scottshapiro

How did the teacher not notice the headphones and question you about it during the exams?

I’d go on an expedition. Himalayas in April or November. Alaska in the Arctic summer. Or South America in their summer. In 2016, I had a month long sabbatical and spent it in Nepal, which was worth every minute.

Broadcast TV also has 70 years of inertia.

There is an early project for the .eth TLD to support DNS queries so that you can't point to http. I assume that should work with https too. But the ethereum blockchain can only run dapps.

Would you feel more comfortable with Javascript on Lisk?

I'm most excited for the mountaineering / backcountry application in the short term but as critical mass develops in urban areas, there could be an interesting ecosystem that develops around this even without repeater functionality. Anything from people discovery like Tinder to b2c interaction like OrderAhead could build on top of a comm stack like this.

Fascinating.

Based on rapidly increasing rents over the past 2 years in these neighborhoods, tech worker density has increased a lot. Anyone living in these areas in 2009-2010 will tell you that they'll never break their lease because market rents are 50-150% more than what they're paying due to strict rent controls.

Given the volume of Peninsula-shuttled tech workers living within a mile of 16th and 24th st bart stations, I'm surprised to see those so low. Garbage in, garbage out from census data for transient, high-rental areas like the Mission, Noe, Castro, Bernal, Potrero. Indexing to rental rates in these areas is likely more reflective of wealth (via affordance as a proxy) http://sfist.com/2013/03/07/map_average_rent_for_1br_in_san_.... Awesome visualization though.

tl;dr?

Do startups like WePay also face similar challenges?

He taught a class at UC Berkeley this past spring. The course was excellent, and he brought in some amazing industry speakers. I wondered the same thing about how he balances.

How'd you release to the wild back then? BBS?

Quantcast shows ./ has an order of magnitude more traffic

http://www.quantcast.com/ycombinator.com - 21.3k monthly people http://www.quantcast.com/slashdot.org - 261k monthly people

I've been hurting since drop.io shut. This sounds like a good replacement.

EDIT: Functionality is quite different than drop.io and less anonymous in terms of sharing (though powerful for sharing with small groups or individuals). It would be great to get a private URL for each item shared, a la google docs.

This is fantastic.

But we also need a breakthrough in K-12 tech adoption.

n=1: my girlfriend is a math teacher at a better district in California. The only technology they provide her is a desktop with Windows 98.

So she uses her own mac to admin a tumblog filled with photos of assignments and answers to problems she uploads from her iphone. She uploads PDF's to google docs and 'shares with everyone'. She links to Khan academy videos since the school bans youtube and none of the district computers support flash.

Then her students use their home computers (if they have them) to consume this content. They're excited about it (most never heard of Khan before this) and it seems to be effective.

Back in the late 90's IBM installed a token-ring network at my high school. It was obsolete before they finished the project and the computers we had could barely get IE3 to load a web page.

So I hope this incubator does a lot not just to foster edu focused startups but to also get the right people in education to push for decent technology at schools.

It's simple. The US needs to stop subsidizing the bad calories (i.e. sweetners and hydrogenated oils) and enabling the treatments (i.e. dialysis, statins) that treat resulting diseases of civilization (i.e. diabetes, heart disease).

In addition to adapting to a new place and working with all types of people who you would never have come across in your prior role.

Apple had 60+ MBA summer interns in 2010.

very cool - looking forward to a berkeley dinner!

Great points about the expectations of startups.

However, I've never met anyone below the MD at an investment bank who's working anywhere close to 9a-5p (unless you meant 9a to 5a which is more often the case with analysts).

It's amazing how similar the graphic on the front cover is to the Kindle screen saver.

The real question is whether the Winklevi fooled anyone.

n=1, but I raised my formerly deficient vit. D levels a lot by supplementing with high doses over the past year. It raised my lab rating to a moderate level. I haven't had a cold in months (I used to get them several times a year). Could be a coincidence, but I'll give some credit to the supplementation.

I know that the lipid hypothesis is completely fallacious, these animal foods won’t hurt me or cause me ill health in anyway, in fact, the vitamins and minerals they provide, along with the nutritious cholesterol and wholesome saturated fat, will restore my health.

Great to hear that she sees the forest from the trees.

Since when did Hitler handle 6 million appeals?

well said!

Reminds me of QLess that just got funded yesterday http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/qless-saves-you-the-annoyan...

Super simple: eat to keep insulin and cortisol levels low.

Avoid sugar (including artificial sweetners), juice, grain, starch and sweet fruit (berries are fine). eat enough fat and protein to feel full. get plenty of sleep (8+ hours / night).

Exercise will improve strength, muscle tone and metabolic conditioning, but diet is far more relevant to body composition.

As Gary Taubes taught us in "Good Calories Bad Calories" this is a hormonal issue, not a thermodynamic one.

The reality is that TC posts 30+ articles per day. Articles from may 6 are now part of a very, very long tail of TC articles that will barely dribble in pageviews.

tabata's are by far the most efficient but are very hard to execute at 100% intensity.

other than that, general crossfit programming is superb to anything else i've tried - the average crossfit.com WOD takes 10 minutes or less to complete if properly scaled and will leave you completely gassed.