skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful with that. Warfighting is every bit as complex, technical and dynamic a discipline as computers. Maybe more so. Do you have a developed opinion on ballistic defense, our nuclear posture, our relative emphasis on COIN vs. conventional warfare? No? Then you are in the position of an executive eying the expensive IT department with a foggy notion that it could get the job done for half the cost, without a clear idea of what a server is or does or why the administrator is so dang expensive.

I recommend poking around the Quadrennial Defense Review site to get a primer on the major issues. It's a report the DOD does every four years to evaluate its priorities and capabilities, explain its budget, etc. There are lots of executive reviews, intelligent and opinionated commentaries, that sort of thing. http://www.defense.gov/qdr/
At the very least he could've provided some examples, or case studies of people who have delegated some personal tasks. And preferbly without parroting the 4-hour work week. 'Hey look everybody, getting a maid to do your cleaning!' is hardly news-worthy, now is it. If he can think of tasks that can now be delegated that couldn't be 10 years, then maybe he has a point. As it stands now it's just page filling.
Same here. The two other ones I use are Win+L to lock the current account and Win+Pause to bring up System Properties.
"the combination of Microsoft’s overwhelmingly powerful monopoly marketing muscle and its weak and flawed technical contributions. Microsoft has delayed the progress of new technology into mainstream in far more significant ways"

Isn't that a bit over the top?
First of all only you're only fully compensated 360 of those 480 days, for the other 120 days you only get the minimum level of compensation. Secondly it depends on what their full time salary is. There is a hard upper limit on how much you can get compensated, and most people with good jobs are quite a bit over that limit. So someone with a higher paying job might only get 40-50% of his salary.
>The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.

I've seen this a few times. I assume you mean anecdotes told by liars? Surely a plurality of true statements constitutes data? The strength of that data for interpretation or prediction is limited by the number of data points, for sure, but I don't really get why this aphorism is supposed to be true.
From the article:
Locke then lamented the fate of songwriters. "Recently, I've had a chance to read letters from award winning writers and artists whose livelihoods have been destroyed by music piracy. One letter that stuck out for me was a guy who said the songwriting royalties he had depended on to 'be a golden parachute to fund his retirement had turned out to be a lead balloon.' This just isn't right."

I don't believe the assumption that every download is a lost sale is remotely true. It's also possible that many downloads led to increased sales or that the downloader already owned a copy of or access to the media and was just getting it in digital form for convenience.

If I download the mp3 copy of a CD I own a physical copy of, am I a criminal? Did I steal from the artist?
* Win + P = Change multi monitor setup.
Also, Win+Pause = system properties
It's funny how the word Piracy is used. One has to wonder what kind of pirates we are talking about.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" type of pirates did loot ships, but what they stole where often goods produced by slavery and itself stolen from the colonies.

Piracy or as I prefer to call it – copying is the result of a disconnect between price and cost.

When you steal you take something away from others so it's not there anymore, but copying isn't stealing it's copying by using an internet connection you pay for yourself, onto a computer you have paid for yourself. In other words the only one who have any real cost is the one who copies.

There is absolutely nothing that states that it's fair for musicians or other artist to make millions by mass producing and distributing at almost zero cost.

And now that we are on the subject of newspeak anyway. If you produce an album with the purpose of selling it, you aren't really an artist anymore, you are a businessman and your product is a commodity.

Deal!
Do you have a plan for handling non-ascii characters in your trie? The descriptions I've seen usually involve having a character index into an array, and it seems like a waste if you used 2-byte characters. I guess you would use an encoding (like UTF-8), with a particular canonicalization.
This reminds me of Louis CK's "Everything's Amazing and Noboby's Happy" sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
What does how easy something is to get away with have to do with anything? Technology makes certain kinds of securities fraud massively easier to get away with. Should we decriminalize them now?
Ask HN: Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?
Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?
Apple can't do social, nor any kind of web service? This is a blind spot for them, sure iTunes vod/commerce is a web service but as far an API or integration outside of their ownership must be impossible like a nerd attempting to dance ...
It's an extension of how you look after infants isn't it. If you have kids then how did you look after them before they reached school age? There you go.

If you chose not to look after them then I guess your question still stands.
They basically don't. But if they do discover that you weren't actively looking after your child, then you will be made to pay back the money and possibly face fraud charges.
And then my Slicehost 256 catches on fire. Max_clients hit. Working to fix it now. Those EC2 spot instances are looking awfully tasty...
> I don't believe the assumption that every download is a lost sale is remotely true.

They don't either.
No, it's not embarassing, because Ars quoted the specification out of context. It doesn't say "don't use consumer secrets to authenticate clients"; it says "don't only use consumer secrets to authenticate clients".
Printing money to give to bankers is also flat, unadulterated theft.
If you haven't already, disable keepalive. It makes all the difference.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...
According to the DMCA, yes, you are, unless you KNOW you are downloading it from an authorized party. IANAL, for the record sake, but that's how most P2P has been bastardized by the law and you can't use the "I already own the CD" defense if sued.
What is wrong with amqp?
I hate it when people equate piracy with theft...it's copyright infringement, not theft. If someone breaks into my car and steals my iPod, that's theft. I, the original owner, no longer possess the item.

If instead the "thief" breaks into my car and copies all of the music from my iPod (let's say that all of the songs are recordings of my band to make things simple) and posts it on several torrent trackers, that's piracy (copyright infringement). I still have the originals, so no harm, no foul. In fact, I might be glad that someone is doing some free marketing for my band (or I might choose to cry about the billions in lost sales).

I'd argue that piracy has done more to help the music industry than it has to hurt it. Back when people bought music on $17 CD's, they only bought a handful per year. And once you lost a CD or it got scratched, you stopped listening to it. You could also only carry 6 at a time in your CD changer. With illegal MP3 downloads (and later, legal ones), people could suddenly carry thousands of songs in their pockets, and they never get lost or scratched.

Back in college, since music was now "free", my friends and I expanded our musical tastes beyond gangsta rap to include rock, country, trance, techno, classical, and jazz. With a new world of music open to us, we started going to local jazz clubs, raves, and concerts (which put more money in the record labels' pockets than CD sales ever did). I went to 2 Rage Against the Machine concerts in one weekend, even though I've never paid for one of their albums.

Just the other day I listened to the first MP3 I ever downloaded (August, 1998, Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight). I backed up all of my old MP3's on CD-R back in the day, and they've been passed from desktop to laptop to XBox to iPod to phone ever since.

Since all of these songs are always instantly available to me, these artists are still within reach, even the one-hit-wonders from yesteryear. If I hadn't downloaded Fastball's "Outta My Head" back in 1998, I would never have gone to see them perform at the Viper Room in 2008 (it was the illegal download of a B-side that made me appreciate them more than hearing "The Way" on the radio).
I have an old idea regarding webservers: peer-to-peer file transfer. The server would not store the file on disk, only the last transferred block in memory. Rate control would be done at TCP level: while the block is not transferred by the receiver, the server would not read again from the sender.

I have written several HTTP servers myself, and I know it's doable, but the world does not need another webserver that only has this distinguishing feature.

My question is if all of this can be done with Mongrel2?
Gitorious is one company run purely on AGPL software (though they wrote much of it themselves). They seem to think their main value proposition is the service and hosting, so don't much care about having the code itself open. The choice of AGPL seems to be to make sure that any competitors that start from their codebase have to use the same strategy. That's not as freedom-friendly as just letting anyone use it for any purpose, but at the very least, it doesn't seem less free than the usual SaaS strategy of keeping your server-side code completely closed (what their competitor GitHub does).
It's a bad analogy to begin with. The RIAA is suing people for distributing music, not downloading it. Theoretically, these defendants could have distributed hundreds of copies of each song (although it's more likely they distributed zero copies).
Giving that a shot right now. Just did a hard reset on the slice.

Disabled Keepalive. Think I have too many clients set open still.

Back up. Thanks for the page link. Saved me there. Keepalive was definitely on.

Hmm, its accepting some traffic, but I don't think I can set my max_clients any higher or it all blows up completely.
Yes. Everything I found was junk; it was like Gnutella all over again. The last time I tried to download a movie torrent, it turned out to be porn of a type that I do not want on my hard drive. (That's why it was the last time.)
The state, we got a free copy of the same textbooks used in each grade level. The only real limitation on homeschooler was continuing to score at or above grade level on the standardized tests at the end of the year. So it was recommended that I read them in order to cover the "appropriate" material. As this only took 2-3 hours a day for 3 months there was little reason to fight it. Afterward I found out that most students never finished these textbooks and reading 2/3 of them would have been plenty, which is just sad IMO.

Edit: I also had the teacher’s editions so it was easy to self test on most of the material. I don't think most students would have been as successful with a minimally structured environment, but the standard approach is incredibly inefficient for the top 1%. I can easily see those more capable and motivated benefitting from even less structure, also for the less capable or motivated there is still plenty of room before you hit the standard top down classroom.

PS: Apparently it is fairly common for above average homeschoolers to finish by January, and for those behind the curve to spend all year "in school".
Proper response:

Ok reporter lets take a look at your backyard. CNN will blatantly sensationalize and falsify stories just to get ratings. Then turn around and blame the sources when they are caught.

Your the one reporting the story Ms. Reporter, why aren't you verifying? Who here is really profiteering from base human impulses?
How many emails per day would be the minimum for it to be worthwhile?
Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?
>Every kids plays the "why" game with their parents.

So far my eldest lad hasn't, perhaps for one day, I think it's because I kinda overload him with questions and suggestions as to why things might be, trying to stimulate him to think of possible answers.

He does come up with some humdingers though - "how do we move our arms", "what's water made of" were two of his most recent. I'm not sure that he took in all of the info on motor-neurons or realised that he should be surprised that H and O gases combine to a room temperature liquid.

Re your last sentence, I always loved sport but (despite doing Maths at Uni) have never been in the least bit interested in statistics related to it. Horses for courses, or something.
My impression is that the new Apple TV is no longer a hobby and thus criticism of it is fair game. Of course it hasn't even shipped yet, so people can only criticize the idea rather than the sales.
Her point about thinking for yourself is condescending. She's hardly alone in believing that she's a critical thinker that evaluates advice objectively. Everyone thinks that about themselves. No one thinks they're a monkey.

Regarding the post she's replying to, she didn't provide any evidence that she's succeeded while ignoring the advice of experts.

Her one example (which was 75% of her post) would be more convincing if it didn't seem like she was rationalizing her preexisting view point. She also describes that she has someone who is co-founder in all but name, which weakens the argument further.

I have to admit that I'm uncomfortable with how much of PG's advice I agree with. There are probably a lot of little things I disagree with, but I can't think of any big ones. Between the previous thread and this submission I was hoping to have at least a few nuggets of disagreement to hold on to. Unfortunately that's not the case.
First. Pirates, most of the time, take away from the potential revenue of a copyright owner. You can argue that you wouldn't have used that product otherwise anyway, but thats not always true.

Second. The reason the music industry is booming with the likes of iTunes is the convenient access to it. In the past, it was more convenient to pirate, now its more convenient to buy than it is to pirate.
Who gives a damn about privacy?
OK, I thought the takeaways were implying that you were finding some inefficiency in the system. Rather they were simply saying that retirement accounts work as advertised.

Just an odd takeaway, since that's the expressly stated purpose of most retirement accounts. But fair enough.
I love it that people who simply take anything sold under terms they disagree with also demand political correctness from the rest of the world and, particularly, from the industries who they're taking things from.
If I download the mp3 copy of a CD I own a physical copy of, am I a criminal? Did I steal from the artist?

To the first question, I would say that you are guilty of copyright infringement. Compare it to buying a bootleg DVD of a DVD that you already own that was scratched and is now unplayable, or sneaking in to watch the re-release of Avatar now that you own it on Blu-Ray.

To the second, no you haven't stolen anything from the artist, since the artist (well, really the record label) still has the original item.
I'm in Columbus, too. Would you mind adding some contact info to your profile?
Don't do the upsell thing, Google will perceive it as cloaking and will kill your account very quickly.

Contacting site owners is a good idea though, it's a simplified version of media buys. You don't need to pay CPM or use an adserver, just whip up a simple PHP/javascript code to rotate banners and track clicks and offer to pay them monthly to split test your code with their existing banners.
> Observe, Hypothesize, Test, Repeat.

Forget all that stuff. Just improve your code until it will tell you problem and it exact cause, you will save a lot on "Repeat" step.
Pop quiz: Which administration passed TARP?
Steve Jobs just got up on stage and called it a hobby again.

Look, criticism is fair game no matter what they do. Apple isn't entitled to have the set top industry move at a pace they set. I'm just saying, there's a million things Apple can do to improve Apple TV, but improving Apple TV isn't really the point of Apple TV.
Complexity, yes, but for a different reason -- gyroscopic precession. Cyclic inputs for differential lift require that the actual (mechanical) blade adjustment be at an angle to the change in the lift produced. With a single rotor you can accomplish that with a simple mechanical linkage (and a bit of body english -- the angle of input precession is rarely at the "proper" 90 degrees). Counter-rotating blades mean two sets of blade pitch controls (swash plates, rods, followers and linkages, etc.) and, if you want to avoid unplanned pitch adjustments, a servo system that can moderate cyclic control input based on direction (input will be much more sensitive to fore-aft adjustment than to left-right without a compensation circuit).
Oh well, this is unfortunately expected. I'm not sure we'll ever see reasonable progress on this issue anytime soon.
I don't think so. Anyone can join Facebook. Ping requires an iTunes account. Ping is more like trying to keep people sticking around so they'll buy more. Apple is clearly leveraging the power of person-to-person recommendations over algorithms. It will be interesting when Ping adds books.
Back in 1999, there were a lot of people who took the position of "Doesn't matter if it's Gore or Bush, they're both just as bad." I'm pretty sure no one who had that sentiment before still holds that notion.

It's a lot better than if we elected McCain/Palin, yes.
I actually never timed the whole process. Filling up initial signup takes actually less than 30 seconds, and maybe 10 seconds if you use Facebook. Then there's a wizard after signup , though not technically part of the signup, that gets you setup with the clients and follow some people. I just thought 2 minutes sounded fast for the whole process.
significant number of the other half of the population also regularly carry some sort of bag.
“While the Internet has provided tremendous opportunity for the creators of copyrighted works, including music and movies, to distribute their works around the world at low cost, it has also given rise to a global epidemic of piracy,” reads his plan. “John McCain supports efforts to crack down on piracy, both on the Internet and off.”

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9702/mccain_no_netneutrality_ne...
I am trying to move to Canada for health and business reasons. I was recently apprehended for helping a man with psoriasis obtain medical marijuana for his condition. Now I face 3 felonies and cannot leave the country for 5 years.

Thank you America
There is absolutely nothing that states that it's fair for musicians or other artist to make millions by mass producing and distributing at almost zero cost.

Is it fair for software developers to make money by mass producing and distributing at almost zero cost?
You are probably right that they are not putting very much effort into it but I think they’re doing ever so slightly more with their newest attempt. Apple TV is a lot less complicated (which certainly helps) and it seems to be very competitively priced.

It looks like you get the iPhone (or iPod touch) guts [+] without screen, battery, cameras and probably a lot less persistent storage (I’m guessing anything between 512MB and 2GB) in a bigger box (most of that space is probably used by the PSU, though). That might just give you a margin when you sell it for $100, but probably not a big one.

I don’t think it will be a hit but I do think it will be more successful than the predecessor.

[+] Gruber seems to have a source that tells him that Apple TV uses iOS and the processor is a A4.
Reading the article gave me an office-sharing idea that I think would be quite helpful for small companies. Instead of just providing office space, the hosting company would also provide HR, legal services, and other tangential work for the resident companies. This would allow small companies to benefit from large-company-like resources while remaining focused on the core business.
I read vociferously as a child, reading top-junior (10-11yo) books when I was in infants (5-6yo). Mainly fiction though.

My wife was not interested in reading (apparently) at school, indeed she only really started reading for interest after we got married.

We both have science degrees.

>Everyone with a mind should be reading.

I'd find it strange, but I don't think this is absolutely necessary. I find nothing wrong with the idea a blind tetraplegic (who can't read braille or text) could be a great scientist, philosopher, ...
It looks like it only plays h.246 mp4 files and that makes this totally useless to me.
But you don't see him posting on HN crying about Facebook's closed garden.
In the past, it was more convenient to pirate, now its more convenient to buy than it is to pirate.

I'll agree with you there, but I don't think legal music downloads could have succeeded if they hadn't been illegal first, in the same way that freemium services become so popular based on the free option, only later to make money with the paid plan. Take my generation, who went to college from 1998-2002...we got so used to downloading illegally (the scour.net guys were in the next building over from me), that we still download today, just on iTunes since we have money now.
I think teaching your kids the alphabet isn't asking for too much.

I agree. I was doing a little thought experiment, though, to analyze why that is. I don't like believing something without knowing the value of believing it ;-)

And whatever you do, don't mix up the letter order.

This, though, I am unsure about.

I appreciate hearing your experiences but I'm not convinced one teacher's approach invalidates the technique. With the synthetic phonics approach that's common here in the UK, the focus is typically on learning letters in relation to their use in simple words (like 'cat'). The order of the alphabet isn't ignored, but this is left till later when the names of the letters are covered (this comes after learning all of the "sounds").

I still need to do a lot more reading into this, but my own daughter's approaching the stage where she'll be interested in specific letters and I was planning to focus on the sounds she takes an interest in and their associated representations and worry about the "alphabet" somewhat later on. Phonics is not without its detractors though so, as I say, I need to do more reading ;-)
The best advice for dealing with the possibility of being "ambushed", or otherwise being made to answer awkward questions, comes from the British television series "Yes, Prime Minister".

(Prime Minister Hacker speaking to Bernard Woolley, his hapless Principal Private Secretary who has made unwise remarks to the press after being ambushed):

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing. But better, have something to say and say it, no matter what they ask. Pay no attention to the question, make your own statement. If they ask you the same question again, you just say, 'That's not the question' or 'I think the more important question is this:' Then you make another statement of your own."
I would say Apple is trying to compete more with last.fm and maybe even myspace. A lot of musicians use myspace as their social networking to communicate with their fans. I can easily see Ping being used for the same purpose and being tied into iTunes will help out the musicians a lot.
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>Children who are taught by their parents that it's fine to be disruptive (at inappropriate times, at least), ignore their responsibilities, and generally think it's ok to do whatever they want make it harder for the other children to learn.

The system tends to reinforce the behaviour by not ejecting those who are disruptive to the severe detriment, IMO, of those others who are not.