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. Sadly, we've made the tough decision to shut down the product."
This is exactly what concerns me. That Google only chooses to continue investing in ventures with a certain growth rate has dangerous implications. There are many examples of companies and communities creating value and unique contributions to the world without requiring ongoing rapid growth. There are potentially disastrous consequences should our best and brightest continue to pursue growth over other goals. (i.e. "The Limits to Growth") And qualitatively, niche fields / enterprises are the foundation of diversity, and diversity is the foundation of resilience.
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 hierarchy, but it is important to take cultural, personal, etc. issues into consideration as well. This hold especially true when dealing with prolonged displacement where identity and self-worth can be challenged.
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 criticism, but discounting someones viewpoint based on another subjective viewpoint is not constructive criticism.
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 on the market implications of this story. refinements to existing power supply sources are generally already priced in, as they happen gradually and are well understood. the price implications of fundamental shifts are by nature less not priced in except as risk.
also worth noting, in financial jargon everything can be boiled down to it's "price". so to say that they are discussing its pricing implications is not to say they are ignoring or not discussing the environmental implications. rather, the environmental implications (positive and negative) are reflected in the price.
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 not care to correct their use of the term banker, you implicitly confirmed it. you were incorrect in the assumption which i was addressing. i am 2 courses shy of a math degree, i'm completely comfortable with logic, recursion, discrete math, etc. in case you go on to assume i didn't complete my degree, let me add i have completed degrees in two other disciplines.
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' version!" "I wan't to make money and pretend I know investing!"
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 the broadly used / accepted / understood meaning. and they aren't small percentages. the percentage they receive for making deals is published, look it up. banker != trader != portfolio manager, etc.
also, i didn't say they weren't likable. generally they are very likable. and i didn't say they don't know what they are doing. they know very well what they're doing.
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 your not out the cost of a down-payment for a nice home.
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 they understood "the market". those who commented regarding "shorts" etc. why not options? or swaptions? or futures? or future options? you should totally start a risk-neutral team. wait, weren't we talking about software engineering.
here is the thing. by and large, you all have zero clue what you're talking about. tell me that's not true all day long, but, whatever. you've read a book. you've worked on some algorithm. but chances are you've never been wined and dined by a bulge bracket investment bank attempting to win the brokerage business of the hedge fund you work at. you've likely never spoken with bankers about upcoming offerings. you've likely never been given a tour of the manufacturing plant floor by management, because you're thinking of investing a hundred or so million.
and here is the thing that makes me really sad. at least bankers, a horrible bunch of humans, by and large studied the humanities and admit that they are generally selling crap. this new breed of programmers sorta study computer science and then walk around like they have "the answer" for every human problem. and now i have to deal with "Fantasy Angel Investing".
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 there and adopt some of the less crappy ones to fill in any feature gap? i'm all for diversity and experimentation, but doesn't evolution say that some things just gotta die?
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.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/25/a-cautionary...
EDIT: just to clarify, i'm not saying Forbe's said FDB is open source. i'm pointing to the fact that someone that writes for a national business magazine about open source issues thought it was an open source "issue". if persons working in open source can hope to make a living, counting business as a stakeholder is a good idea.
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 you hacker news.
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.