skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few comments here have discussed microwaves influencing biochemistry by non-ionizing mechanisms. To address these concerns, it’s easy to show that microwaves cannot provide enough energy to alter any biochemical pathway unless one imagines a very specific molecular system to absorb energy at this wavelength; similar to chlorophyll absorbing visible light in photosynthesis.

Given the complexity of chlorophyll and its significant support system in photosynthesis, I would highly doubt such a similarly complex molecular system would evade discovery. Further, due to the weak energy of microwaves, as quantified next, such a microwave harvesting system would have to be located at the surface of our skin (or other periphery tissue like hair) to absorb this energy before other biomolecules absorb it non-specifically. I believe these relatively simple periphery tissues have been exhaustively studied.

As the article mentions, microwave energy is on the order of 0.001 kJ/mole. Just to put that in perspective, the random thermal (kinetic) energy contained in each degree of freedom of a biochemical systems is on the order of 2.5 kJ/mole. Due to their weak energy, microwaves have only been shown to non-trivially interact with molecular systems in the gas phase, where collisions between molecules are suppressed, as each molecular collision occurs with enough energy (thermal energy) to overwhelm the much weaker microwave interactions. In the fluid tissues of the body this energy would only be non-specifically absorbed causing a trivial and temporary rise in temperature (1e-4 deg C) within the tissue.

Therefore, I highly doubt microwaves interact with human biochemistry in any interesting or pathology-relevant way.
How would you know if you cared, if you didn't know about them?

Besides, if there were a "like" button, it'd have the same effect since it would most likely show up in your timeline. A private "like" button? They have that as "favorite".

Ultimately, the re-tweet makes it easier to discover new people within your network. If you're into design, and you're following other designers, chances are they're following other great designers, and you can find about these other people through the re-tweet.

I'd say it's an (accidental) feature that was very important for twitter's success, and it's further validated by the fact that the re-tweet was brought upon by the users themselves.
I expect most of these are group texts.
>Twitter at scale is a "write only" medium.

only because the 'older tweets are currently unavailable' message when you search for stuff. Usually the search isn't completely broken; you get the last page of stuff you are searching for.

either way, search is the only sane way to use twitter... otherwise it's like the facebook wall- impossible to keep up with and full of crap.
Fair comment and I did think of that a bit too late.

I'm fully aware of the communities desire to keep this forum high-brow and intellectual and to match said desire maybe I should have been more specific.

There are a lot of successful, logical, intelligent people that participate in this community, people who appear to have similar interests to me so I am very curious as to what these people in particular find entertaining enough to sit through for 90 minutes without distraction.

My own favourites:

There will be blood

The Count of Monte Cristo

Life of Brian
I'd say you're rushing it. Do you really know these people? Have you worked with them? If not, fix that first.
They don't. However Facebook felt the need to borrow Twitters @replies (http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions/) so why can't Twitter borrow the Facebook like.

Yes they are different sites and yes they serve different purposes. However if functionality can work on both and can aid the users of that site then why should it not be introuced - just because you can already do it on one is not a good enough reason. If it was then you would not see competitors coming out daily with new sites that do what existing sites do but try and better it.

Twitter has millions of users who do not have a Facebook account and vice-versa. Providing they don't move too much from what makes them unique then giving their user base useful features can only be a good thing.
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In this case, those other 19 groups ought to respond publicly fairly quickly--"we tried that too, and it didn't work for us."
I can remember arguing in middle school (I was 9) with my teacher that 0.999' was equal to 1. Sadly, at the time. despite knowing this as a fact, I didn't know any of the proofs.

Mind, I don't think they would have convinced her.
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Is not Common Lisp a Lisp?
I'm told "profit sharing" is the answer, but I haven't really done enough research, yet, to speak intelligently on the matter.
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I'm using it as the backend for my Windows app's sync. So far it's been great. Latency isn't that much of an issue because sync happens in the background, but users report it as very quick.

I'm keen to put a GWT front-end on it. I've tried that on a side project and it worked well. I do worry about the relative unpredictablility compared to just a plain box, but it's balanced with the fact that I really don't want to worry about operating system and web server level security or admin.
Hey, I know that bathroom! (I’m a student at TU Ilmenau.)

I really don’t know why I didn’t know that our Institute does something other than social science. Cool!
Our civilization doesn't scale
+0.999...
HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains
I registered a domain for a project a year ago and lost interest after about six months. Still I think it is a decent domain name and I don't want to release it in the void. I'd much prefer if a HNer would get it from me and build it into something great.

If you are similarly sitting on cool domain names from abandoned projects or weekend hacks, here is a google spreadsheet for you to share them:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aue8w7GPjATXdF9jSW1IV3BlWE1TYjM3R0JMV1hYUHc&hl=en
Yes, I was definitely thinking many outputs from one single original drum track. The voting and winners are a great idea! Half the appreciation could be what different muso's do with the idea.
NeXT stopped making hardware a few years before Apple bought them, and was renamed "NeXT Software Inc".
typo: "Thanks for registering! Please ake the time"

Landing page:

make the logo bigger upper left. make the logo subtitle a phrase that is formatted as a direct answer to the question "Why are you here?" make the logo aligned with the body text to make the left axis of alignment on your page stronger. Consider changing the background gradient to something radial rather than linear and more stylized. Maybe a darker luminosity to emphasize that the notebook page is the foreground. Do not use centered alignment in your content page. Always use left or right alignment unless you have a really good reason for making it centered. There isnt much repeated style between elements Uh... I'm going to stop mentioning design stuff and just say you should either hire a designer before a programmer\hacker or get this book for some really easy to act on practical advice: http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...

App: On notes under an idea I like how it hides unnecessary interface features unless you mouseover..... I think you need to incorporate this design methodology in more places with cruft on the site. I am allergic to cruft, squint until your eyes go blurry and see how many different "chunks" make up the page and try to limit it to 5-7. Tags is plural but only seems to accept one thing. You need to show "state" better. For example you know how some sites use breadcrumbs? Like it will say "Metamemetic's Ideas > A First Idea > Notes" or something and they are all links to navigate back and forth, and they are all the same style in the same location and instantly convey where I am in the site. You don't have to use breadcrumbs just make it super obvious for the user to tell where they are and what they are doing at all times with no clutter around whatever the "state" indicator is. and don't have multiple "state" indicators, just one all informative one.

overall it's a good idea though with a good code foundation! Props for getting something out there

I would try and leverage the fact that you are creating tree data structures with ideas and notes to do some interesting things in the future, but just improve the UI and UX first.

[I don't know if I would use the site personally because I use Git to version control my local repository of random ideas, but there could be a good target market. Not sure who your target market is... you should pick one and post on whatever forums they are currently sharing ideas on and see what features they would need\want to use your site. Or if your site ends up functioning better as a personal planner\to do list than a collaborative editor, maybe market it as increasing ones organization and productivity]
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Reagan's imagery might have worked when we lived on a mostly unexplored planet

In the 80s, I'm pretty sure the planet was mostly explored.
It would be live, just streamed one-way. The issue with something like chatroulette (2-way) is that you'd always be a bit out of sync, so it has to go from A->B->C->listeners, with B, C and listeners being 1 or more.
A lot of people treat the favourite button (star) as "like". Unfortunately neither Twitter's web interface nor its API expose this data in a very useful way, so it only really has an effect if the like-ee is using a sufficiently thick native client or a third-party site like http://favstar.fm/ to keep track of who's faved their tweets.
Yeah, I love that video. Absolute work of art.
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I think you're worrying too much about flooding your followers' timelines with spam. However, this is actually the point of twitter and I think it handles it pretty well.

Your followers probably follow you because your tweets are interesting to them. If you see something that you find interesting then chances are good that at least some of your followers will agree. Some followers may have seen it from the original source; others may only get it from your retweet.
Why would you care what someone you've never met's having for breakfast? Unless they were a famous chef maybe.

Likes on FB don't show on the newsfeed, only the person whose thing you liked gets a notification.
I wish I could go, will be back in DC soon. How often do you guys do this?
The author explains that he built the tool because of difficulties getting msp430-gcc to run and doesn't feel like screwing with mspgcc4.

I do recommend screwing with mspgcc4. It comes with a download-and-build script. It built flawlessly on my Linux box and compiled OpenChronos [1](the free firmware for the geek wristwatch) without problems so far.

1. http://github.com/poelzi/OpenChronos
Payday loan companies do track who pays and who doesn't. If you sufficiently establish that you don't pay, you will get cut off (and head to the competitor down the road). If you establish that you do pay, by your reasoning, you would expect that your rate would go down. But that's just simply not the case in reality. One step would be mandating that payday loan makers actually report prompt payments to credit rating agencies, allowing someone to actually establish or repair a credit score, so that they can eventually step up into a credit card. Some places do this, but the majority don't, because it's not in their financial interest to do so - those are the people covering the no-fee, no credit-check teaser loans they're making to first time customers, and where any and all profit they do make comes from.
Though the presentation can be improved, I think it's good enough as it is.

The real reason why it's not so useful is because those who turn off Javascript tend to be power users who know how to turn it back on...
I cut my teeth on GEM at age 6 or 7. It was awesome. We had the later version that ran on top of DOS on an Amstrad machine of all things. Got brought home from work by my dad when it has been long obsolete.
That's not true. If they could find something to prevent people from getting ill it would probably be the biggest seller ever, and given that they are not God there will probably always be ill people, even if they prevented some illnesses.

The don't do it because they don't know how, not because of any sort of conspiracy.
Ask YC:  How much is an engineer worth in a talent acquisition?
"At that time we knew that a talented engineer in a tough to get tech was worth about $1.5 million per head. Thus, I knew with relative assurance that since we were going to hire at least 70 people with our Series A money, that our worst case scenario was about a $100 million exit" [1]

ref: [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1793095
...all studies should be publicly logged before they start (so it's not possible to hide studies which say the "wrong" thing);...

Not just logged, but accepted by journals. I.e., you submit a paper, explain the experiment design, and put in dummy tables. The conclusion section is unwritten.

The journal accepts or rejects based solely on methodology - they can't reject you after the fact for going against conventional wisdom or getting a null result.
> It actuality, it was the other way around

Or could it that be that Microsoft support was not enough to make Itanic successful? Microsoft evidently redirected efforts toward AMD64 as soon as it became obvious it was the low-hanging fruit in the 64-bit space. Intel also diverted resources from Itanium in order to be able to compete with AMD in the extended x86 space. There are many factors in Itanium's failure beside inherent merits.

OTOH, Alpha, MIPS, PPC/PReP were not the huge flop Itanic was and, still, dropped out of sight the moment NT for them was discontinued.

Until very recently you would not be able to launch a new architecture/ISA without first convincing Microsoft to support it.
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Until it mistakes the sticker filled VW Van pulling out in front of you as a Billboard....oops :-)
Many already exist. I guess I don't understand your point?
I only RT tweets related to my work, which is interactive design, gui, webdev . People following you that doesn't know you in person, probably follows you because of the stuff you do (work) not who you are (personal). This is proper use of RT, in my opinion.

Tagging a tweet as 'fav' doesn't show as clear as FBs like button. And it's more for saving good tweets, not sending 'I like this'.

Likes shouldn't come up in your timeline. This is Twitter, not FB. There is room for this functionality, but it's not there.

So for now, just @-reply and tell the persons in person, instead of a like-click. Gives more value.
I think you're deluded about how possible it is. Maybe for a single, young, healthy male with very limited space and nutrition requirements it's possible, but add a couple kids to the mix, especially if you're a single parent, then add a medical issue or two, and the situation very quickly becomes untenable. If you're bright you can figure out a way to scrape... until your tire goes flat.
If you are paying $1.5M joining bonuses then "I'm in" - if not, then why would anyone pay more than you intend to?

It is possible for a bleeding edge start-up to include a couple of high value engineers but most of them will just be good engineers (if you are lucky) and some will be less than good.
To your second point, I have two things to say:

1) I think a big point of this article is that the peer review process is misunderstood by the general public (and perhaps many doctors).

Though scientists and science journalists are constantly talking up the value of the peer-review process, researchers admit among themselves that biased, erroneous, and even blatantly fraudulent studies easily slip through it. Nature, the grande dame of science journals, stated in a 2006 editorial, "Scientists understand that peer review per se provides only a minimal assurance of quality, and that the public conception of peer review as a stamp of authentication is far from the truth."

More work needs to go into educating the public as to the meaning of scientific studies.

2) The scope of money involved in the endeavor is too large to be happy with things just slowly weeding themselves out as is permitted in the OS community.

Higher standards can and should be enforced in all medical studies, an area in which progress is being made but there is a ways to go. Let me push back and say, if the medical research community was exactly like the open source community, we're not asking much of those who are doing the research.
The pharma industry would not want to find a preventative pill that they can sell to 300 million healthy people instead of 500,000 sick people?

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

(Incidentally, the #1 and #3 drugs are preventative, not curative. http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/prescription-drug-s.... )
If only someone would build a tool that would let you put words into a text field and then it would basically "query the internets" you wouldn't have this problem.....Add it to the list ;-)
How Big is Our Market?
We searched on Google for the word “glove”
and the words “ice cream” and obtained
these results:
• Glove: 14,400,000 results
• Ice Cream: 32,60,0000 results
How Big Is Our Market?
14,400,000 x 32,60,0000 =
46944,000000000 probable customers
What If?
If we sold our glove at $9.99...
Profits =
$4,689,705,6000,000,000,000,000.00
What if we sold our glove at $19.99...
Profits = two times previous number
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Twitter and Facebook look at value in orthogonal directions.

On Facebook, the importance of every post is dictated by how much interaction it generates. This is very visible: comments and Likes are listed on every post. In a hurry, you can decide a post's value by how many people have already interacted. Liking a post keeps the interaction within the OP's profile page. By scrolling through someone's profile, you get a feel for how popular they are within the service.

On the other hand, the value of a Tweet is proportional to the number of people who see it. This is sometimes difficult to guess when inspecting the original tweet, since Twitter does not track old-style Retweets. It doesn't matter though, since your message is broadcast to dozens (or hundreds, or thousands) of people you didn't reach by yourself. The threshold of quality is a little higher with a Retweet: in a sense, you must be willing to say the original Tweet yourself. But a popular Tweet can reach more people than a good Facebook post.
I use a special plugin that tells me all those numbers automaticlaly...maybe it considers an alexa rank of 4,343,216 too high to fit in the space.

but that number is horrendous...it's like 10 hits a month
I've learned my lesson ;-) Thanks!
then you should tell him to get a better press photo
So bigots are surprised to find out that their ignorance-based beliefs don't always hold? :)
Obviously it is not a generality. However a large number of people in severe debt and money management are there as a result of the reasons I highlighted.

It is misdirection to list the example of "single, kids, illness" as proof of anything. Almost anyone can get ill and hit financial trouble; it is an unexpected and perfectly legitimate problem that can lead you to financial problems, especially if stacked on top of your current circumstances.

Just a single mum with two kids? sure it's not going to be luxurious but I know plenty of people who manage and are perfectly happy. Then again, I also know plenty of single mums who waste money like water. I think such circumstances are often irrelevant to the families ability to get by.

My argument is this; once you throw consumerism, poor money management and an inability to accept the unfairness into the mix it tips the balance in favour of "generally in debt".
Amazing, I've been thinking about it for the past few days and i feel it would be good to have a "like" button but maintained inside the twitter ecosystem.

With that we could build some kind of rating system to show the most liked or influential tweets around...
i use Google Keyword tool to give me a rough estimate. It's not 100% accurate since the data is a bit dated, but overall it'll give you a rough idea
Indeed, why would Intellectual Ventures sell some of its patents instead of doing the usual, that is using fronts to sue people.

In fact, this case seems suspicously similar to earlier case Intellectual Ventures shell vs. Kodak
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0302518496.shtml

This way IV can continue claiming that they never sued anyone(themselves).
Ayup I gotta go along with ya on that one. Voted it up. :-)
A real world AdBlock if you will. I want one.
Fixed-fee billing is the devil
> it was the beginning of an era that brought personal computing to billions of households worldwide.

This is plain wrong.
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why would anyone pay more than you intend to?

Some people may think that working at a startup for a few years and gaining experience building stuff people increases a developer's value.

The better question is why, in light of the 13th amendment to the US constitution, talent acquisitions exist at all: Why buy a company if you can instead just hire its developers directly?
I know a lot of "Web 2.0" sites are all look a bit the same, and I appreciate you going for a different look, but for me this doesn't work. If you look at other sites they tell you exactly what they are trying to sell in big letters, with clear screen shots on the front page.

Your video tells me little (well done though, that must have taken some time), three different sign-up options on the home page is messy, the link to screenshots down the bottom is just hyperlink, "Product Tour" needs to be at the top somewhere.

Do you really need a Captcha? I find them a pain in the arse, why not wait until you have a spam account problem.

As another commentator says, depending on your audience the Killer Startups and Best of the Web logos may actually devalue your product. If you are aiming for HNers etc definitely, however the general public seem to like these sorts of things sometimes.
I have the feeling Facebook's leadership is dramatically pragmatic: if it works, let's use it. They borrow ideas from lots of people, "like" came from friendfeed I believe? And Twitter's leadership seems more, how shall I say it, more interested in doing it "right" or taking the high road in terms of features. They have stayed extremely minimal for such a popular service, in terms of features.

They could add "like", which would surely add value, but then again they could also add a dozen other features that add value. But in doing that, they'd dilute their simple value proposition: real time updates.

Whether laser-focusing on 1 feature/value is smarter than adding other features and having a more complete offering is smart, only time will tell, I'm really not sure at this point.
> Having the better product doesn't always translate to winning.

As the DoJ proved so aptly, it's the least ethical salesforce that wins.

DR-DOS and GEM was sold to end users. MS-DOS and, later, Windows, was sold to OEMs in the form of the Microsoft tax, sucking out any opportunity for competitors.

> It'd be great to see a movie made of this period of time when MS were engaging in so many dirty tricks.

It would take a five-season series for that...
I'd like to see IronPython included in the comparison. (do they handle 2.7?)