skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taubes gives the example of rats bred or genetically modified to be fat - if you starve them, the body eats the heart and the brain before it gives up on the fat - the animal can starve to death while still fat. Getting fat changes you - a person who was 400 lbs and diets down to 200 has a very different metabolism than a person who has always been 200 lbs. It's possible that something we've been doing is making fat more prone to stick around than it was in times past.

The hypothesis that the problem is too many carbs is plausible but not proven and the full truth is certainly going to be more complex.

Starvation guy is an interesting data point in any cace.
Give me Chrome OS and ZSH. I'll be happy. I don't need any of that other shit to work.
You would need to start by raising a large amount of capital. Tens of millions, if not hundreds.

Now, you have two choices. "Easiest" is buying an existing, up and running cable company. There are quite a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cable_television_compan..., and if you've got a hundred million or two in cash, I'd bet you can find a seller.

Much, much harder is finding at least one municipality willing to give you franchise rights. That's going to take a lot of time and a lot of lawyers. Franchise rights aren't cheap, and generally require an "OK" from a city council. Once you've got that, you'll can start running cables. Even more time, and plenty of that capital. Figure on a couple of years to get to the point of actually being able sign up your first customer.
Could I suggest something a smidgeon less capital-intensive and ambitious for your first business? In addition to a successful outcome making your cable bill irrelevant to your personal happiness, the experience may demonstrate how far an innovative charging model and a viable business idea are from each other.

P.S. If insanely ambitious ideas are within the project scope, your plan should probably be closer to YouTube/Spotify/etc for TV rather than actually running a cable company, because owning wire has little to recommend it if your primary concern is ability to negotiate Extraordinarily Favorable (TM) licensing terms. Buying $200 million of copper would make 0 progress to that goal.
Dell's new Ubuntu-only Developer Edition laptop still includes a Windows key.
Googlers use a slightly modified version of Ubuntu LTS releases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu)...

Well, not exclusively, if I recall correctly, they get to choose Goobuntu, Windows, or OS X.
They also improve sensitivity to vibration, which in turn increases the resolution of textures you can feel by brushing your fingers over them.
And those bits on the HDD sure make it harder to install a different OS over the top of it.

I don't understand how you can be snarky about a company that picked an OS (I, for one, am shocked that they picked a popular distribution) and then got a good set of drivers and tools for it, packaged it up and want to support it.

If you want to install something else, install something else. If you don't want to pay the Dell or the Sputnik tax, then go buy something else. I don't get the shitting on Dell for trying to accommodate another market segment.
The year is 1999 and the sky is becoming packed with "spy saucers." It's up to you to shoot 'em down in "real time" with your laser cannon.
Okay so three things.

Firstly I don't think you understand the business you are trying to disrupt. YOU may not watch particular channels e.g. Fox but others do and they help to subsidise the unprofitable channels. So trying to break apart the channels will be impossible without a deep understanding of the economics of each individual channel and how that relates to your ability to sustain a profit.

Secondly it is widely rumored that Apple will be building a TV that offers an a la carte model. So something to be mindful of given how well their products sell.

Thirdly if the top two don't faze you then there is the fact that you picked a problem that is extremely high cost, low margin and with players who seem to get a kick out of destroying competition through financial and legal means.

But hey by all means give it a try. You learn more by trying and failing than not trying at all.
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In Australia things have headed towards cable consolidation over time. There are huge upfront infrastructure costs in cabling, if you are allowed to go out and cable at all. It might be completely different where you are but here it seems like current providers are incentivised to maintain a monopoly over delivery.

If anything you are probably better off trying to build out something over the internet with many more potential customers now having the bandwidth to take advantage of.
Yep. The future isn't in cable. It's in FTTH/FTTN like what is happening in Australia right now.

Which means any opportunity for disruption are going to come from platforms like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Vimeo, YouTube, CollegeHumor etc.
Compass (which was built on top of Sass) does sprite sheet generation and cache busting. It's also shipped with a bunch of pre-defined CSS3 mixins.

Sass also allows you to put media queries inside your rule blocks. (In the future, this will be also possible in regular CSS.)
Sir, you just put a damp on my evening. We're all doomed.
CTRL-Z. For the love of education & taste.
Coming to a browser near you but not your phones from 1 year ago.
The programming manual that came with the TRS-80 Color Computer was among the best introductions to programming ever. Really as good as Why's poignant guide to Ruby. There were similar books at Radio Shack for the TRS-80 Models I and III, also. The books were funny and informative, and easy enough for me to follow along when I was 11.
First figure out how you're going to get the content to people.

Cable delivered via wire is considered to be a natural monopoly that in the united states cities (or other sub state level groups) grant one company the rights to string cable i.e. the Cable Franchise Fee. Running a second set of wires is expensive, and simple economics are going to have every existing cable company keep you out of their system. Google's fiber is the one set of to the house pipes that MIGHT let you use them. So unless you have lots of money doing it the "industry standard way" isn't going to be possible.

So long as you're tied to using wires cable systems are local monopolies and capital intensive, figure out a good way to bypass this any you may have a good business.

Go look at Comcasts financial statements if you want to see what the cost structures are. Note they're spending 13% of revenue on Capital expenditures. In 2011 they spent 40% of revenues on Programing ($19,625 in video revenue,$7,870 on programing).

http://www.cmcsk.com/earnings.cfm

Second, figure out if the content providers will even let you have the content.

Cable is a big market, a business that could disrupt it would do well.
Having worked at the largest-small ISP in the US (>250k subs). Very ambitious, and I think it can be done, however your biggest problem is in the over-build. What that means is you will have to engineer and deploy your own HFC (hybrid fiber coaxial) network first. If your original intent was to lease space on an existing provider's network, and potentially buy some frequency on their coax you're in very steep uphill battle. Even if a provider did happen to let you do this you're beholden to them at that point and they, bluntly, have you by the nuts if you start to threaten them. Meanwhile overbuilding where there already is infrastructure isn't very efficient as you have to plan and engineer (if you have no experience with this think civil + RF + data engineering collaboration plus legal hoops for right-of-way and licensure into actually laying fiber and coax). Add to that along the way you'll piss people off for digging in their yards.

Sure, you can sell channels a la carte, however say you purchase 5 channels - and you have 50 customers. Say every person of the 50 only chooses one to subscribe to, now you only have a ratio of payment for 10 customers per channel. This will likely put you in the red right there since each channel has a pretty steep licensing fee for distribution. Once you get to scale - this could work, but it would almost be easier for you to go in and buy out a small customer base instead of starting from scratch.

On top of all these considerations realize if you're offering Internet and/or phone you need CMTS and phone switching systems plus the engineering clout to run them. If you plan on spanning multiple cities then you have to deal with leasing or running your own fiber and then building out transport back-haul (Infinera is an awesome company for DTN platforms BTW).

Long story short - you need a lot of smart people to help you design and build this out, and if you've never worked with any ISP engineering verticals you've got a ton to learn. Keep in mind this equipment is pricey and the only way to make a good profit is to own your networks end to end (we were turning up 1 & 10 Gb circuits like hot cakes after we installed a new 1Tb system and since we owned all the infrastructure we were looking at tacking on another Tb right behind it to keep pace with demand - but keep in mind all the Tier 1 connectivity you need to support this as well).

Good luck!
Cool.

However, I am waiting for the Allied Radio catalog collection http://alliedcatalogs.com/ to be up and functioning. I got a few of my radios from there when I first became a ham in the early 60's. When I went to the university in 1965, I actually got to visit the store, which was a thrill.
How long will this project be relevant considering that apple is planning on switching its processors from intel to some apple unique processor soon? If it is similar to the switch they made when switching to intel, nothing will be compatible.
I assume your parent is referring to the Flynn effect [0], and that by an increase in IQ he means that the average person today, taking a test normalized for the average population a few years in the past or more, would score above 100.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Dan,

The sources are diverse and just a small sample of what is out there hence why I posted them.

Do you want any of the following vaccine constituents in YOUR bloodstream?

Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)

Phenol, also known as carbolic acid (this is used as a disinfectant, dye)

Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent

Aluminum, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease and seizures and also cancer producing in laboratory mice (it is used as an additive to promote antibody response)

Thimerosal(a *mercury* disinfectant/preservative) can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease

Neomycin and Streptomycin (used as antibiotics) have caused allergic reaction in

some people.

Have your doctor read you the insert that comes with the vaccine.

Then have him/her explain why it makes sense to inject toxic chemicals into the human body and how such substances can aid the delicate immune system.

Vaccines are also grown and strained through animal or human tissue like monkey kidney tissue, chicken embryo, embryonic guinea pig cells, calf serum, and human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted human fetuses as in the case of rubella, hepatitis A, and chickenpox vaccines).
I'm so glad I was born in this time when computers are cheap and plentiful. For $50 I can have a computing device that can do anything that any of these computers could do, only many times as fast.
I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
I usually recommend E.T. Jaynes' "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science", which is one of the most beautiful and comprehensive books on the subject.

To get the "logic of science" part, you also need to have (IMHO) some fairly decent grasp of combinatorics, for which I quite recently stumbled upon one of the best books in this field: "Notes on Introductory to Combinatorics." (I like the links to many of Polya's gems of "How to solve it.")

For many other references, a quick HN search for publicly available references will result in other endorsements, too (a preliminary version of the Jaynes' book used to be available, too)
Forcing the CPU affinity can make a monothreaded process run 2-3x faster
A small university also went through a similar controversy a while back (http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/new-university-...). Their solution was to keep half of the logo, brush it up a bit, and ignore all outside opinions until people stop complaining.

Who thinks UC will do the same?
It doesn't really matter, it's a research project. And second of all your statement that nothing was compatible with the Intel switch is completely false. PPC binaries worked just fine for years.

Lastly, there aren't any plans to switch Macs to ARM, it's a rumor.
I assume you're talking about earning money with referral program? I hadn't seen refer.ly, but we are using Skimlinks to perform a similar function.
How ironic. I got free stickers from https://www.system76.com/community/stickers and put one of their Ubuntu stickers on my windows key... Problem solved
Birds and Squirrels are the easiest to do backyard "research" on/with. We did an experiment with jays where we put some nuts on a button which was a door bell, it would ding when they too k the nuts. Then we'd go out and set up an experiment on the porch. After about a week of this they'd ring the button when they wanted to be "experimented" with :-) One of the things I wondered was how much energy you could harvest from a squirrel. Basically training it to run in a wheel until the treat dropped. (the wheel being hooked to a generator to charge a battery). Then stretching out the treat drop until you reach the end of squirrel's patience.
Reminds me of the controversy over the University of Waterloo's upgrade to their new logo (affectionately named the "pew pew" logo for obvious reasons).

http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2009/08/02/waterloo-wa...
I have no affiliation with the state of California or its universities, but that logo is upsetting. Universities' business models are far more dependent on maintaining relationships with alumni (usually via long established traditions and shared values) making the consequences exceptionally significant.
If it's web content, go right ahead. We have many very large sites using the free plan. From your use, it sounds like you're using a CDN for file distribution (i.e., sending out large package files), not traditional web content. CloudFlare isn't designed for that use case. We're also not setup for streaming content (e.g., if you're running a streaming server for video). In both those cases, you're likely better with a traditional CDN. However, if you're using us for traditional web content, there are no bandwidth caps even on the free plan.
I was expecting to be annoyed by this post, but when it first popped up and I saw the "Let there be light" thing as the start of the video, I thought to myself, yeah, I would be offended too if my school had a blatant biblical reference as their seal. God damn right it would have to go.

But no, this is about an ugly new logo. Why does no one mount a campaign to remove the religious pandering?
ugh, that video made me kind-of like it
not that i have any experience starting a company, but wouldn't it better for you to find a job at a cable company for a time and get to know the industry first? i don't know much about cable tv industry, but it seems to rely quite a bit on connections..
I think it's shortsighted to design your architecture for Google failing as a company. Google will be around far longer than either of us.

I'm not sure what you mean about Reader though?
Speaking as an alum, this is horse shit. I used to work at an Ad Agency so I know how much time/money/thought went into the logo development. Sad that that is the best they could come up with. How much money did they throw at this that could have gone to much better use. Knowing Cal, people will raise hell and this will not stand.
The simplest way to get into this would be to create a Roku channel. You could design your channel's content around viewer types.
"I am so thankful for my parents paying an arm and a leg to get me a computer at a young age."

Myself as well. My first computer was an Atari 800XL, tape drive (cassette no less!), floppy drives, etc.

I attribute my deep interest in the IT field (along with my high salary) to their early support/nudging. Thankful, very much so.
That's a different culture though - conspicuous consumption is pretty frowned upon in the valley (excepting Sand Hill Road, which is a culture all of its own). For example, at the Facebook IPO, everyone was warned about coming to work in new sports cars.
If by AI you mean artificial intelligence, then no - I agree it's pretty obvious Google is more into AI than Apple.

But if by AI you mean ambient intelligence (what I said) then wat. Siri was widely available before Google took steps in this direction. This is the opposite of what you've said, though Google Now has since surpassed Siri in performance.
Moving it into the browser increases reach and more fully realises the vision of ambient intelligence.

Should I stop assuming people know what is meant by 'ambient intelligence?'
I got a Color Computer for Christmas and my parents gave me the instruction books several months early. I read them through several times and wrote programs in my notebooks at school.

And that's how I learned to program without having a computer. :-)
so many exploits in that game..
so many days i'll never get back..
anyone down for a quickie?
This brings up a good question. Why hasn't anyone tried to undercut cable providers by creating a "TVoIP" service that piggybacks on Internet connections the way VoIP services have done to undercut phone companies? I imagine the requisite Internet speeds are there, since Netflix works for most people.
That's a good point - I've certainly met plenty of people on 100K who think they are god's gift because they know Rails and are in high demand.
I think you underestimate how easy it is to exploit buffer overflows on systems with no exploit mitigations. Come back when you have ASLR and DEP running on the gameboy.
An interesting research project, but don't hold your breath. Apple's private APIs are going to take a very long time to reverse engineer.
> This sounds more like an argument for not building highways with tax money

Really? You want exclusively private highways? Has any government ever, in the history of mankind, not created this sort of basic infrastructure? Especially in a country as large as the US, surely many areas would be terribly underserved as their government highways are a losing proposition.

> Liability for the consequences of ones actions should be sufficient to deal with this.

So, rather than discouraging people from acting recklessly, we should depend on them to anticipate every possible issue? Then, if they fail to imagine why driving without headlights might be bad, we should send them to jail for life? The goal of a law like this is to codify past mistakes, as a way to remind you not to repeat them.

> Even if headlights are required, a driver might choose to turn them off

It isn't just illegal to not have headlights. It's also illegal to not use them at appropriate times. This is why we need 'lame statutory laws', because some asshole will always think they've found a loophole.

> I personally reject the notion that the State has any particular authority at all

Do you vote? Do you pay taxes? Have you ever been fined, ticketed or incarcerated? Did you, or have your children gone to a public school? Have you ever received welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, or any other social assistance? Have you driven on a public road, received a student loan, purchased any product from a government-subsidised industry?

The whole libertarian view is a vast over-simplification of the role of a government. The ability to, as you say, collectively defend yourself as a population of millions is non-trivial. What are you defended against, collectively, and who decides when to exert force in self-defense?

> people should quit simply glossing over this stuff and just accepting everything the State sends down the pipe as being valid

I suspect you could easily consume your entire life digesting and considering every decision the government makes. We call that 'politics'. In a representative democracy, such as the one you live in, we've decided that elected officials (not some big, bad, faceless State) should do this work for us, so we can do what we're good at, which isn't making complicated decisions about trade and subsidies and taxes and such.
I'm guessing that he means that parody only works when what you're parodying is real.
I think more was lifted from Dune.
I like docco-husky[1]. Just add comments inline with Markdown and you get nicely generated literate programming style documentation.

[1] https://github.com/mbrevoort/docco-husky
Persistence Pays
How We've Scaled Dropbox
Apparently the reasoning from the administration was the current UC Logo is not very web-friendly. It has a small text and is not easily distinguishable. But the original logo would be on any official correspondance (diplomas), just not the website / donation outreach efforts.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/critics-say-ne...
Still remember my dad opening up the car trunk to reveal the Apple ][ GS Woz Limited Edition. I was hooked.
It looks like an icon on the flush button of a hypothetical japanese toilet.
Does MBA stand for Macbook Air?
You're asking such a generic question, it means you don't really understand what you are planning to do.

Is knowledge really your main problem?
A PC-based game console running Steam Linux is being planned by Valve for 2013.
awesome! its always cool to be able to use our technical skills to help charity.

BTW, for those who wish to help charity with their skills, but no opportunity to do so, you can find for those with needs at http://www.onlinevolunteering.org
Its part of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme.

Sorry to the OP if this is rude or anything, I don't mean to hijack the thread or anything, just wanted to get the information out there, :)
An important topic.

The main caveat is that this may violate a site's terms of use and thus website owners may feel called upon to sue you. Depending on circumstances, the legal situation here can be a long story.
I really liked Foundation framework. It is responsive by default, now it my first choice for public facing site. Bootstrap I use mainly for for admin interface.
I'm surprised that no one has attempted to write a Twitter client based solely on scraping to get around the token limits.
This reminds me of the "Office" episode where "Wuphf" is a Silicon Valley startup spoof. In Ryan's "profit" projections[1] he's asked about his plan for revenue, and he replies:

"First rule of Silicon Valley, you think about the user, the experience. You don't think about the money, ever."

[1] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wmzwXd31Rw8/UI6hLHjRvnI/AAAAAAAACK...
nice catch there !!!
It looks like a frozen loading sign on Windows.
You mean like Hulu or iTunes ?
Thanks for adding the link to blog post.
Yes, it started out as a hack. I wanted to see how close I can get to the Python implementation. I am not envisioning it to be used, but would be happy if someone found it useful :)
The logo isn't too bad—I'd even say its greatest sin is that it is unremarkable, rather than badly designed. Weird gradients here and there ends up looking like a web design company trying to get out of Web 2.0 era, but in general, the application, extensions, brand guidelines and else are actually very well done: it might be even more important than the actual logo in that such a sprawling organization like University of California requires incessant variation and alternative uses above all else. Waterloo logo was a disaster, GAP's, also one, but this might have been blown way out of proportion.