skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing a quite google search, I found this webite:

http://www.insureme.com/insurance/bmi-index-state

Maybe seed your database based on these datapoints initially and as it is built up, alter the results of each state? Just a tought.
I've emailed you the original image. Thanks for looking into it.

I've just started improving the website design and striped headers and footers are next on my list. I need to figure out how to do it with Blueprint CSS. CSS buttons is something that I've added only a week ago. I've used the fancy-buttons plugin for compass to do it.

I've fixed that '&' everywhere. It didn't occur to me that there should be spaces. I've also fixed the links.

I actually thought about placing the "get it free" section somewhere else or removing it altogether. I thought it was a good strategy to acquire as many users as I can.
This could be fun! The next Foursquare: Pelota!
mockups is not a disruptive app / service. Even if inspired by Peldi's posts, if another product can take the game up a notch, it should benefit both the founder as well as the cusotmers.
Hyundai Replaces Toyota for Top Brand Loyalty in U.S.
Olathe, Kansas. Grew up there. Had cows on mainstreet 1/4 century ago, damn that makes me sound old. Close enough to drive to Lawrence (KU) for punk rock shows and into Kansas City for industrial dance clubs. Not a bad place, really.
The way I see it there are 2 classifications. Wireframing tools and then mockup feedback tools.

Wireframing

* Mockingbird (http://gomockingbird.com) - Built on Cappuccino, best designed of the bunch

* Napkee (http://www.napkee.com/) - Flex

* Hot Gloo (http://www.hotgloo.com/) - Just a web app I believe

* Pencil Project (http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/) - Firefox add-on

* Several more wireframing type apps...

Mockup feedback

* Mocksup (http://mocksup.com) - Make your mockups clickable (Full disclosure, I'm co-owner)

* Notable (http://www.notableapp.com/) - Mark up websites and mockups with comments

* ConceptShare (http://conceptshare.com/) - Same

* Several others that focus on just mockup feedback, not much differentiation
Bill for Bill
Well they weren't my friends as such just normal non-tech Japanese that I met in various hostels around March 2005. It seemed like it was just getting established at that time, whilst a few had heard of them, the people I had met had never used one. I note that even in the U.K. 2003 very few of my non-tech friends were aware of the iPod still.

The big things at the time in Japan in March 2005 seemed to be the PSP (just released), High Definition TVs (there was one in a shop but were impossible to find in the U.K. at the time) and 100Mbs broadband. Oh yeah and I saw 3D cinema in the World EXPO whilst I was there. Mostly these things are being touted still as new in 2010.

I'd agree that the iPod won because they made a nice device, but I think that's because that is what the American/European markets demand. However there are lots of markets in the world where functionality and price are lot more important than usability, like the massive emerging ones in India and China.
Aside from the user experience aspect, this sort of feedback would be very useful for developing receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) where the false positive rate is plotted against the true positive rate--it's what I use to judge the performance of all my machine learning algorithms.

I have the highest respect for Flightcaster and what they are trying to do, but their business is tricky. Users are expecting truth but their product is inherently untruthful--meaning that there is always going to be uncertainty. Leaving this out in their marketing can be quite dangerous (to their business) as you have shown.

My question to FC: have you considered far simpler algorithms to do the types of things you're trying to do? Is there marked performance gain from using more complex techniques? In my experience, using more complex algorithms can sometimes yield better results, but the added complexity is prohibitive when exploring exactly why an algorithm made a certain prediction.
There's a single-page version on the bottom right of the main post.
I'd set a backorder on my registrar and wait till that date. You could have the domain for as low as 100 bucks this way.
"Their argument is that, since Big Oil runs the energy and fossil fuel industries, and these industries produce greenhouse gases, which cause global warming, and global warming makes hurricanes worse… Big Oil owes them."

Well, I think if any plaintiffs in the lawsuit drive a car, they should be disqualified from participating unless they can show that they offset and balance their carbon footprint.
You are totally right. I'll replace this example with something better. Making a good video is next on my list.
Twitter also used to be twittr.com
Epic Abandoned Substations and Power Plants
What struck me is how much this list applies to web/online apps, even more so.

1. IE comes to mind
2. sub radio for bandwidth
3. yep
4. not so much
5. uh huh
6-8. security as afterthought
9-10. web's a wilderness
Google is "busy" - Today is not a good day to be blacklisted
I'd have to agree with you on this. I read this book last year (got one of my coworkers to read it too) and I was so surprised at how awesome it was that I got "What Do You Care What Other People Think ?" and "Tuva or Bust". Both are really good books because you get to learn more about Richard Feynman and the way he thought about different things ("Surely" is a unique gem though). This particular chapter prompted my attention and by trying to find references online, I ended up at gorgora.com. I didn't want to reference a place I was not sure of so I did not. In hindsight, I should have written a blog post about it. Fortunately, according to whois the site will soon be down (unless my intuition is wrong about what "pending renewal or deletion" means).
Hi there! I maintain a Twitter list of all the tools I know of: http://twitter.com/balsamiq/wireframing-tools - I hope it helps!

Peldi
Ha, A friend of mine who worked at Square soft was paid like this (his salary was his age multiplied by ten plus some bonuses and of course some extra money because he was married if I remember well).

Since he was a foreigner and foreigners are supposed and allowed to be strange, he multiplied his salary by 2 by telling them that he would quit otherwise :-)
You gotta remember that the name of your site really doesn't matter that much. Just make sure whatever it is, it's spelled how it sounds (most people can spell it right on the first try).
Another way to look at it is that the Nexus One can be successful if they want it to be a Halo product - ie, it is meant to be a showcase of Android and to get people talking about it, then leaving other companies to move a massive number of units. It also makes sense in that it won't upset their partners very much.
PEG.js - parser generator for JavaScript
Will Internet Explorer 9 be any safer?
Ralph Leighton is not dead, and the copyright is Feynman and Leighton.

Feynman also has two children. Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his work after his death.
... because the world is going to become a bunch of islands. And it'll be lame because it'll be boring, because each island won't have much diversity.

And then something from another island will notice we're tasty. Then we're totally boned.

In summary: stop building crap! Especially those damned islands!
which kind of reminds of alan-kay's musing "Hardware is really just software crystallized early"
I've mentioned this a few times before, but when we started with didn't own the .com.

It took 10 years of trying to negotiate a reasonable price - all the while our business increasing the value of the domain - before we bought it for $400,000 at auction.

A $1000 today might save you $399,000 (plus 10 years worth of legals) in the future.
CGIS
The CGIS comprises of special agents, active duty, civilian and reserve employees. The CGIS became one of the hottest topics on the search engines after a reference was made to the governmental agency in the latest episode of the investigative TV series NCIS
Surely this is satire.

But either way, it demonstrates what's been abundantly clear all along which is that Twitter is hardly more than marketer's wet dream. "Wait, so there is a website I can use to directly feed people my advertisements? And they sign up voluntarily?!?"
We are going into offtopic territory here, but how long has Pandora been in development?

You see the nice DONE checkboxes on Pandora site,but people have been waiting for Pandora for a long time.
I've bought two domains from a squatter company. They were asking $14k and $10k each. We placed two low-ball offers and ended up settling at $2k and $1k. This was from a major domain seller so you might find you can get them for 1/10 the asking price.
I've suspected for a long time that a knowledge of anti-patterns is of more practical benefit that a knowledge of GoF design-patterns.
This sounds really interesting. Would you advise some further reading on this topic? Thanks.
Easier to Read, Faster to Load [Smashing Magazine]
The title should really be renamed "Tokyo: It's Not Funny Anymore". For anyone that hasn't bothered to think about it, Japan is much richer and has more breadth than this single city. It's unfair to critique an entire country based on the experience of one place.
I wanted an N1, but got a Droid instead. I had 30 days to return it to the VWZ store and exchange it on the spot if it was defect or I didn't want the phone.

I could also try the phone in the store before buying it, to make sure I liked it enough to warrant a 30-day trial.

The N1 will never do as well as the in-store phones. Eventually, google will understand this and release it to the stores. Until then, it will sell very slowly.
Ibis Reader: First ereader on the iPad
I'm in the NY program, which is finishing up next week. I know a couple of others in the NY program lurk here as well. Feel free to hit me up if you have questions about Founder Institute.
When did he say it was cool? The alternative is having text-to-speech, I suppose, which would take quite some work to customize in an acceptable way for programming languages.
Just like tex the quality has potential to the very good, but when you stray from the defaults it suddenly takes a lot of tweaking to produce a nice-looking score.
Async and Parallel design patterns in F#
Google phone Nexus One now works on iPhone's wireless system
"You're stupid looking, do something else" - one man's persistence
btw, my take on FI:

http://www.nodroidsallowed.com/2010/03/02/tips-for-those-app...
Ask HN: Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity
Doesn't this all become irrelevant later this month when Verizon starts selling the phone?
Is there any possibility of having a distinct URL for each quote, so I could pass it along? Of course, if you plan to tie into Twitter, etc, you'd want that, no?
New "Smart Meters" for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk
> Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his > work after his death.

For how many generations?
I'd add lack of customer support as well. I'd be willing to go with the Nexus One, but I know Google has a really poor history for customer service across all their products/services. Until they learn to provide this I'll still buy through the normal channels.
Microsoft passes the "choice" bludgeon against Apple to Google
You caught the fact that he's blind, right?
How can you blame one thing on the slow sales when there are so many confounding factors?

If a lack of in-store sales is the primary culprit that means that hundreds of thousands of people show up at the store having never heard of the iPhone/Droid/N1 and end up buying it. I highly doubt that's the case. People go to the store to try/buy a smartphone they've already heard of elsewhere. If Google had spent more money marketing the N1 their sales would've been better. Also, their timing was awful.
Sonos pause switch (Arduino hacks)
Awesome, I had no idea that XKCD encouraged people to do that - major props to them!
When reading any of the PUA stuff, you have to realize that the common threads are simply communicating effectively, having confidence, breaking out of your shell, and simply displaying YOUR personality in a fashion that makes you attractive.

I think the issue with a lot of people blindly following the advice and material is that they understand the science but don't understand the delivery. The things you learn here should help you out in ALL facets of life that involve social interaction. Mold them to fit your needs and you'll be set. Sounds like its worked for you!
Satish Dharmaraj on Getting Traction [video]
Girls tattoos lower back 
Browse through the hottest designs, find the one for you.
Are there PEGs available for languages like Javascript? Given recent discussion of Perl being undecidable, I assume there isn't one for Perl. Has anyone tackled such a thing for Ruby?

Update: Thanks for the links! That being said, I didn't mean parsers written in Javascript or Ruby, I mean PEGs or CFGs that parse Javascript and/or Ruby programs :-)
DIY - Organic Light Emitting Diode
Making out is its own reward
A startup in the co-working space I'm in is addressing this very problem: http://www.zeebu.com/

They create smartphone games for little kids. Twenty-first century pacifiers? Apparently the kids love them!
Ctr - - -
This made me laugh, I didn't completely experience it first hand because I was working in a small 12 people company (and my boss was 31, so rather atypical for japan). But, from what I heard from my friends working in big multinational companies, it's exactly like this. Of course, though as foreigners they could get away with a lot because of their inherent quirkiness (I'm definitely sure it's much nicer to be a young foreigner working at a japanese company than a young japanese employee... )

What also surprised me is the low level of computer science education given by japanese universities (compared to the level in electronics for example...)
Does Google advertise Nexus One at all?
And, Square is squareup.com.
Your BMI is lower than 100% of people who submitted this survey

Is this your way of saying I'm a wimpy nerd? :)
Refresh the page? Why not use jQuery Ajax function to call the server side script.
Interesting thing to note is that even if cancer rate is "steady", it means we're doing better in general. More people are dying from cancer because people are living longer to die from cancer, with lower risk of dying from other things. Great to see it go down in addition to this, of course!
I wonder what the best approach would be for creating little applications like that? Very easy integration of graphics, sound, images etc. with simple input events.

e.g. Click on the picture of dad and hear him snore... etc.
Bad idea. Then you make the seller think that there are TWO potential buyers, so they get greedy and try to run a little auction.
An interesting analogy. It would be nice, however, if the volume knob applied to the user and not to a specific comment. Say the user starts with a karma of 500, based on his comments, I can either turn his volume down to zero or up to 1000. (His volume for me that is).

It works similarly in a real conversation, wherein folks will automatically tune out someone (based on their preferences) after a while.

This has the downside of ignoring potentially interesting comments by someone having bad karma. But then again that's why its a reputation system - you make/break a reputation over a period of time.
as far as i know, nope.
I'm curious as to their choice of OpenWrt. OpenWrt is meant for wireless routers and this thing doesn't even have wifi. As a general purpose Linux distribution OpenWrt rather minimal. I understand Ubuntu might be a bit much for the hw specs, but surely they could install Slackware or Gentoo?
Another Kohana user I see :D

I caused an error :(

http://obesitynearme.com/city/Sleaford/H7/GB/
Email Justin Murgo jmurgo at buydomains dot com - he's a reasonable sales rep of theirs (I've purchased 3-4 domains from him at far below their list). I agree with the post stating that you can sometimes get a domain for 1/10 what they have it listed.
Do you plan on only having data for the US? If not, have you considered adding the ability to enter data in metric?
Until the content enters the public domain.
The comments system here at HN reads more like a tree of information - these 'threads' are not conversations. It's the densest presentation of actual information and thought I've seen anywhere, and long-time posters are rather devoted to keeping it that way.

The long-and-short is that you shouldn't post a reply unless it contains new information that requires the context of the comment you're replying to. (New information that stands on its own probably should be a top-level comment.)
> But it didn't conjure these designs out of thin air.

And human scientist obviously do?

Of course you had to give the robot required knowledge on the plate because it couldn't pull what it needed to know from library. After all, books are written in some incomprehensible human language.

The moment that robots will begin to understand human language people no longer will be able to call them just tools.
When you take a technology and unregulate it and let the market operate, you'll get way better results than when you lock a technology up in the hands of one owner.

That about sums up my view on patents as well.
They probably chose OpenWrt because it is a distro already configured for very low memory environments. The device in question only has 32MB of ram.
Yeah, Kohana is great! Thanks for catching that error. It has been fixed.
So what the study is saying is that eating a diet we are evolutionary adapted to, then sleeping well makes us smart?
I have been using Spotify for a while now, and generally think it's a great idea, and provides a great service. I was considering subscribing for the access to their mobile service, though one factor recently put me off.

I don't know how widespread this is within their library, but Spotify interests me in the niche music they serve. When I first got the beta, I loved that I could find a few of the more obscure albums of Irish music on there (don't laugh!) However, a few weeks ago, a large selection of these disappeared. I signed in one day, and many of my playlists were next to empty.

I presume that they encountered a rights issue which forced them to withdraw the music. But from an end users point of view, my quality of service was diminished, without prior warning.

Shame really, but the experience was enough to put me off subscribing.
Interestingly, it's a popular viewpoint in the deaf community (at least here in the USA) that deafness is not a handicap at all and, in the opinion of a minority, is in fact an advantage over those who are hearing.
I have just considered it, and I will add it.
backorders almost never ever work, especially if the domain has any value. First off if the domain is somewhere like GoDaddy, even if you have a back order with GoDaddy, it will first go to their auction system before actually expiring. This means a back order on a domain owned by GoDaddy is pretty pointless since you could buy it at auction for less.

If you really want to get a name when it expires you have to use Snapnames, they work with tons of different companies to make sure you get the name. I did this recently and it worked out great (although you end up with a domain registered at some crazy company half the time and have to transfer it 90 days later)
Hi Swombat, well Podsender is just one of my old domain sitting around, so I tougth I may as well use it to set my personal "twitter ads network", I bought it to set a podcast service, but the project is on stealth mode at the moment.

2) Thanks for this Swombat, I'll fix it
3) yup , that's one of the option. No I'm not worried about that, as it won't spam, I'll disclose it as ads, I will try to keep at least 80% of it relevant to my target audience: higly educated tech savvy peoples, love sport f1 , lifestyle, earn more than the average Guy.
And I already ran a market test with fiverr.com, a service where peoples do anything for $5 USD, and from the almost 18000 engaged peoples, only 1 person complained and unsubscribe, I won't miss him, I've call him out to tell me why he was sad, he never respond.

The point is, I'm providing peoples a service with that account, with my time, so if they rdon't want me to gain from this hard work, i's ok, I'd like to see them grabing those infos alone or subscribing to rss feeds (probably with some ads as well.) And of course I will never spam my followers. No porn, No Sex related tweets.
Getting the captcha wrong clears all the fields. That's pretty cruel, usability-wise.
Honestly, the Wikipedia article is a pretty good start. From there you can branch out into the RFCs if you want to really dig in, or go some other routes.

By the way, don't be afraid to read the actual RFCs; many of them are quite approachable with only moderate knowledge. Most of them discuss not just the what, but the why, and it's generally OK to skip a section you don't care about. Then, after reading the RFCs, you'll usually find that even if you still don't understand it all, you understand it better than most people.
mockflow.com also- A collaborative one
I'm not really sure about this. Sound's like the suggestions I agree with, is being aimed for anyway.

3) "Applications work unless they don’t." Not just a smartphone thing! And it isn't done on purpose. The OS shouldn't just magically skip over conditions which cause crashes normally (that could create infinite loops for instance). Naturally, he hasn't actually explained how this would be possible. Maybe he knows a magic spell that will work?

4) "The application development environments don’t leverage any of the new ideas in software engineering". Like Keltex says, unit testing is included. And whilst I'm unsure about the iphone SDK (haven't used that), I see plenty happening in the android toolkit which isn't exactly archaic (and I'm only 3rd chapter in the book).

I wouldn't put Ruby on Rails on a pedestal anyway. There isn't a single published book out there that I could find where the 1st example provided wasn't broken (I tried at least 3 of them ). All used depreciated API's, or relied on a much older version of the eclipse addon. So clearly the Ruby developers have a thing to learn about stabilising their API.

6) "Password sprawl." Welcome to OpenID. Maybe he should avoid all sites which don't use it? The good thing is that we wont see him on hacker news because it doesn't support it. I'd love to hear his solutions for this. Granted OpenID isn't the most secure technology in the world, I don't see him suggesting any ways to make it work better.

It's worth noting that the author is an eBay employee too. That's semi-hypocritical, considering that Paypal, skype or ebay (all the same company) don't use OpenID. In fact, of all the large companies out there, they are the ONLY one without even a company-wide means of centralised login (yup, even Yahoo has a single sign in mechanism for their services).

Sorry, but this article seems to be living in fairy land. I'm not saying his wrong, but he doesn't provide any worthwhile solutions or evidence that his suggestions can be done anyway. I think I can simplify them "don't crash", "be totally secure", "magically centralise all your logins", "make coding different, and uber easy". Yes, all that stuff would be nice in theory. But if he trusted his ideas (like the store), he'd go implement them.

OH WAIT! Yes, that's right, its rumored eBay (his employer) wants to get into the mobile application sales business. And yes, I guess providing featured applications would make sense to them then. I'm guessing the implementation he's proposing is to offer the market provider slightly more profit, for the opportunity to be featured? Yeah.. Funny that..