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I think this is kinda similar to Eat That Frog? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-That-Frog-Important-Things/dp/03...

I agree with your first line. I'm sceptical as to how scientific this study can be, when as you say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". A measure of beauty changes over time an…

Well I think you hit the nail on the head, that the disclosure isn't responsible. I'm all for bringing the flaws in chip-and-pin to the public attention, however I find it distaste…

No it doesn't? I'm not taking the side of the banks here, just trying to understand why the author took the approach he did. It's a shame that at times the HN community is one of s…

I like the idea, however some of the things I want to do aren't on wikihow. So I would like a way to add them without assigning them to an existing wikihow list. Can you add a feat…

Wouldn't it have been far nobler to approach the banks affected by the exploit with these findings rather than publishing schematics for the exploit into the public domain?

I’m after some advice regarding creating an encyclopedia of short videos tutorials on life skills to be shared freely on the web. I classify a life skill as any human task that one…

At lunch yesterday I held my fork in my right hand and knife in my left. I was very pleased with myself afterwards...

It seems the author needs to brush up on Bayes' theorem, i.e. before giving a percentage confidence in a given theory, you need to consider the likely hood of the theory not occurr…

When I print preview in firefox, the margins seem to big. All the text is squished into a narrow column.

"While the fidelity of the scans from this machine are of surprisingly low resolution, especially compared to the higher resolution “naked scanners”" The pictures don't quite live …

What does the HN community think of having a public ideas website? Sort of like ASK HN: Rate my startup. Users can post their ideas from inception and receive creative input, reass…

Someone should do a webgl game that doesn't crash the experimental builds that support it.

In his first first of the series the author states "I convened a meeting to suggest ways that we could get past this problem that everyone wanted access to computers in almost all …

Whilst you might not create a stable business out of a Twitter feature, if you can implement a feature that lots of people want for a time when no one else provides it you could ma…

LaunchSet.com has absolutely no public information on it. The only links require you to sign up.

creeepy

I'm running a sweepstake at work where each employee predicts the scores of every match in the 2010 Football/Soccer World Cup. I would like to pull in the world cup full time score…

Somehow I can't see the BBC adopting this approach anytime soon...

Lessons learned from 13 failed software products: - 1. Give up.

Well you could argue that Yahoo search is just a news website with a search page driven by Bing. I see Bing's background as a differentiator to Google, which is why I'm trying to c…