skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Since you can get a warrant in mere hours in some cases

I can't speak to property seizure warrants, so you may be right there. However, if it is anything like arrest warrants, this is rarely true.

Fun fact: Typically, it takes a mountain of evidence to convince a judge to issue a warrant, and then those serving the warrant have a small window of time to execute. If they are late, or the individual isn't present, then it expires and a new set of evidence has to be presented to issue another warrant.

(I often think it's amazing anyone is arrested at all).

My lack of knowledge notwithstanding, I doubt that issuing a warrant to seize a plane would be a quick, Law and Order-like process, simply due to the size and dollars involved.
I dont like Arrington and Attwood at all - but I agree they often have important stuff to say. uor right, knee jerk dimissal and "hate" is a bad thing.

And to comment on the other reply here: I think this is almost the #1 crucial issue in the Linux community right now. He just presented it poorly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

I don't think that's a perfect solution, but it gets at the real solution. If people think you can solve a technical problem (privacy) with a political movement, they are hopelessly incorrect.
Why Schemaless?
I hope they implement WebSockets, that sole feature will change the way we know the web.

The real-time web, the next "wave".
Pro-Rata Still Dilutes VCs (Usually)
It's not just about privacy.
From their manifesto:

"All non-commercial acquiring, using, bettering and spread of culture should be actively encouraged. The Internet is filling the same function today as popular education did a hundred years ago. It is something positive and good for the development of society.

The copyright legislation must be changes so that it is made perfectly clear that it only regulate use and copying of works done for commercial purposes. To share copies, or in any other way spread or use someone else’s work, should never be forbidden as long as it is done on an idealistic basis without the purposes of commercial gain."

So, what's the motivation for me the author of a book or software to actually write a book or software. Believe me that monetary gain is part of the motivation.

If you take this route and say that all works must be freely shared then you have to ask where 'artists' get their money from. If you do not give them a supply of some money then you end up going back to the middle ages and requiring that artists have benefactors who keep them alive.

Sharing a copy of my 'work' may well be non-commercial for the sharer, but it's not non-commercial for me. In fact, I may well have lost money (of course, there are some people who would never have spent the money in the first place).

And the idealistic part about cultural works being good for people seems valid to me, that's why we have art galleries, museums, education and libraries (of books, CDs and DVDs) funded with public money.
When you have too much time to get anything done
speaking as a clemson alumni, the outrage is either for show, or because someone outed secrets in public.

none of the things that clemson did are secrets or new. the only thing that could be considered to possibly be unethical, imo, would be the class size shifting. but, again, this isn't new. my high school actually did this as well, in order to improve its appearance from outside metrics. and it isn't a secret. students received somewhat regular updates on what the president was doing/implementing, and i distinctly remember this being mentioned. maybe not worded the same way, but the concept was communicated.
you're a monster.
Like Martin 'Baby Branson' Halstead: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4413370...

He's got the mob name already!
It was fun to laugh at at the time, but Steve Ballmer has known this for awhile. Remember his big, sweaty "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!" rant?
you right this is an amazing move.

The fact they are moving to all browser based content is as big news to me - that is fantastic because the desktop app is a PAIN :)

EDIT: any chance you could pop a source link in the article - I cant find the original source :)
The political movement is to fight legislation that would make using something like Freenet illegal. That is, it's not a fight to make your data private. It's a fight to make it legal to have private data. If I'm not incorrect, it is already illegal to withhold encryption keys to private data in the UK.
You may be _more_ productive by going to sleep. That way you won't be forced to fix all the bugs and crazy decisions you make while you're sleep deprived.
Well, yeah. But I'm trying to be generous when I say "privacy"--highlighting that aspect of their platform. Obviously, the party is mainly concerned with not paying the onerous 99 cents that itunes charges for an mp3.
Maybe is just for remembering people to not post everything that comes from coding horror. I imagine in my head 20 or 30 guys refreshing coding horror and techcrunch just to leave the first comment or to post the link here :D
5 open alternatives to Microsoft exchange
Sunshine. Resets your bio clock a bit. And a little caffeine.

Early bed the following night!
A Self-Replicating Twitter-Link (OK, almost)
Just a very minor URL-Shortener hack, but I thought it was interesting. One application that comes to mind: append a "Retweet This"-Link to tweets, that prefills the user's status field with "RT ...".
Thanks for clearing that up. One of the problems with small parties is how easily they can be derailed, especially by someone who is a) dedicated to the task, and b) well-funded.
Startup 126: Term Sheet - Anti-Dilution
This is third in a series of posts about term sheets. I am trying to "demystify" some of the terms and give some examples of how they work. let me know if this is helpful and useful.
"I've done all nighters before..."

Then you're doing something wrong. The way you manage your time? The way you approach your subject? The way you organize your work? The way you set priorities?

An all-nighter is not a badge of honor. It's a sign of poor work habits earlier in the cycle. Find the cause of your need to do all-nighters, eliminate it, and don't do them any more. (And probably get twice as much work done during the day.)
Then why tie that fight to copyright? If that's what they want to fight then they should make that their platform instead of going on about file sharing.

Truth is that they've wrapped up the file sharing in a blanket of privacy to try to legitimize copying of copyrighted works.
If you don't care enough about writing the book, just don't write it. Someone who cares (is internally motivated) enough, will write it or pay you to write it for them (external motivation). We don't necessarily need legislation to create an extra, artificial external motivation for artists, authors, etc. Writers will write, artists will express themselves, and the world will benefit with or without copyrights.
Depends what sort of impact we are talking about. Lower level staff cannot make decisions on what stories to follow, where and when the stories are run and under which headlines, or the general editorial bent of the paper. The tone and the quality of the copy writing at WSJ remains impeccable, the content, not so much.
Let's not confuse the editorial page with the news reporting. The WSJ is a remarkable paper, one of the best in the world, when it comes to news reporting. This has not changed with the new ownership. The op-ed page has a well-developed political worldview that you may not agree with, but HN is not the forum for political discussions.
There are so many sites for that already. Political discussion is the ultimate eternal September, and HN is so good and useful right now. It would be a shame if it were ruined by politics.
How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)
And that's roughly what I meant by "self-directed."

Imagine a concrete goal: efficient fusion power, for instance. It's easy to define, easy to establish success metrics, and it's even easy to propose methods -- but success has eluded us for decades. A mind that could solve a problem like that would have to have intuition, lateral and parallel thinking, and creativity (or their machine equivalents; I'm open to an AI which might think utterly unlike a human).

My point is that we don't know where such traits come from in humans, and thus have no idea how to even begin to attempt to replicate them in computers except in the crudest and most rule-based ways.

Note: I would dearly like to be proven wrong, I'm just parroting things I've heard.
Repossession occurs when a person hasn't made payments. In other words, a bank or other institution is actually the organization that legally owns the property. They authorize a repo agency to recover the property that they legally own, which means that the repo agency is allowed to do all sorts of things because for all intents and purposes they are recovering stolen property.

It is a sticky spot legally, and there are rules they have to follow. But this man has experience doing high-risk repos that public law enforcement doesn't have. It's the difference between regular infantry and mercenaries.
shemales? why indeed
Were you also hoping to frame it and bow before it every morning? ;) <I kid>
Kind of defeats what he is asking for. Q: "How do I cope without sleep" A: "Sleep"
It's interesting that Adobe brought this out a few months later - https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html
You're just wrong. Off the top of my head Dostoevsky and Sam Johnson and Charles Dickens all openly wrote for the money. I don't doubt that almost all authors do, without being so open about it.
So, basically you feel that the situation of 'starving artists' is the way to go. You feel that it's better to limit the creation of artistic works to those who are either able to find another source of income, those lucky enough to have a benefactor or those who are so motivated that they'll live in essentially poverty.

I don't see how limiting the number of artists benefits society.

Also, you say that "someone else will write it". Try telling that to any great writer (which I am not). I bet they'll be really motivated to know that "hey, if you don't do it someone else will"
Good point. Any ranking system that doesn't pass a "laugh test" when viewed won't be influential.
Yes, Modafinil is good and excellent for any hacking/coding short term memory requirements. Consult doctor first, natural sleep is always best.

AVOID :: Speed, coke, crystal meth . They all make you irritable and have all the usual downsides like:

:: Prison, overdosing, tainted supply, instant loss of job, addiction, loss of self respect, suicidal impulses.

:: Some last far too long (pure speed, Meth) and others too short (Cocaine). People who take those types of drugs (truckers, air-force pilots) have bounded scenarios and repeatable experiences.
Completely disagree. Working through the night is certainly not "something wrong".

Sometimes, you get so in the zone, so productive, so excited by what you're doing, that you simply don't want to stop.

When that happens, you can get more done during one night of coding, than you might have got done in the past few weeks.

Keep doing all nighters when you feel like you're hitting your peak productivity and don't want to stop.

Next day get some exercise, eat+drink.
For the record, I agree. However, taking the high road may have its price.
I've been running 3.5b4 for a while. I've seen the future, and it looks a lot like the current version of the web, just a bit faster.
Hmm, are you making a joke about Hoover, or am I not the only one who thought the title said "Instant sex charge", with the article going to be about the FBI's kiddie porn honeypot sites, where even an accidental click on one could get you brought up on child porn charges?
It requires that founders work more or less around the clock while ignoring pedestrian concerns like cash flow or |hygiene|

Well, that was below the belt.
no source article, they were in touch with us direct
Hemingway
Google groups please improve your SEO
I suspect he's too sleepy to worry about logic right now. :)
It's not spam if you're paying for the privilege.
Again, I don't think that freenet is the ideal solution, but the real solution is available, and it would essentially involve doing things that (for instance) the CIA uses to operate securely. There are thousands of spies in this country--in every country--who could be executed for their behavior, but...well, there are ways of avoiding detection.

The truth is, very few people are interested in security (despite their hyperventilation over the issue), but if the government became genuinely oppressive, it could happen on a mass scale.
A bit sad how Firefox is now chasing IE and Chrome for features and speed. Oh well, were it not for Firefox we'd all still be running IE6.

The King is dead. Love live the King.
While I usually dislike rants, I played with google squared and agree. It's pretty much useless for everything I tried.

Does anyone have any searches it's good for? I'd love to be proven wrong about it's utility.
Watercoolr, Pubsub using WebHooks
It is pointed that the features of Firefox 3.5 are mainly for developers not users. So we will have to wait a bit longer before websites will make use of them.
You are exactly right. I learned early on in college that time management is EVERYTHING. If you are pulling an all-nighter, then you are not managing time as well as you should.
Also, productivity falls off so rapidly without sleep that all-nighters are pretty much useless. You're much better off going to be at 1am and getting up at 5am.
Unfortunately, nothing good could be with their CS because of 'default.aspx'.

OSS in such kind of projects is so natural choice, leave alone wasted money for their MS licences.
Sleep.

Though I have to say that staying up all night for any reason other than partying is dumb.
Most people who paint will not earn enough from their paintings to make a living from it. Yet many people still paint. This is with copyright protection in full force.
Totally agree. But will removing copyright protection fix that problem?
Never forget that Microsoft is at heart a languages company. They came from writing computer languages and detoured into operating systems. Frankly, they've always been very, very good to developers.

They've always known that the developers matter.
Very helpful and informative post, keep it up.
I hear what you're saying, but I think it's wrong - language is imperfect, and may de facto exclude absolute truth, but it's the 'worse is better' of human communication :-)
Not really, they are concerned with the idea of fair use and not criminalizing people. That's the real issue here and hardly a solved one.
Nice to see Gatech didn't take the humor out of you. Only a few make it through with their brain intact, and fewer still choose to go back. :)
Care to elaborate? Because it sounds like you're saying that, for example, someone with both legs amputated is somehow less human than non-amputees.

The unfortunately reality is that there is some truth to this.

For a quick overview of the current research, I highly recommend the Radio Lab episode "Where Am I?" (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/05). Essentially, the way it works is this: Basic "animalistic", if you will, portions of the brain react to various stimuli, and in turn cause a reaction in various parts of the body, bypassing all of the higher-order logic and emotion circuits. It is only when these higher-order logic and emotion circuits realize that the body has already reacted, that they begin to comprehend a situation.

Another interesting aspect of the brain-body link is mirror neurons. These are neurons that run "backward", as it were, from your brain to your sensory organs, and send signals to them as opposed to receiving stimuli from them. It is thought that these neurons are vital for learning. For example, when you hear someone say something, your brain will send signals to your ear to learn how to imitate that sound.
I think what's positive about them getting a seat is that the issue gets attention and the debate is brought into public view a bit more. Their proposed solutions are probably a bit... absurd.
Nukes are NK's only weapon effective against a carrier battle group.
Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions
Designing a system based on the assumption of internal motivation is like fighting crime by asking people to just be nice. You need incentives, positive and negative, to base any system on, especially one with millions of actors: an economy.
that would explain it then :)
The point is that literature and art is a commodity because of the low cost of producing and the almost zero cost of distribution. In other words prizes are not reflecting the cost of this new reality.

Further more you can skip the middle man which means that you need to make less money to make money.

You are not loosing money if someone copies a version of your product and give it to a friend. You lost an opportunity to make more money which is completely different.
I can't find anything on the Channel 4 site directly, but other news sources are confirming this story -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/07/channel-4-back-c...
Then they are business people and and their products should be judged by the commodity it is not by their wish to make money.
I've noticed that when I pull all nighters right before deadlines, and manage to get finished before code freeze, I have an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment and get so psyched that I spend the following workday much more productive than during regular (albeit generally laden with sleep debt) workdays.

But when the real accomplishment is missing and drowsiness creeps upon me, I take regular 5 minute walks at the corporate campus (a really nice green spot in the middle of the city), and have some 10-15 minutes powernaps. (I never drink coffee/cola)
Being a Freelancer Logo Designer - Its in the Small Print
> Truth is that they've wrapped up the file sharing in a blanket of privacy to try to legitimize copying of copyrighted works.

Upvoted for honesty. Let's be intellectually honest and admit that many people pirate stuff, not because they believe in freedom of information and privacy, but because it's cheap. I don't want to state an opinion here or there, but let's at least keep the discussion honest.
Apparently, Seoul is in range of conventional weapons, making for millions of "hostages".
Awesome overview.

I've seen the "super-slim" sessions idea discussed elsewhere in relation to Flickr, but couldn't find much about it on the web. This presentation finally explains it properly and it's a wonderful thing.

Now... about integrating it into my web apps....
Just because I only sell custom suits online doesn't mean I'm not in competition with people selling custom suits in brick and mortar stores with tailors and salespeople and such.
Ask HN: Simple Apps
I have been coming across a range of simple apps on HN (though comments or otherwise, such as http://untodos.com/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646277) and have been wondering, any such simple apps that fellow hackers have found a need for and not had the time or inclination to write?

The main directive here would be simplicity, and that the app (or tool) performs one function, and one function only. I have been looking around for a project and if not me, I am sure other can find some inspiration for projects, and others might get value out them. Any thoughts?
Or even a simulated "super" body. Human bodies are quite limited in the amount of information it can take in at once. I think you could potentially simulate a "body" with a million times more senses than a human. It's all a matter of sensory input.
Here are actual links - http://untodos.com/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646277
Perhaps not, but could you follow up with a point-by-point refutation of the material cited, and ignore the character/actions of the author?
Pulling an all-nighter out of pure desire and pulling one out of need are different. If you're doing it out of desire, suck it up and deal with it the next day (just like drinking). If you're doing it out of need, something's wrong (again, just like drinking).
Copyright protection IS the problem. It allows the RIAA to criminalize normal otherwise law abiding citizens. The sentences that we see today does in no way match up with the claimed crime. Today artist can argue lost revenue PLUS a penalty on top. That is hardly a fair way of treating the so called crime.
One hour at a time . . .
Work in the Sun
Wow. Not following over 500 people and only tweeting three times a day counts as barely using twitter.
A book is a poor example from a motivation point of view, as most authors (in Sweden) can't make a living just being an author. Maybe you should ask one of the three well renowned Swedish authors who publicly supports The Pirate Party. (Linda Skugge, Uni Drougge or Lars Gustafsson).

I always wonder what world the people who ask these kinds of question live in. Because sharing of copyrighted works has been widespread for nearly a decade now and it is still, at least here in Sweden, almost impossible to get caught. Still somehow authors, artist and others find the motivation to make things. If non-commercial sharing has such a large impact on the creation of new things, wouldn't we have noticed by now?

If anything, copyright limits creativity in so many ways. In Sweden we don't even have fair use of images and there is still silent films which won't be free for another 30 years or so.

Today making new things are not encouraged, today making one thing, and then exploit it, is encouraged.
"You feel that it's better to limit the creation of artistic works to those who are either able to find another source of income...."

What can I say? That's life. Either someone cares enough to do it, or it doesn't get done. My point is that there is plenty of motivation (internal and external) to do lots of kinds of work. We don't need artificial "protections" like copyright. As long as people want art and literature, it will get funded.
"The point is that literature and art is a commodity"

No, they are not commodities. Using the Wikipedia definition: "A commodity is something for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. It is a product that is the same no matter who produces it, such as petroleum, notebook paper, or milk."

"because of the low cost of producing and the almost zero cost of distribution"

Literature and art do not have a low cost of production for the writer or artist. They use their time in the creation of those works and are entitled to compensation if they choose to ask for it. Copyright law gives them a framework in which to ask for compensation; an artist can also choose to ask for nothing or some combination. I have done both with different 'works'.

I agree that the cost of reproduction and distribution is low for digital media. Shouldn't the artist be able to benefit from this situation? Surely, copyright law plus Internet actually helps an artist here.

"Further more you can skip the middle man which means that you need to make less money to make money."

I did this with my first book. Self-published, available for purchase on the web. What you miss there is marketing, that's hard and costs real money. Just because it's on the web doesn't mean that people know about it.
That is completely irrelevant to the issue. Copyright law does not exist to guarantee an income. It exists to bolster creativity. In fact, it limits creativity. Here is an example. Disney made a fortune by adapting numerous fairy tales and folk tales, none of which were copyrighted. Yet, it is illegal to adapt Disney's works as they are all copyrighted.
Anyone know what their Javascript threading model will look like? I am both excited and scared.
I didn't say they couldn't make money! Actually the opposite, I meant some artists could still make money without copyright.

Copyright != making a living.
I still wish MS would ship windows with a usable console.