skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one day, instead of college football being run and supported by universities, people will take courses at football teams.

Speaking of which, I want my CostCo law degree.
This sounds a lot better than Italy. Btw in Italy to open the bank account is also needed, but very complex:

- Create a temp account (/tmp/my-bank.account)

- Put the capital

- Open the company (N complex steps)

- When you are done, go to the bank and rename your temp account into the real one (mv /tmp/my-bank.account /var/company/bank.account)

This sounds like an algorithm, but you can't write shell scripts to do this.
The biggest problem with Papers is citations. Or better, the lack of a decent citation manager. Papers works good for sorting articles. But for most researchers the endproduct is an article with citations. I found it really hard to use Papers in combination with other citation managers.

In the last release Papers did add the possibility for citation export to Word, however managing the styling for different journals was far from ideal. I hope Mendeley will solve this for me.
It doesn't specify what type of business in Italy in the spreadsheet, but two more interesting facts from the spreadsheet:

Cost to export a container (US$ per container):

UK(island nation disconnected from mainland Europe, has rail tunnel to France): 1030

Ireland(island nation disconnected from mainland Europe): 1109

Italy(connected to mainland Europe by rail and road): 1231

Bureaucracy in Italy adds more cost to exporting a container than a sea/air voyage does from the UK or Ireland.

If this kind of thing interests you, then perhaps check out Eurostat, the EU body for statistics, or the OECD website etc. I know that here in Ireland a body called the Central Statistics Office maintains that kind of data on Irish business, maybe there is an Italian body that does the same in Italy?
Immigrants in Work Force - Study Belies Image
If you are selling to a semi-technical audience, it will just turn them off. "Intelligent" people are horribly afraid of falling for a scam, because not only does it mean they get ripped off, but it attacks their self-image directly.

So if you look like a scam, they're going to assume you are.
They could, but its only OK if one or two people do it. If everyone looking for a cofounder comes to HN, they would ruin this sites usefulness in terms of getting "news".
Recent rise in the market is due to trading in only six stocks
I have to say, I remember reading your first post when you decided to do this stuff full time, and I didn't think doing just Adsense and Istockphoto would be enough to keep you afloat. It really seems though that you have the drive to do this, and it seems to be coming along for you, so I'm really happy to see that.

Also, I'd love to see a post with tips about selling photos on istockphoto.
You mean this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_cupping

I think it differs in that fire cupping is not traditionally done over an existing open wound but rather specific locations on the body (neck, back). It might be a cheap way to do NWPT, but it would be hard to apply to uneven or bony areas like joints or hands/feet.
> (It's not clear to me where the other €17,500 come from.)

I would guess assets such as inventory, shares of other companies, real estate and IP.
Why is that the pagerank of your pagerank ebook page is 0? The book looked scammy to me because of that.

And if it is totally whitehat why not list a few sample sites which used that method?
For my daily work of pounding out code, I'd certainly want none of this going on. I always disable silly OS animations. However, for my 2 kids who instantly 'get' my iPhone and iPad but feel less secure with my MacBook, I think Movie OS is the kind of thing that would convey useful meaning ... until they understood it all and the varnish wears off and they're asking how to disable the Movie so they can work with the OS.
Thanks for a great post idea. I will try to write something about it soon. Just stay subscribed... =P
Linkbait. I read the whole thing and I have no idea what the point is. The iPad is mentioned only once in the second to last paragraph.
Dora the Explorer: Swiper's Big Adventure
Sure, people don't read terms and conditions, but I have to ask, do retailers care? Usually terms and conditions are tucked into a quiet corner so no one will ever find them. They're intentionally written in an almost unreadable style, even though it's not necessary. Some sites don't even have them, despite dealing with tons of user-submitted content. Stack Overflow has been claiming to license user-submitted content under cc-wiki since its inception without ever asking users for this permission. Stack Overflow cannot even legally display content from users without permission, yet they presume to license it out to third parties and even provide data dumps of it. People don't read terms and conditions because companies don't care. Stack Overflow has grown into one of the most popular sites on the web without ever settling the most fundamental legal issue related to the site. I've even emailed Stack Overflow about this. Their response can best be summed up as "Huh?" Companies only provide terms and conditions to cover their asses. They don't care what's in there any more than customers do. If they don't think their asses need covered, they skip the terms and conditions altogether.
It sure would be nice to have something to get our younger people excited about science. When my parents were kids it was the Apollo mission and astronauts, when I was a kid it was computers and the Internet. My younger sister doesn't get excited about either of those things anymore: why would she? She's been able to sit in front of a computer and video-chat with people across the country and world since she was able to walk.

Obama's plan seems to say "Your newborns might have the space program to be excited about ... when they're 18 years old."
Obligatory xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/501/
I made a page where I sell my ebook just to sell my ebook. Check my blog PR and other of my sites :)
I completely agree - expanding the UI palette lets you use more varied, subtle (or less so) tools in different contexts for different audiences. People who already understand the consequences of their actions may not want/need to be constantly reminded.
poorly-Capitalized uk Start-up seeks Money
The first two sentences are fine. I'd rethink the third sentence: Also, up voting and commenting is how you can help every reader uncover the best of the best by pushing those articles to the top of the list.

Problems: (1) Most people have no idea what 'up voting' means. (2) The syntax is needlessly tangled.

What about: "Vote for the articles you find most useful, and they'll rise to the top of the list."
Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to most US email
Wow, in the UK you just send off a few forms and 20GPB to Companies House.
http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/infoAndGuide/companyRegistr...
In Spain there are more setup costs, and a minimum capital of ~6000EUR IIRC.
I hope so. This is the kind of reporting I enjoy most.

I would also love to see the "10 shocking ways your toddler may die - more at 11" kinds of crap end.

And I want a pony.
cmon fellas, this is economics. maybe if you can mount a convincing hoax that Al Qaeda is trying to infiltrate Mars, we'll dump a few billion into it. Or maybe, more plausibly, if China decided to do increasingly elaborate manned-space flights, it might push us to follow suit.
Imagination to the power of Linux.
It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but you seem to have the idea that it's possible to "just succeed."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r47UqYMDN2k

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3C9SP8xRE

Those who seem to have "just succeeded" are the lucky -- and yes, it is luck -- minority. That's simply not the way things usually work.
Sadly hes probably just over normal now.
The last time I saw a Pleo story, it was about the robotic dinosaur getting mauled by a battle bot. It gave me rather mixed emotions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95MAyWE0ERk
Yes, indeed there is an EU law which mandates that all other EU incorporation forms must be respected in other EU countries and may have their primary place of business there.

The UK Ltd is the most popular of those as it's very easy to set up and the most recognized incorporation form in Europe.

It does however add a significant amount of overhead in terms of accounting, tax and payroll. Our lawyer advised against doing such saying that the new UG (mini-GmbH, or literally "entrepreneur company") is a preferable form within Germany since it's very similar to the usual GmbH's structure and the authorities, accountants, etc. are familiar with such.

That said, there have been a number of successful German startups that were founded as UK Ltds, so it's obviously something that can be made to work. What will be telling is seeing how many of those continue to emerge in the coming years now that the UG exists.

For investors, a UK Ltd is the safest bet because it's a form that virtually all investors and startup lawyers in Europe are familiar with. Regional incorporation forms tend to limit interest to investors in those regions.
I'm partial to the GoldTouch keyboards:

http://www.goldtouch.com/p-133-goldtouch-for-mac-adjustable-...

Because they're close enough to the regular keyboards, while offering both the split (match natural forearm angle) and the tilt (match natural forearm rotation) to better align natural wrist position.

I also like that they ditch the numeric keyboad, so I can put the Kensington ExpertMouse just to the right of the return key and not have to move my hand as far.
The fallacy doesn't change based on your perspective. It's still an excluded middle. It is silly and thoughtless to pretend that if one is against terms of service on every service sale, that one is advocating no rights for businesses to enter into contracts. If you don't wish to be silly and thoughtless, then don't be.

The commercial code you point to is part of the framework of laws which form the social contract in the U.S., not something one explicitly signs off on every time they buy a good or service. Few people ever read such laws in anything other than summarized form. (If your rejoinder is "well, you should", which others have also pointlessly argued, don't bother, I refuse to entertain such thoughtless trash.) In that case, it's a background framework for every transaction, and shouldn't require supplementary pages of legalese on every service purchase.

You've merely redefined contract away from its accepted common usage into a legal nightmare that would drag commerce to a screeching halt. Yes, every transaction between two entities is trivially a contract, do you have anything more substantive to add?
‘Anything random is typical’
It doesn't look useful. There's no link to an About or FAQ page. Google finds: http://www.anyhub.net/faq.php?&l=en but that results in:

[ 233.779] Stack: ce270443 dd963608 f12ad2c6 29ee6a02
[ 233.779] c2f9951b 94c81263 70513845 736511f1
[ 233.780] 7eda4114 e66b1fc1 024e1e70 76bd87de
[ 233.781] Call Trace:
[ 233.781] [<76bd87de>] get_page+0x7475
[ 233.781] [<e66b1fc1>] dispatch_request+0x7262
[ 233.781] [<94c81263>] http_listener+0x6973
[ 233.782] [<29ee6a02>] mono_runtime+0x6c65
[ 233.782] [<ce270443>] init+0x6574
[ 233.783] ===================
[ 233.785] Kernel panic - 404 not found
[ 233.786] Halting system

Not too resilient, either.
Perhaps saving planet earth and kick starting clean alternative energy will be what excites the current or near future generation. After that, outer space exploration will still beckon. I can only hope I'm around to watch.
I got only positive feedback from buyers and my total conversion is really not bad. First I want to make a few bucks and then invest to design. Just my rule - first make money then spend it...
There's a new space race going on right now. It's being done by private enterprise on budgets from $1M to $100M. Check out:

Armadillo Aerospace

XCOR Aerospace

Masten Space Systems

Unreasonable Rocket

Scaled Composites

SpaceX

Blue Origin

If you want to talk to rocketeers who are actually building hardware, today, check out the arocket mailing list.

We don't need another space race to a destination. We need to build space infrastructure.

It's the difference between trying to get from the east coast of the US to the west with one wagon train, versus building railways and towns. That first wagon might just make it, but it doesn't help the next wagon.
I'm of very mixed minds about this idea, but I'm glad to see it being put out there for discussion and development. I kind of get the feeling that something like this will happen anyway, and so starting a dialogue now is a great idea.
http://www.kreci.net/ is PR 3

http://www.minimotherboard.com/ is PR 1

http://www.madhostreviewer.com/ is PR 2

http://tweetrandomizer.com/ is PR 4

It looks like PR 4 is the odd one out and not the norm
Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
This seems like a step backwards to me. Why are they even wasting cycles on this when we're obviously heading to a paperless society? Maybe they should make cloud fax services too.
Microsoft Recruiting Is Like Getting A "Love Bomb" Dropped On You
They'd have a hard time getting them from U.S.-based customers: souls, being human remains, cannot be sent by US Mail.

(http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal...)
Introducing MetaWhere
Also: how does privacy work? Can I share a file and require a password to view it? Are the URLs guessable?
Bank of America Earns $3.2 Billion in First Quarter
I'm speechless, that's pretty darn good.

What if the startup is a one-man show, making money and start to pay himself? Sort of like owner-but-paid-annually? (Or maybe a one-man consultant).

So let me get this straight, let's say a startup has 4 employees and each employee got paid $50k annually. When the SR&ED is done correctly, the owner can get at least 50% back from the salary alone?
Garterbelt Set
They probably would have paid to see someone over 60 too.
It is not the odd one and I exactly described how to got similar result. I have not done anything similar to my PR 1 and 2 sites. If you are not interested you don't have to buy the ebook... :)
Being a medical person, I am skeptical by nature, so I looked into Sarno's academic publication record. According to NYU, at least, he hasn't published in a journal for 7 years. That doesn't mean anything necessarily; it just calibrates my expectations.

His explanation for what is going on is not credible - but that does not mean that I don't find his solution credible. Biofeedback techniques are noninvasive and always merit a try.

In the absence of actual evidence, I cannot conclude that the technique works any better than placebo - but I am certainly glad that your pain is gone. The placebo effect (if that's what this is, which it may not be) is quite real.
Your istockphoto link appears to be broken:

http://www.istockphoto.com/kreci
Those of us who are perfectly happy to interact with our computers through a command line are a vanishingly small proportion of people who use a computer.

But those of us who dwell in a black screen with white monospaced text and a flashing cursor need to make more human interfaces if we are to make computers more accessible. Movie OS is possibly overkill, but devices like the iPad show promising signs of progress in HCI.
This new space race might as well be a soap box derby in comparison to our military's space budget. While 100M might seem like a lot of space bucks, our Air Force has a roughly $12 billion dollar space budget which dwarfs what we spend on NASA or any of these private space ventures.

I wouldn't worry about space spending, or space infrastructure when our AF is spending oodles to put weapons and craft into space.
It's refreshing to see a small startup succeed with a little seed money!
I always cringe a little when I see promises like this. I'm a big fan of under-promise/over-deliver. I'd much rather see "Posterous builds Ning blog importer" rather than a promise to do so.
Link is ok - it looks that istock have server problems.
Also http://twi.bz/
He's the President of the United States, not 'Dude'.
Old people weren't that rare. Over 80 would been more of a show, I guess. (But we should find some data, before we speculate.)
You may be onto something here.

I remember reading somewhere that Bond gadgets become true after something like 30 years, however I suspect that this pace of development will be speed up dramatically as time goes on. Some examples off the top of my head: GPS - there's an old Bond movie with a analog 'homing device', weapons on cars, cars that can drive on the road and fly also, 'stealth technology' like in Die Another Day (in development).

Getting back to movie inspired OSs, the guy who designed the amazing gesture interface behind those in 'Minority Report' started a company and has prototype UI in development:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwVBzx0LMNQ

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/futuristic-minority-repor...
Average maybe but definitely not normal.
Wasn't much of a review. I Was expecting, by the title, a more technical point of view rather than "just think of it as a notepad".
made my day. Thanks
This makes me sad, within minutes walking I can find myself at two different rivers that are both clean enough to swim in and if push came to shove, I might even drink it. Our well taps into an underground river which is alleged to be an unlimited supply of clean water. For something I take for granted each and every day; with my 30 minute showers and 8-10 glasses of water, each day and even then I think of it as something I have to do opposed to something I enjoy. It looks like some people don't get even than in an entire week.

On other note, I love how "The Big Picture" puts shit into perspective for me sometimes.
But are you measuring the effects of the tweaks?

That's the whole point of A/B testing.

The whole "good and interesting information" vs "beautiful graphics" division is a false dilemma. You don't have to choose between them.

And, I'm not even saying that you should have "beautiful graphics".

What I am saying is: you are running a business here. The goal is to make money. There are tools (notably A/B testing) which will make you far more effective at reaching your goals than you currently are.

You're getting lots of valuable (but free) advice from the good folks of HN. It would behoove you to take it seriously.
Yes. My post was inspired by a discussion I had with someone wondering who was incredibly passionate about helping ordinary non-computer literate audiences -- e.g. the Read/Write Web Facebook Login Fiasco audience -- understand the consequences of their actions when they use a computer. It struck me as interesting that it was Schematic that was able to take the ideas from a interaction system designed to be watched to one that was designed to be used.
I am italian and I opened a UK Ltd to go around these problems in Italy. But it has been a pain nonetheless.

Opening an Ltd in the UK is cheap as long as you have a location there and you can do it all by yourself. This was not my case.

If you have to rely on another company, like me, costs grow a lot. You have to pay people to do these things, to advise you and to give you a legal location for your company. This cost me a lot to setup and is always a pain to communicate.

So the problem persists, if you are not able of making money to cover your expenses. Now I have relocated to the Netherlands. I don't know what the situation is here, but I know that my Ltd is costing me too much to mantain (paying people that opened my Ltd and then did almost nothing more), so I'm closing it and I will try to convert it in something cheaper here.

I did never seek investments, so I'm not able to relate on that part.
Some clarifying comments on the link to the same story at marginalrevolution (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/04...):

"It says in the linked page that Morgan weighed as much as 875 pounds. I think that's still a bit unusual even today."

Apparently the photo is him at a younger, slimmer point.
Not in Africa, South America, Asia or even Europe hes not.
Neat. Though we already know that life works its way into just about every nook and cranny on Earth, so this isn't particularly amazing.

The problem that I see is not that life is delicate (we know it's not), but rather that we have never seen another form of life. That is, every form of life that we've found on Earth can be traced back to a single ancestor. Most of them use DNA/RNA, all use the same left-handed-proteins, etc.

What would really be amazing would be the discovery of a second independent form of life. The spontaneous development of life twice on the same planet would pretty much guarantee that the universe is teeming with it...
it's a main tool in traditional chinese medecine. I am not sure if there were any western scientific studies to understand cupping/suction as done by chinese, but it's been "field-tested" for thousands of years
To be fair, it sounds an awful lot like an "EARN MONEY ONLINE!!!" scam, so maybe it's okay if it looks that way.

Hell, his "customer reviews" are pulled straight from the tri-color ad copy.
I always find it interesting that sci-fi depictions of "evolved" humans (i.e. many years in the future) usually depict very tall, thin - even willowy - figures. That seems to fly in the face of general trend :)
Yes. We need to get other people - people skilled in communicating to large audiences (and these people exist: they just exist as advertisers, graphic novelists, film directors, storyboard artists etc) involved in how we design our interfaces for everyone else, for the people who don't want to use a CLI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth

P. T. Barnum traveled with this person, whom he claimed was 161 years old.

She was, in fact, about 80 when she died.
That's a poor analogy. Apple is not acting in the role of the "reader" here. They're the store. They are choosing what they want to sell. It makes no sense to attribute something as simple as not wanting to be in the soapbox business to fear and lack of conviction. It projects emotion onto something that can be much more accurately attributed to the entirely reasonable and rational desire to run a store that makes a lot of money without a lot of complaints. If you really believe that retailers should be required to stock everything that anybody wants to sell, regardless of whether they want to be in the business of selling that product, I'd ask why.
I may read the research, I may simply trust the (advisory only) FDA, I may trust my doctor, or I may take the average opinion of my doctor, the FDA and Consumer Reports. Whatever I chose, I feel my risk weighting is appropriate for me personally. Why do you feel you know better than I do what is best for me?

As for quantification of future risks, any individual drug has unknown future side effects. To quantify the risk, we quantify based on the reference class of all drugs:

P(unknown side effects | new drug) = (# drugs with bad side effects) / (# drugs with more than 5 years of use)

Suppose this number works out to less than 100 deaths per 100,000 drug users (I'm willing to bet it does). That is the death rate of commercial fishing. Assuming you don't favor having regulators ban commercial fishing, and assuming this number is less than 1 in 1000, would you favor changing regulations on new drugs?

If not, why not?
I imagine that number was a generous estimate given by the guys selling tickets.
Changing perceptions of obesity
http://pingdom.com is great for monitoring, they can send you an sms message when your site is down too.

As for automating restart, are you running on AWS? Then you can automate that. For that part of your question, you have to give some technical background on your setup etc...