skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that a defendant must be caught and informed of the loss of their first two strikes (as versus being caught once for a least three instances of the crime, and losing them all at once), such a solution--if enforced effectively enough--is not terribly far from ideal (at least from what should be the RIAA's long term perspective), in that the emotional effect of having been caught twice ought to be a sufficient deterrent for any reasonable individual not to continue to illegally download music. That said, the third strike is still perhaps too stringent to actually be enforced, even as a bandwidth limiter rather than a complete disconnect, and the fear of enforcement is a crucial part of an effective deterrent.

I would be more inclined to suggest limitations on internet usage for 2^N months (or some reasonable facsimile) for an Nth offense.

Of course, any such scheme is dependent upon dramatically better enforcement, in much the same way that, due to ineffective and uneven enforcement, drug laws are not an effective deterrent.
Hang on, I said you were being unduly lenient with her, not the court. And I made clear that the leniency stems not from your disagreement with the sum, but your willingness to absolve her from any intent in distribution when the evidence is that she was more savvy (and dishonest) than she was willing to let on.

In essence, you're just defending her because you hate the RIAA, not because her position has any merit. And that I find jarring.
Please, this is a comment thread, everyone reading this can actually read so don't block-capitalize anything, there's exclamation marks for that, we're not retarded we can read but it does make you look retarded for doing it. You've weakened your point by breaking HN's etiquette, not to mention basic grammar.

Studio engineers lose their job all the time and right now in a down-turned economy, people in every field of business have lost their job, so please explain as to why anyone should even care if a studio engineer lost their job. Workers have contracts and companies have profit margins, for all we know the studio engineer was stealing microphones.

BTW artists get dropped by their label all the time and its rarely ever a problem for the artist, the real problem is where the label begins refusing new material and has the band on a multiple works contract. If you've produced 2 albums and your record label wants a 3rd but won't accept your material, you cannot go to another label for up to 5 years in some cases.
people are not willingly moving, they are forced to move. So are they showing support or forced to 'show support' ?
Thinking about upgrading to IE8? Think twice
I'm currently playing with an Arduino, I'm only at the traffic lights stage, which feels very "Hello World", but I enjoy it. It's very refreshing to think that I can start building my own hardware to interface with a computer. I've spent years writing software and it makes a nice change to make something tangible using the programming skills I already have.

I agree, the colour changing lamp isn't that useful by itself but learning how to make one would be fun. It's a nice hobby to have. There's something satisfying about building something yourself.

The limitations seem endless, but it's coming up with practical ideas that I think is the really tricky thing.

Stuff like the Baker Tweet - http://www.bakertweet.com/ have a lot of potential.
While I agree with the point that the science of obesity is mostly crap, I'm not really sure that data given by this blog post is particularly conclusive.

An important fact to remember: many people lose weight at the end of their life.
The difference is whether the aggressor is Us or Them. The argument is whether that distinction is important.
From my experience, there is plenty of cash flow. I've found Atlanta to be a superb base for my start up, but there is no doubt that the recent economic turmoil has made it more challenging to find investors. I also think that the Atlanta investment community is more receptive to businesses in established sectors, so you may want to see if your start up is aligned with those expectations.
It's an encyclopedia of essays on math topics. It's very comprehensive and well edited.

However, while it's a cool book, speaking as a former math tutor, it isn't the most helpful from a self study perspective.
People don't change that much. If they were interested in computers/music at age 8, then they would probably be interested in computers/music at age 80.
Why the generalisation? You don't speak for me.

It's just as easy for me to type /server irc.mibbit.net over /server irc.freenode.net - no forcing involved.
Thanks. I've been tempted to get the G1. Right now I'm waiting to see if some of the other Android phones come out relatively soon (by the end of summer)- if not, I'll go with the G1.
3) You have to have a place to leave your kids during the day while you work.
Nonsensical argument based on mortality rates between teens and 30s, precisely before obesity-related health effects begin to kick in. What's truly terrifying, and mentioned not at all by TFA, is that we're seeing an uptick on when said health effects start showing up. That's the line people should be looking at, not some lackadaisical projection that everyone will be obese...and, oh my gods, athletes aren't on the curve and they're healthy, right?!? Very, very poorly reasoned.
Nobody's forced to use the new #startups. You could just as easily start #startups2 and sit by yourself.
Elitist cack.

I can think of several times I've used mibbit to pop in to #startups (or another channel on another network) because installing an IRC client just isn't possible (lack of admin rights, on someone else's computer, etc).
At the London hackspace we are mostly software people who want a space to hang out and hack away on projects. The BBC turned up on the night that tinker.it had donated a bunch of arduinos and various hardware bits such as leftovers from their toy-hacking workshop. It seems the beeb jamp to the conclusion that we are a group of garbage scavengers rather than social hackers and crafters.
"You did a lot more planning than you seem to think."

Excellent observation.

People do more planning than they might think, so the question is, how deliberate do you want those plans to be?
I wouldn't say shouldn't, but I would say that a slightly higher barrier to entry serves as a good first-pass filter for technically-oriented communities.
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I just happened to find this book browsing through my campus library a few days ago:

Basic Training in Mathematics

A Fitness Program for Science Students

Shankar, R.

http://www.springer.com/physics/book/978-0-306-45036-5

Meant as a review/primer for undergraduates in the physical sciences and engineering. Mainly covers topics in calculus and linear algebra. Does a fairly good job of covering the connections between ideas and some of the intuition behind ideas, while keeping things pretty concise. That is my review after finishing the first chapter, which is as far as I've got.

The "Basic Training" perspective peeks through in comments like:

"Trigonometric functions, identities and derivatives, radian measures for angles. These will not be listed here since you must have already learned them by heart as a child."

So don't expect to be overly molly-coddled by this book.

I'm reading it for many of the same reasons you describe. Taking a machine learning course in the Fall, want to brush up on the underlying mathematics involved. Statistics, calculus and linear algebra are pervasive in most of the ML books I have looked at. I note that you did not list linear algebra, but that is the area where I have been spending the most time, mainly because I never took a course in it, where the other topics I have at least some background I can review.
No, it's because they're constantly evaluating and updating their plan to adapt to obstacles rather than attempting to ignore obstacles and proceed obstinately along the same route that they had in mind at the beginning.

If anything they're doing MORE planning, because whenever something gets in their way, they have to put some effort into coming up with a new plan or changing their existing plan.
That's what I thought when mirc came out;-) People who didn't know how to use ircII were generally not as cool.

You need something better, though.

After all, it should be noted that discussion here is via a web based interface, and yet the conversation isn't that bad.
At the age of 40, with what he calls his "active but sedentary start-up lifestyle," Hoffman just keeps getting bigger: about 10 pounds a year, he estimates.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/08/business/fi-hoffman8

LinkedIn was founded about sixty pounds ago:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/linkedin

However, one should note that Hoffman founded an early social network when he was slimmer; it failed. And he wasn't a founder at Paypal, which succeeded.
Distant Matters: Email traffic data casts doubt on global village theory
I do some web design. I wouldn't pay hourly for an initial website design & implementation. If you've got a designer/developer that is incompetent (or just out of practise) then they are going to take a lot longer and so cost more. Agree a price, technical problems are the designers problem.

Admin stuff takes quite a lot of time in a small business, in my experience (3 small businesses so far). Also just doing the design implementation stuff isn't enough - you do have to get out and win the work. 50:50 sounds about right IMO.

That's assuming he is doing inital design (graphical prototype, you'll need usability input here) and preparing graphical elements for the coded pages; as well as the up front promotion and sales.

Kinda depends on what sort of sites you're doing. A heavy app with lots of DB design or lots of scripting would need more weighting towards you. A simple graphical "this is us" site the weight is more towards him (and you're probably better outsourcing the coding of that sort of thing anyway).

FWIW
that comment was gold
Assuming the outcome is that most successful start-up founders are skinny, what would that be a sign of?
High metabolism/energy and efficient energy use?
Daily marathon like work sessions?
Macro view of a healthy lifestyle?
Other?
"They studied the messaging habits of 100,000 Facebook users by zip code"

This skews the study substantially. My facebook friends are my old classmates, colleagues, family and friends. Most of them are people that live close to where I do.

My e-mail habits are very different. Businesswise I probably correspond with more people abroad than in my own country.

The sample determines the output - and in this case the sample isn't representative of all online communications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)

For most minor and petty crimes (such as my examples in another comment; parking violations, drunk driving, etc.), mens rea is unneeded (in the US, at any rate). The question of what degree of mens rea is relevant for intellectual property theft is both open and relevant; simply saying that, for example, it should should require mens rea because larceny (theft) does ignores the fundamental differences between the two.

EDIT: Two clarifying points. First, there is legal language describing the mens rea necessary in intellectual property theft; however, there is not a significant body of case law interpreting exactly what it means. Second, the reason that you can't just copy the mens rea of larceny is that intent to commit larceny is the intent to deprive the rightful owner of the object, which is clearly not a factor in intellectual property theft.
Great, all international politics needs is more ignorant Americans pushing peoples buttons. We had enough of ignorance with Bush, it caused enough problems for international politics and now some 'activists' are carrying on this ignorance ten-fold by actually going out of their way to antagonize another state.

These 'activists' actions will only give more credence to any Iranian propaganda, in fact I'm sure it'll allow the Iranian state to make up more propaganda that the US is attacking their internet infrastructure.
> we're not retarded

That is an offensive word. Please retract it.

> not to mention basic grammar.

> Studio engineers lose their job all the time and right now in a down-turned economy, ...

You're missing a comma after "now". Also, engineers don't lose their jobs "all the time", they frequently lose their jobs.

> so please explain as to why anyone should even care if a studio engineer lost their job

"as to" is redundant. "Even" is redundant. In any case, my point, since you evidently missed it (perhaps due to excessive focus on such vital issues as etiquette and "basic" grammar?), was that those job losses are directly related to lost revenues as a result of rampant piracy.

> for all we know the studio engineer was stealing microphones

Silly; see above.

> BTW artists get dropped by their label all the time and its rarely ever a problem for the artist

Again, "all the time" is poor english. And "its" should have an apostrophe.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

EDIT: BTW cool username! I'd actually thought of that for an album name, although I think deliberately mispelling it, spidey-style, to "electro-magnetic" would be even cooler (would be particularly appropriate for an electro outfit, naturally).

EDIT: Also, I feel it's important to point out that the reason I capitalized the last sentence (and let's be fair here: it was only four words) is that the great majority of the posts related to filesharing assume that simply because there is no financial reward for making files available, there is no harm done. But as Frederik Bastiat would say, there is what you see, and what you don't see. And what you don't see is that in at the very least a substantial amount of cases, unauthorized downloads lead to lost sales. The case itself had evidence of this, namely that her shopping list (I believe from Best Buy) only listed purchases of DVDs and games (it had a single CD purchase, IIRC).
And then one of you messes up on their part and either the billed hours total is more than the revenue or the client refuses to pay so much (depending how you're charging) ... what now?

Also billed hours means that there's an incentive to work slowly to get a greater share out of the business.
I thought the pollster meant what we now consider important. How long would that part of our education have taken?
Death to Experts Exchange!
UberVU brands its API as ContextVoice - launches a free and a paid service
What is the official reason?
I just upgraded to 3.0 from my hotel room in Osaka and it worked fine. I put the phone into airplane mode before upgrading, but after the firmware update finished, it was out of airplane mode and communicating with the Softbank mobile network again, so I don't think it made any difference.
37signals mentioned 14 times in this post, it worked.
Lots of noise. Filter it.
Highly recommended read, just to remember that people like John are out there.

It is an amazing story. The more I think about it, the more I am amazed at the variety and magnitude of problems people face in their lives. I don't want to sound sympathetic. I don't know what to write. I should not have started writing this.
first of all i don't assume "learning only what i consider to be important" is good, not just because at the age people do not have the ability to tell what is really important (for themselves). but the key is: learning what you consider to be not important is just as important. it's like learning math: to have children learn and practice multiply for years is not about getting them the ability to multiply 2 numbers above ten in head, but giving them routine for broad topics in "real life" (from not being cheated at paying at a store to "higher level" logics of "thinking").

on the other hand i really think our education (and this is about our university education in my country - hungary) is too much based on "dictionary knowledge" in contrast to getting people able to solve real life problems (so teaching people how to think and be creative). but the k-12 education is much about getting you a "general education" (that is expected by the local society/culture). so the time is not the bottleneck here i think.

excuse me for my english
I believe Word has this as well. A mixed blessing.
Curitiba's Urban Experiment
You need something better, though. After all, it should be noted that discussion here is via a web based interface, and yet the conversation isn't that bad.

I agree, but IRC is different and arguably antiquated technology. It doesn't require registration, operates in real-time, has no concept of reputation or community moderation. It's difficult to manage, and services that accidentally facilitate abuse make it more so.
Addressable Market Size
What are you doing in your free time? (Off-topic, but I don't know how to private contact him.)
There goes my next four weekends. Damn you!
Freenode accepts Tor connections, so just connect that way.
The sample is also much smaller than the article suggests. The paper itself says they found about 1800 'linked pairs' of users with a stated ZIP code in that sample of 100K. And in the graphs for the larger (4500) sample of email data, the fit is quite bad, with a pronounced 'hump' in the tail. There are just far too few sample points here to make these kinds of sweeping conclusions.
Behind The Scenes: Iterative Design on a New Component of the Recess Framework
Doesn't serve as counter argument for web chat providing strong value proposition, just that Freenode leveraged existing open source software to provide an alternative solution that they could directly manage.

http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-wh...
People abusing mibbit webchat to cause strife

http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-wh...

Honestly, freenode is loaded up with tech savvy users. This will solve nothing. If users want to cause strife on channels, the tool they use is inconsequential. Below are two scenario's off the top of my head.

Scenario #1 - people will be using proxies and using freenode's webchat client = banning mibbit was pointless

Scenario #2 - people will be using their own irc clients and using open proxies = banning mibbit was pointless

So banning of mibbit hasn't actually solved the problem, but like I theorised above, has the potential to funnel revenue to freenode and given the timing of axod's post about revenue, with the banning of mibbit only a day or so after followed by the awfully convenient default webchat installation that freenode put up, it smells a little fishy (even if it's tin foil hat territory, you still have to admit it's bad timing on freenodes part).

EDIT - Scenario #3 - lowtech, just reconnecting off your router to refresh your IP and connect from home = banning mibbit was pointless
I'm not sure I fully understand the point of the question. I've got several children in K-12 now, and there's no doubt in my mind that the school system could be more aggressive in terms of the amount of content they fit in (at least as far as I my kids are concerned.)

However, if they did so, the goal (for me) would be to teach them more in the same amount of time, not to shave years off of the school experience in order to get them into the workplace faster. Obviously, young people who want to go straight into the workforce always have the option of dropping out of school, but that doesn't mean that the societal goal should be that all 17-year-olds should be finished with structured education.
Just remove Freenode from the drop down menu and have people to connect manually using the /server and /newserver commands.

You'll get rid of all uneducated trolls. The educated ones may be the worst kind, but that's another matter.
The irony is that LGM's analysis buys into using the BMI as the horribly blunt instrument it is, in just the same manner that he is criticizing.

way to try to have it two ways.
This is not happening in this case, but some materials do indeed have different crystal phases that can exist at the same temperature and pressure for extended periods of time, and some of them have different densities, like steel (search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martensite for "density") and quartz (search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coesite for "volume"). The property in general is called "polymorphism", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_(materials_science....

(And of course glasses do not in general have the same density as crystalline forms of the same materials.)

A few years back (5? 7?) there was a startup working on a new memory technology based on polymorphic crystallization. To update a bit, you would melt the material in a cell on the chip, and then let it cool over some period of time; I think the number was something like 2 ns for a 0, 5 ns for a 1, resulting in one of two different polymorphs. The two polymorphs of the material had a difference in some electrical property (permittivity? resistivity?) that permitted you to tell which form had been crystallized. (I was told about the technology under "friend NDA", but I'm pretty sure that this is both late enough and vague enough to be okay.)

(I'm not a materials scientist; I'm just interested in stuff.)
The FitzGerald contraction would only shrink it in one dimension.
TV commercials are evolving as the digital recording devices take over
My computer experience going into high school was playing commander keen on a 486.

I went to college to get a diploma in computer animation.

I am now a web programmer.

People change.
You can move to a new language whenever you want. But will your community follow you? Not without a great deal of groundwork.
Another reincarnation of crit.org. Wikalong is still online, but it's gratuitously incompatible with Firefox 3 (which is Firefox's fault, not Wikalong's.)
How's Italy in terms of internet startups, geek culture, etc? Never really come across Italian tech startups in the news.
It is an amazing story-- although I wish the headline was more cognizant of the near-infinite variety of experience that you mention. "Crazy" isn't always noisy; sometimes it is quiet...
Dealing with impossible crises
Thought a similar thing - just comparing mortality rates by BMI seems very imprecise. All sorts of factors could come into play, like (making this up) teenagers tending to be less overweight than older people and a lot of teenagers dieing in car crashes. Or whatever - it is not even clear to me what the mortality rate is meant to be - deaths per year?
Having a valid opinion that is against the grain is not "trolling". Innovation isn't trolling.
This site has tarsnap disease: More talk about crypto than about what it actually does. :-)
Comparison to black-box fuzzing. We compared
Ardilla’s ability to ﬁnd ﬁrst-order XSS attacks to that of
a black-box fuzzer for ﬁnding XSS attacks: Burp Intruder
(listed in the 10 most popular Web-vulnerability scanners).
We conﬁgured the fuzzer according to its documentation.
The fuzzer requires manual setting up of HTTP request pat-
terns to send to the Web application (and requires manual
indication of variables to mutate). We ran the fuzzer using
the same attack pattern library that Ardilla uses, and on the same subject programs. (We have not been able to success- fully conﬁgure webchess to run with the fuzzer.) We ran the fuzzer until completion (up to 8 hours). The fuzzer found 1 ﬁrst-order XSS vulnerability in schoolmate, 3 ﬁrst-order in faqforge, 0 in EVE, and 0 in geccbblite. We examined all vulnerabilities reported by the fuzzer and determined that they were a subset of those discovered by Ardilla.

Ardilla looks like awesome work, but this is a specious metric. Burp Intruder isn't a fire-and-forget platform for finding XSS and SQLI; it's a tool to accelerate manual testing. The authors (wisely) aren't making the claim that manual testing couldn't have found the schoolmate flaws; if manual testing can find something, it's tricky to propose that Burp Intruder couldn't have helped them.
May I suggest that you are not a geek: No Star Trek? Blasphemer!