skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just passed through the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The back-scatter scanner is right next to the metal detector and the procedure was that they would "offer" you the choice to walk through the new scanner and said if you turned it down that they would have to perform a physical search. I told them I did not wish to go through the scanner, at which point they walked me past the metal detector (not through) to the pat-down area. While standing there for a few moments for the TSA personel, several people went through the metal detector with no further search. Further, the notification that the machine is still in testing phase is posted after you have already passed through it. It was abundantly clear at that point, the new policy of intimidation and humiliation has nothing to do with my personal safety.

The unilateral and unpublished changes in screening procedure are blatant abuses of authority and undermine the principles of our society. The argument that I have given implicit consent to being searched just by buying an airplane ticket is completely voided when the search procedures are constantly changing without detailed public knowledge or immediate explanation.

I have no fears about flying in general or those caused by the threat of terrorism. I am much more likely to die in a small plane crash with one of my pilot friends at the controls. What terrifies me the most is this blatant disregard of civil liberties and the apparent complacency with which the public submits to the draconian policies being put in place without consent of the people.
That's the point... he didn't "hack" anything. He posted an ad, it got a desired result. Good for him, but nothing remotely special.
Review My Startup: Turnip - time/task tracking for freelancers
http://goturnip.com

Originally created for myself, but I thought I'd throw it out into the wild and see if anybody liked it.

Note that this is an MVP release. Invoicing and a customizable dashboard are coming up eventually, but aren't included yet.

Thoughts, anyone? You guys are the first to see this so I would really really love any feedback you can give me. Thanks!

EDIT: Also, I have done exactly zero IE testing so far so my apologies if it looks like crap in IE.
Help us grellas, you're our only hope ...
One of the most surprising things I've learned in the last few years is that american cultural norms of how one should live one's life really do have at least some upsides, and "growing up" can be a lot of fun.

And these things are big - changing how you dress, and who you live with, and where, will change your life. But looking at these things logically, and predicting outcomes can be hard.

I don't make analytical choices about these questions any more, I've found my gut better than my brain here. And if you want "grow up" not doing so because you might be lonely, or have a hard time making ends meet seems like a poor decision to me. On the other hand if your gut says live with roomies when you're 50, I'd advocate that as well.
What are you talking about on YouTube? Most of the top Youtube partners (people who get paid by youtube for videos) are individuals and not corporations.

I don't know any YouTube decision that hurt YouTube channels by individuals in any way.
Reading, arguing, analysis.
We just went through something similar this past summer, where a large company approached us about purchasing our technology and team. At first, we were extremely excited and we worked our butts off to get a couple of new features that were in the works out the door and had a second meeting with them to demo the new features and then spoke to their head guy about terms and numbers.

They kept delaying and hemming and hawing and the intent to acquire cooled off a bit leaving us a little disheartened and wondering what happened.

Like you guys, we had to go and continue working on our product but at the same time, allocate time to replenish our coffers as you said but we're still trying to figure out what happened.
EPIC lawsuit is epic.
If that is really the case, I can’t wait for the deluge of lawsuits…

TSA is ridiculous.
It's possible to both up sell and have a good UX. Provided the upsell UI is sensibly restricted, unobtrusive and actually related.

Sometimes up selling can actually helpful. I brought a camera recently because I dropped my last one and smashed the screen. After adding it the basket the site listed a few related accessories which included a leather case. Following my recent breakage it's exactly what I needed, but for some reason I had totally forgotten. As it happens I searched a bit a got a different case, but it was their upsell prompt that reminded me I needed one.
It's river of news and it's slated for next month. I wasn't going to implement this until recently, when a user very persuasively convinced me to make this a priority. I thought it was a workflow that didn't fit in with the rest of NewsBlur. He thought it was a necessary feature for any hard-core user.

Everybody reads RSS differently, and I am only trying to pleasure a few groups for now. But river of news is one of the highest ticket priorities. Up there with the iPhone app (which is 60% done), fixing misbehaving feeds, and fixing the many Chrome bugs.
Me. It's insane. It serves no purpose other than to intimidate and harasses normal citizens just trying to get from point A to point B. The fact that I'm assumed to be that stupid, plus the 1984-esqe overtones really, really gets to me.
Yesterday the mac version was 2.8, so I think that's a bit of hyperbole.
That actually really sucks that it does not have any descriptions, "about us" or anything.

As a non-fashion person myself I didn't understand what the site was about you I read your comment.

I can see how this would be a great resource for fashion minded people.

Ps. If the owner of the site need help monetizing, let me know, I can help.
But honestly Monica, the web is considered "public domain"
Sounds like bacon underwear would work pretty well.
I really think they got the right idea by making it look more "mac" window/finder like....

But they totally missed the mark by putting so much white space and padding around everything.

The minimal size I can shrink the window to is still >=33% of my 20" monitor, even with "Compact Sidebar" and smaller font.

They really should have studied the Mac OS user interface a bit more before releasing this. It seems like they fell into the whole lots of white-space and big font web-design trends...
> Yes, taxpayers fund science, but commenting, beautifying and documenting code is not what a physicist/mathematician/climate researcher wants to spend his time. Usually you want to be doing research

Hunting down all the right citations, putting results in good prose, formatting the paper to the standard of where you are trying to get it published, responding to peer reviews (as silly as they can get), doing peer reviews for others... all things that are not "doing research" (strictly speaking) and to some are not enjoyable.

But they have to be done anyway, it's a quality standard that has to be met, everyone suffers for it and everyone benefits from it. It's just that the scientific community has let itself set really lousy standards for code sharing. It should be rectified.
This is fairly obvious but easy to overlook advice from Fred.

The concept of flow is often mentioned here on HN and letting competitors destroy flow is an easy trap to fall into. As others have mentioned, the question remains how much time one should allocate toward observing and reacting to competitors. While it is undoubtedly above 0, one has to take into account the opportunity cost involved as well as the energy wasted on switching gears, which can be quite significant and is often overlooked.
I believe there's a hockey stick there. I too had such experiences regarding exercises a few year back then, but after I decided to stick to it things started to improve, and now I do get more energetic even after rigorous workouts. I would theorizes that if you don't really exercise that regularly, exercise is indeed more a burden at first, and you need to work on it until it becomes 'profitable' one day.
Al Qaeda also seem to keep throwing themselves after hard targets. PIRA (and the UVF, UDA etc) left bombs on trains, dropped them in shopping centre bins, posted them through letter-boxes. The really terrifying thing was that nowhere was safe.

One of my earliest memories is helping to check under the car for bombs before driving to school.
My favourite ridiculous scene was from Firewall, when Harrison Ford uses his daughter's iPod to hack into a mainframe.
Exploit Toolkit provides fake 'control panel'
I created one for the old Skype for mac: http://edds.github.com/Simples.SkypeChatStyle

I will be converting this to the new Skype at some point over the next week. The styles are full HTML, CSS and JS. The messages are all placed into the view with JS so its fairly easy to customise to your hearts content.
If you use alcohol to take the edge of off life then there is something wrong with your life. You're not an alcoholic you just abuse alcohol. My advice would be to see why you feel your life has an edge that needs smoothing.

For me, in the past, this has meant stopping work all together so I could get enough downtime for my brain to sort out wtf is going on. Things fall in to perspective over time. It took me about a month. If that's not for you, try and reduce your main job to 3-4 days a week on health grounds and use the rest of the time to sort yourself out.

You might want to consider volunteering at an alcohol abuse centre to help you realign your use of alcohol.

Remember, first and foremost it's your life, you've only got one of them so anyone/anything that isn't helping you get to where you want to be should be removed from you life.
I echo tocomment - for someone who has only ever flown commercial, how would one go about finding and hiring a GA operator? What's kind of premium would you expect pay for a regional (eg Chicago to Detroit) flight or a longer flight (eg Chicago to LA)?
Well, it's certainly more than you've been offered. So do you really need the money you've been offered? Especially since you'd be giving up part of the company for it? I really doubt it.

Also it sounds like YC may have rejected you because you were already well enough on your way. Just doesn't seem to be the kind of people they choose.
The driving in eastern Massachusetts is pretty horrible, especially during rush hour (7:30am - 9:30am | 4:30pm - 6:30pm). Inside Route 128/I-95 expect to see many one-lane roads with traffic lights everywhere. Very slow moving at times with over-saturated roads. The Worcester area is just as bad. So are some communities in between I-495 and 128/I-95.

Public transit in the state is great IF you work/live near a train or subway line. Driving/parking to stations can be time consuming and expensive. Plenty of bus routes inside 128/I-95, though they have to deal with road traffic.

I lived in Boston for a bit without a car near the subway. Super-easy (and cheap!) to get around. It's definitely a very walkable city so long as you have something warm to wear in the winter. Having a car in Boston is expensive mostly due to parking. There is street parking, but good luck getting a spot! :)
Make a list of congressmen and senators that require you to let nude photos of your children to be taken by government employees. It's all about how you frame the argument
That comment requires context, and the headline is flamebait. What Zuckerberg meant is that you can't treat the iPad like you do a mobile device such as an iPhone or Android-based phone. He's 100% correct too. The best iPad applications share only one key aspect with iPhone applications: the touch UI.
Have a medical issue? There's a pill for that!

Why not try something natural first like counseling, exercise, meditation, etc? I'm sincerely curious why your immediate response is to use medication to solve the problem.
It's also important to size up the cashier.
Not the exact one, but gets the point across nicely. :)
Buzz post from a Googler on the release:
"We have inflicted Sawzall on the world."

http://www.google.com/buzz/100587561646339426146/2Ehn2s7Nf1D...
Maybe if enough protests come about in this fashion then the screeners will force their bosses to drop this stupid policy. Like, "I didn't take this job to be touching 500 penises a day. And everyone's got snarky comments!"
It sounds like you are trying to figure out if you have an addiction problem or a lifestyle problem.

So, decide not to drink alcohol for 4 weeks starting today. If you can't manage it, you will know the former is the problem. If you can, you will have made a great start to addressing the latter.
Finding Competitive Advantage in Adversity
When some congressman's 14 year old grandchild gets felt up by a perv things would change very fast
I don't even want to think about my death, I just want to keep on living my life.

Aging is ridiculously unfair, but ignoring it doesn't stop it from happening. The Reaper keeps track of the beads whether or not you do. People get old. Their bodies and minds slowly break down. At some point they have to stop working, stop driving, stop doing lots of things they love doing.

This accounting of days sounds depressing at first, but I can speak from experience: you soon go back to your normal level of happiness, but with a more accurate view of reality. I think a similar thing happens with terminally ill patients, although the time scale is shorter.

The terminal illness analogy maps pretty well to aging. So much so that I encourage people to donate to anti-aging research such as the Methuselah Foundation (https://www.mfoundation.org/?pn=mj_donate) or SENS (http://www.sens.org/donate). I just donated $50 the latter.
Why not allow yourself one beer for every hour you work on your project in the evening?
Disclaimer: I work for Google and Chris Palmer has since left to work for the EFF. That shouldn't change the fact that the slide deck is awesome though.
> but by 7 pm the stress of the day makes that beer (and couch time with the wife) so much more appealing.

perhaps find a less stressful job or find a way to make what you have now less stressful? alcohol sounds like its your default coping mechanism for stress. as mentioned already, exercise will probably help, too, but it sounds like this might be treating the symptoms, not the problem.
Good idea...however, I already work out. I agree with you that it helps, but doesn't completely do it for me for some reason.
What particular changes have they made that make it worse? Looking at the article, and from all the newsgroups/mailfeeds I'm on, the only changes are the 4.0 breaking updates (expected with a major point change, same thing happened going to 3) and the menu layout. Everything listed in the original article here have been in that state for the past few years.
"No, no. The process has always been the same, at every airport."

We've always been at war with Eastasia.
One thing I've noticed is the difference in the url structure of your amazon affiliate links compared to the ones that I have on a site that I've pretty much abandoned http://www.albumvsalbum.com

When I click one of your links and navigate to amazon, I get a url that looks like this:

www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-U00090-Power/dp/B0007YDBLE%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAINAGOCRZFLVCUJUA%26tag%3Dfindanewgame-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0007YDBLE

This is in contrast to links from my site that look like:

www.amazon.com/Night-Of-The-Hunter/dp/B002XHWB3W?&camp=212361&creative=385533&linkCode=wag&tag=albumvsalbum-20

Note that your link at least visually is not formulating the ?, &, and = like mine is. Instead those characters are being url encoded. Now I don't know if this is causing difficulty on Amazons end or not but it's something I noticed.

EDIT: if this is the issue, please let me know.
What real long term benefits does alcohol offer you? It sure makes you a deservice (affects health, possible addiction, etc).

Out of 6 billion people no one cares if you get sick, die or have possible alcohol problems. So it's your responsibility to take care of your life. So just grab it by the hornes and say "I think I've had too much alcohol so far. From this second on I will never drink again.". And then stop doing it. There's no middle ground. Its either you do it or you dont.
> Then "creativity" kind of misses the point of software engineering, doesn't it?

This could also be equally phrased as "Then software engineering kind of misses the point of creativity, doesn't it?"

> It should be treated as such.

You are certainly entitled to your opinions. I personally fall on the 'craft' side of things: woodworkers can make sculptures or doors. Both are valid applications of their craft. Some people specialize in sculpture, some in doors, and nobody is right or wrong.
Will trade action bring back American jobs?
I've done this before with mostly success. However, once I've passed the 4 week mark, I slide back into old habits.
That's nice and all, but I fail to see what's wrong with my Airwalks/Sketchers, jeans, black tee shirt and charcoal-colored hoodie.
Radiation transfer is what I do my research on (though not in the atmosphere), and it's something we know how to do. I really doubt the scientific field has screwed that up. Certainly all arguments I've seen regarding that have had crackpot quality. (I have some hope of getting around to actually running that problem myself, but "real" work always seems to get in the way.)

The projections were not based entirely on the Mann temperature record. There are satellite data, other analyses, etc., and I haven't seen to what extent changing one of those data sets impacts the projections.
Thats the part I never got either - I remember after 11/9 that I had wished America was British, because you guys reacted so sensible and wouldn't have gone so crazy. A country that can survive the Blitz isn't going to care about a couple of buildings.
Awesome, Bruce Schneier is part of the lawsuit:

"Three frequent air travelers are joining EPIC in the lawsuit: security expert Bruce Schneier, human rights activist Chip Pitts, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations legal counsel Nadhira Al-Khalili. The Petitioners have brought claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Privacy Act, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Fourth Amendment."
Same here, and another good motivator for me was also to be very, very sure to commit your changes very often.

Sometimes when I get really overpowered by one of these problems I tend to throw that out the window and it adds to my frustration in the end.

It's hard to tell yourself you didn't accomplish anything, when over the course of the evening you've got a couple dozen commits to show for it. Also it reduces any trepidation you have about getting in there and making a change, because you can easily roll back to where you were 5 or 10 minutes ago.
Did you look, or are you just complaining that you haven't randomly absorbed the right kind of explanation?

http://climate.nasa.gov/

Although that site doesn't really work without Flash.
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I would avoid the William Faulkner look, but this site is wonderful. It makes me want to wear more men's clothing.
I'm a director of one of Japan's largest online fashion flash-sales sites. I have a vague idea of what I'm talking about when it comes to e-commerce.

Ahh that familiar smell of insecurity fills the air once again.
Prohibition was about criminalising alcohol, which I said was a bad idea. The problem was legalising alcohol in the first place, which would not have happened had we known then what we know now.

Also the SVD massacre was IMHO only tangentially associated with alcohol. It was part of a war between armed gangs, had it not been alcohol it would have been gambling, prostitution or something else.

However my karma has taken enough hits for today.
Why don't you apply to some other accelerators and/or try to raise money from angels? YC's not the only game in town.
They ran into a lot of legal issues with that CD. Supposedly KenzerCo got the rights to all the pre-3.0 D&D stuff so that they could make Hackmaster by agreeing not to sue.
Shoreditch to be renamed Silicon Ditch
On the back of Shoreditch, East London's recently announced $200m government investment to bolster its attempts to become Europe's Silicon Valley - a fitting baptism is Silicon Ditch.
Stopping or changing work for me is not an option currently. Far too many obligations. Have to pay for my family to live!
hu89
I like your features page a lot. It's very simple, clean, and gets right to the point.

The biggest concern I have. There seem to be a billion time tracking tools out there. Everything from command line to web app. What sets yours apart? You seem to touch on tasks and it being for 1person aka non teams. I would really stress those unique features. I'd also add some addition features to support the freelancer / solo team feature.
The two examples I'd bring forth to suggest that nullification (I'm assuming nullification = legalization) would work are America's Prohibition (banning alcohol only worsened the problem, http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/what-can-pr...) and Portugal's recent legalization (a resounding success; http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-dr... and http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...)

Or did you mean something else by nullification that I missed?
Considering that TSA screeners have been known to change policy, at will, whenever its convenient for them I doubt this policy is consistently enforced.
I think it's easy to see why it's an issue, the OP has expressed that it is causing concern and that it has an obvious effect on their goals.

Some people do thrive on a personally suitable level of intoxication, I used to find it far easier to work after a beer or more preferably a smoke.

That changed over the last couple of years and now even a small drink or smoke leaves me unable to work properly for at least a day afterward, and I had to change my habits.

To the OP I say you've hit the first step, you've realised that something you do is having a negative effect on your life, whichever way you choose to make a change let me just say it is worth it, and if you have a couple of people to share it with it wont be difficult.

I suggest that if you find somebody you can talk to frankly at the times you struggle just having a chance to whinge will make things easier.

And if you're physical health is suffering, as people said, go see the doc.
Since when is having a poor user experience good for business.

Would you like fries with that?

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The DX is a fine automobile, sir, but the LX offers a lot of extra safety features, which I'm sure mean a lot to you with such a charming wife. (Are you newlyweds, ma'am?) Traction control, ankle air bags, anti-impact rustproofing, everything a lucky man like you needs to safeguard his precious cargo. And the premium for these features is really not much compared to what you have to lose.

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The product is configured using a bespoke business process description language that describes your configuration in intuitive problem-domain terms. It's so simple and intuitive, a non-technical person can understand this fake example! The support contract specifies that our consultants will be available at reasonable rates to attempt to train your business analysts to be programmers, and then to attempt to train your IT staff to write code in what turns out to be an arcane '80s-era language with dozens of undocumented bugs and sharp edges, and then to do all the work themselves at great cost since nobody can actually be trained to configure the product in any reasonable amount of time.
Ha...not a bad idea!