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Some practical stuff to consider (not prescriptions), some of which is more relevant in case of advanced disease, and some of which may save you time or headaches in the long run, …

As discussed in Bertrand Russell’s If the Title is a Question, Is the Answer No?

Teachers consider the practice you describe (paying someone to spruce up an essay) cheating, but it's not clear that that is the kind of service that OP's site offers. Many teacher…

Thanks for your kind words about http://www.essayjudge.com While it's true that our service is free, it does come at the cost of the publication of one's essay. I had several (<15)…

This is why I love HN. See something that blows my mind. Read comments. Meh. (When I say "love," you know I mean "hate" right?)

This is a rare and wonderful eulogy. We can nitpick over the details of Fry's grasp of the Apple way, but today it is probably better just to appreciate what Fry gets right about t…

> Honestly, should the consulting thing confuse or worry anyone? I think the author did a pretty good job of explaining why she is worried, and while your two points are compelling…

Yes. It was appealed by the Bush admin., and overturned in '09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield#Court.27s_ruli...

Good to be aware of this if you plan to falsify your tax returns, according to a '98 NYT article (from which this post takes its neat title) http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/04/scien…

I recognize that this is a soundbite version of recent history and tangential to the main point of the article, but just for the sake of contrarianism: Google is the company that p…

Your comment was looking a little grey under the collar when I read it, which I think raises the irony to which you allude to another level.

I really like your comment, but I don't think we should judge an odd philosophy on the basis of one of its most banal articulations. The article belongs to a genre with a pretty de…

I like the concept but I think it's missing something to get the user interested in the first place. HN has content I like from people I don't know. Twitter has random soundbites f…

A beautiful typo. You mean "vulnerable" for "venerable" right? Is that because you think they really are doing what the article implies? Is there evidence more substantial than tha…

Exactly. In fact, the guy didn't discover that trees branch according to the Fibonacci sequence (which was long known) but rather began his investigation by asking, Why the Fibonac…

Inhabitat credits treehugger.com as its source. Treehugger's article is not breathless about biomimicry, not spread over two pages, and not interrupted by adsense and images. http:…

Thanks for the feedback. On my immediate to do list. No excuse, but I didn't build the site, and the process of trying to fix its bugs since I took it over while completely changin…

> I’ve seen a lot of what passes for excellence in high schools, and it’s not good enough. I’ve encountered many brilliant students in college, with straight A’s through highschool…

Could the downgrade not have led precisely, if ironically, to the treasury rally by promoting concern about the general economy, with consequent sell-off of high-risk assets and fl…

If a company has access to hundreds of millions of profiles, can figure out an effective way of delivering targeted ads, and can effect a fundamental shift in the way most people f…

dsl put one up when the chrome extension block was released: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528

"If you don't like a site that appears in your search results, you can block all the pages within that site. Then you won't see any of those pages when you're signed in and searchi…

From the US site http://www.spotify.com/int/coming-to-the-us/ > The award-winning music service that’s taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores. Millions of tracks r…

>The ignorance the writer displays in the last paragraph is ridiculous. "Anti-stem cell research campaigns" are against use of embryonic stem cells. But the writer's own article in…