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Where to find the london startup scene?
hi,

I'm new to london and want to meet more startups, can anyone point me in the right direction?
It's normal to appoint someone like that to run an investigation.

This is a bit naive, no? Look at Eric Schneiderman.

e.g. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/yes-really-truly-no-j...
Washing your hands are you? Good company with Lady Macbeth and Pontius Pilate...
How about responsible parenting teaching our children the concepts of boundaries and moderation?
Academia.edu was very active in working with the White House to spread the word about this petition when it first came out, and getting signatures for the petition to hit the 25k threshold.

The White House hasn't responded to it because initially they were busy with the election, and then with the fiscal cliff, and now with gun reform. Getting more signatures on the petition now will help them see that people care about this topic.
Sounds like the perfect time to slip in a clause in the form, "by not taking any action, you agree that..."
Pretty sure the entire piece was anecdotal. I see no call to action indicating that he believes we need to take up some sort of communal mantle to protect our young ones. He just wonders if he blew it for himself.

hehe. Blew it.
It's one of those things that can rapidly spiral, you
start needing a bigger kick to keep it interesting.

There's been a couple of AMAs on reddit recently from people that have been convicted of possession of child porn (and other illegal material), quite a few have claimed exactly this to be the cause. They're not interested in the subject (children), they're interested in the "shocking" nature of the pornography, how it's something new to experience and it stems from their addiction to feeling something, eventually they become numb to watching a man and a woman having sex, so they move on to... and eventually end up with things like children, mutilation and bestiality (and other such "horrifying") things.

I have no idea if these claims are true or trying to justify what they've done but it seems relevant and worth mentioning. Here is an AMA from a wife of one such man: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/15b3vt/iam_the_wife_of...
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I don't read news anymore (two years now), only watch tech shows in my "niche".

But some say perception is reality, so maybe it's smart to be in the know from time to time.
That's an asset for a lot of indoor applications, as it allows an independent cell in each room, meaning minimal loss of data capacity due to interference between cells in the same band. You need an access point for each room, but that's okay once the hardware is cheap. For new installations, one can wire a building for data, analogous to wiring for lighting, with access points in place of luminaries. Eventually we will see light fittings with inbuilt 60GHz access points? The usage scenario for 60GHz is similar to infrared. The main advantage of 60GHz being that it able to penetrate a wider range of materials, thus offering better coverage.

It will be interesting to see what the patent landscape is for this. I'm hopeful that it will be largely unencumbered, so will become mainstream quickly. The basic system was defined 15-20 years ago, as OFDM based WLAN was always intended to operate in the 60GHz bands [1]. For the last 15-20 years its been a case of waiting for (cheap) radio technology to catch up with, and enable, the original WLAN vision.

[1] http://www.sss-mag.com/pdf/97_mmlan.pdf
Python has Decimal for that. Unfortunately, the people who wrote the platform I use - which deals with money - decided they're "too slow".
Some people don't like how they use porn. But, some people don't like how they use normal sex. And in both cases, the problem isn't porn or sex but that the person doesn't like their relationship to porn or sex; that it is interfering with their lives. This isn't true for everyone and it certainly isn't unique to porn.

For everyone who doesn't like their relationship to porn, there are other people who don't like that they got diseases, or got pregnant without a plan. But we don't pathologize this.

Let's be careful not to follow in the footsteps of Dr. Kellogg, who used the trappings of science to push predetermined conclusions in a campaign against harmless sexuality.
I won't cut them slack on their update process, they should have improved that by now.

I don't think being poor or not matters, Java is a gigantic codebase and throwing money at a team doesn't make them code more efficiently. They are doing moderately well at transitioning.

I believe Google ripped Java off hard, and I believe both the ripping off Java and the suing for it were bad moves.
Google should have licensed or bought Java and Oracle should have sold it or open-sourced it.

This is why corporate-owned languages are bad, and why Dalvik isn't really any better in the long run.

The best thing, perhaps, would be if HotSpot and OpenJDK were completely community driven all the way down to the release/update/install process, the way IcedTea is.
You're asking readers to grant you an awful lot of your assumptions. For example: "committed suicide as a direct result of his mental illness."

Neither you nor I know that. Suicide is often precipitated by stressful incidents. Is the mental illness the direct cause? What if the stress is the direct cause and the mental illness simply prevents the depressed person from handling it, much as AIDS damaging the immune system so that the victim is killed by some other illness? AIDS is the indirect cause.

The next thing that strikes my eye is "glorification of his suicide." Really? What have you read that suggests his suicide was glorious? I haven't read everything, but what I've seen glorifies his attempts to free information and laments his suicide and the years of his life that have been lost forever.

I'll pick once last thing. "Witch hunt" is an inappropriate metaphor. Witch hunts are McCarthy-esque persecutions of people for something that isn't actually wrong or illegal. For being "un-mutual." The arguments I've seen are that people have been doing something very wrong. If you don't think it's wrong, that's your business. But you can hardly argue that this is a persecution of people for doing little more than being different.

What crimes did Aaron commit? My understanding is that he was alleged to have committed crimes, but this has not been proven in court, so we don't know that he committed crimes, and if he did, we do not know that he did so knowingly.

The innuendo carefully stage-managed by those who stand to gain from a conviction seems persuasive, but people have seemed guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt in the past and have in time been discovered to be innocent.

And in this case, I am reminded of Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who knowingly broke Canada's anti-abortion laws of the day but was declared innocent by juries, leading to changes in the laws. Who knows what might have happened?

I don't know what might have happened. Do you?
Even then, suicide is not the only option.

One could walk across a border, for example. Not the easiest course, not as easy as being released from responsibility for one's actions, but better than death for sure.
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Honestly,

"T L ; D N R"

and

"... Too Long; I didn't read it"

Doesn't make sense. "N" does not pick out the beginning of any word. If you chance across the tag, your interpretation is less obvious than,

"... Too Long; Do Not Read"

The contraction makes sense, and thus the natural transformation into a meta-informative suggestion makes sense. Contractions serve to convey information, usually engendering more intimate dialogue. So it also invites the question of "why not"? And we all know how that goes. It invites the author and really any reader to a game not dissimilar to trolling, usually. It may not take a position necessarily, in terms of the message, and this is not required of what I am saying; however, an explanation of why one would post it at all stands in order. I think the conveying of information to other readers is also important.
On the same topic, "The Great Porn Experiment" TED talk, which provides some empirical grounding for the anecdote in the article:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
One of my favorite pieces on writing is "Effective Writing for Army Leaders," available at http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/p600_67.pdf . They have hilarious side-by-side comparisons of poor and good writing, such as pg. 13 and 14 (pg. 7 and 8 by page number). I found this during a brevity kick I had after reading David Sirlin's "Writing Well."
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> Writing should be concise, accurate, and to the point, and we as writers should always strive live by the wisdom of Strunk: "Use less words."

I think the feeling is often "I made this so long because I did not have time to make it shorter."

Of course on the web, this is short-sighted and self-defeating. If you have a valuable thought that you commit to the web, you do so in the hopes that it will be read many, many times. You only have to write it once.

So to agree with dizzystar, respect your (potential) readers and spend a little more time making that thought concise.
Reading the news is an exercise in critical thinking, but is it a better one than reading books? If you want to practice distilling a narrative from various sources, why not read several different books about history or science or philosophy instead?
Under "Helpful hints" on the right of this petition:

Creating a duplicate or similar petition will make it harder for you to get an official response. Instead, sign and help promote the one that has already been created.
As a cofounder of http://tldr.io I'd say that having a tl;dr separated from the main article is very useful for readability. Like ps for example it helps structure the text. tl;dr version of articles are essential to get directly to the point. As an heavy reader I like to have theses summaries detached from the article.
TLDR: Write like Hemingway, not like Faulkner.
I've read in a few places that his defense would cost around a million.

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bull...
There are mirrors that have audio-only recordings as well (and are located in the U.S.):

http://edge.lynxcdn.com/ccc/29c3/index.php?dir=audio%2Fmp3-a...

(full list of mirrors, mostly located in Germany: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Documentation#Record...)
It's hard to respond to petitions about real issues, because it requires you to do something.

Death Stars, however, make for good PR without actually doing anything.
Then how do you explain them having time for this; https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-resp...
I would go with this: My biggest weakness, hmm, if it is .. what I think it is, I rather feel that I should not share it, because, I feel that while I'm fixing something, I should not promote the fact that I'm open. Similarly to how, when you are fixing something in a apartment, while trying to sell it to a customer.

if the other person is still not convinced yet, I would carry on and say:

Well, honestly, it is something not that big, which is proven by the fact that your experienced eyes have yet not caught it, so yes, in a way, I can say, the question should not be what is your biggest weakness, but instead, does it make you unqualified for this (job/opportunity/etc), and the answer would be NO, it doesn't.

its actually a general question, towards your self-confidence. Because any experienced person knows, that weaknesses can be overcome, failures made up for. What matters is the awareness of it, and will to change.
Fair point. In my opinion, I don't think this is by any means a "new" problem, its just another way addiction manifests itself as a byproduct of how accessible pornography has become.

It can happen a million different ways; for the author, it was (probably) porn.
I am doing some research, apparently this is only for the online JRE install, and it's been there since 2011.

Sun JRE install once peddled OpenOffice and Google Toolbar, but at least OO is better than Ask. Ugh.

They need to get rid of this, it's an embarrassment.
> The issue I have with dynamic languages with types is that the type is usually inferred based on the operation.

That's about as wrong as can be.

In fact, it's the exact opposite (type inference can only be a property of statically typed languages)
He wasn't merely threatened with being bankrupted. He was bankrupted, and was having to rely on family for support as I understand it.
tl;dnr

Yes, of course I read it; but _why_ am I posting it?
This is Crown Copyright. I don't know the rules but they may be different.
I fucking hate this, put the "mental illness" stamp on someone and you can disregard everything else because the person "is sick", these abstract unscientific terms only serves to dehumanize people.
>Porn is indeed almost a staple of Western society

I present to you, old Japanese porn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s...

And here's a documentary about ancient Egyptian porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7HttHvJ8Gc

And here's a book about Mesopotamian porn: http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_erotic_reliefs_of...

What I want to say is that porn is not only a staple of Western culture, it's a staple of humanity.
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>I have two great rooms that may have a dozen active devices at any moment.

If any of them are stationary, or mostly stationary, you might just want to run an ethernet cable. Even long ones are dirt cheap from Monoprice. For instance, I wired my iMac, my girlfriend's iMac, and leave a wire at our kitchen table, where laptops are most likely to be used, for about $12 shipped.

Transferring video files between machines is now fast, and we don't have interference from neighboring networks (or vice-versa). Ethernet also makes using distributed processing using Compressor (http://documentation.apple.com/en/compressor/usermanual/inde...) easy.
The White House hasn't had time to respond to this petition because they've been busy responding to more important ones - like "begin construction of a Death Star by 2016".

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-resp...
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A court cannot let someone walk after a crime simply because the law itself is unjust.

Yes they can.[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
With respect, was there any problem with the felony besides his ego? I mean, I know people whose lifelong dream is to be a defense attorney. For those folks, a felony would be a huge problem since it would keep them from gaining admission to the bar.

Did Swartz have a similar issue? Or was he unable to bear the thought of being called names by that paragon of moral legitimacy known as the US government?
On a Mac, find the JavaAppletPlugin.plugin file and move it to trash.

That when, next month, the next 0-day exploit targetting Java applets comes out you'll be safe.

It only disable applets, nothing else.
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> As a former defense attorney, I would have loved it if jury nullification was intentionally designed into the system.

Jury nullification is part of law. Design is the part that dictates that you, as a defense attorney, cannot inform juries of their power. The prosecutors certainly won't.

Every American jury has the power* to ignore the law and make their own verdict if they decide that's how justice would be served.

Last year, it became part of New Hampshire law to protect the right of the defense to inform juries of their power:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/29/new-hampshire-adopts-jury-...

*edit: changed "right" to "power"
I really can't beleive how naive such people like Mrs. Ortiz are...
Beleiving in fighting for something like a greater good seems to make people pretty ruthless. I really cried for the internet community loosing one of the people who really felt responsable for fighting for the net's freemdom.

I hope some time justice will also spread in judiciary...
In practice that death star response probably only took an hour or two to write. However, figuring out federal policy on research is really tricky, and there are many stakeholders.

The fundamental problem is that the White House would like all research to be open, but every time they take any steps in that direction, they get whacked over the head in the media by the journal industry, and get called job-killers. The journal industry's argument is that any attempt to open up research will reduce their revenues, and kill jobs.

The view of most people in this debate is that the journal industry makes far too much money off research, and therefore the size of the industry should be reduced. But in this economic context being branded as a job killer is toxic.

The White House really wants to turn the debate around, and argue that open access for research is a stimulus for jobs: it will create more jobs, not fewer. To argue for that requires marshaling arguments and data from the private sector to establish that if people have access to federally-funded research, that will help them in their lives, and those benefits will outweigh the costs that the journal industry may experience.
Nothing new, something similar exist in India currently, which was probably formed after the last general elections, who created it, is not clear, but it is working against the government though. The nature of the comments state that it is not hired by any international organisation, thus raising fingers on the opposition party BJP.
Not that I know. Bad wording from my side, I was only thinking about teens (like the case of the author). Some day research might tell us, until then, you better avoid a risk to your child.

I think Skoofoo is spot on.
Being a felon seriously decreases ones ability to move internationally.
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It's a good question, and one that just recently came up for me at work in a slightly different way. My feeling is that it would be morally OK to register at a competitor's site. It would not be OK to use a false name or somehow attempt to hide your identity/affiliation with your company.

The paper at this link has some good information about issues and attitudes around competitive intelligence - http://osint.pbworks.com/f/Trevino.pdf

Also, there is a Society of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (like, who knew that was a thing). Their code of ethics is here - http://www.scip.org/About/content.cfm?ItemNumber=578
I think we can all agree that the criminal justice system needs a system redesign. The Criminal Justice System treats programmers like trash.

Like a defective airplane that kills a bunch of passengers once in a while, the fact that it works most of the time for non-programmers is insufficient.

I believe that programmers are a minority that are discriminated against by the Criminal Justice System, and this is unacceptable. We need a programmer's bill of rights, to protect our right to tinker and explore the realms of possibility without being immobilized with fear because we might accidentally click "save as" on an open server and get 35 years in prison for doing so.

I do believe that the US Justice system has a phobia against programmers. As a member of a minority of programmers hated by the US Judicial System. I will oblige them and design my next startups and programs without their benefit in mind.

The United States criminal justice system has vendettas against, discriminates against and has prejudice against the most capable computer programmers among us.

As a member of this community, this worries me that my profession is so unwelcome in this country that they would give me 35 years in prison for Exploring the realm of possibility.

I will indulge them and consider the feelings mutual. When a nation alienates the best and brightest among by treating them like shit, then programmers having unwavering loyalty to that system is illogical, unwise, and evidence of naivete.
So the TL;DR of this article is:

- Author should summarize their idea in the first sentence of their writings.

- Prefixing this summary with TL;DR is useless and asinine as it stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read".

http://tldr.io/tldrs/50f34acc3ea2fa3e06001f25/tldr-is-unnece...
Contrast the MIT statement with the distancing of JSTOR: http://about.jstor.org/statement-swartz

They write, "The case is one that we ourselves had regretted being drawn into from the outset..."

But in Lawrence Lessig's http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bull... he writes, "Early on, and to its great credit, JSTOR figured “appropriate” out: They declined to pursue their own action against Aaron, and they asked the government to drop its."

According to Lessig, JSTOR was hardly "drawn into" their case against Swartz: they withdrew their own legal action against Swartz.
It is short-sighted and self-defeating because there is nothing written in stone that says that your content is immutable.

I love it when I receive emails from readers asking me to clarify some point, or telling me about spelling errors. I also get requests to remove paragraphs. After about 5 minutes of pondering it, I find that they are usually right. It's not that difficult to delete a paragraph.
Though the article brings up an interesting point for consideration, I found it relying more on inflammatory statements than anything else.

"The Justice Department was bagging obscenity law trophies by going after the poor, the suicidal, the insane, the cognitively impaired— because that's the way they rack up numbers and status. That's the way their fuel their careers at the Justice Department— not by taking on constitutional issues, or injustice, or fat cats who believe they're above the law."

I'd be interested in seeing numbers on whether defendants convicted of obscenity charges really do have a higher incidence rate of poverty, mental illness, etc. to back the author up.
>"Porn isn't bad, it's a part of society now and has been for a long while"

Are you sure about that? It seems that widespread, easy access to porn is something very new. Before the internet, you would have to go through some embarrassing procedure at a checkout counter to purchase just a few pornographic items.

The amount of free porn I could access in the next hour would have cost me thousands of dollars in the 1980s.

We have normalized porn very recently and it is just a piece of modernist faith that it is harmless.
Is it inconceivable that there's a middle ground to be found somewhere between "no criminal penalty at all" and "wildly, disproportionately harsh penalties"?

Perhaps we could call it "punishment that fits the crime"?
The don't teach enough constitutional history these days, apparently. Trial by jury and the jury's ability to nullify the prosecution's factually correct case are part of the same, intentional design of the American judicial system.
They do present a good case in that response: why build a death star when it has a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one man starship?
This would be nice but how is this going to be payed for? Research budgets are already being squeezed pretty tight given how much the sponsoring organization takes(universities ...), research costs, and congressional attempts to cut funding I just don't see it happening anytime soon. It already costs quite a bit to publish.

edit: Just to give an idea of the costs> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.h...
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