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>A good starter article: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r/

Somewhat ironically, I find that page a little hard to read because the background is so bright. I find reading text on HN much easier with a darker grey background.

I'd be curious to get the opinion of others on whether or not this was a mistake given the information they had at the time.

It's pretty useless to say "our biggest mistake was x because it turned out to be a huge failure". I'm not interested in hearing someone say "my biggest mistake was eating vegetables every day because I ended up choking on a piece of broccoli".

When I first saw the site, I was hoping there would be a way to upload a picture, perhaps do some kind of feature-tagging (similar to the way you point out your pupils on photos on those try-on-glasses apps[1]) and have the site spit back a suggested face based on the features they had that most closely resembled yours.

Of course, this is complete spitballing, I have no idea if it's feasible.

[1]http://www.coastal.com/glasses/frames/derek-cardigan-7016-br... (click Try It On View)

Huh. Less than I thought, somehow.

I did mean physical orientation, but I see from rereading my question that's not clear at all.

Thanks!

Isn't it easier to "sleep with" a laptop than a tablet?

A laptop holds the screen in a vertical orientation that you can watch while lying down. How do you do this with a tablet?

I ask as someone who has "slept with" a laptop more or less every night for five or six years.

Any stats on how big the typical HN traffic spike is?

I've always thought that a laptop-tablet hybrid of the sort Lenovo makes is the best form factor[1] for mobile computing. A physical keyboard and trackpad you can fold away when you're not using but that you always have with you. I used an old x61 tablet that I got dirt cheap for years, and for things like watching video or reading comics or long-form text documents, being able to fold away the base is great.

Are there any machines in this form factor aimed at a general audience? A modern multi-touch tablet screen with a pivoting keyboard and mouse base?

[1]http://shop.lenovo.com/gbweb/gb/en/learn/products/laptops/th...

Huh. I thought it was an update to reduce specifically "low-quality" EMDs rather than EMDs with "a lots of keywords in the domain name". Or are these two ways of saying the same thing?

Which part of the TOS do you think this would violate?

AFAIK you're not under any obligations to show Adsense ads to all users, or all of the time. I know quite a few people who only show Adsense ads to search engine visitors, for example, or block ads for people arriving with certain referrers.

This seems like a similar move.

Thanks, I appreciate your comment. Unfortunately, barring a change in my circumstances or a sudden upsurge in interest from the public, I just don't think it will be possible. It may not look like it but the research involved even in that one modest test section was (by my standards at least, possibly I'm just workshy) a massive undertaking.

Yeah, I've been following them for a while. Aside from the obvious difference in focus, my biggest gripe with that site is that the basic taxonomy is per supplement. The typical use case is the user hears about supplement A, hears it's good for purpose X, then searches for "A" or "A fox X", finds the examine.com page, and sees if A is really good for X.

With my project, the basic taxonomy was always per-complaint (or per-illness if you prefer). It doesn't presuppose the user has ever heard of any particular supplement. The idea is the user can browse to the page that documents their condition and quickly see a summary of all the evidence for all the different tested herbal treatments.

Now, I'm not at all sure that this difference in structure justifies starting all the research etc. from scratch. It may be the case that examine.com could trivially switch over to the structure I used. But I do think that my structure is superior.

I suspect I've missed the boat on this one, but in any case:

About a year ago, I began an (overly) ambitious project to build a database of the scientific evidence behind the use of herbal supplements to treat a variety of conditions. I sank my nights and weekends into it for a couple of months but only got as far as one test section. It's sat more or less derelict ever since.

Aside from a mostly ignored Reddit submission, no-one has ever really seen it. If you have a minute, take a look and please let me know any thoughts you have about it at all.

http://herbevidence.com/data/Erectile_Dysfunction

(Forgive me, the section on ED happens to be one I wrote up as a test section because I was researching it anyway as a writing gig. Click on the name of each supplement in the first table to go to the full page for it.)

>This turns your email inbox into a giant password manager

I already use my primary email for this purpose. Most passwords I memorize, but some, for services with requirements so arcane that memorization isn't possible, I just email to myself with a unique key I remember. To get the password, I just search my email for the key.

Yes, this makes me vulnerable if my email is ever compromised. But my primary email is already a single point of failure and pretending otherwise doesn't do me any favors.

I could use a password manager, which would have the advantage of encryption. But it's also limited to those places I have access to it. I can store the database in my dropbox, but that limits the platforms I can access it from (at least, without some serious headaches) and makes the whole process that much more painful.

At the $15 price point, the only other price point Amazon should worry about is $0.

I would imagine few people would go through the hassle and risk of finding and trusting a third party software to remove the ads to save $5 or $10

How does the authentication work with email providers? Does the application access email through POP or IMAP? Does it have arbitrary access to my email account?

I fear I'll never benefit from apps like this as my email account is the skeleton key to my online identity. I'm not sure I could trust any other human being with the password.

I think it would be near impossible for someone who has passed the patent bar to genuinely set aside their "specialized knowledge" when hearing a patent case. In fact, I will flat-out assert that it's impossible, because when you become a domain expert in that way, you internalize a great deal of the training. If one side flubs an explanation of prior art or of some other term of art, the rest of the jury may be confused or be under a misapprehension and the patent attorney will not be. You'd have to be both unusually self aware and a saint to i) recognize the misapprehension you would be under in that situation if you didn't have domain knowledge, and ii) try to reach a decision as if you were under that misapprehension.

In other words, I think it's a complete fiction to tell people to set aside professional training and the knowledge and background that comes with that when they're acting as a jury member. If you were hearing a civil case involving programming, would you be able to set aside your knowledge of programming and hear the case as if you were a layperson? I wouldn't.

I think the real question here is: if the non-shuffled deck had somehow worked in the Casino's favor and caused an otherwise-virtually-impossible losing streak for the customers, would the casino now be scurrying to reimburse them all for their losses?

They aren't exactly imposing a condition on an order from a judge. They are promising not to appeal if their conditions are met.

Strictly speaking, it would only be imposing a condition on an order from a judge if they had exhausted all of their appeals and just said "Drop all the other charges or we won't pay you."

In that scenario, it would clearly be illegal.

The problem is that if that provision were actually enforced, kickstarter would be of much less use to those people it was originally conceived of to help. If you are a small independent games company, film maker, or musician, the threat of failing to complete your project (e.g. it was too ambitious, you set your funding goal too low, you run into legal issues you hadn't anticipated, etc.) and being required to pay back tens of thousands of dollars you have already spent is enough disincentive to not use kickstarter in the first place.

In other words, if kickstarter campaigns have to repay backers if they fail, kickstarter becomes radically less useful and interesting as a proposition.

Having read the article I don't really see how this is anything other than an extremely labour intensive method of doing content spinning which is as old as the hills. There are many SEO spinning tools that allow the user this kind of granular control but which are still much easier to use for this task than excel. The quality of the article wasn't helped by the fact that it sounds like the author is (quite clearly) not a native English speaker.

>The only thing that makes an apple not "junk food" is the fiber.

This is an oft-repeated mantra among proponents of low-carb paleo-style diets, but it largely ignores the role of micronutrients and particularly phytochemicals in human health. An intelligent choice of fruits can provide a bevy of phytochemicals that lower the risk of a wide variety of ailments. Looking at the macros when talking about the role of fruit in diet is largely missing the point.