skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I am more concerned about the organizations that were so vocal during the last administration, since they seem to be out to lunch now."

Which organizations and how has their message or activity changed? Last I checked the EFF and ACLU were rolling right along with their press releases, briefs and lawsuits.

> "I really don't know what has to happen for online privacy to get a stage"

How about this? Why is this not enough?
Why was the revelation of wholesale privacy invasion as in the well-publicized AT&T/San Fran case not enough?
Why is the revelation of easy-access warrant-free 'meta-data wiretapping' not enough?
people will do an amazing amount of work when they feel like they are held hostage. People tend not to make the value decision like a company would.
The way that life expectancy works is that it was low because so many people died of disease in their youth that it dragged the average down. But people who lived to old age still lived to what we would consider an old age today. There would just be fewer people who lived that long, but not dramatically fewer.
Obligatory Hitchhikers quote:

"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive — you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope.
It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
Actually, yes.. But they test them on pigs, not humans.
In that case evolution favours those too stupid to use a condom and too lazy to work.
Why do you think you can trust FDA but can't trust commercial entity?

According to comments here, FDA made mistakes too.
"Having read stories on the web about how some tech companies (cough, Google, cough) sometimes ask silly interview questions like "Why is a manhole round?," Tony asked his HR coach if he would have to answer a question like that."

Microsoft is the company that is/was known for asking this questions. Google is known for asking you real stuff such as explain how a linker works.

Clicking on the photos at the end brings you to "My nightmare interviewing for Google"

After reading this I wondered how much Microsoft paid for this ad. It is laid on so thick....
Ditto, a couple of hundred years ago being pale was fashionable - it meant you were rich enough to not work outside. Nowadays of course, we mostly work indoors - so being tanned is fashionable.
Apple patent introduces an iTunes concert ticket system
I concur with this review. The iPad has done something very important for me: separated casual computer use from work related computer use. I freelance develop from home, so I'm on my computer constantly, and more often than not when I intend to just casually browse on my laptop I will get sucked back into work.

Now that I have the iPad for casual browsing, there's no danger of me getting sucked into work and I can focus more on reading, consuming media, etc.

I can also use the iPad in positions and ways I couldn't use my laptop in, like lying down on my side, standing (I like to pace), and on top of that I don't need to have my legs out in front of me to use it comfortably. I also find I'm not craning my neck as much as I do when using the laptop - it's started to relieve a lot of the RSS problems I have developed from using the laptop away from my ergonomically correct desk/chair.

The iPad is definitely a luxury item, but for people who are on the internet a lot, it's a small price to pay for the convenience. I liken it to having a second television at home, perhaps for your basement. Yeah, you could get by with only having one in your living room, but sometimes it's nice to be able to watch TV/Movies in your basement too, even if the screen is smaller and the sound system isn't quite as nice.
I'm just waiting for the day the App Museum opens. Of course, the App Museum will need an app to keep people up to date on the latest developments in the history of apps.

Entrepreneurial corollary - The Museum App: create your own geo-temporal-tagged expositions and share with your curator friends!
Nice one Cory, spot on mate. The shills like Sharkey and the tech-illilterate in parliament have F'd us in the A.

It makes me so mad. I can't wait for this Act to get some teeth, cos I'm going to punch them in. The last two times they made my life illegal I was pretty powerless to fight back but now they stepped into my ring, bring it the fuck on.

And no, I'm not a freetard either. I don't Torrent movies and the like, I produce them. Seeing the projects I work on on TPB is pretty galling but I would never ever give those fuckers more laws to beat us down with - remember Peterloo !!!

Feargal - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&story_fbid=11...
And people will still ignore the flashing lights because they want to click the dancing bunny.
Because they are a govt. agency and have both oversight and you can request information from them.
i don't get how karma works..
A few more sites that help to find co-founders:

http://founderdating.com/
http://startupsquare.com/

Why don't you start a meetup group like this one?
http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/
Briefings from the meetings:
http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2010/03/bay-area-startups-loo...
http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2009/11/bay-area-startups-loo...

If you want to build something similar to what already exists, you will be able to do it by yourself.
If you want to create something like e-Harmony - matching people based on demographic, educational, job history, psychological and behavioral characteristics and their encounters, feeding gigabytes of data into sophisticated models on a daily basis, think about measurable expectations before proceeding.
Google introduces Cloud Printing
You can get a capacitive pen that works for the iPad. I bought one and it's not too shabby, although there is the somewhat major drawback of not being able to rest your palm on the device while you draw/write. Works great if you wear a glove ala Michael Jackson, though!
Is the soul originally human?

And if not physical remains, why would anyone be worried about whether the post will ship it?
"Populations do indeed evolve along with individuals"

Individuals don't evolve at all. Evolution is changes in gene frequency over time.

What I think you're trying to talk about is macroevolution, where species that happen to have certain traits survive longer than other species. Sure, this sort of thing happens. But I was responding to the claim that "absolute cowardice [is] beneficial to an individual" and noting what would happen to the level of cowardice in a population if that were actually true.
Apocalypse Proof Bunker
Hmmm - varied
At the moment I close my browser in the same way as I close my editor, with the little cross in top right.

But I close my new intuitive iPad app by stroking the background image to the top left? Or turning the window upside down? And of course it's different for each app.

For what designer interfaces do for you - take a look at all the non-standard, non-rectangular DVD/Mp3 player tools installed by random hardware makers.
Ask HN: I have a concept for packaging of a popular product. And some questions
Yes i know of patents and patent pending, but I still don't have the money for that. If I release some concept art/videos/ rough schematics of the product on say HN, Youtube, My blog. Would that grant me any kind of rights if someone down the road took my idea?<p>Second question, how might I get this idea to the industry leaders to make it a viable product?
A Chrome Extension for HN
OK yeah, but you'd still want basically hobbits, not supermodels.
Source code here: http://github.com/bkudria/hackerfriends
I'm still working on cleaning it up and refining it - this is my first ever Chrome extension, so go easy on me. Suggestions and patches/pull requests of course are super welcome.

(BTW I highly recommend anyone wondering about writing Chrome extensions to give it a go. The API and docs are stellar, and it's super-easy to get started.
Real life: Weiser FTW - Xerox PARC's vision realised
Absolutely disgusting. I'm happy this case is being treated seriously and that (as it appears) there's the hope of action being taken against these school administrators.

I've thought for years that parents place far too much trust in public-school staff.
The Use Case for Blocks
Notes on being a nice person online who sells software
His analysis of the difference between the trustee and participatory models is insightful, but he didn't address how what he's building is different from aggregators like HN or reddit. Loosely, it sounds like he's putting together a news-focused forum, which would be different in that its content is hosted centrally. This has been tried; the standard argument against is that the barrier for entry to blogging is so low that anyone who wants to participate already can. Forums work for focused communities, but "news," by virtue of its breadth, seems to defy this type of centralization.

It's not that I'm against it in principle, I just don't get the value proposition.
Can't MSNBC afford any better quality JPEGs ?
Apparently Apple has asked him to re-submit the app:

The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning
this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that
it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/16/cartoonist-apple-back...
ltrace
Is the world moving away from accessible design?
I live in the Central Florida/Space Coast area, and there is a palpable fear that soon all these aerospace jobs will be gone with nothing to fall back on in a crappy economy. This speech was meant to be encouraging to a broad constituency of a state Obama and the Democrats need for future elections.

As far as science goes, the better-faster-cheaper ethos NASA had with the Mars Rovers should be revived. Robots are a terrific way to get actual science done. That said, the lessons learned from building and working on the ISS would be a good starting point for creating a vehicle to take people to Mars - a place we can eventually make habitable (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm).
The process of buying research articles could greatly use some centralization, period. Right now it's a muck of confusing, widely different websites with completely different rules and interfaces for finding and downloading papers. If you have the "benefit" of institution-wide access to get free papers, you are then forced to access everything through your institution's proxy, which layers on more kludge and slowness.

Pubmed and later Google Scholar provided the first great leap in allowing article citations to be found quickly from a centralized database. But generally you had to grab this citation and then trudge through the journal's article search interface via your institution's proxy to then retrieve the actual paper. Being able to click Buy Now, or Access Now, and get the actual paper via a flexible authentication system that works across institutions, would be the next revolution. I don't see any indicator that journals are moving to build this, though, so we are indefinitely stuck with an endless patchwork of incompatible e-commerce sites and institutional proxies.

The result is that a bucketload of undergrads are still stuck collecting PDF's via the gateways as their daily drudgework, allowing primary investigators in universities around the country to put off finding actual labwork for the undergrads to do ;-)
Heads up: Fax won't work over plain VOIP because of the audio compression; it's unlikely they have a gateway available on their network that will do T.38 FOIP, they'd need a real POTS line to send a fax (or use one of the many internet fax services).
I think you need a real location, but I'm not really sure. That is what they are providing to me. You also need two distinct people, one director and one secretary. They are providing me the secretary.

The rates were: 4000 euros for the setup (one year ago), including the place, the secretary and accounting for one year. They took me an appointment with a bank to open a bank account, but I was the one who opened it. For subsequent years they told me it would be around 800 pounds, but now the bill is 3300 pounds (that is nearly the same price I paid the first year). That's why I decided to close it. Their service really sucks.

But if you look on the internet prices really vary and you can find cheaper ones. They try to scare you telling you that if you don't do everything right there might be consequences.

In my opinion the best solution is to go there for some time and do some researches in the city, or at least have someone there. Because if you don't need all these "services" it really a lot cheaper, in the range of the 300-400 euros.

Also, we are speaking about London, not the entire UK. London has special laws regarding this and it's much easier than in the rest of the country.
I look forward to follow-up studies about how to train the brain to divide into more tasks. Wasn't it Jefferson who by legend could handwrite two documents simultaneously in different languages? I doubt he had a third lobe.
This article seems stupid to me.

He seems to be saying procrastination is caused by a fixation on the weekend but he goes on to say that can't be fixed (Under "An Alternative to the Week?"). Then he lists ways to fix the thing he just admitted couldn't be fixed.

The list gives suggestions that are either not related to his point (what does reflecting on each day have to do with loving the weekend?) or are just flat out stupid (You should go out drinking on a Tuesday and come in Wednesday with a hang over just to avoid drinking on Friday?).

I'm all for fighting procrastination but I don't think finding ways to not look forward to the weekend has anything to do with that.
There is a subtle but important difference in what they mean by the two. For a search warrant you have to demonstrate "probable cause" - i.e. that the evidence you expect to find is in the emails.

For a simple court order (which would just be an order to hand over something) they only have to demonstrate suspicion.
Iceland: How Volcanic Ash Threatens Airplanes
For a while I used Qwerty for insert mode and Dvorak for command mode, but eventually I ended up using Dvorak for everything. My particular hand pain didn't show up until years after I took up Dvorak. My problem is mainly with my pinky fingers, and Dvorak actually seemed to be worse than Qwerty for me, so I've switched back to Qwerty.
To answer those questions conclusively, you'll have to write to the Postmaster General.
it's not that they don't care, but some people like having a strong boundary between their work and home life, and the tgif comes from being able to leave your work behind and enjoy/relax/party for the weekend.
How can the military or government employ the wisdom of crowds?
It is getting easier these days.

From his recent comment on an app being allowed into the store, then later rejected, for an offence that large numbers of high-profile games also commit and aren't punished for: "this is Apple being consistent, not inconsistent".
Nice, you could provide stats for users as to how many and who are following. Check out Shareaholic and the way the plugin options are set on a website.
Wait. What do they need for emails older than 181 days? I wasn't actually aware of that limit.

Slightly worrying.
It's not really a discovery. Read this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea#Ecology

The interesting thing in the article is the density they found: 10^7 organisms / gram.
So you want faster-better-cheaper using COTS technologies but also want to keep the 1000s of pork-barrel in my state Nasa jobs ?
And? I sketch, scribble and jot notes on mine all day.
I haven't even configured the Mail app. The icon's been banished to iPad-Siberia (the last page, next to YouTube; can't wait till I can roll them up into a stack labeled "Recycle Bin")

Granted my notes are typically more diagram-heavy and text-light, so having the few words and fragments tapped-out via the on-screen keyboard isn't a deal-killer. (I don't do long-form writing by hand, it's all typed and has been for years.)

Though I am still anxiously-awaiting an app that gives me a diagram/sketch-pad with place-able text-boxes, so I can have clear labels and in-context notes/annotation. Handwriting notes/labels on sketches is pretty inconvenient atm; having to zoom way in to write so the resulting text is legible but doesn't consume the image.
Goldman Sachs Sued by SEC for Fraud on Mortgage-Backed CDOs
Common Lisp: First Contact
Apparently there's 447 that just make fart noises.
I had an interesting experience with pinky finger RSI. After well over a year of pain and experimenting with different keyboards (such as the Kinesis, which I highly recommend), I discovered that part of the problem was resting my elbows on my arm rests. By restricting some of the blood flow to my fingers by pressing on the elbow nerve, I was developing cubital tunnel syndrome. Within a week or so after lowering my arm rests, I felt a ton better. Several months later, pain returns only rarely.

I also love my Kinesis keyboard, too. It is well worth the price if you want to continue programming for decades. After discovering what was causing the pain, it helped me recover quickly and prevent it from occurring again.

I haven't read many posts on this solution, but want to remind people to examine all aspects of their ergonomic setup, not just the source of the pain (e.g., hand/fingers).
I find blog posts like this annoying. Someone takes a common phrase, reads it as if every word is meant in the most literal way possible, then takes pot-shots at it.

I enjoy my work a lot, but after 5 days of it, I look forward to two days where the hours of 8-5 can be spent with my family. Thank God it's Friday.
I saw the copy. But I didn't understand what you meant by tri-color ad copy
I use Hootsuite, instead of Adobe's TweetDeck, because it's a web-based app and I'm a pointy clicky type of person.

I don't have an iPhone, but if I did I'd use Tweetie.

It really depends on how you use Twitter, but Mashable have a great guide include a list of their picks of best apps. http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
There was an article at UIST (a user interface conference) making similar points about 15 years ago. Here's one free version of the paper: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1995/abstract-33.html That paper had some actual concrete recommendations for different kinds of animations that were implemented in Self.
I guess I would question the value in striving for high PR. Modern SEO is far more about engaging with the social scene than hunting down obscure link directories/blogs.

If you have a cool service, then find a way to get people to tweet about it. imho, a far more relevant way to drive awareness.
This is exactly Stack Overflow's (mis)understanding. The statement on the bottom of the page is that user-submitted content is licensed under cc-wiki. That they are granting you a license to use it under cc-wiki. The statement is not that you will license your content to Stack Overflow under cc-wiki. I can easily say, "The entire content of Hacker News is in the public domain." Without asking for permission though, this statement is meaningless. Same with Stack Overflow.
I have been looking at LyX. Link: www.lyx.org

It's a WYSIWYM, What You See Is What You Mean editor which uses LaTeX/TeX with a graphical editor.

It's cross-platform, documentation is first rate and IMHO is an excellent contender to Word, let alone writing LaTex.
Or you could use jQuery's filter() to find if there is at least one match. Even better is to use an any() function that can shortcut.

The real issue here is that each() is incorrectly used to perform a search. each() is intended to perform an operation on each member of a set, not query information about the members of the set.

This is not a use case for blocks but an example of an incorrect transformation of the imperative for loop.
I've heard of more than one hacker installing remote webcam software on their laptops, to track it if it were lost or stolen. The commenters seem to think this is the same sort of thing. Obviously anyone who's been following this story, or has read that article carefully, knows there's a whole bunch of legal and moral issues involved, but it's easy to get the impression from casually reading the article that it was simply a matter of tracking stolen property.
Goldman's activity sounds a lot like the trade that UBS, Merrill, Citi, and 6 other IBs helped Magnetar perform. http://www.propublica.org/feature/all-the-magnetar-trade-how...
Those particular authoritative institutions are usually trying to control the oh-so-wise crowd. In other words, you're asking how the authorities can use the communications of the crowd against the crowd.

You're really eager to get new weapons into the hands of the Masters?
That's a good point, in the spirit of "routing around censorship."

But if people really do pay for information apps, information corporations are going to notice that. Editorial control will be increasingly given over to Apple (or whoever). Less to little to no effort will be made on the sites of at least those corporations.

Of course it only works if consumers go that way. We'll hang ourselves, and buy the rope from information corporations and the scaffold from Apple.
Are you serious? (Mostly) Every upvote gives you a point of karma, every downvote takes one from you. Various facilities in HN have a threshold karma requirement, so when you've garnered enough upvotes (and hence karma) these facilities become available to you.

Stories and comments are sorted so that more upvotes push them higher, but they drop over time. Sort order is votes divided some exponential of time, so newer comments/stories appear higher so they have a chance to get noticed, but then drop to the order dictated entirely by votes after a suitable length of time.

All this is in the FAQs, but you said you didn't understand, so I thought I'd provide a high-level summary.
IronRuby Drops - Does it Make a Sound?
You don't need a real location. There are tons of services on the web where you can use a "virtual" location or the address of the service with the Companies House.

I think lost in all this is regardless how easy it is to create a company in the UK, you still have to deal with European taxes and completely moronic banks.
Not exactly, they argued that the arguments the EFF put forth for carving out an exception for jail-breaking did not meet the legal requirements for carving out such an exception.
Parallel distributed shell
It's much less expensive to look for other trees of life on Earth, but is there any reason why a second one on Earth would be any more likely than a first one on, say, Europa or Titan?

It might be less likely, as we (you, me, and a couple scrillion of our closest relatives) provide robust competition against any other types of life, which may, as you mention, need different chiralities of various molecules, and may have trouble digesting any portion of our biomass.
Seems he's come out swinging, as he usually does with App Store shenanigans: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/app-store-reject...
No, I'm saying that you should never pay your workers less than they need to live on or drive them to exhaustion, even if the market will bear it.
I think that your/you're and its/it's distinction causes no problem for sophisticated readers of English because the meaning is clear from context. Eventually there will be one spelling for both probably without the apostrophe. Usually, readers who learn this for the first time make a huge deal out of it.