skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one had a trailig slash in the url and I posted before I checked the front page.
Came across this already today. In order for the creative director to view the site on my local machine he asked for the IP address. I decided instead to install a local DNS server. Am I crazy? Also, anyone else know of an easy way to get PCs to recognize the computername.local address that Mac's have? Otherwise, I'll just keep configuring the DNS.
Sorry, meant this one ...
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physics-Engineeri...
It doesn't affect your experience in any way if there's an affiliate link

Perhaps it is not meant to, but when a scientist has affiliation with say the tobacco industry, I would take his research about the effect of smoking on health with a very suspicious hat on. In fact, I would dismiss it completely.

I think the same logic applies here, it may seem like the list is made for the bucks hence eroding goodwill and by buying a book in such a way you might feel cheated at worst or perhaps simply do not want to encourage such conflict of interest at best.
> most successful practitioners of the craft...and often they are so successful by virtue of skills other than the craft itself.

And this is the reason why doing games development on your own is not game development. If you want successfully market your games (and make a living fromit) your end up doing a whole lot of tasks totally unrelated to game coding. It's almost like having that day job again. It is really a "band" job: you need more than one payer. If you start up with a team and you are the coder, than you have chance.
Not to mention that she thinks all geeks are software geeks. Some geek programmers are geeky about something else and don't give a damn about software beyond getting it to work.
Set up a dev server?
DOM Traversal in Firefox 3.5
PTAM + AR on an iPhone 3G
To take action against a third party that has bought a domain name that you believe is in breach of your identity you need to satisfy 3 criteria;

A) Name is identical or confusing to a trade or service mark.
B) The registrant has no claim to the name
C) The name is being used in bad faith

If you can prove all 3 criteria you can appeal to the registry. If the extension is .uk you would approach Nominet, they have a DRS (Dispute Resolution Service) procedure which is free of charge and details can be found at http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes

Each extension internationally will have different rules and procedures. You can contact us directly at http://www.names.co.uk/obp-recovery-services.html and we will outline your particular case and offer advice as to your next step. There is no obligation to use myself to carry out the recovery on your behalf.
As an aspiring (Atlanta) entrepreneur, I have given up on fundraising, and plan to go completely with bootstrapping off of revenue.

Does Atlanta have capital for investing? I have no clue. I've never met one VC or Angel, and wouldn't know the first thing about trying to. Once I finally realized that fact, it made the decision pretty easy. Stop going to local meetups looking for unicorns, and just stay home and get to work.
would you like to elaborate on that?
To be fair, I think the original settlement proposed was around USD 10,000 certainly more than your proposal, but a far cry from the USD 1.9MM the court awarded her.

In any case, your arithmetic seems to me to measure the wrong thing. The problem is not that she downloaded the songs. The problem is that she made them available for downloading. If all she had done was burned 24 tracks from a friend's collection and listened to that in her car and gotten caught, then your calculation makes sense. But each time someone downloaded the songs she made available, that person no longer need to buy the album from the artist. That's why two dollars per track, IMHO, is far from being a fair figure from damages. It's the viral aspect which makes P2P different, from, say, copying cassettes like we did when we were kids.
> I make a principle of exposing careless arguments even when they support a good cause.

Good for you.

(See also: http://www.liberalrevolt.com/article/the-10-signs-of-intelle... )
Palm's official word is: "We’re not announcing the SDK’s public launch date at this time. More information will be provided closer to availability."

That indicates (to me) that they aren't that close to releasing it. If you're going to provide advanced information on availability, that sounds like a month or so to me which makes me think the SDK will be public in August at the soonest.

It makes me (as a fellow Pre user) a little sad and annoyed. It should be pretty simple to make a few nice web apps using the HTML 5 local storage the Pre supports. I guess I can wait.
As I recall, the issue wasn't just that she downloaded the 24 songs, but that she made them available for download (shared). For that I would tack on an extra $7-$8 per song to account for the (likely) small number of people who downloaded from her.
I got i two days ago and have skimmed around: Absolutely recommendable!
If I recall correctly, in 1900 there were something like 50 homicides in Manhattan with roughly the same population and much more poverty.
hmm... is that correct?

releasing only the modified 'libraries' would be sufficient under LGPL, but since they are using GPL software wouldn't palm have to release the whole project?
BMI by itself is not a good indicator of "health/habits." More important numbers for this aspect of health are body fat percentage and lean muscle mass.
Great! So basically no punishment at all. What you're proposing is to turn the courts into an offline shop -- one which the customer shops at a massive cost to the retailer.

The sense of entitlement evident in a statement like that is frankly breathtaking. I should be able to break the law, lie about breaking the law, get dragged into court, waste everyone's time, and then, as punishment, I should be given the option to simply delete the offending files? Are you serious? And what about the all the individual downloads of the songs she made available? Should we just ignore those, because the original perpetrator no longer has them?

It's quite obvious that you haven't given this a great deal of thought.
Sorry, I should probably have said "hit your car with a sledgehammer", then the comparison would have been better. It's still confusing because of the whole virtual vs real goods - and I just slipped in a "theft" frame of mind even if it's not really correct at all. RIAA PR at work, I guess.
I'd add reasonable interest but other than that I think I agree with you. The biggest problem with this discussion in general is that the RIAA has blurred the line between criminal and civil acts. Therefore you have a justice system that is imposing crime level punishment instead of civil restitution.

I'm against music piracy and I think those who get caught should be responsible for paying back what they took from the other party. But bankrupting a person serves no societal purpose and actually provides a disincentive because someone who owes more money than they could ever pay will probably end up paying nothing at all. While someone who owes a couple thousand will probably just take the hit and move on.
Honestly the 3rd or 4th time I have to do something I'll write a program for it, and only if I know they're would be a 5th or a 6th. I've almost written myself out of my job about 3 times now. I got hired to do IT and run manual reports, after a few weeks our internal IT was up to speed (user support isn't that high volume if their systems are in order), and a few weeks later I had no more "manual" reports. Luckily for me I know how to drum up more projects, I go and find "sore spots". Now I've got a trail of automation and reputation for taking the pain out of our processes. I'm valued and it makes me happy. And to think I could be doing manual reports instead..

I also know I'm responsible for work happening on days when I spend all my time reading HN...
Did anyone read this disclaimer at the bottom of the page?

"It's not meant to be a bashing of PHP or its authors."

And if so, does anyone understand how that site isn't mean to be a bashing of PHP? I mean, he's free to bash it if he wants, but does that even make sense?
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111453.html

from the post: "instead Palm have included a written offer to supply the source code on request. This satisfies the GPL"
http://www.thatquiz.org/
for practice problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathomatic
an open source math solver, will also output answers to programming code, can solve polynomials, do calculus, trig...etc. You can use it to check your answers.

http://www.math.com/
the website has a lot of topics.

You don't neccessarily 'need' a textbook. You can probably find the information you seek all online. If you have any questions you can ask yahoo answers.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/links.aspx
http://etc.usf.edu/math/index.htm
an overwhelming list of math sites. SOS math has worked well at helping me in the past.
Building digital cross-media empires in New England - 6/24 event preview
Why Microsoft Had to Destroy Word to Save it
BMI is a good indicator of whether you're over or underweight, which is an indicator of health and eating habits. I'd be interested to see the results of this but I can't see there being any correlation.
And a fixed amount of around $100 to cover the principle of the thing in cases with 1-2 songs, plus all the hassle should be just about right.
does just a "written offer to supply the source code on request" satisfy the GPL?

i hope not, because that would leave quite some room for abuse to the point where you need to go to court to get the source.
Hmmm...they modified netcat? I wonder why? Will have to take a look later.
This will help you, it's a windows implimentation of zero conf, which mac's use for that host name.

http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/download/
> It seems pretty gutless of the "artists" on this list to sit by and watch someone's life get ruined for downloading their music.

That is at best an incorrect, at worst disingenuous, characterization of what occured. The defendant did not just "download" the music. She made it available. She, in effect, distributed it. Two different things. Also, she refused to settle when it was painfully obvious that she had been caught red-handed.

This is not some mouse of a victim. She displayed considerable chutzpah, conveniently forgetting that the hard disk she handed in as a deposition was the wrong one. She is at the very least co-responsible for her current situation.
I don't think it "eludes" them so much as they simply don't care about the entrepreneurial needs of automotive suppliers.
Good call. Anyone willing to donate one? We're in the NYC area. Bootstrap startup. All of our money goes towards keeping the site running.
Interestingly, I've been having a similar discussion with someone here at HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658355

I agree with the author that it isn't acceptable to launch DDoS attacks on Iranian state sites, and then complain about the Chinese doing the same on US government sites.
I'll third this recommendation. Fantastic text.

http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth...
Call me naive, but I believe 37sigs want also to change how american small businesses operate. It's not just trolling they really want to change how certain people think.
Coming from Atlanta and being in some failed startups I have to see this is spot on.
Isn't this the issue everytime someone downloads a song since every p2p & torrent client automatically shares the stuff you download? It seems silly to punish her for a systematic feature of the software she used to download the tracks.

I dunno - it seems that if we're going to punish her for sharing as well, do we then not go after those 7-8 people that downloaded from her? Seems like there's a bit of double-dipping that's possible here (which again would lead to an Infinite amount of damages).

But i'll give you that. We're now at $8-$10 a track. Which makes her fine somewhere between $200 and $17,000, still orders of magnitude less than the actual outcome.
I raised an eyebrow at Piaget too, but mostly because he's been described as on the same level with Freud: he created the field, but that was a long time ago. I haven't read him though, I admit.
I was a bit disappointed seeing this list tbh. I thought wow cool before getting there and once I landed I was like, gee dude, love to learn?

I think the people who love to learn have a big problem, that is there is so many interesting things that we would love to learn, hence a list like this, although to start with was met with, well why should I have this guy tell me what to read, but I thought I might get some cool book, you know one of those which changes the way you think.

For me, there have been a few books which have changed the way I think, as they were at different stages of my life, their difficulty rating varies.

The first book to change my way of thinking is "a beginners guide to ideas". I suggest this book as a present for smart, but deeply devoted religious people. This is a very "basic" book and mostly introduces a beginner to the history of philosophy.

The second book, in a time line order, would be (I do not remember the title exactly) something like WWI and why it happened. This book undercovered the deeper reasons and explained how the surface stories connect with them.

I think the winner would have to be a book about Nitzches works, the different way that this guy saw reality, I think shed some light on our nature and some deeper hidden reasons for things like morality.

A designers book for non designers was just superb, simple, yet deep.

Now am reading ancient rhetorics for contemporary students which is helpful for me right now for its emphasise on thoroughness which I had ignored.

Another book was about the complete history of human beings, which taught me that we prefer to improve what we have, therefore lay layer upon layer, and by association create immense complexity, when there are much more simple ways of doing things. The examples were the ancient calendars and their numerical systems.

I could go on, however what I think these books have in common is one, they introduce you to a completely new field of study, two they are written by people who taught the subject for years, hence they know how to teach, how many and which basic things to include and at what pace to progress to complexity. Another thing they have in common is that these books get lost haha, even their titles, however they do remain in my memory and what I have learned from them will probably be taken to the grave.

An egocentred opinion may follow, however I would suggest that the people who love to learn love to learn many things, yet not necessarily in great detail, that is what specialism and our job is for. Therefore I was enthusiastic by this list, yet very disappointed by it content.
IPhone lines around the world
This is completely stupid of Freenode. Shame on them.

Axod, how do you know it’s permanent? Have they made a statement?

Where do you think we should move the #startups channel if they don’t desist in, say, a day or two?
She didn't just refuse to settle. In two seperate trials, she mounted what jurors determined was a remarkably dishonest defense, and got slapped hard for pulling that.

People are talking like this case is about the insanity of monetary damages for individual music tracks. And that's what it would have been about, if this person hadn't instead made it about whether she downloaded and published tracks at all.
Charlie Demerjian takes the time to explain: Intel proves branding can get worse, http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/06/18/intel-proves-branding...
It has moved to irc.mibbit.net #startups.
5% for an introduction? If I'm understanding this correctly he's selling and designing. The sale alone is worth 25%. Now I'm not saying 50% makes sense but 5% is incredibly low for a sale of anything (even if your cashmart).

Agree on all other points.
IMO the real problem with BMI is it relates volume to a linear dimention squared. So short fat people, and tall skinny people can have the same BMI. Changing to ((Hight ^3) / weight) would correct for this.

It works ok for people in the 5 - 6 foot range, but you can't really compare the BMI of someone 4'5" to someone 6'6".
It takes a lot of imagination to use these gadgets creatively. Fortunately there are people out there who can pull it off:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/gallery_embroidery/4/

Also, e-ink is REALLY expensive, about 10x more than OLED, even.
Again, doesn't every p2p application share by default? Is there any evidence that she wanted to share? And unless there's another motive here besides her wanting to listen to the music, I still don't think we shoult treat her like some bootlegging operation that sells thousands of cd's in downtown manhattan (to customers that are more likely to buy the cd).

Also -- she likely would have gotten less of a penalty if she had indeed shoplifted these cd's and then sold thousands of copies on a chinatown corner. I'm just sayin'...

Again, crimes usually have to have some sort of intent component. She wanted to download and listen, not share, this music.
Understanding Ternary Trees
Well its about the fact that there's no cap on statutory damages, and that when you string together multiple infringements, how out of hand things can get. I don't think her poor defense changes this concurrent conversation.

Regardless of how poorly she lied or tried to cover up the fact that she downloaded these tracks, we should not ignore the pettiness of the underlying crime relative to the fine.
Apple fans flock to buy iPhone 3G S
Which is, of course, a deeply broken way to handle the situation. If multi-type comparisons have to be supported at all, at least one ought to cast the narrower type to the wider one! In this case, the int argument ought to be cast to string, because all ints can be uniquely represented as a string, but not the other way around.

As it stands, PHP's equality operator is not an equivalence relation because it's not transitive. This is deeply unintuitive and logic-defying.
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That's true. BMI can reveal if people are dangerously underweight, and not eating enough food, leading to excess deaths:

http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/08/obesity-apocalypse.htm...

Oddly enough, you'll notice that the "normal" weight is actually more fatal than many "obese" weights.

I suspect that there will be a correlation. People on the extremes -- malnourished or morbidly obese -- may have distracting health issues. But in the middle ranges, other health variables would probably give you a better idea.
Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
I lived in North Brooklyn from 06 - 08, and in my line of work, was very familiar with the gang activity and homicides that were occurring in the area. There are several homicides that I know for a fact took place that aren't listed on the map. So although it doesn't explain the complete lack of homicides in Central Park - I'm willing to bet that their data is less complete than the say.
Again, if we're talking crime, you have to have an intent to commit that crime. If she wanted to listen, she gets punished for it. If she shares unintentionally (which is likely the case as most p2p applications share everything you download), then punish her a little more on top of it but don't treat her like she's some organized bootlegging ring.
The trick behind a fair and effective penalty for a crime is that there both has to be a realistic expectation of actual enforcement (there's no way a person can afford to pay $80k for a song unless their last name rhymes with Mates or Muffet, even if caught), and the expected value has to be obviously negative under most circumstances--that is, the probability of being caught times the expense must be much more negative than the value gained by committing the crime.

We can see this principle at work in the fines for things such as littering, illegal parking, and drunk driving. Individual instances of these crimes gain a person a small amount of value; the fines for being caught are around one or two orders of magnitude greater than this (at first--often repeat offenses raise the expense another order of magnitude in the form of either jail time or increased insurance costs), in line with the approximation of being caught a non-negligible fraction of the time.

By comparison, illegal file sharing has a vanishingly small chance of getting your life completely destroyed. The problem with this is two fold. First, it isn't at all calculable what the expected value is; there simply isn't enough data to accurately determine what the probability of getting caught from any single illegal act is. Second, the enforcement rate is sufficiently low that, even if it were reliably calculable, people would not emotionally treat it correctly--the same emotional detachment from strongly negative consequences occurs here as the one that makes people take other sorts of extreme risks such as teenage unprotected sex, extreme sports, and going to war as a foot soldier (note that I am not saying that these always have negative expected value; merely that people are not good at estimating these sorts of risks).

The problem the RIAA faces is that enforcement to the degree necessary for a lower level fine to create sufficiently negative expected value is a practical impossibility; there's no reasonable way to effectively catch and fine even 1% of file-sharers (a rough estimate of what order of magnitude of enforcement is necessary to make people effectively able to gauge the risk--such an enforcement rate would not stop illegal file sharing altogether, but it would at least slow it down, much like my other examples). The only long-term option is to change business models to one less completely invalidated by the advance of technology.
The new #startups is on irc.mibbit.net
Thanks! I like the ETL facility. Does LucidDB need any help?
BMI-Based Normal Weight is More Fatal Than Moderate Obesity
Random Texts Exhibit Zipf’s-Law-Like Word Frequency Distribution
As I said in the previous thread before mariorz deleted his own submission:

This is completely stupid of Freenode. Shame on them.

Axod, how do you know it’s permanent? Have they made a statement?
Isn't the automotive industry the MBA textbook example of how less planning, nimbler processes, continuous improvement, and faster innovation allowed underdogs to completely reverse the market?
Bill Gates - skinny

Google guys - skinny

Steve Jobs - skinny

Jeff Bezos - skinny

actually from the top of my head I can't really come up with any heavily overweight startup founders.
Anyone know of a repository for current/upcoming DOE related RFQ's?
I work for a small robotics/general R&D company, and we're trying to get a piece of all the DOE related work. I know these contract RFQ's are scattered about various departments and states, does anyone have a central places to look?
AT&T tethering to cost $55?
True, that's what sets media piracy apart from other stealing. But again, if she made the files available for download from her machine, does it mean that 79,000 other people (or even one other person) have download from her? I would like to see records of here traffic that proves that, otherwise she is being presumed guilty and has to prove that she is not. Trying for "potential damages" is a slippery slope.
But books aren't commodity goods, like tobacco. When a blogger recommends a book (or a list of them) he's recommending specific books to read, usually on a narrow topic that his audience is interested. His interest lies in recommending books that his audience will enjoy (or learn from, in this case), so that they trust his recommendations in the future.