skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thomas Friedman pushes globalization, with the same passion as a drug dealer, touting that, "Let them do the blue collar work, and America will do what it does best: creative, innovative, white collar work."

That's only a temporary competitive advantage, though. (To say it's sustainable is racist, really.) And now, lo!, here are the signs it's ending. Surprise, surprise.

Innovation in the emerging world will encourage, rather than undermine, innovation in the rich world.

With this, they are trying to say, "But don't worry; this doesn't affect you." Ha! No, no, no. Developing countries are coming to eat your lunch, and I couldn't be happier about it. Bon apetit!
I think that it's an interesting idea. But why wouldn't someone just put out a call for co-founders on Hacker News like you just did?
I don't know about "an obsession with 'diversity'" but that was not the point of my comment. The point was to find ways to avoid isolating women. It may happen that in completely "politically correct" disciplines there are, say, more men than women (or vice versa) but why would that be the case? Because of something biological? That's a bit absurd.

It's perfectly ok to value competence and interest-level over diversity. But why are there significantly fewer women in computer science? Because they are less competent or interested for some biological reason? Absurd.

Few women are in computer science for a host of reasons (and probably more we do not know about). Perhaps the slides I pointed out in the presentation are part of the reasons. It's hard to be sure but when we give presentations about joining CS, perhaps we can specifically try to avoid isolating women. (Of course, I have not solidly argued that those particular slides do isolate women.) And I mean specifically, intentionally avoid isolating women. That is, read over the presentation twice; the second reading is to find such issues.
Not exactly what I said.

What you said:

You clearly have the intelligence to make the decision... Will everyone be able to make such an informed choice?

It is absolutely true that people might make poor choices. Part of being an adult is making poor choices and suffering the consequences.

As for your concerns about false advertising, that is already illegal. Further, if you are truly concerned about misleading claims, keep the FDA, but reduce it to a labeling role. Then you get all the benefits of the FDA (provided you buy only FDA approved drugs), but I'm still allowed to buy drugs which meet my criteria but not theirs.
The "cylinder with accordion-like folds" looks like the business end of the toilet plunger I recently bought, so it's already mass produced and easy to source cheaply.
Same here. (Chrome 5.0.3 on OS X). It's dependent on the site of the window though. I keep my relatively small, so that automatically came to mind.
Really simple actually: monitoring service set up to mail my Japanese cell phone, cell phone has custom ringtone for emails from their address.
more importantly that just listing the interest, laws where pas t to constrain credit card lenders from being able to enact interest rate hikes for late payments as well as payments over the minimum payment are applied to the highest interest balance first. These are far more significant rules enacted by this legislation.

Not to get too deep into politics but I am not a big fan of Obama (the other side either) but he got this one right and for that I commend him.
I agree. Would be helpful to know what you can/can't do, and what the advantages of becoming a registered user are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0#t=3m40s see the guy at 3:45 swinging around? http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201878.php makes it clearer.

Also the US mil report from the time (not a response to Wikileaks, from 17 July 2007, 5 days after the event) - They did have AKM/AK47 and loaded RPG + extra rounds and were hidden around the corner watching, one of their party took pics, http://www.scribd.com/doc/29487634/Centcom-FOIA?page=41 of an APC whilst their friends were apparently readying an RPG to blow them up with.

And though it's not proof of anything specific in this case the photog in question, who died, was known for getting "victory" shots of insurgents handiwork.
Twitter "grows up," even has business plan
Virtual monetisation is an excelent placeabo for consumer vanity.

I honestly believe physical materialism to be a much worse than virtual materialism (even if it is less socially acceptable in the non-virtual mainstream). This is because aside from the energy used to maintain the virtual space, it has no physical waste (such as wrapping, receipt, carrier bag, and the eventually discarded object).
yes, i see the same, depends on my window size (am on a 1200 x 800 laptop)
I'm not sure from an SEO standpoint, but from an end-user standpoint I wouldn't click on a site with the domain "monkeyshats.com". It looks too much like "monkey sh*ts".
People are loathe to register the ideas they're working on, for obvious reasons. Here are a couple sites that I know of:

http://findmycofounder.com

http://programmermeetdesigner.com
My favorite intro to LaTeX still is The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.p...
Demand Media (Richard Rosenblatt, from MySpace) preps IPO
In highly competitive markets with a low barrier to entry (such as computer mice and keyboards) profit margins are low and production cost increases are mostly forwarded to the customers.
OK, fair point, let me change the second noun. That wasn't the point of the question.
Unless you have more than 100 students. Or don't have a Mac. Or think it's ridiculous to have to pay $99 every year to run your own app.
I think you should learn to code. Check out ruby, and ROR - pretty easy to pick up.
Oooh, this would be a great topic to go in depth on for a blog post. I'll get something done for you this weekend because this is a topic near and dear to my heart.
I think that the problem is that you are a tiny segment of the market.

Average users (both private and corporate customers) don't really care much about their mice.
A lot of the time you are limited by the environment you are surrounded with. It makes sense to me that developing countries would start to compete on a creative edge, because they likely have a completely different perspective about the world than we (non-developing) countries do.
The iPad Developer's Children Have No iPads
I am not sure I buy this thinking. If labor was more expensive things might cost more to begin with, but eventually people will figure out how to do stuff with machines. So eventually things will get even cheaper than they were with cheap labor. There is no reason a computer mouse should be assembled by hand at all. But of course nobody wants to invest in automating tasks that can be done for breadcrumbs by some desperate poor people somewhere.
Day of Silence: April 16, 2010
But yet I bet people have been attempting to drag and drop for attachments since Gmail started. For non technical users this is a big help.
Do you have experience in running this sort of project (i.e. for your previous employers, etc.) - if not you'll have a hard time raising funding just with an idea. There are a lot of complications from running this type of project, even when you have someone experienced running the show, so getting funding without experience is going to be close to impossible.

Although if you have unique value only you can provide (strong relationships with large potential customers, etc) then you should focus on that and try and sell that rather than just your idea.

I think the best route is to build a prototype one way or the other (learn the skills, partner with someone who has them) and you'll have a much better chance of getting investment.
meld, regexxer
Harvard professor's Nobel Prize stolen
$1148 in One Day Working With Plants?  You Bet
Upcoming Cars in India: 2010 New Car Launches
I dispute the way you interpret my original comment though. The point I was making was that I assumed you were, in this hypothetical situation, going to read the research and calculate the proper risks associated with the drug you choose.

If you dont then your not making a properly informed choice. I postulate that most people wouldn't - not through a lack of intelligence necessarily but all manner of reasons (laziness, misinformation, confusion, disinterest). Don't we have a moral right to avoid putting them in a position to accidentally choose a drug that kills you in a few years time?

This is the main point really; your example is very compelling (because I actually agree we should be able to quantify and choose our own risk). But I feel the real issue with de-regulation is that the drugs would have unknown future side affects.

Taking your example: what if the drug had only been tested and used for a year or so. You start using it understanding the risk so far discovered (fair enough) - but then in 3 years time it is discovered regular users are developing terminal cancers. What if they discover that any regular use brings the death rate within 5 years to 100%?

These are the risks regulation tries to balance out.
I've actually never had any serious problems with my wrists, and sometimes I think that starting playing piano as a young kid, along with my guitar today, and with regular trips to the swimming pool and daily bike commute, helps keeping my wrists strong and pain free.

I've been using a kinesis freestyle keyboard for about a year, and before that a series of regular chepo 102 keys, but the possibility of having my hands apart a longer distance keeps my wrists more relaxed and overall I get a better body posture.

I think most of the problems other people have come from the latter: my elbows are on top of the table, which means my keyboard is farther away than what I see other people using and so I'm in a very relaxed position. The ubiquity of laptop's small keyboards certainly doesn't help either.
Out of curiosity, what's the expected latency (i.e. time from where you pick the articles to date you ship the hard copies) of this? I stopped reading news magazines and papers because the latency in the information was too slow, but I still read magazines that have a longer shelf life. The FAQ says you will filter out time sensitive stories, but everything has some limit....
Choose a domain name that is exactly as some one might query it. Google gives a bonus for exact matches. You'll jump up a few positions in the SERPs.

P.S. Avoid hyphens :)
I'm not sure slide 6 counts as a positive viewing of women. The Facebook page is obviously doctored (such as "Sex: San Francisco, CA"). Her "Activities" are "food stuff, art, fixing up the house, friends." She is supposedly a Stanford Alum but remember this talk was at MIT. She also works at "NoddaCorp."

I also feel slide 6 is generally a negative view of CS, since it refers to "The Matrix", and the joke in the notes is about how people already upload their brains to the web and escape "real-life". Finally, "these are some of the LESS interesting things we talk about in computer science!"

This slide does not show that creating tech is for everyone, simply that, in this case women at least, make significant use of it (for better or worse...).
This wingnut is the UK corollary to Comstock, long gone now but her legacy still bothers us:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse
you guys are way ahead of me, man..
Be The Life Of The Party With Djay Remote
In the middle of DJ’ing a house party you’re called away from your desktop forgetting to cue up some tracks. To your amazement, iTunes cues up your live version of “Like a Virgin” after a kicking Beastie Boys track — your guests recoil in horror.

This tragedy could have been avoided with an app like Djay Remote.
That reminds me of something funny a guy from Yahoo told me. He worked on an algorithm that would try to identify what a domain like www.salesexchange.com was really about - "sales exchange" or "sale sex change"
Earned $662.26 online since Monday (in 4 days)
Cory Doctorow on the Digital Economy Act: This means war
Make Life Easier for European Startups: Simpler/Cheaper LLC's
I also switched to Dvorak due to RSI issues on a QWERTY layout. It's not a substitute for taking typing breaks and improving the circulation in your hands but it helps a lot.

I recommend trying for a day or so. Even after a few hours of use it's obvious that you're doing less work to type the same things. In 3 weeks your typing speed should be tolerable (capable of conversing on IRC) and in 3 months you should be up to full speed.

I don't type any faster on Dvorak than I used to. It's just more comfortable for my hands.
Rebranding disasters
The link to "The MindBody Prescription" is broken:

http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/...
Hm. The download link states "Available for Windows and Mac", yet the screenshot on the download page shows it being run in Ubuntu. Is there actually some hidden Linux version and I am just missing something?

EDIT: I just realized it says "also available for". Ignore my ignorance :)
Any comments? Will be a pleasure to answer =)
Not that I have files on the iPhone to upload, but the background covers most of everything on mobile safari too.
I think most people won't care. They want the shiny. If political satire is missing, most people won't miss it or even notice, they'll be too busy laughing at their cat batting games on their iPad. The same for other political commentary, or news that puts some politician or institution in a bad light.

The iPad may help news corporations survive, but it is certainly no saviour to journalism. In an age where editors would fight government censorship to the point of jail and beyond, they'll STFU and follow Apple's rules to stay in business.
We will now see whether Google considers Demand Media too big to fail or not. (Demand Media is the biggest, most sophisticated search engine spammer in history.) Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm thinking that either way the shockwaves from that decision are going to be huge.
Online notebook smackdown: Evernote vs. Springpad
Unfortunately, most web browsers and sites are impossible to navigate by keyboard. So, as you've already got your hand on the mouse and are using it to click links, I think this is actually one situation where it can be justified (unlike, for example, a text editor).
Definitely needs a progress indicator and some help with large files. Check out SWFUpload; while finicky, I've had great success with it (as has Wordpress, YouTube, etc.).

http://www.swfupload.org/
Every time someone brings up LaTeX I bring up Pandoc. It's an awesome conversion tool written in Haskell that converts between a number of input and output languages, most notably from markdown to LaTeX or a PDF made with LaTeX. I've been using it for all my assignments and papers since I got it, and it's really nice to write in markdown, but be able to use LaTeX for things markdown can't handle.

Link: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Rather, one can contract.... not necessarily and not exclusively.
>First, this loss has to be covered on the margins - the consumers end up paying anyway, it's just less transparent.

Apart from consumer protection there's an other reason for the government to do this: It's an implicit subsidy of retail stores. By making online shopping more expensive, states are supporting local businesses.

I love strong consumer protection and the benefits that come along with it. But I have never send anything back and have to pay higher prices for some guys who are abusing the system by ordering 10 different products just to send 9 back after they've tried them without even paying for shipping...
Code for Flexibility: A Manifesto
If monkeysrings.com has "far, far more queries", then choosing that domain is a clear optimisation.
Here's what I recommend my clients do before spending a dime on sales and marketing: make a Facebook profile of your ideal client. Fill in everything: age, location, education, favorite movies, interests, etc. Find pictures of this ideal client.

Once you have this profile completely filled out, lock your crosshairs on this fictional person. Your marketing needs to be a rifle shot, not a shotgun blast.

Your marketing spend will be less and yield more ROI if you do this.
"mircroblogging" (in the first paragraph). Could he really not be bothered to proofread even just two sentences?
Same on my 1024x600 netbook.
This isn't so much a "Europe" problem as a country-by-country problem since there's still not a lot of harmony between the European incorporation forms. I'm familiar with incorporation in the US, UK and Germany, and the UK is the easiest of the batch.

This is a good explanation of the German reform for the UG (mini-GmbH):

http://www.howtogermany.com/pages/mini-gmbh.html

It's a little more onerous than a US / UK incorporation, but not much.
The question is, what is Grouply's capitalization?
Microsoft KIN Ads 'Advocating Sexting'
Related to this: http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp

Summary: "Software company hiddes a message in their End-user license agreement (EULA) that promises a prize to anyone who actually reads it. Only after 3000 downloads the prize was finally claimed."
I just hope we can get started with the asteroid mining for rare earth metals before we run out of the rare earth metals to build computers that will get us there.
Yes, I noted that "Europe" is a bit imprecise, but it is a problem common to many European countries, so rather than list them all, I went with "Europe" plus an asterisk.
[…]You can eliminate the pain by addressing the unconscious stress and becoming consciously aware that the pain is merely a distraction[…]

This sounds a whole lot like Dzogchen meditation practices, their way of cleansing the mental palette, achieving "mindfulness". I remember faintly reading a book my one Norbu Chogyal, or a russian translation of said book. I remember it being the only coherent piece of material on meditation that I have ever come across.
I'm curious. Does your friend balance his meal exploration adventureness with boring-ness in other parts of his life? Or is he a free spirit?
Google Reveals the Future of Printing With Google Cloud Print
Fiore ran afoul of the terms of the iHumor platform.
Please read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How marginal tax rates changed boxing
no wonder your name at HN is _debug_
This reminded me of an old movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF6DI0btvVY

Makes more sense to Italian speaking people.
I seem to recall that from a SNL skit.
Same on FF 3.6.3 on Windows.

A simple solution would be to jack up the z-index on the form so it's always in front of the hills.
That's a great idea. You might want to improve your wording so I know what I'll get extra when I register.

Realistically, how far can you get with no ads?
http://twecan.com/#/RMS%20Titanic

It seems the titanic is coming back :-)
Apple refusing to allow any content that satires public figures or draws controversy in some way is akin to a religious person being afraid to read a Richard Dawkins book or listen to him speak for fear of being tainted, or hearing something that contradicts their own world view.

Both to me would seem to indicate that a person or organisation has a deep-seated lack of conviction in their own position, whatever that position may be.
iPad Review from an iPhone Developer- it's a legal pad for computing.
But I think it's a bad idea to completely remove the right of consumers and businesses to enter into specific agreements.

You're making a fallacy of the excluded middle. Very few would argue that we should completely remove the right to enter into a contract.

However, that's not what a purchase is. When you pay for an object, that is a sale. When your business is oriented to selling a service to many individuals, that is also, properly, a sale, and is quite distinct from entering into a contractual arrangement with another corporate entity.

When you pay for a service, the terms of that service should be easy to understand and not require pages of legal boilerplate. A service oriented to consumers should have no expectation that the customer has a lawyer reading the terms of that service. As such, the terms should be clear, explicit, and most of all, short.

The solution to the horrendous way it's done in the US is not to point at Europe and say "look, it's also horrendous there!" That is a silly, thoughtless, contentless argument that far too many are using just reflexively.

Edit: Removed "In other words" at the beginning of last paragraph.
The longer investors pours money, the more money founders and top personal earns. That is the business model. =) The art is about chatting investors as long as possible and to leave on time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_value_theorem
Amusingly enough a lot of the 'default' linux music players have similar or better library/organisation features (I would prefer to use rhythmbox if it has a mac version).
http://twecan.com/#/San%20diego

Michele Obama in san diego :-)

The thing is this is live, if you go to this site later you will only get things that are happening live. Cool and Scary :-)
I applaud the effort, though dropbox's public folder has pretty much removed my need for services like this.
Very similar experience here; bought myself a Kinesis for home and one for work (I'm sure they'd have paid for it, but I couldn't be bothered). It was quite possibly the best $600 I've ever spent. I don't mouse enough to have yet bothered with the trackball, but perhaps I'll get one to try it out.

The only downside I've found (other than cost, which is a non-issue IMO) is that you get very used to the keyboard and now when I go to a conference room or someplace else with normal keyboards, I might as well be typing with my elbows.
r.e. your book. I bet that if you spent a little time on the design you would get a load more potential sales. I mean this kindly but the current page looks a little like one of the "EARN MONEY ONLINE!!!!" scam pages.

Here is a great example that got posted here a little while back: http://createyourproglang.com/
Of course, thanks.
Yes, the number in your headline isn't formatted in a way expected for a USD value. When seeing a figure like "$xxx,xx" it seems, to an American, that the ones digit must be missing ("$xxx,xxx").
Linux AI programmable robot baby dinosaur.
Perhaps collapse it down to a thin bar? I think you'd want to leave the option of reopening it.
On this site a large chunk of people think about life and world and people just in an economic way. Maybe maybe, there are others who just live their life following different patterns.
I registered since I was curious. There doesn't seem to be a way to delete items, but as a registered user I can get a list of things I've uploaded. That could come in handy later.

I would really love to know more about this service since it seems very useful.
For someone born in China, who may be deeply patriotic about their country but hates their government; for them it is a catch 22 because they could move abroad but that means a big sacrifice.

No-one is forcing you to use an iPhone or an iPad; if you disagree with Apple's policies then walk down the street and buy an alternative product, or don't develop apps for the App Store.

Apple can dictate policies that irritate developers and content publishers because they have a better product offering to the consumers plus a critical mass of app offerings in the App store and they know it. If Microsoft had a superior tablet offering that everyone was raving about and an Android-based phone was kicking Apples ass in terms of iPhone sales, then perhaps Apple's stance would be more lenient.

A little perspective please.
I hope these ads can be made votable, like reddit ads. I'd very much like the ability to vote down obnoxious ads and banners. The voting information itself could be sold. This would help maintain the quality of the ads. Apple should also provide a way to email links to ads to friends.
Perhaps the part that says "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." ?
Ubuntu 10.04 delivers usability, strength