skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a layout change - this looks more like a news aggregation site than a blog. News sites are designed to lure you in with a grabbing headline. With articles such as yours, you really need to put the text in front of me immediately - the title alone isn't going to get me interested. Unless you have a compelling reason to eschew the standard blog look, I'd stick with that.

I'd also suggest moving the google ads to the far right of the page. They were the first thing I saw and I was immediately annoyed by them.

As far as the content goes, you need a lot more explanation as to what sort of analysis you're actually doing, and what the graphs mean. Many of your graphs and charts are extremely cryptic, and they're frequently put at the end of the post with nothing following them.

Furthermore, you've got the unfortunate combination of writing in a stilted, scientific style (which really, you should never do) with posts that really don't have much scientific content to them.

Overall I'd say you need to focus more on your actual writing and less on everything else.
> "They got a lot of shit for it at the time, too."

A good deal of it very well-deserved. For a movie exposing the blind-alley of rampant consumerism, it was being sold via a dizzying array of Cheap Plastic Crap, much of it bundled with the very junk food the movie skewered.
The iPad is exactly what I expected, allowing me to work when I am not at my desk and greatly relieving my joint pain (which was a problem with my former netbook). Thanks, Steve. http://buzz.dennykmiu.com/ipad-it-is-all-about-pain
I'm not sure I agree with that.

I think the fast food industry gives a false impression because they started out with fattening food. But all the current fast food places were founded a relatively short time ago (McDonalds: '55, Burger King: '53, KFC: '52, Taco Bell: '62, Pizza Hut: '58) and as they've evolved their menus have become healthier.

Beyond that technology is paving the way for a less fattening diet. Diet soft drinks, soy burgers, and other low calorie foods have gotten dramatically better tasting in just the last 20 years or so (It's actually getting to the point where those Diet Dr. Pepper ads are almost true). At the same time we've developed Appetite Suppressants (the most popular of which, Hoodia gordonii, wasn't even patented until 1996) and other prescription drugs to fight obesity.

So really the trend seems to be towards healthier, less fattening food. We're just at the beginning of the curve.
I'm pretty sure you need to prove the wisdom of the crowds first. Popular opinion != wisdom.

In fact, I would go so far as to say wisdom typically is contrary to group think.
Great - thanks for the comments and insight; very useful.
Great point. Making that change now!
Another solution would be everyone using their own mail server (which itself uses TLS). Mail still isn't encrypted, but all the tunnels they travel through would be.

But I guess this is just as hard as encrypting one's email, given the number of people which don't even mind having their mail systematically analysed by a big, profitable company.
I've had really good luck with switching most of the shortcuts I use to use ALT instead of CTRL. ALT is much easier to reach with your left hand than CTRL.
Go the extra mile to boost sales
Limited downside risk?

You have to understand that when you bet on price movements, you're taking a risk. Options let you do that without risking more money than you want to. They don't solve the problem of having to guess market movements, but nothing will. They solve the problem of shorting being risky to your portfolio's health.
What you refer to as macroevolutionary effects are equally problematic for a small village. It will quickly be destroyed and any wealth it has taken by a neighboring village whose warriors are not afraid to give their lives in service of their chief.
I don't feel like it's a stretch for HN because it actually discusses in detail what's going on in Mexico. Previously all I could understand from various major media sources was that there was a lot of drug-related violence in Mexico and that the gov't was having trouble keeping it under control.

Similar articles about geopolitical events are occasionally successful on HN - for example, the Atlantic's 6 or 7 page long article on health care, and also the article PG submitted on how JP Morgan provided one of the first major financial bailouts in the US. The issue, I believe, is not subject matter but quality of content.
The SPE is still under consideration by the European Parliament.
Fantastic - thanks!
Quick and easy navigation testing for your mocks and wireframes
Ugh. I have to say, that's one of my least favorite features of blocks.

In Clojure (which has no blocks or return statement), I would write that code as

(defn outer []
(first (filter close? something_or_other))

What advantage does the block+return code have over that?
Yes. It's great to be able to use a LaTeX-formatted equation into a regular Pandoc Markdown document.

BTW, for those wanting to learn more about how to use LaTeX, you might try writing your doc in Markdown, pandoc it into LaTeX, and then look at that LaTeX output in your editor.

I'll add though, that with LaTeX I had to write markup. With Markdown I just write.
Maybe it will become an arms race of escalating cuteness. The OS designer needs something cuter to draw your attention away from the dancing bunny, which leads the dancing bunny malware author to come up with something even cuter than that, etc.
Interview of Founder of ShoesOfPrey - how a 17yo blogger quadruple sales...
Which app(s) do you use for your notes? I've been looking at some of the productivity apps on the App Store trying to determine which one would be the best for what you describe (jotting down ideas, whether they're text or diagrams, hopefully in some form of a category hierarchy that I can reorganize at my whim). I bought a pogo sketch at the recommendation of allenp (thanks!) and I'm looking for a good app to pair it with.

I also picked up one of the mind mapping apps but that doesn't really fit the bill because I can't draw diagrams in it.
I'm sold. Where do I start?
Reviews are real - if you would look a little you will find it on one of the forums.
I think you may want to be a bit more specific about what ideas you're thinking about having in this podcast. There are a lot of areas that fall under technology/startups. :-)
I keep a kinesis at work and a standard keyboard at home. Now I'm so used to using both that I can type just as fast on either one.
Like I said (he calls it "preposterous"): http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/app-store-reject...

Gruber is not an Apple apologist, he's just too informed to knee-jerkingly bash Apple, unlike most other people with an opinion on Apple.
Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App
Twitter User Statistics
These are the civil charges, it will be interesting to see if there are criminal charges. A civil verdict against GS just costs money. A felony conviction would destroy the bank, like it did to Arthur Andersen.
The key ingredient of market bubbles: cheap money
It doesn't matter if it causes problems. That's not the point. The point is that if you're an entrepreneur and you make those mistakes, your customers may think that you're an amateur.
Twitter Will Get Its Own Data Center
Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties
Take control of your finances: Your essential guide to Debt Relief
Really, the best of breed ?

TTY & ncurses, what a sad state of affairs.

TTY is keeping you down : http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2

Rob Pike was right in 1991 : "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."

Plan9 is now older than Unix was when Plan9 was started. Operating System research is dead.
Like when you thought you had bought a movie, but it turns out you don't have the right to watch it on your computer, or in another country, or in your car, or skip the trailers.

But strangely when the plastic disk breaks you don't get a new replacement one - even though all you bought was a licence to watch the contents
I think it's relevant to Facebook, given that they're heavily focused on third-party apps, especially games like Mafia Wars, Farmville, etc.

In the '80s, companies like Atari collapsed because third parties were publishing large amounts of crap for their platforms, and this ultimately undermined the platform itself. The increasingly common crap apps and scams on Facebook seem to parallel this.

In fact it may be worse for Facebook, because the Nintendo solution would be much more difficult to apply. With video games, the revenue stream for both the platform developer and the third-party developer comes from end users. But with social media, the revenue stream comes entirely from the third-party affiliates - who would pay to use Facebook? If the people pushing the crapware are also the ones paying your bills, it's a lot harder to dictate quality standards.

I think the endgame here is sites like Facebook having to decide between attempting to directly monetize the use of their service, or opening the floodgates to spam. Either option will drive users away.
Are Computers in Africa Really Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Some technical understanding of this issue is prerequisite to understanding how the negative consequences outweigh the positive.

Most of the tea-bagging protesters are protesting stuff that is way over their head, but they don't need a good technical understanding of since the issues are dumbed down to terms which fit their competence. I'm afraid this issue has been dumbed down as well. "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about."

Of course they'll treat this like a once-size fits all psuedo-ratiocination and utter it whenever something about "privacy on the internet" pops up.

Basically, I don't think this'll find its way on stage until it's too late. Like roc said, this alone should be enough.
Does anybody seriously doubt that they don't already do this ?
I'm not so interested in the funding. I'm interested in results.

There are too many people in the space industry who can write a nice paper showing what they could do if only you gave them a billion dollars.

Obviously private space (beyond GEO) is going to be huge at some point. The problem is bootstrapping.

When you have a chicken and egg problem, the solution is to build some small cheap thing that works to demonstrate your competence and attract larger opportunities.

John Carmack's started his own space program on about $5M of his own money and 10 years of effort. How many people in the US buy homes for more than $5M? How many shitty web apps get more funding than that?
Interesting, given that GitHub is several years old and has a huge user base there must be something right for GitHub to have not needed a teams feature up until now. Was this a feature that users were asking for or a feature that when watching users they would very much benefit to have?
Thanks. I just checked and found the page showing my usage on comcast.net. It looks like getting the Netflix Wii disk has significantly bumped up my usage but its still way under the cap.
Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system
Or anyone else for that matter. If I notice a glaring error when using your/you're, my internal rating of quality of whatever it is I'm reading goes down a notch.

Is that fair? Maybe not. Could the rules be less arbitrary and confusing? Absolutely. However, when you type "your" instead of "you're", I have no idea whether you're doing it for that specific reason or if you're just somebody who didn't learn proper spelling in high school.
Hmmm... If it's anything like the Belgian Ltd. company, it's probably shares issued but not paid. The amounts in Belgium are lower, but here also half the shares can be unpaid. If the company goes bust, the shareholders are still in it for the remaining amount!

Also, as a company director your first act can be to transfer that 17,5k back to your personal account (of course you'll need to book it as wages or a loan by the end of the accounting year). So in effect you just need to scrounge together the 17,5k for one week, then during the year you'll be paing taxes etc. on it to wash it through the system, but you would probably be out about half of this amount.
Book Scanning Technology: What a difference 5 years makes (Videos)
Check out the open-source project I'm releasing at JsConf (warning: very beta)
Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Please be gentle, its been a one month death march or so to get v0.1.0 out.

There is a lot of room for improvement everywhere.
Reacting to "Memcached is not a store"
Feynman in 1964 on the existence of flying saucers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLaRXYai19A
Mine was set to ram but I just pointed it at nvram. Anytime I try to do anything with jffs2 I get a generic error message. I tried using jffs2 to setup a hosts file but ended up just using the configuration textarea in the tomato admin to set the local addresses.
Automation, Automation, Automation

Hire part time or temporary first, then full time.

Get a phone with push notifications. Setup a second system to constantly check for failure in the primary system. Get the second system to notify you in case of failures. Better yet, if you can, have the second system be a failover clone and have the notification dashboard be a third system. Base all these systems on different vendors systems if you can.

Buy 3g/laptop/other mobile ssh solution and use this to fix things when you're more than 30 minutes from your office/home.

And lastly, don't worry so much. Money isn't everything, and you honestly sound like you're possibly going to worry so much about this, it will make your life a net negative.
I guess the thing may be that movies have the luxury of make-believe; that is, they have absolute freedom with these interfaces because as someone else pointed out, they don't actually have to function. Sure, their dialogs and warning messages are great to convey a single important message, but what about someone who needs to do something on the computer that reports the "lockdown" status of an area? And do you really want it displayed with a huge green bar every time you get into something that was previously protected? Aren't there some situations where discretion is preferable?

In the milder example of the email flying off the screen, who wants to sit around and wait for a few seconds watching these animations in everyday use? Sure, they're a neat one-off or demo, but when you have a stack of emails to pop off, nobody wants to sit around and wait for that cute little animation to finish. You can probably toggle it, but after the first few times, who would leave it on? It seems like something that would just make grandma's computer usage even slower.

I do think that we could probably look at movies more and try to cherry-pick some cool ideas for dialogs or animations, but in general movie widgets, like everything else in the movies, are larger-than-life. They wouldn't work if you tried to deploy them as a real usable UI.
This is brilliant! I love simple and cheap things that can save your life. Unfortunately the pharmaceutical "mafia" don't have interest in investing in simple and cheap medicine. So will go on taking expensive medicine that don't work anyway.
Create an electronic/internet based voting system? Let the crowds vote on issues and bypass congress/lobbying/corruption :) If only....
* they've evolved their menus have become healthier.*

Have you looked at the nutrition facts lately? Or seen the new commercials for KFC heart attack of two pieces of fried chicken with bacon and cheese in between?

I wasn't around when the fast food places you mention were founded, but if this is the trend towards healthier then I am amazed people survived for any length of time after they emerged.

(Granted, many have added healthier options lately, but that is in addition to pushing junk food to even greater extremes.)
ShadyEmail has a component of that, it encourages you to email your friends with a shady address. But by and large I get much more traffic from google than through random twitter links, etc (Of course this could just mean that i need to spend more time on this type of social marketing).

Viral-marketing & social marketing is still just marketing, i've been behind the scenes on a few campaigns that "went viral" and though they fail readily if you don't have the content to support them, even good content needs to be driven to critical mass before it catches on. Even then it dies out quickly without someone pushing the iniative.
I wish to Christ I could use it as a notepad. I'd give damned near anything for an iPad with a stylus and OneNote.

Motion, whatever happened to WriteTouch??

--Pecked out on my LE1600.
Ask HN: Strategies for monetizing a vertical search engine?
What are some strategies, besides advertising, for monetizing a vertical search engine targeted at professionals in a specific industry?
Jonah Lehrer: Optimism Bias
Is there even some way to replicate the touch screen functionality through keystrokes on a plug-in keyboard?
Have you ever done extensions for Firefox? If so, how does the experience compare?

Either way, this looks great. Thanks for making it.
I'd recommend just going for it solo and make a short one to draw interest. That said, I've been doing one for a while with a co-host at http://foundercast.com/ and it has been a lot of fun but it's a lot easier with another person. Good luck.
There are indeed—I am trying to keep it as open-ended as possible. I think it's best to first find people who mesh well together, and then let the podcast evolve.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Please be gentle, its been a one month death march or so to get v0.1.0 out.

There is a lot of room for improvement everywhere.
Only partly. It still leaves header information open, so the government is still able to see who you talk to. Through traffic analysis they can see what groups you're likely to sympathize with, even if they can't see the membership roles. And they're able to tell when those groups are planning something, even if they don't know what.
How is that not correct? Apple has stated that apps with runtimes interpreting code are not allowed, and now they're banning an app that does that. How is that not consistent?
Google can send you a ton of high value traffic. Getting on Google page 1 can be done (almost) by yourself, without having to convince others to tweet, blog, share on facebook, etc. Plus, once you're there, it takes very little effort to stay, as compared with staying relevant in the social web.

Social is the hot thing right now, but when you're starting at zero, SEO is still a great way to bootstrap yourself to decent traffic.
Two documents with two hands in two languages. That's one doc, hand, and language per lobe. That anecdote fits in this article's model.
Evolution works because traits that are helpful to an individual become more common; because the individuals with those traits reproduce more.

It depends on what you mean by helpful. If you mean helpful in helping them live longer, then it is patently false. Look at peacocks feathers as one famous example.

In any species which require two to reproduce, you also have to be able to attract a mate (generally mostly on the male side), and that may require bravery, willingness to make expensive displays of power, and all kinds of other things that may go against the best way for the individual to survive.

Similarly, in a species that produces few off spring, those members also need to help ensure the off spring survive. This may involve charging into fights you could have run from so your off spring can run, searching for far more food then you need for yourself possibly at great risk, etc. In short again other traits that may go against the individuals personal survival.

(edit: spelling)
Rent Holiday Home Spain
Welcome to rent property direct! Specializes in offering top quality holiday rentals, holiday villas, cottages for rent in Spain, Italy at great value with a first class service. Contact us for more info!
Why Does Jay Leno Like Subway?
It's cool, but not as cool as waking up in other people's beds.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Dstat
Printing from an iPad? It's easy!
2 Troubleshooting Tools Freeware for Your PC/Laptop
What it looks like you're not paying sufficient attention to is that selection happens at the level of the gene, not the level of the individual.

It is absolutely not beneficial to the individual to put energy out to try to have sex, put energy into offspring, or to take risks for others. However all of those behaviors have tended to be beneficial for the genes that the individual has because the others who are helped are likely to have the genes producing that behavior. Therefore all of those behaviors have evolved notwithstanding the fact that they are inconvenient for individuals with those genes.
I think the asteroid landing plan is a smart one over the Mars goal. I think we're more obsessed with Mars than is due -- asteroids offer a wealth of potential resources without the immense cost of dropping into and climbing out of a planetary gravity well. Even a landing on one of Mars' fake-moons would be a better choice than Mars itself. Assuming we don't inadvertently open up the gates to hell or something like that...
How many people makes an Einstein? a Gauss? we can calculate the population at that time, or better the total pupulation until that moment...
Quarter Double Pounder with Cheese is is worse than the KFC Double Down, believe it or not!
And Idiocracy.
Ask HN: references for pros and cons of a business PayPal account
Greetings,

I'm looking to organise an event in November and I'm looking for easy ways for people to pay. One is direct deposit into the company bank account, another is by check. Yet another is cash.

What are the pros and cons of setting up a business PayPal account? I've found precious little that seems authoritative and unbiased, so I would appreciate any pointers.

Other advice and comments also welcome.

Thanks.

PS: The event will be announced here, but is likely to be of interest to only a small proportion of HNers.
There are a variety of resources in this thread, including the OP:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032

Shamatha, peaceful abiding, or mindfulness meditation is what is referred to in the study. Vipassana goes a bit further than that into active meditation. I've never tried that and have no knowledge of its efficacy.
Don’t We Love Writing Love Essays?
This is one of the most popular essay topics among school students. Love essays have the advantage that every student has experienced such a wonderful and amazing feeling (although sometimes can be quite painful and frustrating). So don’t complain if your teacher requests you to write an essay on this topic,
I'm going to be on Mixergy today at 11am PDT
Creepy Iceland volcano pic
A Short Story About Verbosity
When I first started writing at my site, I got to PR 4 in about 6 months or so. And I didn't really check my score for about four months.

My strategy was really simple: produce good content, and the readers (and links) will come. Nothing more, nothing less (well ... maybe a few common-sense initial tweaks at the start, like readable-permalinks and Google-friendly sitemaps). So maybe this isn't the most efficient way of scoring a high PR, but I believe that good content is more valuable in the long run than a artificially boosted good position in a search engine.
What "alternative treatment"?
GS is a good buy today.
uhm but people using your webapp won't know/care the way you built it (tools/language/OS), so if the time is so precious to you and other than for learning new things (that is always good, I don't say the contrary), why are you using linux instead of windows to develop your software?
Everybody rejoice: BitC is back