone camera and dropbox. The volume stays at home.

</comment><comment><USER5> I've been keeping a journal since 2007, however, my entries were not as frequent as Steve. Lately, I've been obsessive with personal data collection a la Daytum.com, iDoneThis.com, Fitocracy, MemoLane.com, RescueTime.com, and Timehop.com that passively record things about my past, which is fascinating, empowering or downright depressing when I see what I've done in the past.

It's interesting to use these services or manually (Moleskine and pen) to be more cognizant and aware of where we're going in our lives, to be more appreciative of what we've done or how we've spent our time in the most "ideal" way we construct for ourselves.

</comment><comment><USER6> Flagrant self-promotion: if you're interested in this sort of thing, check out myscribr.com. We're all about preserving your life for future days.

We start by importing the information you're already posting to Facebook, Twitter etc. We'll send you a nightly email asking how your day went - <USER2> reply and we'll save your response as a private entry. View your past on any day of the year, or browse through an aggregate timeline. When it suits you, you can click a few buttons and order your past in printed book form, suitable for shelving.

<comment><USER3> That looks very cool. The daily reminder email is a great touch.

These are very interesting times for diary-keeping - we're leaving so many more traces of our lives around these days.

The book output option is nice. I'm thinking of this as an option for future versions of Remembary, too. Aren't these books quite big and expensive though? Or is that the point?

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I've been meaning to start a journal (will start now), but I've been using Daytum obsessively for the last year and a half.

At this point I have over 24K+ data points about my life including what I've done, consumed, people I've seen and the good and bad things that have happened to me. It can be a pain to keep up sometimes, but I have a hunch that the data becomes more valuable as time goes on.

<comment><USER8> It creeps me out to no end that people would log such kind of data to a remote, online service they have zero control over. I hope at least you keep backups for you. But my concerns are the privacy.

<comment><USER5> You can keep the data private and there is no built in "social" with Daytum. It doesn't look like the founders will be working on it anytime soon since they were "acq-hired" by Facebook. I've been using it for the last 2 years to measure and visualize my personal data.

But to each their own, I suppose.

<comment><USER8> what if the site got hacked and exploited? do they store your data securely?

<comment><USER5> It may sound foolish, but I'm not too worried about that.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> A (moleskine) notebook is great for this. And so is a folder on google docs (or an encrypted true-crypt vault if you're paranoid).

</comment><comment><USER10> I find it funny that his earlier posts say he is "giving up social media" when he tweeted about this blog post. I question the validity of the 1091 days.

<comment><AUTHOR> :-)

It's true I have been tweeting my blog posts and posting them on facebook, as well as replying to comments about my posts on Hacker News. I feel that this falls within the guidelines I set for myself- which was to stop collecting information and produce value in my life. I don't read my Twitter or Facebook stream, and use it solely as tool for (seldomly) publishing my things I've created.

You'll notice I have only tweeted about 6 times over the past 20 days, when I was tweeting well over 50+ times a day previously.

<comment><USER10> Fair point. And I'm going to try the same thing on my 30th Birthday in 6 days. And I may run naked.</comment></comment></comment>


The Price of Bad Pricing - <AUTHOR> http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/the-price-of-bad-pricing/ <comment><USER2> How do you develop a pricing scheme for a new product that hasn't been marketed before? At any point in time, the true value of a new product to consumers seems intangible and subjective.

It is important to consider what market you are going after when thinking about pricing. Lets think in terms of art for an example of a new or misunderstood product. If the art is priced just above the cost of materials, say, $75. What market of people would buy it? I'm sure plenty of people would see that for its price and think ooh, pretty. I can afford that. Who are those people going to show off that artwork to? Are they going to talk about it? What about the people that will look at the price and automatically assume that it is poor quality. OR, are people not defining the work's value by its price, but by the name of the artist? If the price is low, then that must mean that the artist isn't well known. Now think about if the artwork was priced at $10,000. Someone might buy it because they are a collector looking for something in particular and you were lucky enough to give them what they wanted. Or maybe they will buy it just because they can. They will pride themselves on being able to show friends and colleagues that they appreciate the finer things in life.

Elasticity in pricing is already complicated enough to understand let alone applying it to a real life situation. But when you add a subjective or new misunderstood product, pricing can play an even more prominent and critical role in how a company is perceived.

Check out this book: The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson</comment>


BaconBizConf 2013: Bootstrapping Sketchnotes - <AUTHOR> http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/06/06/my-sketchnotes-and-thoughts-from-baconbizconf-2013/

<comment><USER2> Absolutely amazing. Love these. Even showed them to my oldest son as he likes to draw.

</comment><comment><USER3> Idea: a subreddit or subHN (if that existed) for bootstrappers?

</comment><comment><USER4> These notes are frickin awesome! Thanks.

</comment><comment><USER5> Nice!</comment>


Saving cash by running business applications on a blockchain - <AUTHOR> https://blog.mesg.com/community-update-late-february-20/ <comment><USER2> Is Blockchain the new Cloud?

Sure, you can save money by running business applications in the Cloud; but, if so, this merely means you have lots of inefficiencies, and could as well save money by merely using any other of the available approaches as well (leasing turn-key dedicated servers and using virtualisation etc).

</comment><comment><USER3> Blockchain, haven't you solved the works most pressing problem by now? Where the call to turn all that mining power towards helping out?</comment>


People love Facebook so much they wouldn't quit unless we paid them a lot - <AUTHOR> https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/13/people-love-facebook-so-much-they-wouldnt-quit-unless-we-paid-them-lot/ <comment><USER2> I think it's likely that most people value Facebook below $1000 for themselves, but try to maximize their return when offered money by someone else to give something up. I hardly use it and may stop anyday. But if you want to pay me to stop, I would certainly try to maximize what I can get.

<comment><USER3> _...because we paid only the lowest bidder, there was no incentive for people to overstate what they would have to be paid to stop using Facebook._

<comment><USER4> Im not sure it does remove the incentive. I think people are still seeing a way to get free money and subsequently everyone bid higher than they would.

I think a better way to do this would be to randomize payouts and randomize people. Offer 200 to quit facebook to one person, 100 to another, 700 to another. The auction skews the results I believe

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Love? Isn't it more about dependence?

<comment><USER6> Personally, I don't like the service, and hate the company, but I would've had to be paid a huge amount of money to close my account because there's tonnes of people I interact with and create plans to meet up with through messenger.

Move everyone I want to interact with to some other messaging service, like telegram or signal, and I'd jump on it in an instant.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> But how much would they be willing to pay to continue using it once they make it a part of their daily life?

</comment><comment><USER8> They mention they got the students for the study from past studies/mailing list, but I wonder how they got the rest (80%) of the study group.

I'd definitely take much less than $1000 to deactivate facebook, and I feel like most of my friends would as well. The main reason I use facebook is to use messenger (if you consider that the same thing) and even then I'm been slowly convincing people to migrate to signal.

<comment><USER9> It's been possible for quite some time to delete your Facebook _account_ but continue to use Facebook messenger under those previous credentials, if you didn't know.

<comment> mAEStro-paNDa Do you have more information on this? My understanding was that you couldn't use the same credentials, instead registering a phone number for this.

<comment><USER9> All of the links I've conjured up are pointing to the same bit of information, will continue to hunt down more but I can say at least for my account I was able to fully delete my FB account, and login to the browser version of messenger.com using the same email/pass combo.

I've also been able to log into the Messenger mobile app without giving them a phone number (I was prompted, but not required at the time to enter a phone number). This all happened back in July of last year, so if the mechanism has changed since then, it's entirely possible you're correct that a phone number is now _required_ instead of optional, as it was for me-and everyone else before the change and we just got 'grandfathered' in. Maybe?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> I value Facebook at zero. People who would only quit for a payoff might not see that they are the product and their personal details are fueling Facebook. To them I would say take control of your privacy and leave.

</comment><comment><USER11> Saw that the other day, not bad... Finally a market based approach to measuring the value (many) users get from FB and quite refreshing compared to the usual "I know what's best for you" approach.

Edit: I don't use FB, but understand that it can be valuable to many users, just like any other platform or app out there.

<comment><USER12> I wouldn't read too much into it. If you asked the same question, but in reverse and made it about how much people would _pay_ , it's going to be a very different outcome.

<comment><USER13> This. People just don't work the way economists think they do.</comment></comment></comment>


Twilio Releases OpenVBX, An Open Source Google Voice For Businesses - <AUTHOR> http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/15/twilio-openvbx-google-voice/

<comment><USER2> Discussion here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432937>

</comment><comment><USER3> Very impressive. Jeff and team are quite talented, and the execution there is incredible</comment>


In China, an Empire Built by Aping Apple - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/business/global/in-china-an-empire-built-by-aping-apple.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all <comment><USER2> The article has a bit of American Bias towards it (probably because it's the NY Times).

Xiaomi have developed their own UI (with some similaroties to Apple) called MIUI which you can download and install on your Android if you wish. They are galvanizing the market in China because they are pushing home the 'China- built, High standard' message. In other words, they are playing the patriotism button and in the main, it's working.

The main issue is whether they can push beyond China.

<comment><USER3> Woah, Xiaomi is behind MIUI? I had no idea. I'm impressed, it's refreshing to see Chinese tech companies pushing innovation and quality to compete instead of half-assed clones.

<comment><USER4> It should be noted that MIUI is also a rampant GPL violator. They have taken a lot of open source stuff under the GPL, among other licenses, and closed it off or even claimed as their own. This probably isn't shocking given the article.

[http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/android-community- demand...](http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/android-community-demands-miui- rom-comply-with-foss-licenses/)

<comment> mc-lovin "A lot" and "rampant" seem like exaggerations. Based on that link, most of MIUI's changes are to the Android source code, which licensed under the permissive Apache license.

Only their modifications to the linux kernel need to comply with the GPL license.

edit: Here is the relevant quote from the parent's link

>While the kernel modifications [to the GPL licensed Linux kernel] are only a small part of the modifications Xioami has done to create MIUI, it does include the low-level work Xioami has done to push things like performance and energy efficiency.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Having tested MIUI compared to stock android on my mother in law, MIUI was much easier for her to understand and use... So, I don't think it's fair to say that Xiaomi is not innovative, it's actually one of the very few android phone maker that actually cares about the software side of things and built a really good interface.

</comment><comment><USER6> Westerners seem to get majorly hung up on the "China copying" meme and miss the bigger picture--China is incredibly focused on technology and there are huge sums of money and a strong cultural impetus for home-grown innovation. As an analogy, China is at the stage where they have learned the major rules for a programming language, and are now copying and pasting advanced code from stackexchange or other places.

Let's not forget historical context either: Japan and S.Korea were once known as knockoff central, and now produce extremely advanced products in their own right.

<comment><USER7> > Westerners seem to get majorly hung up on the "China copying" meme

Huh? Nytimes seem to be hung up, yes. 'Westerners' seems to have slipped out.

<comment><USER6> I'm painting with a broad brush :). The extremely negative and short-sighted attitude about Chinese knockoffs is (in my experience) most prevalent in 'western' countries: USA, Canada, UK, Western Europe. I have less contact with Eastern Europe, South America or Africa so I can't comment on their reactions.

Attitudes toward copying are very cultural. In China, it stems from pragmatism and a greater focus on the ends rather than the means (winning trumps winning well) whereas in the US--and West--winning is important, but so is "playing fair".

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> They obviously chose the word "aping" for a reason, but it strikes me as a poor word choice here.

These aren't pocket calculators with "I-PHone" rubber-stamped on the cover.

From the article:

"Skeptics say the company produces low-price iPhone imitations with no significant software or hardware advantages."

So where are the _dis_ advantages, other than the "they're copying Apple" problem?

I suspect that if they stay more or less on the right side of copyright/patent law in the west, they'll capitalize on the "lower price/equivalent hardware" combination that apparently even the skeptics mention. And with the capabilities to build the next big idea, all it really takes then is enough of a break from traditional company culture to let new, good ideas bubble up and/or be sought out (and hey look, the Xiaomi CEO seems to be going for that).

</comment><comment><USER9> For some perspective on his background, Kingsoft makes the most popular Chinese/English dictionary software in China - a really great product, ahead of its time. Joyo is not unheard of either... so he hasn't exactly come out of nowhere. Furthermore, hassling someone because he uses tried and true marketing techniques or happens to wear a black shirt while presenting is a bit extreme.

<comment><USER10> I can't speak for their dictionary, but KingSoft has an antivirus/internet security program which is nigh on impossible to uninstall, including extremely misleading messages on their uninstall screen.

I wouldn't touch any of their other stuff for that reason alone.

<comment><USER9> Fair enough. The golden era of their mouseover dictionary was ~2000.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> In China, the user base is its advantage. With the manufacturing skills, they are just Aping now, give it 10-15 more years, those might just grow into another Samsung, Amazon. In fact, last year two of Alibaba's portals together handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales, more than eBay and Amazon combined (Economists - [http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573981-chinas- e-comm...](http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573981-chinas-e-commerce- giant-could-generate-enormous-wealthprovided-countrys-rulers-leave-it))

</comment><comment><USER12> "Skeptics say the company produces low-price iPhone imitations with no significant software or hardware advantages."

I must say that compared to other low-price phones in china like Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Hisense I'd rather take Xiaomi. They seem to pay more attention to quality than others and they do show innovativeness with MIUI for example. And more importantly they seem to have more and more of their own innovation in each product generation. For example their MI2S offers exchangeable colored backs that I haven't seen with many other companies (Nokia maybe).

I used to think NYT is respectable paper, but with words like "aping" in the title of an article like this I'm giving up on that thought.

<comment><USER13> "He is also selling millions of mobile phones that look a lot like iPhones [...] his company sold seven million mobile phones last year by using designs that mimic the look and feel of the iPhone and using marketing that seems right out of Apple's playbook."

A bit like the Samsung Galaxy S3/S4 are resembling the iPhone. The Xiaomi M1/M2 are far from copycat GooPhone and the like, while the specification of the latest device from Xiaomi are matching or surpassing the Android competition (checking for yourself the different review on the internet) and the price is one of the lowest for this type of high end hand held device (we are talking about ~300 USD here).

I can not remember as well when Apple played so well on scarcity of supply for a new product, like Xiaomi and their flash sales.

<comment><USER12> Yes, I agree that nobody would mistake Xiaomi for an iPhone so it's hard to call it a clone. They have clear logo, different button positions and the back looks totally different. It didn't seem like the author had actually used a Xiaomi phone himself.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> The Chinese seem to think that integrity and respect are mutually exclusive. When you are poor or middle class, starting a business that is inspired by other products on the market is pragmatic. When you are wealthy, blatantly cloning other businesses with no significant improvements makes you a thief and a profiteer. This guy sounds like a scumbag that gives business a bad name.

</comment><comment><USER15> Meh...I have to see him doing something that Apple isn't - in a unique way...before I believe he can even look at S. Job's shoes.

He claims to be looking at TV - if they release a TV BEFORE Apple, that is as good as Apple's version (or even better) then I will stop being skeptical.

Until then, chalk me up as one of those "skeptical Westerners".

</comment><comment><USER16> They look like iPhones but are running Android ... and as it mentions at the bottom of the article, they release an updated OS version every week.

</comment><comment><USER17> Its simple money, dear NYT. He can be Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer or whoever, as long as his shit is selling. Innovation? oh c'mon, there has been no innovation since Einstein.

</comment><comment><USER18> shameless... i dont understand how these people can sleep at night.

<comment><USER19> The same way good old Benjamin Franklin did as he pirated the works of British authors: <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva75.html>

<comment><USER20> Not exactly, Ben wasn't asserting that he created the works.

<comment><USER21> So like Steve Jobs, who accused Microsoft of stealing "his" ideas when in fact he stole those ideas from Xerox?

[http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...](http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.txt)

<comment><USER22> _bought_ those ideas from Xerox and then added a whole load of extra stuff to them (icons, pull-down menus)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> This guy should be embarrassed. Why is he trying to copy Steve Jobs? I think down the road the Chinese will be stuck in a very hard place after decades of copying. Without innovation, it's hard to develop new ideas and technologies.

The Chinese desperately need a cultural revolution to understand that stealing is not an acceptable way to do business. Until that happens it will be hard for any Western company to take them seriously.

<comment><USER24> "The Chinese desperately need a cultural revolution "

Terrible choice of terms, not sure if you are intentionally trolling or not.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution></comment></comment>


EyeWriter = Art by Eyes (6 hours left for their kickstarter) - <AUTHOR> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/571943958/tempt1-and-eyewriter-art-by-eyes <comment><USER2> for more info about the project, check out:

<http://eyewriter.org>

<http://vimeo.com/6376466></comment>


Ask HN: Would you get an MBA at the Technion? - <AUTHOR> The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology has opened a new MBA program (in English, in Tel Aviv) featuring top professors from the Technion, London Business School, INSEAD and more focusing on managing technology ventures.<p>http://startupmba.technion.ac.il/ <comment><USER2> Israeli universities are known for having great programs, I would imagine this program at the Technion is going to be very good.

That said, a huge part of business school is networking, so unless you're planning on being in Israel for your career, which, given it's policies is actually quite difficult for most demographics, it may not be the most practical move.

Finally, I think one needs to carefully decide for themselves where they land on the boycott debate. In the U.S., the shift is beginning, especially in academia. And academic boycotts have been supported internally in Israel. The Technion's connection to Israel's military complex is strong in absolute terms, and to come from abroad to attend such an institution is a very deliberate decision that probably implies where one lands on an intense political debate. A recent Israeli documentary expands on the broader issue: [http://www.gumfilms.com/projects/lab](http://www.gumfilms.com/projects/lab)

<comment><USER3> When you do an MBA focused on startups, why should you care about academia's fashionable political opinion on something?

<comment><USER4> Here's an MBA on startups: join an early startup and go along for the ride.

The corporate management / organizational concepts don't apply to tiny new companies. Financial analysis and accounting? You can learn to read cash flow statements after a quick online tutorial. Other than that delegate to a trusted and reputable CPA advisor.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> No, I can get an MBA closer from home and cheaper. I don't really need the university brand name just how to run a business, it would be closer to CPA imo. Where you figure out what business type you want such as corp c, corp s, or lld. And where would you choose deleware to incorp or offshore to cayman island, etc...

I've seen Sanford and they seem to be gear toward startup and have a better grasp on it. They have a few guest speaker from industry and they're close to silicon valley, a few of video seems to be gear toward tech startup. Unfortunately, I doubt I would get into it and it's expensive, any CSU (California State) would do for me.

</comment><comment><USER6> Yes - as a software engineer I would be interested in learning how to manage a business tailored to the field I would be most interested in managing a business in.

>> No. Getting an MBA is all about the contacts that you make.

Who's to say you wouldn't make the most relevant contacts for your business on this program.

</comment><comment><USER7> A $130 million was recently donated to Technion to help improve a Chinese university: [http://israeliamerican.org/news/technion-university-haifa- ge...](http://israeliamerican.org/news/technion-university-haifa- gets-130-million-grant-li-ka-shing-foundation)

Also, Technion is partnered with Cornell to have NY City technical university. [http://tech.cornell.edu/jacobs-technion-cornell- institute/ov...](http://tech.cornell.edu/jacobs-technion-cornell- institute/overview)

</comment><comment><USER8> What are your career goals that you think an MBA from there would either accelerate or open you up for?

</comment><comment><USER9> I have like, 3/4 of an MBA from a fairly well known school. Has it helped me personally? Sure, I guess. Has it put me ahead of my peers at all? Eh, not really. TBH, unless it's a top 10 school, I don't think it's worth it, unless you have a scholarship.

That said, I haven't heard of Technion.

</comment><comment><USER10> No. Getting an MBA is all about the contacts that you make.

</comment><comment><USER11> No, part of the value of an MBA is the name behind the school you got it from. As well, in 20 years, will the degree be relevant?

<comment><USER12> >> No, part of the value of an MBA is the name behind the school you got it from. As well, in 20 years, will the degree be relevant?

Is any degree still relevant after 20 years?

I think for most people, 20 years of experience post-MBA are probably infinitely more valuable than the MBA itself.

<comment><USER13> Twenty years after a BA in Philosophy, I can unequivocally state that it is as relevant today as it was then.

<comment><USER11> This was, essentially, my point. Business Administration will always be relevant, but Business Administration for Startups is a little too focused. What happens when the startup fad is over?

<comment><USER12> >> This was, essentially, my point. Business Administration will always be relevant, but Business Administration for Startups is a little too focused. What happens when the startup fad is over?

I got my MBA 21 years ago. Practically speaking, nobody's going to ask you much about your MBA after about 5 years of subsequent work experience. After 20 years, it doesn't matter whether you've done a generalist program or one focused on startups, assuming you can even remember all of the stuff you learned 20 years ago. Let me put it this way, the technology course I took in my MBA -- it was a waste of time intro course that talked about paper tapes, Winchester drives, etc. Most of my peers didn't even know what e-mail was.

No matter what, the typical MBA program requires you to take a lot of common courses, so even if you're a Business Administration for Startups graduate, you're not at a significant disadvantage over the next MBA.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> No -- lack of name awareness. MBA is really only good for getting access to on-campus recruiters and graduate programs, as well as networking with peers (not really possible online). If I were to do an online MBA I'd probably do Imperial as I know several people who've done it.

</comment><comment><USER14> Sure it would be fun. Meet some cool people, get a few nice letters. And Israel is cool. Like to spend more time in that part of the world.

One question I couldn't find the answer to -- how much?

<comment><USER15> According to this page, it costs $35,000 - ([http://www.technionmba.com/tuition-and- scholarship/](http://www.technionmba.com/tuition-and-scholarship/)).

I think it's a little unfortunate that the Technion needs to write:

 _Not included: Airfare, airport transfers, housing, computer hardware and peripherals, medical expenses (medical insurance can be purchased separately), laundry, linens, souvenirs, additional trips and excursions per catalog, and personal spending money._

I'd tend to argue that if you think your MBA tuition covers personal spending money, you're likely not qualified to do the MBA, but I am much less patient than the mean...:)

<comment><AUTHOR> Just FYI, you can get a $5000 scholarship, if you're accepted. Just tell them you saw it on Hacker News & you want the "Bring a Friend" scholarship.

And the copywriting of the website is very different than the program, which includes professors from Oxford, Columbia, LBS, INSEAD (Dan Kahenemann's thesis advisor!) and the Technion

</comment></comment></comment><comment> bra-ket I think this is ideal for a non-technical person with business skills who want to connect to Israeli technical talent pool

</comment><comment><USER16> No, I boycott Israel over their governments treatment of Palestinians.

</comment><comment><USER17> I would guess this type of stuff is done in part to counter Israel's increasing international isolation because of the occupation stuff. I'm not sure I'd want to be involved in that type of stuff and just go elsewhere if I was interested in an international MBA.

The needs of the occupation drive a lot of research at Technion, understandably so:

[http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2014/11/9/the- tech...](http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2014/11/9/the-technion-an- elite-university-for-israeli-student-soldiers)

<comment><USER18> Give me a break. That's like saying Cornell's Tech MBA was created to fuel America's military-industrial complex.

<comment><USER17> Israeli universities are pushing big into international collaborations of various types to counter efforts at isolating Israel because of its occupation policies. This isn't secret, it is a very conscious effort on the part of Israel's universities to counter the BDS movement:

[https://english.tau.ac.il/vision/Shaoul_fund](https://english.tau.ac.il/vision/Shaoul_fund)</comment></comment></comment>


Who wants to develop remix.com? - <AUTHOR> http://remix.com <comment><AUTHOR> I apologize if this is not the right forum for this request, but Hackers are desperately needed. The domain industry sucks and remix.com should be a cool web app.

I'm in a position to engage in a joint venture, sell or lease this domain. The term remix receives more than 100 million monthly searches (35MM U.S.), and the domain is adequately backlinked that it displays on the first page of google results. I wanted to develop this, but my life is going in a different direction. I'd prefer a hands-off equity stake position with the right team because I think the name has exceptional potential.

Send me an email (either from my profile or on remix.com) to let me know we can work together. Ludacris used to actually own this name as well, I guess it didn't work out for him either ☺ [http://www.dnforum.com/f17/ludacris-selling- his-domain-remix...](http://www.dnforum.com/f17/ludacris-selling-his-domain- remix-com-thread-305636.html)</comment>


Log file analysis with Haskell - <AUTHOR> http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2010/06/haskell-scripting-log-analysis.html

<comment><USER2> Disclaimer: I work for a Splunk Partner.

Interesting technique, although I think a domain specific extension of Haskell for analysing log records might be more useful.

I'm sure there are more complex examples, but all the tasks in the screencast could be done easily with Splunk. It might, if you want to develop the idea of log analysis further to look at their search cheatsheet. [http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/SearchRefere...](http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/SearchReference/SearchCheatsheet)

Most of the syntax in the screencast is relatively guessable or explained, however NubBy means remove duplicates using the provided test condition. <http://www.zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputlist/nubBy_f.html>

<comment><AUTHOR> I've used and developed on Splunk at work and you're completely correct. You can also get this information using AWStats or something similar to analyze Apache log files. It's not surprising that software marketed for the task of log analysis can do better.

The point of the post is to demonstrate how a practical task can be done easily in a programming language that has been accused of being too academic and impractical.</comment></comment>


Groupon Business Model Deteriorating in Oldest Markets - <AUTHOR> http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-s-1-reveals-business-model-deteriorating-in-oldest-markets-2011-6

<comment><USER2> While their growth has been absolutely staggering, part of me thinks they could have done it in a much more effecient way. Do they really need this many salespeople? Do they really need 925 writers for the site? A reduction in headcount should be coming and is necessary.</comment>


A Chinese company wants to let parents pick their smartest embryo - <AUTHOR> http://qz.com/166699/a-chinese-company-is-pioneering-the-technology-to-let-parents-pick-their-smartest-embryo/

<comment><USER2> Boy this is a crap link. I had better proactively post some links to some better information about behavior genetics as that relates to human IQ.

Deary, I. J., Penke, L., & Johnson, W. (2010). The neuroscience of human intelligence differences. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(3), 201-211.

[http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Deary_Penke_Johnson_2010_-_Neur...](http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Deary_Penke_Johnson_2010_-_Neuroscience_of_intelligence_review.pdf)

"At this point, it seems unlikely that single genetic loci have major effects on normal-range intelligence. For example, a modestly sized genome-wide study of the general intelligence factor derived from ten separate test scores in the cAnTAB cognitive test battery did not find any important genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms or copy number variants, and did not replicate genetic variants that had previously been associated with cognitive ability."

Johnson, W. (2010). Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(3), 177-182

[http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/...](http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/Johnson%20Current%20Directions%20Psych%20Science%202010%20\(G%20and%20E%20in%20IQ\).pdf)

"Together, however, the developmental natures of GCA [general cognitive ability] and height, the likely influences of gene-environment correlations and interactions on their developmental processes, and the potential for genetic background and environmental circumstances to release previously unexpressed genetic variation suggest that very different combinations of genes may produce identical IQs or heights or levels of any other psychological trait. And the same genes may produce very different IQs and heights against different genetic backgrounds and in different environmental circumstances. This would be especially the case if height and GCA and other psychological traits are only single facets of multifaceted traits actually under more systematic genetic regulation, such as overall body size and balance between processing capacity and stimulus reactivity."

Chabris, C. F., Hebert, B. M., Benjamin, D. J., Beauchamp, J., Cesarini, D., van der Loos, M., ... & Laibson, D. (2012). Most reported genetic associations with general intelligence are probably false positives. Psychological science, 23(11), 1314-1323. DOI: 10.1177/0956797611435528 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498585/](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498585/)

[http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9938142/Most_Repo...](http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9938142/Most_Reported_Genetic.pdf?sequence=1)

"At the time most of the results we attempted to replicate were obtained, candidate-gene studies of complex traits were commonplace in medical genetics research. Such studies are now rarely published in leading journals. Our results add IQ to the list of phenotypes that must be approached with great caution when considering published molecular genetic associations. In our view, excitement over the value of behavioral and molecular genetic studies in the social sciences should be tempered—as it has been in the medical sciences—by an appreciation that, for complex phenotypes, individual common genetic variants of the sort assayed by SNP microarrays are likely to have very small effects."

Simply put, the company has no capability to deliver what it promises parents.</comment>


Commandos, Infantry, and Police - <AUTHOR> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000025.html

<comment><USER2> For the military side of that analogy I highly recommend reading Black Hawk Down. It's a moving account of real-life heroes, a remarkable story of of a modern army engagement, but besides that it's also a great analogy to the business world.

The actual 3-way split in the Army is special forces (Delta Force), paratroopers (Army Rangers) and infantry. The developers analogy would be "done, and gets things smart", "smart and gets things done", and the rest. In Somalia we had Rangers and Delta, and the book goes into much detail on the incredible difference in skill and capability between the two. The analogy to developers is uncanny.

The point of course is not that developers are like soldiers, they are not, but rather that there are fundamental reasons that different human activities are structured in similar ways.

BTW, while it reads like fiction, Black Hawk Down is a documentary, and even the dialogue has been reconstructed from recordings. The movie is very faithful to the book, but the distinction between special forces and Rangers, the political side of the conflict, and some other interesting detail is much more clear in the book.

</comment><comment><USER3> Projects and companies change over time? Wow!</comment>