skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the problem is that on the one hand he's imploring people to trust the science and those performing it, and on the other hand he's showing that those performing it aren't necessarily trustworthy.

It's hard for me to look at those two articles and reconcile the information from one of them with the information from the other.

Furthermore I have HUGE problems with people saying "LOOK SCIENCE!!" with anything other than physics or chemistry. In those areas where the interactions take place incredibly quickly and there are few compounding variables I love me some science just as much as the next guy.

When you start talking about organisms where everything is potentially a confounding variable it's a lot harder for me to excited about things being "proven" via science.

For example, fat used to be fine, then in the 80s and 90s it wasn't, now in the aughts and teens it might be again depending on which doctors you talk to.

I mean, right now you can't even tell if it's better to get small infrequent doses of no-sunscreen daylight (for the vitamin D) or not. The doctors and scientists are split on this one and there's no real discernable pattern as to which goes on which side. http://www.skincancer.org/healthy-lifestyle/vitamin-d/the-d-...

Given that 10 years ago there was no debate whatsoever and now there's a huge debate raging it makes a person a bit circumspect when taking the advice of those who purport to "know" something.
This is very cool. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has fantasized about starting an airline and doing it 'right' after an annoying flight. Probably not going to happen but at least I can read about it now.
That's one of the poorest E-Paper panels I've seen. That first picture of Anool looks dithered. A regular E-Ink display is capable of 32 levels of gray, this seems to be much lower depth and lower res.
> Yes but you do have to sacrifice quite a bit to be outside of the NSA's realm of observability.

Very true. That's a consequence of the largest players in winner-take-all markets being targeted.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll pay attention to their next post.

I skimmed over the content you linked, and it did suggest that placebo "can influence patient-reported outcomes, especially pain and nausea". It reminded me of this article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/01/28/the-depress..., which seemed to suggest a legitimate use case for placebo treatment.
757s were discontinued.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/sales-drought-take...
> I take issue with your auto-discounting information presented in infographics.

Okay, but you don't present anything that contradicts it.

> Infographics is a tool for conveying a message AND optimize for viral spread of this message.

Sure, infographics are a tool for conveying a desired message and encouraging its viral spread (they are a transmission medium for meme's in Dawkins original sense of the word as a replicating unit of behavior.) None of that is contrary to what I said. In fact, its pretty much a rewording of what I said.

> That is the reason for infographics to appeal to emotions, not necessarily to sell something.

Yes, the memes infographics are used to spread aren't always purchase decision memes. I don't think that does anything to change the fact that they sacrifice effective communication of factual information to serve their promotional purposes.

> Infographics are used by all kinds of nonprofits

So are infomercials; I think the comparison remains apt.
How Shortcuts Turned Writely Into Google Docs
Anything that encourages people to pursue different airline models intrigues me. Air travel is still the fastest for anything over 500 miles.
Yeah, quite interesting project. As someone who is interested in marketing and social media, I find value in the results of buzzsumo. I guess thats because posts on these topics tend to get a lot of shares and there are many signals to feed the algorithm.
Did you do a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one?
Let's try again with facts:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-Aug...
OSX is unix
Goods in high demand attract new suppliers who compete on price and so margins fall.
Article mentions wanting to disable fast-forward merges. This should do it (in newer versions of git):

$ git config --global --add merge.ff false
Yes, I thought that this would have more info that would be useful to get going.
Does anyone know of some open source java debugger code that I could hook up with a ncurses front-end ? that would be useful when I'm debugging customer issues.
Actually it's commoditization. There is very little differentiation in airline flying - particularly domestic in the US. So they get stuck competing on price. Imagine you're flying from NY or BOS to SFO. You have two choices. Pay around $500 per ticket with some price shopping. Have a horrible experience of cattle herding, no food choices, small seats. Or spend $2500 or something insane for slightly larger seats. Weird how there isn't an option for $500, $800, $1500 just like there's a Corolla, Camry, Avalon or Lexus. Now, the airlines will tell you that's because people just care about price and only price and that's why soon you'll need to drop quarters in to use the bathroom. But that's just opportunity to me. There are about 800 places you can improve the flying experience from the minute you hit the curb to bundled in Uber to and from to wide seats (vs just extra legroom) to food to entertainment to dedicated standing areas to "kids focused flights" (parents embrace business travelers avoid) to baggage rules........
Man, if Boeing can price out starting an airline, there's no excuse for making somebody call for price on a SaaS product.
> Nokia admits giving every incentive to drive the company in the ground.

This should be the headline, especially since it's far more insightful than the fact that it was a simple oversight.

Driving Nokia off a cliff or flushing Nokia down the toilet would also be acceptable.

One has to wonder where the line gets drawn between ignorance and malice.
Virality Graph - A free tool/badge to show visitors the virality of your content
Nice post. The one that REALLY annoys me is reminders. If I want to add a reminder, I would assume subconsciously I have to press the add symbol. But that adds a new list. To add a new item you have to tap an empty white box with no visual cue. Brilliant.
He's wrong. I just swapping my iPhone5 for a MotoX a couple weeks ago. iMessage was definitely a pain since I left the (SIM-less) iPhone on at home and my wife's messages went there since it was on the WiFi.

Turn the old phone off and problem solved.

iMessage specifically confirms delivery. That's why you occasionally get the "Send as SMS" prompt if it can't go through for whatever reason.

If there's no device actively logged into iMessage, no attempt is made to send through iMessage. You don't have to "deactivate" anything.

That said, when iOS7 came out, and I logged back into my iPad, and my wife on her iPad Mini, and her iPhone 5, iMessage reenabled on all of them with my phone number.

So that was a bit inconvenient.

That obviously wouldn't happen if you had reset and sold the device.

If you sold the device without a reset you have a lot more to worry about than iMessage I think. Though a password change to your Apple ID, or managing the associated phone numbers there should address the issue.

BTW, SMS on Android... wow. That's probably the shittiest thing about switching. It's hard to appreciate how unreliable, low quality and all around bad SMS/MMS is if you've been using iMessage for a few years.

Messages get split up over 140 characters. You can't forward vCards. MMS take forever and you're lucky if you even get half the messages in a timely fashion in-sequence. It's really truly awful.
>> "It's very strange given how necessary air travel is"

I haven't given this much thought but a lot of it isn't necessary at all.

1. Vacations abroad - vacation in your own country or take a boat

2. Business - a lot of business can now be conducted online which previously required air travel

I'm sure those two things alone make up a vast portion of the consumer air travel market.
Mozilla plan seeks to debug scientific code
This is false and misleading. ThinkPads, while the new ones aren't too much to my taste, are better-constructed, more fully-featured, and more understated than MacBooks.

On the AIO side, there are plenty of desktops from Dell and Lenovo that compete quite well.

I'm really sick of how every tiniest bit of Apple news is upvoted to the front page. When did a thousand fanboys join HN? I thought this forum was supposed to be about hacking, not hipster products made in Chinese sweatshops.
With http://deis.io/ we tried GitFlow as well as HubFlow (http://datasift.github.io/gitflow/) which adds better GitHub integration.

After a few release cycles, we decided to switch back to simple feature branches with a master that is always deployable.. modeled after GitHub's workflow:
http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

We found GitFlow's benefits weren't enough to compensate for the added complexity and subpar GitHub integration.
$15/m with amazon affiliate links in a niche blog: http://www.archimodels.info (7.5k visits month). Unfortunately I didn't start the blog thinking about monetizing it. It's a very bad market (architectural students and teachers). Hopefully I can get $30 for 5h work every month (10min x 30days).
It's just a hobby that allowed me to learn about web development (that's not my work field).
Those are some baffling infographics.
This is a website run out of India (check the whois records). Seems like a tricky way to collect information on employees at businesses. This shouldn't be on the front page of HN.
Snowden/Manning also found themselves in a position to use more leverage, and in those cases it's a separate moral question about whether they chose wisely to take that opportunity or not.

No, it's not a separate moral question. It's the crux of the discussion. The entire spectrum of possible actions was open to them. "Do nothing" vs. "Do something" isn't a very interesting distinction: "Something" might have been to quit their respective jobs as soon as possible, or post snarky comments about the evils of the U.S. government under a pseudonym on reddit, or flee to Hong Kong, or blow up a building where they worked...

Nobody elected Ed Snowden or Chelsea Manning. In fact, the people we did elect put trust in Snowden and Manning to preserve certain secrets. Both proceeded to release not just secrets that exposed malfeasance, but the sorts of things (NSA overseas operations, diplomatic cables) that, by and large, our (inevitably imperfect) democracy has decided are peachy keen. Criticizing that indiscretion isn't giving in to "the system", it's acknowledging that "the system" is one we have built together, and there are certain aspects of its operation that are not subject to the whims or passions of people who had previously sworn to uphold it.
Because there are already more people using iOS 7 every hour of their day than ever actually used Metro or any single variant of Android. Who was first is pretty irrelevant to average Joe/Jane picking their next phone.
You are not writing about the submitted article. The phrase you put in quotation marks is not found there.
It blows my mind how people start such big businesses. You must build an airport, hire stuff, buy planes, meet many legal requirements and so on, all costing tens of millions of dollars, and on top of that, it must be profitable. This gives some insight, but still it's terryfing. I feel so small.
Yeah, Gabe's role is massively overstated here, but it's important to remember how awful a development platform Windows was for games, that compared to DOS it was far, far worse than Linux is today.

In DOS mode you could easily get full-screen, high-frame rate game graphics. In Windows you'd be lucky if you could push more than one frame per second, the Windows GDI was absolutely brutal.

Linux is a lot further ahead, so SteamOS has a relative head start. If Windows can be made into a first-class gaming platform, so can Linux.
+1 for the RSS feed!
To save $20?
Aiming towards the higher end makes you vulnerable when recessions hit. You also have to compete with carriers that are run by government related entities, who operate for the prestige rather than the profits.
Simulating Raindrops Falling in JavaScript
Isn't this part of the reason why there's some effort to port some of the iOS UIKit to OSX? https://github.com/BigZaphod/Chameleon
>"...remember that great companies are not usually created by experienced people..."

I was reading a post on quora about ageism that is quite relevant.
http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silico...

TLDR:
Jimmy Wales 35 when he started wikipedia

Mark Pincus was 41 when he started Zynga

Reid Hoffman was 36 when he founded Linkedin

Marc Benioff was 35 when he started Salesforce

Robert Noyce started Intel at 41 with a 39 year old Gordon Moore

Irwin Jacobs was 52 and Andrew Viterbi was 50 when they founded Qualcomm

Pradeep Sindhu was 42 when he founded Juniper Networks

Michael Arrington started TechCrunch when he was 35

+ many more
It seems like Medium has become a magnet for articles that reference some science and then go on to draw conclusions that simply do not follow from that science, yet present the conclusions as if they do. The hollow icon article is another good example: https://medium.com/design-ux/a93647e5a44b.
Your comment history shows that you tend to lean towards Apple bashing comments, but I was curious about this one and tried it out myself.
I was unable to reproduce this. Took girlfriend's SIM card from iPhone and put it back in her old Android phone. Sent a couple text messages. When it couldn't send it as an iMessage, it failed on my end and asked me to send it as a text message.

Worked just fine.
People doing things like this isn't cool. You know what's cool? Quasi-governmental mapping agencies like the Ordnance Survey doing it to demonstrate the availability of their open data sources.
Healthy habits are akin to fiscal responsibility
Engineering Motherhood
New ACM NDC report confirms positive trends in CS enrollment & degree production
He said Apple would continue to sell trucks and cars, but he expects the cars to cannibalize the truck market.

There's no use in a truck with a bed cover that's locked into place and unremovable. There's equally no use in a truck that's not built body-on-frame, and the Mac, one of my favorite computing platforms, is moving away from it.
Counterpoint - what are the chances Apple hasn't run the numbers on that, and made the (business wise) correct decision?
Care to elaborate?

Edit: no wait, just got it! I'm having a slow day today :)
> we strongly encourage people to choose between the MacBook Pro and Air. We’ve had several people originally opt for various flavours of Linux, but they’ve all swapped over to Macs within 12 months.

I'm curious if they've swapped more because of their own personal preference, or the "strong encouragement" from your team, or some combination of both. While I completely get the added value that comes from the homogeneity of equipment in the office, as a Linux guy, I've interviewed in places where they were basically like "Yeah, we're a mac shop, and you need to be too". It was kind of a turn off. I like macs and don't mind using them, but at the end of the day I'm a big believer in going back to the tools you're most comfortable with.

I guess what I'm trying to ask here is, how do you strongly encourage people to go for MB Pro or MB Air, without coming off as overly pushy? Interested to hear how you strike that balance, because I agree 100% that getting most of the team on the same equipment (or roughly so) is a big plus.
Google Removes ‘BitTorrent’ From Piracy Search Filter
Virgin [America] has been trying to change that, but financially it's still fairly questionable if they've been successful. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/business/at-virgin-america...
Even an airplane that is leased is built on specs by the "end-user"; analogue to a house which owned by the bank (by mortgage).
Yup, see this summary from 623 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3446367
Yes, of course, the theory is clear. I still can't help suspecting that this whole "Startup" organization is a boondoggle so somebody's brother-in-law can be a VP in charge of something harmless. At Boeing's scale, purchases (or leases) of new (or at least new enough to affect demand for new) planes by investors who can't hire their own experienced airline executives will necessarily be a drop in the bucket.
I believe Montag was highlighted because that's the current day.
I think it's hard for airlines to innovate much as many factors that determine the quality of service are outside their control. For example they don't own the airports (like Apple owns their own stores) and that affects a lot of the overall experience.

Further to that, their profits are always being affected by fuel prices. If you read an airline's annual financial report it will talk about buying fuel futures to minimise the risk but they are still vulerable: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp?pn=0&display=chart1
A cynic might say "follow the money". There's an awful lot of money behind the push for GMO, and a powerful company with a reputation for doing unethical things (Monsanto). Many people are quite emotionally (and/or politically) invested in the concept of global warming. I'm not saying I disagree that GMOs are harmless or that global warming is occurring, only that often when people speak with such vitriol they're doing it in the name of money or emotion, not science.
There is yet a solid date on 10.9 release (sometime in October?) and Apple is updating the iMac line. From the article it says they are shipping with Mountain Lion - I hope that the machines that ship have a free upgrade path to 10.9 because I would hate to have to put out another $20.
Everything is confusing if you pretend to be an idiot.
The issue you bring up is the topic of the recent Science-Based Medicine post, "The Overuse of Antibiotics for Viral Infections in Children" (2 August 2013),

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-overuse-of-antibioti...

and that is far from the first time that the site has brought up that issue. Some doctors are rolling up their sleeves and taking personal time after work to inform other doctors about this issue and other issues for improving patient care.
You don't need to build an airport, you rent space in existing airports.

Renting in the main city airports is very expensive but the ones further out aren't so bad.
Problem with this is that airplane configurations are not easily changed; and accomodating 3 different sizes of seats with the risk of having to sell bigger seats for lower prices.... is not worth taking for most airlines (especially low-cost carriers)
Yup, it's been stated over and over by terrorist organizations that this is one of their intended goals.
Thinking about where we were as a country around the time of the 1998 embassy bombings and where we are today would be jarring if I wasn't so desensitized to it.
Ask HN: What's the first thing you brew install
When you are setting up a new machine, what's the first thing you brew install?
macports. :P
OS X is more close to his UNIX heritage than Linux.
What? Why would you suppose that? Developers don't like hassle any more than non-developers do. We're still people with work to get done.
Yes for a long time, Thinkpads have been of comparable build quality to MBPs, whether you like the "design" (as opposed to, the design) is entirely subjective. Kudos to Lenovo for not letting the build quality slip.
Adding iOS 7 AirDrop Support to Your App
Can't be that confusing if you can still figure it out on your own.
Dwarf fortress, now that shit is confusing.
> Should this unlikely chain of events ever occur, Elop would be entitled to an accelerated, $25M payoff.

It seems awfully strange that Nokia's board would incentivise the decline of their own company, but I disagree that the sequence of events that played out was unlikely: Nokia was way behind Apple and Android when Elop joined, and the devastating fall in market-share and share price, followed by acquisition, is more-or-less the same thing that's played out with Blackberry.
Why would the board include such a clause? Wow. It undermines MS's Windows Phone, if Nokia fails WP fails, being its only partner. But Lumia's are slowly gaining ground, even if its 520 one and Nokia has only ramped up the line since they debuted the first one.

The snarky tone of the author is getting in the way of the message, it is obvious he is a Finn and is emotionally invested in Nokia. Please do some analysis for us, you are writing on Forbes, rather than regurgitating original article, 1) what was the share price drop, 2) How was it accomplished, 3)How the share bounced back and how was it accomplished. It would make the collusion of quid pro quo more obvious. Right now, it can be a mere coincidence too.
Representing Numbers as Polynomials
I always thought I was very ambitious, granted "my ambitions far exceeded my talents."

When I stood there under the Eiffel Tower, I felt like I never had a grand thought in my life. To think that massive undertaking started in someone's head is just humbling.

So I feel you. I feel so small.
Sorry for the confusion. When I came back to edit my original post, I also changed peaked -> piqued per Johan's suggestion. Not sure of the Internet etiquette here, but next time I'll be more clear.
You don't need to buy planes - leasing is a pretty common option - there are even lease options ("wet leases") that cover the plane, crew, maintenance and insurance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease#Wet_lease

e.g. EasyJet started with 2 wet leased 737-200s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyJet#Origins
Non replaceable power adapter-to-laptop cables, they save maybe a buck at most but cost us soo much more in replacement PSUs and fried laptops.

Daylight Savings Time
Only one of them is POSIX certified. Hint: it's not Linux.
The problem with pretending to be someone unfamiliar with touch UI (and computers in general) is that whatever you claim to be confusing is still just conjecture. You claim one thing, Apple claims another. If you'd highlighted the parts that are genuinely confusing to you (and I'm sure they exist) rather than talking about rectangles v.s. red things in corners, or written up a walk-through with someone who realistically might get that confused (not denying they exist), then it would be easier to take this post seriously.
Stop asking and just post it.
> You must build an airport

Most definitely not.

You do need to rent or buy space (and ideally slots) at a bunch of airports. You can also lease planes.
Ask HN: Converting Subscribers to Users?
Hi guys,

I beta launched my service a while ago and got around a 100 guys to sign up. Some of those guys have started using the service when I sent them the welcome email while the rest of them have never even logged in.

So I have two questions:

1. Any ideas as to how should engage those guys who never logged in?
2. Them subscribing to the service implies that they are interested in it so why wouldnt they use the service?

Thanks.
Transition to iOS 7, what this means for non-developers
Watching the Lights Go Out: Now It Begins (blogging my battle with Alzheimer's)
This is not a hoax – I'm the creater and I have no interest to collect and run away with your business information :-)

Read the government requirement here: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/tr13-02.html

Also this article to get more info:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-03/what-small-b...

However, your comment has costed the website to suddenly jump off the home page.
Brazilian president Rousseff launches tirade against US over NSA surveillance