skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two phones resurrect the lifelogging debate
Most cultures have healthy foods which do not cause obesity, India is hardly alone in this. The problem is that as a society gets richer, people may lean towards eating the fattier foods.

In the US, we switched from rice and beans to double baconburgers. India may switch from Palak Dal to Dal Mahkni, which is not much better.
Ask HN: Why is WebMD so profitable?
I have a question regarding WebMD and it's good financial performance. WebMD is a publishing company similar to (in a sense) the Old School Magazine publishers. However in a time when other content producers are loosing money continuously, WebMD seems to earning quite handsomely?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=WBMD+Profile

Can you help me understanding reasons for it:
Here are my guesses

1: Unlike other publishers WebMD reviews it contents from a certified doctor
hence people are more likely to trust it over mom and pop blogs.

2: A real good SEO job, since for nearly any health related term it is one of the top few results.

3: Web focused content development, unlike other companies which are still focusing on print media.

4: A niche market and first mover advantage. ( WSJ, Newsweek have many competitors)

5: Aggressive nature of advertisers. Most of the advertisers on WebMD seem to be drug companies which spend significant amounts on advertising, and WebMD represents a perfect platform to reach out to potential consumers?

Also in light of potential competitors like HealthLine (a focused semantic search engine) receiving VC funding. Is content aggregation a good idea as far as healthcare related information of internet is concerned?
http://deals.venturebeat.com/2010/04/26/healthline-funding/

These are few reasons I could come up with.
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Disable email notifications and check your email on a defined schedule. It is one of the quickest ways to improve your productivity. (I do it when I wake up in the morning and when I go to sleep -- this tends to minimize wait times for customers in America.)
Apple: we're the eyes, ears and voices of the web
Sure, but a 6.4 pp difference in votes counts for 201 of 510 seats?! In a reasonable system this is not possible. US Congress is formed by a similarly stupid process (but of course it's a better than voting 100% per district), so I would hardly use that as an example of a good system.
You want to be careful of plain old proportional representation. We have that here in South Africa and the result has been MPs who toe the party and line and have no ties to constituencies (I asked a couple of parties which MPs they assigned to my area, they either didn't know or just didn't reply).

That said PR is still a better system for representing minorities and forming governments - so personally I favour a hybrid model, possibly with a different house for each system.
Yes that's it, thanks! I think I'll try to contact Shane and find out what happened to it.
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You mean big ogres?
You are exactly correct, there are two sides to every trade. The remarkable, important, newsworthy event was the extreme transfer of wealth that occurred yesterday.

And you are also correct, buy and hold investors were not necessarily impacted.

But the comment "a small minority participate in margin investing" is very incorrect - what do you think hedge funds do for a living?

The individual investor makes up a very very very small percentage of volume on the exchanges. Institutional investors who borrow large amounts of money to amplify returns (read: hedge funds) make up a majority of the volume during periods of high volatility.
"We've had an explosion of entrepreneurial growth in this country over the last 20 years, financed in large part by angel investors...."

But we can fix that.
I suspect it has to do with differentiation.

By trying to make a product too similar to an Apple product a manufacturer would open the door wide open to valid criticism about being an Apple knockoff company. By doing something different, they have claim to their own identity. But since (almost) nobody can beat Apple at design, that difference manifests itself more in getting more performance per doller (=cheap construction) or lots of products with special features (e.g. gaming machines).

Also it takes time to develop mass production capacity for something with a very different manufacturing process.
Experimenting on customers.
The way it works in the UK is that you vote for the person you want to represent you - your MP - and the party with the majority of MPs forms the government. Your MP represents your constituency - your local area.

PR is a bad system because it decouples the government from local representatives. Instead you get a list of people none of whom may have any knowledge of or interest in issues that affect your local area.
And in the Presidential election too, Gore out-polled Bush in the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote.
B.F. Skinner has done a lot of research in reinforcement and one of his findings is that intermittent rewards beat predictable rewards - both for animals and humans. It's the basic principle of why slot machines are addictive and why we get addicted on getting the next "email fix". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement

Kathy Sierra has written on how this theory applies to Twitter, which is worth a read: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/0...

Solving this issue is probably hard since it's followed by humans and animals... So it must be programmed deep into us.
Buy good companies when everyone's running away
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If the magnetic fields were strong enough to hurt a drive a few centimeters away, they would ruin the other platters in the same drive, and the data on the platter a few millimeters away.

Drives get as close as they can in ordinary servers and cases as well.

It would be more common to worry about heat issues, although there's a Google study floating around the net and their findings are that the role of heat in hard disk failure is much less significant than commonly thought.
As long as they have some form of health insurance it's an external cost even today. Except it's spread among those who have the same insurance company rather than the whole taxpaying population.

Also even if they are completely uninsured it's still an external cost as chances are they'll end up at the hospital emergency room at some point, and being uninsured, the bill will end up with the taxpayers one way or the other. So really the internal vs external thing won't change much.

That being said I'm not as such against selective taxing of foods.
Hitting the tropopause [Google & Apple strategy]
I have been stuck in an A/B hell myself, there is a fat sidebar to my left that I can't get rid of. Googling for a fix turned up a page saying it was an experiment and will be over soon.

For the last week I have been using Bing.
Hrm.

I think I should submit an application for "Method for mechanically solving all problems which are in principle computable."
Well, that's my point (e.g. I knew you are European).

Something that works in your society and system of government might not work in one that's significantly different. We have good evidence in many directions, e.g. laws that don't really protect privacy, laws who's cure is much worse than the disease and laws that only make privacy worse (e.g. Dodd's bill as far as I've read accounts of it WRT to privacy), to make us leery of anything but the most important and desperate privacy concerns. And I don't think what Facebook is doing needs a government solution, I think we, the society and the market, will work it out.

One question: do you have a law that requires government registration of private databases about people? I know the U.K. did that.
Perhaps another way of saying this is that Google's A/B testing has merely taken them to a local maximum, but they need a strong, coherent design discipline to reach the global maximum.
I'm looking forward to switching an old iPhone over to Android so that I can use my various accessories (namely, my stereo with iPod dock) with an Android OS.
I got ADP1 shipped to Austria and it was €390 at the time (phone + s&h + duties + vat). From what I remember, the most expensive shipment at that time was to... Canada.
You can actually go with fewer people, They will put you into larger groups. I totally agree that it is an interesting experience, like an episode of "How it's Made" in real life.
That's a very painful story, and a good reminder that when you wire up something 'unexpected' (such as monkey brains) to a computer you should probably not rely on simply taping off a switch or a cardboard sign.

The poor service guy is probably still having nightmares over this, if he's still alive.

What bugs me though is how the patterns written to that disk managed to get sent out to the DACs if the machine was being serviced and running diagnostics, after all, simply writing to the drive would not automatically cause the DACs to be written to.

edit: got it, the DACs where connected right over the top of the drive controller.
I ownly mind thos errorrs that could have been detekted by an automatick check.

The other won are to easy too overcook, a lease buy at non naive speaker like me.
Maybe you didn't understand what I said or I didn't explain myself properly but it's very rare for a government without a majority to not fall after some months/few years. I'm blaming it on the politicians who can't form a strong government from coalitions.

In a perfect world (utopia), there would be no need for coalitions, they would just vote accordingly to the interests of the people they represent.

In a not so perfect world but still a pretty good one, a coalition should be enough for a strong government and majority governments would be rare for our own good.

In our world, this still doesn't happen.
I lent mine to a 13-year old kid from a small provincial town in the Philippines and, within an hour, it was like he'd been using one his whole life. And I couldn't steal it away from my 62-year old father while waiting for a flight. And I do remember both of them smiling. This thing is absolutely amazing.
So sort of a logical view of Wikipedia with RSS?
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>Those tons of aresoles

I initially read that as "those tons of arse-holes." Sort of half a Freudian slip?
How would it be possible not to know a ticket has been issued for your vehicle?

Trust me... in DC, it's pretty easy.
Design elements and principles
Even Rockstar Founders are Frightened by Failure
The very best homemade bread I make is the no knead bread -- it's as easy to make and clean up after as using a bread machine (you just need a bit of time).

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html

If you want to get all bread-geeky, this stuff is even better when you've got yourself a starter (I have three kinds :)
Gotta read the _claims_ before judging the patent.

Here's something I posted last month explaining how claims are like AND statements -- if even one element of a particular claim is missing from a method or device, then the claim doesn't cover it: http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/2010/04/how-patent-claims-wor...
A New Application Can Detect if Cell Phones are Dangerous
Ok, so now I need a social network obeying the following constraints:

- I control my data. My data are where I decide they should be, on my server or web-hosted somewhere. So it is decentralised and everyone has it's node.

- It's based on a standard API, not a product. It defines identities (openid url?), associated publishing of data (defined by its url), relation between data (like a comment on a photo. So some JSON here), and mainly access rights on this data by other identities.

- friends I accept are based on some sort of authorized_keys mecanism, with more detailed access rights.

- I can define some data-stores elswhere, like my photos being on Flickr... Of course I loose some control, but I can revert this.

- there is a canonical open source implementation I can install at home.

- I can easily move my account or some of my data seamlessly, have my url point to it. It should be easier than moving a blog if you own your domain!

So it's just the web, openid, and some standards, or am I missing something. Is someone making this ?

edit: I precised some ideas.
Google Wave Gets Re-Extended
Delete your cookie for google.com. It drove me nuts too.
It got so complex that people had no other choice than to look at simpler solutions

The big difference is these extended features, inconsistencies, and functionality overlaps don't really effect the core usability of Facebook for the masses. Most people look for the text box, write something, and click Share or they use the 4 icons under the same text box for video, photos, events, links. That's it. Very simple.
I don't think so, I've been looking for a while now and I can't find a clear statement that that is a requirement.
How do you get it to load the HD versions? I'm seeing 720p and 1080p versions on my Mac but looking at the quality of the video on my iPad it looks like it streams the 360p version.
A Tale of Two Developer Ecosystems: iPhone versus Facebook
Scribd in HTML
Actually, that's a really good point.

What if Alan Turing had patented the 'Turing Machine', would we be where we are today in computing or would we be stuck somewhere in the 70's?
For a more standard document example, with complex math, charts etc. see:

http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5
Without enough friction, things can coast downhill with no momentum at all.
If we don't get electoral reform now, it's never going to happen.
Pretty interesting and weird. Some stocks lost 100% of their value in a matter of seconds. Some analysists say it was because some high-frequency traders pulled out when the market became too volatile and thus there were too few buyers.
I mean....

these are such tiny gripes. Some arrows are different because they aren't of the same priority..people will click "More" more often than they'll click 'more search tools', so that arrow is smaller. makes sense to me.

How exactly is the search button inconsistent with the homepage? You think it would look better BELOW the textfield on the SERP?

I don't see any mixed case anywhere.

Not trying to be a troll or bust balls or anything, I just find your criticisms a bit nitpicky. The overall design of the site is incredibly simple and easy to use.
It's down now.
The shift to Labour in Scotland is due to tactical voting against a Conservative majority. If Labour was expected to win easily overall then Lib-Dems and the Scottish Nationalist Party would have done much better.

Basically you can't look at votes which were cast with some understanding of how the system works, and pretend they were cast without that knowledge.
easy, and perhaps a bit naive. it is possible you may cause more market turmoil by halting only certain stocks which would push volume into ETFs, futures, options, and other stocks in the same sectors.

The markets are very interconnected and very fast moving. 'simple' solutions rarely work.
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This was operator error right? Hit the "000" button one too many times on that sell.
What if the USA is no longer around?
Yeah but that's true for any market. Is there data that indicates that this happens more for appstore software? I mean I'm not asking for a peer reviewed, 1000 apps study or anything, just a plausible indication that the average appstore customer is more likely to do this and/or be influenced by blog posts complaining about price hikes. Maybe just showing that appstore customers are far above average in being likely to read and be influenced by online reviews is enough - if there is some correlation to be made between appstore customer profile and sensitivity to price hikes.
He doesn't seem to realize everything is new and exciting when you first get it.

Really? From his description of all the other hardware in his home I'd say he does.
Still, Apple's good at making stuff people both want _and_ use. I didn't expect my mother to start using Mail and Safari on her iPhone. I only bought it for her so she could have a phone+ipod, and because she never figured out how to use T9.
Indeed.

We should be congratulating all the other news channels, the ones who managed it without unlimited resources.
It's really fascinating (horrifying?) that some of these ETFs went to zero for a moment. I can't understand how they cancel all these trades though. Seems like the biggest accounting nightmare ever.
I have some of the most aggressive security settings. And to be sure, I went back and deleted all cookies again. No dice.

Well, this will give me an excuse to sample other search engines. I was a heavy Altavista user until I found this new search engine out of Stanford ..
http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/76189
Why do we have people in the pits again?
Good customers offer to pay for detailed proposals like this. They only ask for a few free hours of your time in order to meet you and see if they want you to make a proposal. Great customers will offer to pay you for even that time.

The situation changes a bit when you deal with huge companies or governments that send out requests for proposal and expect a lot of work up front for no pay. But that's because those contracts tend to run in the high six figures to millions of dollars realm and they want to attract bigger companies that can afford to spend a considerable time making a proposal without being paid.

Strike it up to a learning experience. The next time you want to make a proposal, outline to your client that you bill for your time (or pitch a fixed cost). If they decide to go with you after the proposal though, you'll treat that fee as the deposit so it acts like a discount.
Always use black HDDs for servers man (if using WD)!
Well, more like, you have two sheets of paper, the top one has labels with boxes cut out so that you write your answers on the bottom one. when you lift the top sheet off (click submit), you're left with only the raw data.
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It's more of a reminder service. On more than one occasion I've forgotten about tickets, and once they are 30 days old, the fine doubles.

So now you'll get an email, and the email has a link to pay online.
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Buy your own petabyte cluster
It was a side effect of over ordering (someone typed 100 instead of 10 for a weekly order...) a load for another part of our business.

Never again! We even had to stop using them as long term storage disks just in case... (though it appears heat was the main issue for them)
I knew they went NoSQL, but I wasn't expecting human brains as JBODs.
Accenture Falls from over $40 to 1 penny during Selloff Yesterday
It's hard for me to worry too much when the vast majority of such people love and rave about the product after they've had it for a while.
Okay, so is this a hoax or not?
I can think of many ways to cut it that result in either the Conservates not being the winner, or the winner being unknown with the data we have.

The obvious one given the recent excitement around the 3rd party is the question "How many people wanted to vote Lib-Dem but thought that would be a wasted vote or worse would only help a party they really didn't want to win (note this works whether the hated party is Labour or Conservative).
By "keep the site running" I mean it paid to keep the server hosted at a local ISP. (Good Lord, what a blast from the past; it was the last server I ever actually physically saw, a used SPARCstation running Solaris, and I carried it to the ISP myself.) Occasionally, I had enough in the kitty to pay some personal bills. That was just on PayPal donations from one link in the corner of the home page.

But I wasn't even close to being committed to Despammed full time (although it sometimes felt like it during my trial-by-fire sysadminning lessons when things went wrong) - so I don't think there's much to generalize from. You have the advantage of full attention - but I was the only free spam filter in the world for a short time, and a few people were pretty virulently thankful about it.

As to the morality of donations when you hope to profit later - absolutely. You're not forcing people to donate, and if they like your site well enough to give you money, they will not only cheer you on if you become profitable, they'll even feel personal pride that they helped you on your way. The Knew-Him-When effect. I think only a few people would feel you'd sold out. And you can ignore them; they'll be looking for a way to feel superior no matter what, so you might as well let them feel superior all the way to your bank. Everybody's happy.

Now if you actually sell yourself as a community effort, then appropriate it to yourself when it's time to make money, that will piss people off, and rightly so. It's really all your attitude, though, that sets the tone. If you're honest about your plans, that's all people want.
That is awesome... and it's a fun coincidence that Helvetica starts with H.

Definitely analogous to Hydrogen.
This is your best bet. I really like "Lenguajero", but I lived in Puerto Rico for a couple of years.
Facebook's "Community" Pages are Wikipedia data with Facebook ads
When I want a keyboard, I have it with the external iPad keyboard.

What I don't want is a half-assed multitouch implementation in OSX, and a half-assed mouse+keyboard implementation in iPhone OS, which is most likely what you'd get if Apple did such a thing. It's two different kinds of user interfaces, and they simply don't translate very well between each other.

Then again, Microsoft may pull something magical out of its hat after 10 years of trying with their combo tablet laptops.
While we're at it, the reason I don't use Duckduckgo is that I can't see the search text when using the Gnome 'dark' theme. It seems they have used CSS to specify the foreground color (black) but not the background color (on my system: also black) of the text box.
You are basically talking about the World Wide Web itself.
Google adds free language translation software to Android smartphones
Not just diplomats, either. While we were living in Puerto Rico, we knew one family from Denver; the husband had a management job in a local factory, and the company gave the family a $10,000 budget for language courses. And that was a small company - turns out this is generally worth the expense, because it reduces management turnover.
What really annoys me is that you have no space between the input field on the SERP (first time I discover this acronym) and the search button. On the homepage you have some space.

Also the advanced search link is now below, not anymore right from the input, it kinds of make this new SERP cluttered. Note that when logged in, it is even worse, I have another link for the safe search.

Also you will note that you have 4 or 5 different size of fonts.

I agree with you, roughly it is working (it what the data prove anyway, else they would have not done it) but nevertheless for me it feels wrong.

http://xhtml.net/documents/images/logged-in-google-serp.png
If the obese are paying their actuarial cost, then it's not an externality. So in any state where it is legal to charge the obese a higher premium, the obese are already paying their fair share.
Indeed. If something anchors our visual scanning from page to page, then doing a calculation which always takes the upper left as the best location starts to seem very odd. In the case of the redesign, I would suggest that the big text box, which the user was just looking at on the home page, might play the role of visual anchor.
It's annoying to get one of those if you actually want the page for a movie or a band.
Is that scraped by facebook or by the maintainer of that community?
Also there are issues such as BNP would have got 6 seats under Proportional Representation - extremist parties get representation in government.