skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's phrase it more precisely then: Populations of human beings do not grow obese by consuming relatively high proportions of dietary fat. They grow obese by consuming relatively high proportions of starch and sugar.

If you chained a person to a bed and stuffed them with lard every day, you could probably make them obese. But that's not what we are talking about. People who are eating according to their appetite get fat from consuming too much sugar and starch, which screws up the whole endocrine system. They do not get thrown out of wack and end up consuming too much food when they feed on fat.
This is excellent news. I have thought for years that it would be cool to make a locally hosted alternative to S3 that uses the exact same API. Seems like it would be a good solution for corporations that want to use S3-type tools but not store things directly "in the cloud". They could set up their own internal cloud and then use all the tools that work with S3.

The main thing that stopped me from doing anything on it was my fear that re-implementing the S3 API would have legal repercussions from Amazon.

I've been a loyal Amazonian for a while, but the more I hear about Mosso, the more I'm thinking it might be time for a sit down comparison.
I'm finding conflicting reports on price various places online. ($800/$900) But at only 200mb/s transfer speed this isn't useful to me, especially not at that cost. It's certainly no plug-in SSD, which is what I was hoping for when I read the headline.
It seems like what recessions do is get rid of the middle of the market. High end goods still do alright because their market is small to begin with and more able to handle the storm.

More people then flock from the middle to the lower end. Looking at this page from dell:
http://www.dell.com/home/laptops

A ton of laptops in the $400-600 range, 2 @ $1000, and then you hit their high end alienware stuff from $1200 and up
Social Skydiving (thankfully I'm almost done!)
You know...reading this headline, I'm not sure that I even know of any consumer-level PCs that cost over $1000 (obviously servers, CAD/3d Modeling workstations)...

I'm typing this from my acer aspire one right now and, honestly, this is more computer than I even need...

I will admit that I am a bit odd, the only thing I really use my computer for is an SSH/HTTP client; certainly my usage habits are different than somebody like my mother..

But then there's my mother...I bought her one of these a few months ago, and she LOVES it. Her desktop machine (which she uses for running quicken or something like that) took a shit a few weeks ago, and her motivation to have me fix it is about 0. Her aspire is more computer than she really needs (except for, maybe, the screen. The resolution leaves a bit to be desired).

So who IS buying computers that cost over a grand?

Well, there are gamers...people who are most certainly not going to buy buying a mac (despite a lot of games being available on OSX, it still isn't up to speed with windows). They might spend over $1000 (I am not a gamer, so I don't really know what is required for gaming these days. If it can run tuxracer and armagetron then I'm content). Buuut....most of the gamers that I know buy their computers from newegg and put them together themselves.

Even the desktops that I buy for my users at work only cost under $1k and that is with dell's "holy shit" service plan.

Apple, you're dominating the over >$1000 market because you're the only one IN it.

This claim would be akin to the coffee shop that I am sitting at claiming that they have 90% of the coffee market in Cross Lake, MN. They're the only coffee shop here.
I don't know, this is like saying Mercedes needs to get into the sub-$40K market. Maybe they do, maybe not. I think Mercedes and Apple would rather own the top and have the market rise to them.
There's no way I'd keep that much data on something that easy to lose / have stolen.
How about passing out parachutes and jumping off at your stop?

This is an existing business model.
Really? Because the actual story seemed to demonstrate exactly the opposite
Log files are also generally sequential access, so spinning disks work just fine (and are much cheaper) for that use case.
Everyone wants to do their own open cloud APIs! First Sun ( http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/Home ) and now Rackspace... who'll be next?

Standards are great, especially when there are plenty to choose from.
This is a staggering figure, but shouldn't be a surprise when you look at the PC laptop offerings. The way I see it, there are so many offerings under $1,000 that I can't see why you would pay more for a PC. $800 or so will get you a near top of the line system, and if you pay more than that you probably have a special application and as a result are paying a steep premium.

Apple has successfully positioned itself as a premium brand and that is great for them.
I got myself in a similar situation about three years ago, and since then moved and now need to use my car.

Magazines are easier to read because you can fold them and you need to turn the pages less often than books. Sadly, the ACM Queue magazine is no longer available in printed form. I also read research articles on the commute, pocket books only if I could sit down.

I initially tried and don't recommend the netbook as it is difficult to do anything meaningful in 20 to 25 minutes. And more importantly if you phase out and nearly miss your stop, they are hard to fold and put back in the bag in a hurry while you rush for the exit. I don't really know about using apps on an iPod touch or iPhone since I didn't have one back then.
I found podcasts and audiobooks are the best. Some of them are hard to listen to at a safe volume in a busy and noisy place like a train or a bus. So look for good sound quality.

I change podcasts I listen to often but some I have enjoyed when commuting were things like (I may get the names wrong)

- Big Ideas
- Stanford Entrepreneurial thought leaders seminars
- The project management podcast (mostly for its great sound quality)
Given the number of people I've had the fortune to sit next to who believe flying is not a "shower-required" activity, hell no.
I used to take Caltrain to work (Silicon Valley). It was always possible to get a seat, so my experience might not be useful to you, but here goes. Some things I did while commuting:

- Practice starting conversations with strangers. (I got a few dates from Caltrain, even.)

- Taught myself the basics of Scheme by doing a tutorial.

- Read the next book for my book club.

- Read and wrote personal email. There was no Internet connection. My outgoing messages would get queued up and sent later.

- Veged out. The value of vegging out is not to be discounted. Trying to fill every moment of life with something "productive" is mostly a way to make yourself a frazzled wreck.
I had listened to a talk by him at the Columbia University (from Columbia's iTunes page). It was a lot of fun. Here is a link to another talk by him (maybe the same one): http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_rememb...
The lifestyle hasn't really changed that much in 40 years but the waistlines have. It's not like everyone was out swinging pick axes all day in the 60s. They were driving around and often sitting in AC, just like now.
Great UI and simple design.

But it can use a more testing.

* I created a test event and tried to add attendees, but pressing the button doesn't do anything.

* The signup/login page could use a link to the main page. I pressed login instead of signup and the only way to get out of that page is to hit the browser's back button.
does anyone remember 6 degrees?
Aren't the cheapest foods the simplest, least processed: produce, grains, etc.? No-high-fructose-corn-sweetener-water is cheaper than Coke. Two apples and a banana are cheaper than a bag of Doritos.
A counterargument:

http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Does-Not-Lie-Defense/dp/1594...
I'm not saying that it should be without bugs!

I assume Windows developers and Microsoft care about supporting Windows, and develop on the platform. MySQL developers don't sound as if they do anything on Windows.

Given that MySQL put the Windows download link first in their list of downloadable binaries, you would have thought that it was a platform they might use for a fair percentage of their development work.
Hospital chain posts real-time ER wait times online
I remember reading a thread on here about a guy that was partnering with hospitals to reserve spots at the ER within ~15 min window. If that was you, how's this going to affect your plans?
Zappos Deal Shows VCs Hate Entrepreneurs
Mercedes is quite active at the lowest end of the market: they produce cute microcars under the Smart brand. (I guess Smarts might not be available in the US at all, considering Americans' excess-oriented taste in automobiles.)
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Yeah, I realize that 20-25 minutes with a netbook won't really net much code wise, but it may be enough time to read some mailing lists, send to outbox replies, or work on a few practice problems from a book. I will look into the two suggested podcasts though.
This is what Eucalyptus is (http://www.eucalyptus.com/) and apparently it's no coincidence that the next Ubuntu is called Koala: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/ubuntus-koala-t/
How can we get an auto-activate script for emails that arrive that require clicking a link to activate a new account somewhere?
I don't get why they'd even propose something like this. It'd be against commercial passenger air regulations in any reasonable country, because it's dangerous to let people stand up for the whole flight.

Every so often, people are either killed or end up wearing cervical collars due to turbulence.
How are EU economies doing in the crisis? This is a great tool
Or maybe security should be simple enough that people don't mind doing it for the most trivial things.
Do you have any journal articles conclusively proving this? I'm aware of the impact sugar has on insulin levels and the insulin -> fat path, but I believe the medical consensus is that weight gain is primarily determined by the amount of calories eaten, not the type.
there has to be another side to this story.
Apple has always had the philosophy of selling at higher prices than others based on the 'quality' of their products - I'm not judging on this, just saying - it also gives them better margins. I remember there was a quote from Steve Jobs saying that they had a market share akin to BMPW (I might have that wrong) and that there was nothing wrong with being the BMW of the computer world.
> Practice starting conversations with strangers. (I got a few dates from Caltrain, even.)

I have tried talking to people, though not to get a date, as I'm happily married. In my experience so far, New Yorkers don't like to chat with strangers (note: This is obviously based on a small sample size).
We're doing the Keynesian thing again because during the last couple of economic disasters, the "throw more shit at the fan 'til it starts spinning again" approach gave many people the vague impression that it might be working. Interestingly, the idea violates the basic economic assertion that nothing can be truly free. The problem is that this approach is essentially a laxative. If you have an otherwise sound economy in which value flows have for some reason stopped, you administer the laxative, wait a while, and hopefully the economy comes back.

In an unfortunate turn of events, the world's economists (and worse, the politicians who listen to them) have mistaken a laxative for a panacea: the cure to all ills! This laxative is regularly administered as a cure for influenza, mumps, and boils on the nose, among others. Often, the mumbo-jumbo and rattle-shaking and hoodoo accompanying this administration is quite convincing; and when the ill departs of its own accord, as most do, patients and doctors both are ecstatic that their trusty laxative has cured another case of tendonitis.

Why a laxative, you ask? It's simple - we have discovered (rather ingeniously) that the best indicator of the patient's health is the amount of crap they are able to produce! More laxative, more crap - healthy patient.

At the moment, we are suffering from rather severe dehydration, prompted by a hangover and now worsened by the effects of our charlatan doctors. We don't need laxatives, we need water. In particular, we need intelligent decisions about allocating available capital. Flooding the market with "artificial capital" is not the way to obtain those intelligent decisions. The patient is parched, and we're administering laxatives and diuretics. It's bad medicine.
This is the perfect example of "Unschooling" ( http://www.holtgws.com/ ) where children are encouraged to follow their interests, inclinations and energies to their full and natural ends rather than being cowed into performing busy work in one topic after another, until they hate nearly all learning.

[EDIT] I just wanted to throw in here a hacker angle on unschooling or homeschooling: I would gladly pay for software that teaches math or grammar and is based on cognitive science. Something like SuperMemo http://www.supermemo.com/ profiled in this Wired article http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
Fine - Porsche.
The problem I find with this article and game theory in general is that it assumes everyone acts rationally all the time, which is not the case.

I remember a research paper finding that the only people who consistently acted rational in the game theory sense were economists and sociopaths.
I have received bogus numbers a few times. Not pleasant, but it doesn't bother me anymore.
Mr. Negroponte seems to have half of the Steve Jobs RDF down pat, without the design sense and attention to detail that makes Jobs's method work.
Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard
Who cares about earthly laws in space? You can take whatever you can lay claim on.
Really nicely done app. Fits well in between eventbrite and manually organizing things yourself.

One thing I'd think about in terms of increasing conversions would be to allow people to test drive the process of Creating An Event without the need to set up an account. You can always gather that info later on in the process.
Interviewing? Look for quick thinking, not ‘right answers’
Pedaling would be nice, but hot and humid days make the rest of the day at work less than fun. It's about 6 miles, with both kinds of hills.
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I think most men wait for a social cue from the woman before approaching her. Maybe this woman needs to throw out some signals to some men that she is attracted to. Most men only need the slightest encouragement to feel safe from bad rejection.
It is available in the US, but it is not cheap. IIRC it's in the range of 20K.
How are employees left holding the bag here exactly?

Employees with shares, options or RSUs of Zappos private stock now have the same on a publicly traded stock. There may be a holding period for them as well, but every time that I've been an employee at a company that's gone public or been bought by a public company (1 of the first and 2 of the second), the only bags I've been left holding were full of $$.
A hypothetical tablet would offer performance more in-line with a game console than a laptop (with comparable specs). The hardware configuration would be fixed and code would be purpose-built for it.

Though I do agree that his 'gaming as killer app' thought is off. Gaming would be _big_, just as it is on the iphone. But it's a different type of gaming and it's not going to overshadow the popularity of simply more-comfortable computing everywhere you don't have a proper desk.

I do agree with the other commentor that there's no way a physical keyboard or haptic nonsense goes in. They're going to sell it as something that is 'entirely new'. Not an ipod, not a laptop -- certainly not a netbook. (It's clear they think that whole device class is stigmatized.)

They _may_ allow their bluetooth keyboard to work with it, but it'd be an optional peripheral at best.
I'd be surprised if there was even a kick-stand in the core product.
Too bad most people own stock indirectly, through retirement or mutual funds among others. The money managers for these funds are certainly the ones who want to rock the boat, if they care at all. Even when they own it directly, few have the time and energy to do anything about it. There are also no real platform that I know of for shareholders to freely share ideas other than stock picks and the like.
the high-end market disappears

Or the whole market for things called "computers" is growing, and the high-end market is just growing slower than the rest of it.

This doesn't mean that the high-end market is doomed. It might just be growing at a slower rate.

You may ask: Why doesn't Apple then try to get into a business that is growing faster? The answer is: Sales growth is not the metric. Any business can boost sales by lowering their profit margin. (Old-school dotcoms used to grow like wildfire by giving the product away below cost and hoping to make it up in volume.) What matters is profit growth.
I second audiobooks. I read mostly fiction in print form, but I find I have trouble getting through longer (400+ page) non-fiction books in traditional format. However these are perfect for audiobooks, as a good reader can really bring it to life.

I can usually get through a 10-hour non fiction book in 2-3 weeks with my 30 minute commute.

I usually enjoy a nice podcast at lunch, when I am looking for something more entertaining and less thought provoking.
Here is a "style guide" that's been missing.

http://random-state.net/log/3453016738.html

The condition system really does need a treatise on its own, specifically as a generic custom control-flow toolkit. There are hairy bits in the standard wrt to the debugger interface, but the above links clarifies many things.
smarts are around, but they are not that popular. I think they've been out for two or even three years here, but I haven't seen one yet
kdenlive isn't bad for video either. It's much easier to figure out in my opinion.
I've wondered why an airline doesn't try a "capsule hotel" style setup ever since I went to Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/capsule/

If you built a section of plane for it specifically, I bet you could fit as many people, and I'd love to be able to lay out and sleep. Maybe the engineering or safety wouldn't be possible, but if it was, I think it'd be fantastic.
There certainly may be, and I would love more info. My experience as an investor and entrepreneur, however, has been that the interests of investor and management can have a tough time aligning when money is on the table.
You were hoping for USB to magically be something that its not?
I totally agree; thank you for highlighting that.
Actually, I was usually following the strategy of "just start a conversation, and be open to the possibility of it leading to a date." I started conversations with men no less than women. The object was just to discover something interesting, something that I couldn't have found by forethought. For example, I once had an interesting conversation with a geologist about the difficulty of communicating with mathematicians, and once joined a couple frat boys as they walked down the train handing out cans of beer they had brought along.

I've heard that it's harder to start conversations with New Yorkers. Dunno. I've also heard that it's impossible to start a conversation with people on Caltrain, since everyone there is so "cold".
It's dangerous to let people stand in a normally-equipped airliner. That doesn't mean there isn't some way to outfit one to safely hold standing passengers.
Infinite loops are a form of recursion.
I completely agree. I'll step back from my normal state of bashing the Rails community for a moment and give a quick personal example from Python:

I use an incredibly helpful library that basically allows one to create a public API out of their Django models with very little effort. It even generates documentation and validation, etc. The problem is, it uses metaclass "magic" and decorators for everything. I understand both these concepts well enough, but when an entire system is built around using these two powerful constructs, unwinding how things happen becomes rather difficult (for someone who doesn't use metaclasses and decorators for everything) -- to the point that if the library can't do something, it isn't even worth my time to properly modify it.

There were certainly other ways to go about creating the provided functionality. Django's inner-class-based approach would have been a good start! And there'd be nothing wrong with supplying helpful decorators, or even using metaclasses here and there, but the library (at least to me) screams "magic for magic's sake".
Yup. I consider Ryanair to be the most innovative airline in the world, and they have been for several years.

Most other carriers are content with copying the business models that have succeeded earlier or elsewhere. Ryanair gets up every day and tries to blow up the old ways of doing business.

Wal-Mart with wings.
The problem I've had with coming in early is that most of the people I work around are procrastinators. So if the business day is 9 to 5, they will push off most of their work to close to 5. If I come in at 7am and expect to leave at 4 it is nearly impossible because that is the busiest time of most peoples days. It is a let down if I leave "early". I end up working 7 to 5 and then can't do my usual nighttime distraction-less work because I need to get up early the next day.
Audacity is clunky but gets the work done when it comes to simple editing. Not really indeed very good for a musician since it misses useful realtime feedback on effects, but for a Dad looking to record / edit / convert his vinyls into mp3s it works perfectly.

As for why you'd want to have low latency on a sample editing software, I do not really understand why. Unless you want to record and process effect automations. For that purpose, why not use something more like an audio sequencer? (Reaper -- pretty cheap -- or Logic Audio, Cubase, Ableton Live)

As for exports, Audacity supports ogg, mp3 and flac, which is pretty good. But no direct burn operation.

Who burns CDs nowadays, though?

In summary I think the only crime that Audacity commits is to look and sell itself as more advanced than what it really is: a simple sample editing software. So bad marketing and an incorrect apparent focus on musicians.
Understanding the mind by studying ant colonies
I am not sure that consumers prefer netbooks. I still don't know anyone owning one. I must admin I don't believe in netbooks market—one part will be taken by smartphones, another by proper notebooks.
Speaking of which: Apple's computers sales grew only by 4%, but notebook sales grew by 13%. Going into low-end, low-price and nonexistent margins market would be the sure way for Apple to die.
Cornbread.
Here's a written article by the same person:
http://www.nasw.org/awards/2001/01Taubesarticle1.htm
You engage in physical activity when it is cool (first thing in the morning and last thing at night) and then dismiss heat as a factor?!?! Having lived in the southern US (albeit Austin, which is not completely unbearable during summer days) I remember how strange the adjustment was when I first arrived. No one walks anywhere if they can help it: you leave your air-conditioned house in your air-conditioned car and drive to your air-conditioned office, at lunch you drive somewhere else and then at the end of the day you drive home. As you indirectly point out, physical activity requires setting aside specific times and is not something that you casually do over the course of the day.

Poor and uneducated does not help, but there are a lot of poor and uneducated places in the US and around the world that do not have the same absurd levels of obesity. Air-conditioning and the lifestyle that developed around this invention are a major contributor to obesity levels in the south.