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An athletic program in isolation may not be profitable, but I think most schools view it as an important way to keep alumni involved and believe the increase in alumni donations more than offsets any loss they may take in athletics.
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Didn't continue reading I see. Frozen & canned foods are not bad alternatives. Market fresh is more available than you think. Drop the "getting optimal food isn't trivial so it's impossible so give up" mindset.

Don't have an acre? Start with one square foot. Seed packets are $0.10 at The Dollar Store this time of year. Grow a month's worth of carrots in a box. Add 1' boxes for lettuce, broccoli, cucumbers, beets, etc as time & space permit.

And yes, I've built computers from scratch. That's an option too, but you can buy a refurbished one complete for $190 at Best Buy.
Seems like scraping all closed captioning would be very valuable data indeed. Is there anyone else doing something like this that provides an API or data feed?
The difference here is that all of your examples do not leave me directly responsible for other peoples lives.

I'm talking about awareness of an object with which you can end someones life with a mistake/ poor upkeep, and be 100% directly responsible. It is, at this point, ones duty to do everything rational to prevent that possibility.

Just like your travel example: The pilot should (and does hopefully) know exactly what the state of the plane is. There is a reason that pre-flight checklist exists.
This will be lobbied into oblivion.
Content providers won't go for it, because they currently use their popular programming to force their new ventures onto cable providers. You can't force a cable provider to put your crappy home and garden channel on their line-up, if nobody orders it. You can't argue with real sales metrics.

Further, cable providers can't make a living when all of their customers downgrade to the three basic-cable channels they actually watch, plus HBO. Because the idea of a la cart cable is to lower the bills by not paying for what you don't want.

Huge amounts of money will, from both sides of the cable programming negotiating table will align against this pro-consumer measure, because it will force a radical rethinking of an industry that has never really had to be pro consumer.
I also need a tractor or an ox and a yolk with a plow. I also need the permit to farm on my acre lot (many towns/cities won't allow it without one). I can also only grow the things that will grow in my area (which might not be a lot).
> Ah, the downvote: for when the facts irritate you.

For when the facts are absent and even if they were there fail to adequately address the point that was made. I did not feel like a tedious debate. But since you insist and were helpful enough to provide some data:

> Immigrants are now more than twice as likely to start a business as the native-born

The point was: most immigrants do not start companies. Based on your quoted fact: if native-born people have a x% chance to start a business, immigrants have a 2x% chance to start a business. That means 100%-2x% of immigrants are not likely to start businesses. If x is 5, that means 90% of immigrants will probably not start a business.

To say it in plain English: your facts support the point that most immigrants to not start companies.
This is really misleading because while state colleges are ostensibly public institutions nowadays most of them (especially ones that pay their coaches a shit ton of money) are not receiving the majority of their funding from public sources.
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Thanks for taking your time, orangethirty, and pointing out what you exactly don't like about it.

The thing is we'd most probably keep using the teasing approach, as it mostly converts better than whatever we tried. You can still keep informing your users as the activation process is still happening. At least that was what we learned from our experiences, but the results might differ on each different case.

Anyways, good feedback here, and thanks again.
Exactly--I'd love to read more about our industry, but I just can't find the material.

It used to be going into Barnes & Noble was amazing, there were so many books I'd find interesting.

Not that I by any means have mastered "every single book in B&N tech section", it's just "yet another beginner intro to language XYZ"/etc. isn't fun to read anymore.

And so many books (tech and otherwise) have so much fluff, and seem like they could be ~1/4th the size with the same content. (Not true for every book of course.)
This sounds really awesome, but I cannot see this being really effective.

For individual channels, they can just make it extremely cost-prohibitive to purchase single channels. Want ESPN? $20/month or you can get 20 channels for $25/month. There are some people that will take that, but I wouldn't count on it.

Same goes for cable bundling. You don't have to take ESPN with ABC, but you can either have either one of them for $15m each (making up numbers), or $15,000,001 for both.

Maybe I'm a pessimist, but these companies are experts in ignoring what people want. Without very careful checks, they'll find a way to keep their margins (which, given that they own the content, they absolutely have the right to do, as much as it upsets me.)
While it's unclear where removing the sports team would work (one would probably have to look at universities outside of US, which more often don't have large athletic programs), this research found no correlation between team performance and alumni donation volume.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2004/09/surprise-winning...
the Spivey & Seres paper influenced miniKanren, so things are coming full circle here :)

Having worked on core.logic in Clojure for quite some time now, I'm curious to see how far along these ideas get pushed in Haskell.
I have not had cable TV for nearly 3 years and it has worked out very well since I am outdoors more often. However, the day al a carte is in town is the day I buy cable again. Comcast et. al. are just like banks, they could care less about the consumer.

I am not holding my breath as McCain is simply spinning his wheels.
Why can't they be regulated using existing US antitrust law, rather than create a new legislation specific to TV networks?

As an outsider, the US seems to have a lot of innovation in TV anyway. HBO creates the best drama series', seen all over the world, and Netflix sounds amazing. In the UK we have the BBC as a monopoly but it's sadly/oddly often more innovative than other networks.
In a few projects I've worked on in the past year and a half, I've used EntityFramework C#, and added a Data NVarChar(MAX) field to each table.. then I added a base class that has a UseData(Action<JObject>) method that will pass a Json.Net based JObject in to be able to manipulate... adding additional properties that don't need to be indexed, and handling default values then becomes fairly easy with getters/setters. I also have a TempData table that is pretty basic where the core data is JObject based.

It's not the fastest option, but has worked pretty well for me. It did work out pretty well for holding temporary values, or other values that don't need to be indexed, or where the shape can change dramatically. I tend to store transaction details (credit-card, vs paypal, etc) in JObjects, since the shape can be different, with a key that can pull the right properties out via .ToObject<ConcreteInstance>()

In other cases, I've mirrored data to Mongo, so display versions of records can be pulled up denormalized from a single record/authority (the source records are across 30+ joins, and fairly expensive with a 50:1 view:edit ratio).

I will say that using MongoDB with NodeJS has to be the most seamless combination of tools I have ever worked with. I've written a few services based on this combination and love the development output. Fortunately my needs have been limited enough, that I have not hit too many walls. Most of the issues I have experienced relate to geo-indexes combined with other data, and the limits on multi-key indexes, and no secondary indexes.

I think more people need to consider how their data is shaped, and used and go from there.
Yes, most college athletic departments do operate in the red. I think you are forgetting about the professional sports, and the professional coaches.
I second that opinion. The BeagleBone Black has a whole lot more pins available. Some of those pins are ADC (8), PWM (8), and I2C (2). I think the Pi only has 1 PWM and 1 I2C. I'm looking at a BeagleBone Black for in use of a robot I want to build. I do love my Raspberry Pi, though it's main use is opening my garage now.

http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...
The cape selection is quite impressive as well.. http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBone_Cape...
That would be interesting. I have exactly one choice for cable TV and Internet where I live. The alternatives (DSL or satellite) are too bad to even be worth considering.
As a working computational linguist I shiver anytime human language technology is discussed on HN. Smart developers (who don't work on human language) are shockingly ignorant about natural language processing. For instance, this article reinvents "chunking". People who are interested in these problems are advised to read the entire NLTK book and Jurafsky & Martin textbook before reinventing square wheels. </$.02>
You may be right and as I don't own a 3D printer or have used one myself I could not say if it is or not, but certainly that is the level of consumer use that they will end up, and be no differnt in ease of use than a normal inkjet.
The current setup favored AMC, which would have had no incentive to produce a show like "Mad Men" without the hope that it would increase the rate they could charge carriers. In an a la carte world, they'd have to rely on word of mouth from whatever tiny subscriber base they would have already had, which seems implausible.
Agreed. There's an open issue for this, and I think it's a great idea.
So you acknowledge that the government can not rule over non-consenting armed population, yet call this idea "absurd".

>>> for people who want to picture themselves as the heroes of another "Red Dawn" remake.

Nobody wants it. But the option is there, and was there from the start. Just as no responsible person wants to kill other people, but if these people break into his house and threaten his life... And yes, this is an unrealistic scenario which never happens to vast majority of people. But if it does, some people want to be prepared. Given how many times defense against completely imaginary scenarios was brought in this topic, as justification for government doing anything, I don't see why this concept is so hard to understand when it's not the government that is doing it.
Trying to dismiss opinions you don't like as "trolling" is simply childish. You are wrong. It is simple fact. There is no way for anyone to lose weight while consuming 5000 kcal/day while sedentary. No amount of "but I am such a special snowflake" will change that. The entire point is that we're not that different. Offer up an explanation for what magic difference you possess that burns 2000-3000kcal/day for you, don't just spew lazy rhetoric.
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Thanks! If you maximize the resolution and particle opacity parameters while minimizing the particle size, it's much more discreet.
Wont this just amplify existing trends instead of exposing new ones?
GitHub might provide mechanism, but there is way too much policy in these proposals. Much of it could be implemented outside, though. If it's successful GitHub might take steps to remain the centre of gravity.
This situation reminds me of one of my favorite stories about Plato [1]. He gave a lecture in Athens on The Good, and lots of people showed up, but the whole talk was about mathematics! I hope some folks somewhere will take the time to understand Mochizuki's world. The part about Yamashita studying with him privately is encouraging.

[1] described in this paper: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4182081?uid=3739856...
pre-presidential-race McCain was known for stuff like this.
I feel like mathematics applies too closely to physics for it to be just a tossing of darts. With a bit of familiarity complex numbers are the "obviously best" numbers, the simplest (sort of) and most mathematically interesting; that they are so central to quantum mechanics is too much for coincidence. Then there's the fact that mathematical truths really are true in models to which their axioms apply (as far as we can measure), unlike any other rule of inference, so the association between the symbols we manipulate is not arbitrary.

Many mathematical areas initially seem to be blind alleys - Hardy rejoiced in the idea that his work on primes would never be a weapon of war. But there's an uncanny tendency for connections to emerge, and theorems in one field imply something new in a different one. Again, it seems too much for mere coincidence.

Moving from what's widely supported to my own views, my suspicion is that reality itself is a mathematical phenomenon (at one time I was expecting to work on the Causal Sets hypothesis, which attempts to explain the universe as arising from certain partially ordered sets).
You're basically asking a friend to be an untrained therapist for free. Even the most caring and generous of people know in their hearts that they can't take on that kind of responsibility and still be able to manage their own life. It's not fair to ask - most people will feel guilty about saying no to someone asking for their help, even knowing it's help they cannot feasibly give.

It's truly a full-time job. I don't mind paying my therapist, because while it could be interpreted as paying someone to care, I see it as paying for their expertise in helping me get better. The right therapist will care about you regardless of payment; it's both a professional and a profoundly personal relationship. It's why many therapists, particularly ones treating personality disorders, have to go into therapy themselves to stay grounded.

I struggle with depression and anxiety pretty severely at times, and while my boyfriend is tremendously supportive to an almost saintly degree, he absolutely insists on me having professional help. There is only so much he can do and asking more of him would be counterproductive for both of us. I wouldn't get better and he'd be taking on a problem that is ultimately not his.
In the wrong direction, though; I think for your point, it's important to cite rates. If we only sent 500 soldiers to Afghanistan, but the US population was 5 billion, thoughtful people would think that the US was remarkably safe when it came to gun violence according to your totals.
Not totally related to the article, but every technology has its use. I get really annoyed when people ask me why I don't use ruby or mongodb at my job. I hate this movement towards "blog technologists" that basically read something in a blog, maybe (probably not) try it out themselves for something small and assume it is the best for everyone and if you dont use it you are stupid.
Forgot to mention: I spent 4-5 years in which I ate oatmeal every day (and some nights) while in the process of eliminating debt. It's highly versatile; you can change the flavor dramatically with the addition of different fruit, spices, and nuts/seeds. It stores in bulk for long periods of time. It is very easy to prepare. It is highly cost effective, is fairly nutritious alone, and easily keeps you full for hours on end. I really consider it a superfood in terms of cost vs. nutrition. Add some flax seeds, apples, cinnamon, and a bit of honey and not much can beat it.
Ask HN: What tool do you use for personal bookkeeping?
I had a customized MS Excel spreadsheet back in the days, my roommate would use Microsoft Money, then I tried Quicken, now I see there are many interesting apps out there to keep track of your expenses.

What do you use? What do you recommend?
I've created a Medium collection to see how people treat learning and cross subject studies, I would love to hear people's thoughts and ideas.

https://medium.com/how-to-be-a-polymath
But there's essentially a modest salary cap. Whether you just made the cut for a scholarship or you're in the Heisman race and are responsible for a huge boost in ticket sales, you get ~$70k, which must be redeemed in the form of tuition, college room and board, tutoring, etc. You can try to supplement with under the table money, but it will still be pretty modest (like 10k max?).

On the other hand, coaches get to demand pay that is somewhat linked to the value they provide to the school, and they don't even have to risk career-ending and life-changing injuries (and incur almost certain subtle brain damage) in the process.

Oh, and as is common in our society, the people with the high-paid, safe job are mostly white, and there are many people of color in the exploited job (especially in the sports that make real money). Oh, and they're basically all men.
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It isn't a punishment, it is a lower paying job. No opinion here just raw data.
I run a lot of projects on github (http://github.com/qdot). Probably way too many, especially since it's mostly weird device drivers, which means I don't have a lot of people stopping by to help because the learning curve is kinda steep. This means I tend to have things bitrot as I move on to new and different hardware.

The problem is, hardware never dies, it just gets discontinued, its ebay price rises, and the people using it get more and more zealoty as the ranks of users are pared down to those who REALLY require whatever hardware it is. So any time I release a driver, I expect to get email from that point until the end of time. Which sucks, 'cause I have serious project ADD and get bored quick.

Here's two things I've come up with to help the situation in what little ways I can.

I've started releasing all software I think might require further community maintenance under an organization instead of my personal account. For instance, I've got a bunch of health device drivers that I wrote, many of which I don't care about anymore. Instead of letting them rot on my personal account, I opened an org for them (http://github.com/openyou). This means I can still have a part on the projects, as well as fork back to my personal account to keep pull request workflows going, but if community wants to come along and work on it, I just add them to the org, give them the perms, and we're good. Having the projects on the org makes things look a bit more "open" then just having it sit on my personal account.

I'm also trying to live in all parts of the cycle. This means if I find a project that's gone quiet that I still use (and I can't get ahold of the author, or if I can, get the authors permission, which hasn't been a problem thus far), I'll create an org, fork to the org, find people in the issues lists that have things that haven't been resolved, and reach out to see if I can get a community group started for new maintenance. This seems to work out well.
Agreed -- what is needed is a peaceful transition of power from one BDFL to the next (which we've seen with many projects) or (better) to a benevolent oligarchy. A democracy, on the other hand, is emphatically the wrong way to build software (or, frankly, anything) -- and for open source in particular it leads one down the ruinous path of open source governance.[1]

[1] http://smartos.org/2012/07/27/corporate-open-source-anti-pat...
The distinction is subtle but I believe it's the most important. Currently comcast is allowed to decide what channels to offer you as part of the basic connection fee (aside from OTA requirements). By putting the decision in the hands of the networks themselves to decide whether to be a default channel or a premium channel, it changes the landscape significantly. It also changes networks incentives to fight for or against being bundled with certain other channels.
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The key word is "everyone". "Everyone" will not be happy about it, but I expect 90% of us will be.

Truck drivers might be the hardest hit, but I thought they're still needed to inspect what's being picked up/dropped off, and make sure it's correct.
"Easy to use" is a perfectly legitimate criteria to optimize for. For most startups performance/scale is a total non-issue, most of the time even something like berkleydb would do. At most early stage startups developer time is the single biggest bottleneck.

If you make a non-optimal choice upfront you can always migrate to another database later on (database migrations are painful but in practice is something you have to do sooner or later in any case).

(obviously this applies to the scaling argument; if you need transactions you should pick a database which supports them)
I personally think there's a great deal that can be done with this data.

A few years ago, someone documented how to use an Arduino + Video Experimenter Shield to easily log closed captioning data (http://blog.makezine.com/2011/08/16/enough-already-the-ardui...). Never got around to messing with it, but I can imagine 100 interesting things to do with that data.

Very cool company. I'm glad someone's doing this.
Someone actually mentioned Flattr to me today as a way to take donations for my own writings; I've always begged off because I've never wanted to take the time to set it up and clutter my site (more), but now here I see Flattr brought up again... Is there any way of even roughly estimating how much Flattr might bring in?
Slightly related: the address First.Last@gmail.com is the same as FirstLast@gmail.com, F.irstLast@gmail.com, Fir.Stlast@gmail.com, etc.
Using Alice 2.2 (which also doesn't allow cloning/instantiation) my students had a similar issue, and solved it by using what they called "Megaman logic".

Megaman could apparently only shoot N bullets at once (3 or 5, I forget). Thus, they only ever had 5 bullet objects, iterated through a list to see if the bullet was shot or not, and only let you fire if there was a spare bullet.

I thought it was very clever. Sounds like you did much of the same thing.
"radical rethinking of an industry "

No one said it would be easy. But is it long overdue ? hell yea.
You don't have to log your commits with a real address... I use a user+github at gmail address, but others don't. It would be nice to see people list at least a twitter account and maybe a homepage. For really high profile people/projects, I can see the option to be more private about contacts outside github... but for the most part, don't get it.
Works for me in Chrome (on OS X and Windows 8). However, it does sometimes seem to stop working for periods of time.
Ah, cheers - yeah, it serialises the image as a data-uri in the json which seems to be erroring in FF. Need to find a better way of doing that.
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Thanks for your interest, and sorry for your confusion, but we decided to do this alpha phase only to run our experiments to see by using which ones of them we can fuel our growth with steadily once we release our core features which you probably haven't seen, or used yet.

To get to know better about Limk, please take a look at here: https://angel.co/limk, or watch the reveal video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3lw-H6liLY

I've already segmented the users we got from Hackernews today to reach them later on, but all these feedbacks were actually quite useful.