skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arming women and teaching them to forcefully defend themselves significantly reduces the incidence of rape.

Women are often advised to use non-aggressive
strategies against sexual assault[3]. Research
suggests that this is a poor advice.According to one
study, women who used non-forceful verbal
strategies, e.g, crying or pleading with the assailant
were raped about 96% of the time[4].

Forceful verbal resistance, including loud screaming
was more effective than non-forceful verbal
resistance. These strategies were associated with
completion of rape from 44%-50% of the time[5].

Running works even better than verbal resistance.
Researches indicate that only 15% of women who
attempted to flee were raped[6].

Forceful physical resistance is an extremely
successful strategy. The completed rape dropped to
14% when the rapist’s attempt was met with violent
physical force. Striking was more successful than
pushing or wrestling. Physical resistance also
appeared to be more effective when assault occured
outdoor[5].

Women who used knives or guns in self-defence
were raped less than 1% of the time. Defensive use
of edged or projectile weapons reduced the rate of
injury to statistical insignificance[7].

http://medind.nic.in/jal/t07/i4/jalt07i4p99.pdf *

Whether this particular strategy will be effective or not, I don't know. But I can easily imagine the class of rapists who give up when the woman merely yells at them might decide they really don't want to deal with this.

Naively, if I wanted to reduce the incidence of rape, I'd make switchblades standard issue for young girls and tell them to seriously attempt to do maximum damage when threatened.

Though it might work differently in South Africa.

*I had read this before, but had to google for the paper. It looks good to me, but I cannot vouch for its reliability.
I think the EFF has bigger battles to fight: net neutrality, fair use, freedom of speech, etc...

And preemptive to the reply I'll get: apple rejecting an app doesn't infringe on free speech anymore than not getting your letter printed in the NY times.
Vagina dentata, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata, a la Teeth, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622/. Enjoy :)
Email clients don't have to honor read receipts. In fact, apps such as Outlook, have an option where you can turn it off. And I've use a Lotus Notes macro that removed them.
Sorry about that. Missed it.
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While I tend to agree, deciding whether an app will probably get allowed in doesn't take serious brain power. Does it duplicate something that Apple spends tons of R&D money on (e.g. phone capabilities, "redoing" what the iPhone normally does, etc)? Probably avoid stepping on too many toes. Do you use private APIs? I'd rewrite. Is it illicit? Good luck on that one.
Neal Patterson isn't only the CEO of Cerner, he's also the Founder.
Interesting enough concept, but awful interface. Even though I'm sure this is just proof of concept, the form and function should be better integrated from the start.
I don't think you're wrong per-se… I think that's one way of looking at it and is the way preferred by most people. It's nice to be a customer. You have power and control.

In this case, I would argue that you're bartering your attention for a service. To me the word customer implies an exchange of money - almost by definition. As I mentioned in my raw materials comment, Google turns around and sells your attention to advertisers: their real customers. They need you, but not in the same way they need their customers.

I voted your comment back to 1. I don't agree with your viewpoint, but I don't think it's a wrong viewpoint.
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How do you plan to make money from this? Do you plan to make money from this?
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Aggressive marketing would be a woefully insufficient characterization. As both an entrepreneur and target user, this crosses my personal moral standard. Having said that, its definitely clever and very well written! I will stick with my high school friends on Tumblr though. And so will all of the HiiDef blogs. Tumblr has always been really good to me.
OK, but Beethoven's hearing problems weren't caused by his brain.
I've seen them all over public places in Colorado, including airports (Durango for sure, and I think Denver, too) and ski resorts. I'm guessing it's something about building/plumbing codes there. I've never seen (or smelled) and problem with them.
Incorporating additional data sets like Rotten Tomatoes for movie reviews, etc. would be great for vertical focused systems.
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I strongly disagree with this opinion.

First, the reason that people make big money coming up with custom solutions for Wordpress is because its a lot of work to get things to the state of "exactly what the client wants". It would be a distraction and a waste of time to pursue the creation of many "starter" niches. I find it kind of ironic that the author suggests that they step back and take a look at the forest while suggesting they take a more myopic view of Posterous as a business. The reason Posterous isn't a blog consulting company is the same reason Facebook isn't a gaming company but is rather a platform for gaming companies (and many other things).

Second, it doesn't fit into the goal of Posterous as a company which from my external perspective appears to be making blogging stupidly easy and accessible for anyone.

Third, scale first. Its easy to attack verticals later once you already own the space (in this case blogging).
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That's a statement. Not a product.
Yea, and I doubt that the footers lawyers append to every email mean much in terms of disclosure, but that doesn't stop law firms from trying it anyway.

I think read receipts fall into the category of "good faith effort", and not much more.
Rape-axe is inserted like a tampon and when embedded to a man the device can only be removed by a doctor.

I don't buy this at all. Doctor's aren't going to have some super secret method of Rape-axe removal, they're just going to cut the device off carefully.
Bravo:

Hello source code curious person from the INTERWEBS!
What you're doing is (in my opinion) the BEST way to learn and advance, that is, viewing the source. It's how I learnt, and how I'm still learning.

So go ahead, dig away and ask any questions. (see the contact page)

Techniques used on this site are all in the public domain, but the unique combination of CSS and images are what make this site's design.

Please don't steal wholesale, thats all I'm saying.
http://dibspace.com. It is a for a little while longer.

What went wrong with it:

1. Lackluster, non-technical co-founder.

2. Value prop not lined up with our market's needs (cf #1)

3. Poor outreach to our market (cf #1)

4. Not enough hours in the day to build and maintain the product while trying to correct 1-3.

And so forth.

Best of luck with your effort, still. If you're still involved with MathZoom, try pitching it to the people who run it to see if they might be able to find a way to use it. That might be one of your best bets for uptake.
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So Ad.ly is still operating on Twitter even though it blatantly violates their TOS? How does that work?
Any plan on expanding/moving outside of north carolina?
I have always felt like Posterous was a solution in search of a problem. I don't have anything against them, I just prefer other platforms better.

Also, I'd love to see some numbers, but I would bet that a far larger number of people post via the web or other methods than do by email, despite that being its original purpose.
How is music piracy different than the following scenario:

(1) I quit my day job and decide to launch a web-based startup.

(2) I base my business plan on a monthly subscription model.

(3) I achieve product/market fit and revenue starts coming in.

(4) A technology emerges that magically makes it easy to copy my SaaS app and use it in its entirety without paying the monthly subscription.

(5) My revenue plummets and I have to completely revamp my business model or go out of business.

This is not a rhetorical question. I honestly want to know what is the difference. Thanks!
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The one I try to pay attention to is when you're quoting, and continue afterwards.

"He said that he was finished," he stated. (For example) -- but only because I can't think of a more appropriate use of punctuation there, really.
How does the layout change based on the width? I wish he talked a bit about the code he is using.
At the very least the UI needs a full rebuilding. OSX wasn't adequate for mobile computing either. But I can see Microsoft's idea of having fully compatible environments everywhere as interesting but not feasible. But they sure will continue to try.

The web is a close to a write once run everywhere environment as there is today. (it's not perfect for sure).
Your post contains the implicit assumption that "really hideous malware" will strike the Android platform before it does the iPhone, which is the necessary condition for Jobs to say "I told you so." (I make the assumption that Jobs would not be able to credibly deliver that line if iOS became a malware target before Android did.)

I don't own an Android phone, and am only superficially familiar with its OS or software stack. Do you think that the Android OS is architecturally more susceptible to malware than iOS? If not, do you think that Android's application distribution model is more likely to get malware onto people's phones that Apple's highly restrictive one?
Well I bought an iPhone before apple got increasing closed, but I'm on a 2 year contract. What should I do now?
That blog layout is really hard to read. There isn't enough structure around the text and too many similar fonts or font sizes are used.
It's not just 4chan, either. Reddit is up in arms over this whole thing, but I'm not really sure why.
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they start late, yes. but they have sold 100 million iOS devices. so in a year or so most of those could have facetime. plus 70+ million new ones with facetime preinstalled.
Recently I haven't had much time to do web design, or any clients. The summer before last I designed and launched http://mariettaoh.net/about for a city government as part of my internship there. Other things I have designed are basically personal or for somewhat private groups. As far as audio production, I spend (kill?) a lot of time making electronica music, and so have experience with editing and cutting apart sounds of all kinds, as well as a good deal of knowledge about mastering and converting and other parts of audio technology. The rest of the time I spend on classwork or doing grunt IT work for my university. I do have a resume at least, which isn't quite the same, sadly.
A perfect phone for home. We already ditched landlines. Mobile carriers are sucking our blood while their service keeps sucking.

I, for one, applaud apple's effort to bring video call to the masses.

I hope a future Apple TV display can do video calls too. Genius!
when is the Notion Ink going to be released?

Personally I am looking for an awesome in the sunlight tablet.
I did a few years ago, (where does the time go?) but it is probably not something I would want to show off today. Most recently I built a city government website at http://marriettaoh.net, but by recent I mean Summer 2008. I do have a resume at least.
> which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk").

I find this difficult to believe.
That's what I thought too based on all the press (TC, RRW, Mashable), but the next day Twitter clarified that sites like Ad.ly and SponsoredTweets aren't in violation. Their change was aimed at services that show the Twitter stream intermixed with ads based on the content that aren't from Twitter. Since Twitter is rolling out their whole "in stream ads" platform that app developers can use soon, this seems to target that - and other places that try to target ads based on the surrounding Tweets. (note: I work on SponsoredTweets, so we've obviously been watching this closely. :)
I'm not quite sure I still understand what the best way to "pitch" a blog for coverage is.

Are you saying startups should stop pitching you, and pitch the smaller publications instead? and if a story is hot, you'll automatically pick it up? or, should they fill in the form, and email news@mashable, but not email you, personally?

This press thing is new to most hackers, and because it's new, it looks fairly hard from the outside, so we fall back to the one thing we do know: persistence. Pitch everyone, all the time. Is there a better way of getting covered by the big technology blogs out there?
John Mayer's said that Twitter's out and Tumblr's in. http://www.geekosystem.com/john-mayer-twitter-tumblr/

Ashton Kutcher's supposedly "directly responsible" for http://nowmov.com existing. (cross between Chatroulette interface and a Tweetmeme for YouTube videos.) http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/07/yc-funded-nowmov-sit-back-r...

If I were Posterous, I'd create a Nowmov for Posterous posts, and then go find some high-profile feedback.

edit: the other thing I'd be interested in seeing on Posterous is an easy way to cross post to other people's group blogs, and some incentive to do so. For example, I created a group blog http://hackerbra.in, but there are no users to post to it. However, there are posts by hackers on Posterous that could be submitted to it; the question is how to make that worthwhile? Could it be automatically done, eg I choose some blogs and have the new blog fill up with posts automagically?
It's also worth examining the cost of the goods being sold. The "cost" of a digital album download is negligible. The cost of producing a meal represents a significant portion of the selling price when you factor in labor.
In the case of the Saas app, I think there is usually more to it that can't easily be replicated. For example, while Google email service is very Simialar to what was previously out there, they offer things like large space, reliable (don't laugh) service, trusted branding etc.

Other providers offer quick development of new feature which a copied service can't easily replicate. This is the key, replicability (that's not a word ;p ) or lack of is your protection.

In the end, you can't sit and wait. Even if they don't copy your app, others will offer similar products ( I think this is fair and square) and you will die if you don't continue to provide more to the user.

Ubuntu One is a open source version of dropbox. I don't think dropbox will die because of it. Dropbox hosts the service and offers good support and feature development. Ubuntu's offering might not be as good. Even if it is, Competition is everywhere.
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Haha, touché. I was talking about profits, of course. Nokia's revenues dwarf Apple's but they not making anywhere near as much money as Apple is.

Back to the original point, it's funny how any observation that Apple is now #3 and about to become #4 in market share is automatically met with "Bah, Apple doesn't care about that, they only care about money".

Try it, it never misses.
I don't see how those fights preclude the EFF from taking a position on this. It's not like they're litigating against Apple or anything; they're merely pointing out an example of what is essentially a major part of their core mission - "software lock-in is bad."
The problem with that solution (dilution) is that then we would have to spend more time going.
What happens if Viacom appeals and wins? Presumably it gets sent back for trial or something?
In English, for some reason.
Looks more like a prayer to me...
Where can I read about your project?
Why does the first table have 71 clicks, but the second has 20? While the cost looks like it might be $31.88 in the second table, but only $24.83 in the first one? I ask because the re-tweet experiment got 73 clicks, and the relative performance is potentially interesting.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/twitter-rt-test-...
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Piracy is not theft.
I think other sources will be needed before anyone can pass a good judgment on this news.

Making the thought that leads to something criminal criminal, how does that prove you did do something criminal? or is the thought criminal? Searching for something illegal is criminal? I'm confused by this and I hope more details emerge.

In the DRM case. If by-passing DRM because criminal, well... I'll be in for some long time in jail. Using Linux to watch DVDs. This is by far the best example of victimless crime I know. Who did this cost any money too? Was the hack of subverting my computer illegal? That could lead to some interesting new ways to prosecute a person whenever needed.

As for copying, I don't condone it but whats a legal alternative that offers at least the minimum amount of freedom offered by the pirate option?

iTunes and Amazon MP3 proved that DRM wasn't required for good sales. They truly offer the freedom to use the media as you want. There not a lot of reasons to be pirating music anymore. Movies, that's another story.
Hi Jason,
Thanks very much for your excellent and info-packed reply.

* 1) Build a presence- Comment here, go to local meetups, blog online about smart things, find every connection you can,etc.

Where I live, technology is either engineers working for large corporations, or people who own small computer repair shops and maybe one web design firm. I was actually hired (tax info and all!) at the web design firm, but they never had enough work to contract out to me that I could do anything for them.

I guess on the online side of things, I just need to make more of an effort to contribute to conversations instead of just soaking them up.

* 2) Peacock- Build something as a sample that is really interesting + will garner attention. It shouldn't have the intention of being a real startup. It should just be a shiny demo to show you can design + think creatively together.

This is actually a great idea, I just need to think of that one cool thing to demo. However I have been striving for that big idea, so maybe a small one will be easier.

* 3) Show them what they're missing- Find people in your area if you're trying to stay local that have absolutely horrible presences online. Give them a taste of what you can do. Example of what 37signals used to do- http://37signals.com/better

I like the concept of this idea, however in my area specifically I feel like people would take this as an insult. They might have had their website built by their brother in law or something, and feel that it is a great website already. Being in a less urban area people are perhaps less exposed to great local websites.

* 4) Can't beat em, join em- There are a lot of small eloquent freelance design shops. They could certainly use a good hand if you're good. They won't pay you a lot probably, but it's a hell of a start. It could also turn into something else.

I'd love to, have any email addresses? =)

* 9) Being Here Is Already a Win- there are thousands of startups that frequent here monthly. If you do any of the above and seem even remotely good, you will probably get some level of interest. There isn't enough good talent to meet the demand it seems.

Definitely. When I do own my own succesful business, it will have been 100% inspired by the first day I visited Hacker News almost two years ago. =D
Germans seem to be noted for over-engineering in general. Sometimes it works, Mecedes-Benz, but often it just results in a lot of unnecessary cruft.
I sent you an email at your justsay.on address. Thanks!
Snow Crash, anybody? :)

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Price and all the issues aside, these guys are simply amazing. They've tied it in with their Campfire product which is kind of a double whammy now. If you like Draft, you might actually end up becoming a paying customer for Campfire, whether you truly need it or not!
One thing my girlfriend does that I've never understood - she can use my iPhone or iPad expertly (she's even figured a few things out on her own that I didn't know, like unpinch-to-fullscreen video on the iPad). Yet for the longest time, she would always double-click the home button on my iPhone to quit the app, then turn it off.

Because I had double-click-home set to the camera, this meant that every other time I started my iPhone, it was in the camera app, which was really confusing a lot of the time. Once I started installing the iOS4 betas, though, and double-click-home became 'reveal task switcher', her double-triple-quintuple clicking the home button did nothing but show and hide a row of icons.

After the first time she did that and I made fun of her, she learned pretty quick. Still, this sort of thing happens to the smartest/most capable/most educated people. It's not just mom and dad.
Sell it and buy a new phone.
(With early termination fee pro-rotation, I never got what the big deal with breaking ones' contract is. Often, it is cheaper to pay the ETF and switch to another provider).
Just another symptom of living in an idiocracy. This situation will work well for the for-profit prisons in the United States, who, like the for-profit health insurance companies, make a profit off of people's misery, and will ensure that America remains #1 in persons incarcerated:

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-high-...

Thankfully, the article does point out the discrepancies in Biden's claims:

Interestingly, the statements seem to fly in the face of a
recent Government Accountability Office study released to
U.S. Congress earlier this year, which concluded that there
is virtually no evidence for the claimed million dollar
losses by the entertainment industry. That study suggested
that piracy could even benefit the economy.

Nevermind facts, we don't care if the evidence suggests that piracy helps the economy, or whether Biden's metaphor is a metaphor and not a substitute for reality, or whether that drug you're taking is not only safe, but healthy, we're still going to toss your ass in jail, or give you a fine you'll spend the rest of your life dealing with.

Ars Technica did a great job thoroughly debunking the claims of the RIAA and MPAA:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/10/dodgy-digits...

And here's their take on the referenced government study:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-governmen...

But in this country, facts don't really have much weight when it comes to policy making.

The irony of all of this is that like the War on Drugs, instead of keeping people safe and happy, this coming War on Piracy will only serve as a drain on America's economy and morale, and yes, could even result in the creation of a dangerous black market. Tax dollars flushed down the toilet for the purpose of spreading misery and soothing the irrational fears of an aging and nervous minority of rich people.
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