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useful != "Must Read"

for i in {1..17}; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done

Courtesy of sivers / qcassidy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126642

"This conclusion was reached after the researchers looked at 2,197 automobile companies launched in the United States between 1885 and 1981."

I like the service itself, but the website is the opposite of relaxing. Simplify...

I'm trying out the web interface and I like it so far.

OK, I'm on right now, and this kicks ass. This is exactly what I wanted at my last company. When you're dealing with relatively few (but very important) visitors, having this kind of real-time awareness is gold. I can't wait to try it tomorrow when more people are online.

I've been using Mixpanel, but Woopra looks for powerful out of the box, at least for my needs. I've installed the tracking code and will play with it tomorrow.

I haven't tried Chartbeat or Reinvigorate.

Has anyone here used this?

Edge.org really is amazing. I've been consistently impressed with it for years.

After I finish figuring out some Twitter and Facebook API stuff I'm going to head offline too, and try this out as my homepage. Several months ago I went without a computer for 3 weeks, and the clarity/deepness of thought I experienced really surprised me. I'm curious to find out how much was due to avoiding computers, and how much to avoiding the internet.

There was some interesting discussion over at Discover magazine:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/15/gm-corn...

They mainly channel Karl Haro von Mogel, who notes on his blog "the authors have a little history of making mistakes with statistics with this same data set" and points to further information:

http://www.biofortified.org/2010/01/organ-failure-organ-dama...

Nice. And on a mac without seq:

for i in `jot 17 1`; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done

Here is Monsanto's response to a more recent paper by the same authors:

"The authors present no new information, raise no new issues, and reiterate theoretical concerns that already have been dismissed by experts and regulatory authorities around the world."

http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/IJBS-GMO-health-risk...

Site: Typography is inconsistent and hard on the eyes. Spacing is off. I'd recommend looking into a WooTheme.

You don't show us what you've actually built.

I clicked on "Mobile" and instead of an actual mobile app, I saw a traditional website crammed into an iPhone screen.

Approach: I can't speak to your engineering capability, but from a product & marketing standpoint (1) you're probably trying to do too much, and (2) you should look at investing more in design/usability.

No kidding. I lived in Zaire back when it was still called Zaire, and woke up one morning to a cacophony of wailing...it was the funeral procession of a girl down the street who had died of cerebral malaria the night before. I was only 5 years old, but I believe that put a stop to my complaining about the bitter pills we had to take.

It's easy to forget that scenes like this are still played out a million times per year.

In my life, discovering jQuery is what made front-end development fun again. I think we're incredibly fortunate to have people like you helping us build software, and if it was possible to measure the aggregate impact of your work it would be staggering..