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> And, given how few pirates are likely to ever be paying customers (as piracy advocates frequently trumpet when studios issue bloated piracy cost numbers)

The argument is more of "1 download != 1 lost sale" because I can download and watch more movies for free than I could afford to watch at all but the lowest of prices. And even then "1 download != 1 watched movie" because I might be someone that is compulsively downloading as much as I can. In that case, the amount of movies that I can download is only limited by the bandwidth available to me (and the access to downloadable pirated movies). I could easily be downloading more movies than I could afford to buy/rent at any price. Therefore saying that each movie I've download is a 'lost sale' is disingenuous because converting me to a paying customer would only net you a revenue for a fraction of the amount of movies I've downloaded.

The people that are compulsively 'hoarding' movies are not likely to become paying customers, but what percentage of downloaders/pirates are they? The studios don't have the answers to these questions as much as they might like to seem like they do. They only trot out the raw numbers for shock value, though I wager that behind closed doors they might have a better understanding that these numbers are bunk.
Exactly. And those re-broadcast and rental contracts are part of the surety that producers must assemble in order to persuade investors to put in the money for production. The consumer-facing distributors pay in arrears, but production expenses have to be paid in time or in advance, and marketing is also paid in advance.
Livejournal now #10 site in Russia
Build something desirable.
"When Netflix or any other rental business buys DVDs, they don't just buy the same copy you and I do, but a rental version with different licensing terms which costs considerably more"

Not true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
I noticed the high number of Russian images posted to Livejournal from their 'live feed', and was wondering why this was happening.

It seems that LiveJournal, which was all but dying in the face of the combined facebook/myspace/twitter onslaught has found a new niche and gotten a new lease on life.

It's an interesting phenomenon because most of the times in the past when a social networking site was on the way down it was for good, LJ seems to at least for the moment have found a way to get another round to play.

Alexa figures, take with grain of salt, yadayada, but at this scale they're not going to be off by much.
No one is arguing that it is bad public policy. I myself am only arguing that it is prudent to reconcile public policy solutions to the public's bank account prior to implementing them.

I live in Houston, yes I'm a Texan. No one is tougher on crime than Texas. In some cases, yes, Texas is too tough. One of the major reasons Texas did not follow along on the whole Three Strikes bandwagon was because the political leadership thought it might not be cost effective. Now I don't know if it is or it isn't, I would need more data to make that determination.

My point is, the leadership here in Texas, at least had the ability to analyze the likely fiscal consequences of such a policy and then decide whether or not to enact it. Balancing the fiscal consequences with the public safety benefits. In California, unless I am misunderstanding their ballot initiatives, the leadership has no choice but to enact the policy. Regardless of the policy's fiscal consequences.

I'm just not so sure that is a good way to do things.
Uh,

This may be true currently but point I agree with PG on is that things are moving towards a situation where this will no longer be true. And the movement is getting faster and faster. If the law is formulated merely on how things are now, it will become obsolete just when it can do the most damage.
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston Churchill http://www.school-for-champions.com/speeches/churchill_never...
There are two sides to this:

Yes, do it if there are already people operating in this space, the idea is already out in the open so you won't lose any 'window' by announcing your intentions.

If not put a fake for sale sign on the domain so that you get an idea how many people are thinking about entering the space, that's valuable information. (Assuming the domain name is linked to the product you intend to market).
Generally we don't want to penalize people too badly for assuming particular (but realistic) type ranges, nevertheless we think that perfect solution should be as portable as possible across different implementations of the language (e.g. one should not assume that C's int is 32 bits wide, since implementation with 16-bit int can still be Standard compliant)
Not when the number is irrational.

What's most interesting to me is that phi often occurs in recursive systems, so it's discovery often implies natural recursion.
Don't you think three self posts in an hour is a bit much?
If the choice is "no abstractions" or "bad abstractions", I'll choose the latter. But "good abstractions" are better yet!
>And thats statement is not racists at all

No, it's more culturalist. The United States has had a multi-racial society for a long time, and over the last few hundred years I think we have made strides in peaceful coexistence that few other places can replicate.

Religious tolerance, however, is not our strong suit. It was a big deal when we finally elected a Catholic (John Kennedy) to the Presidency.
I had the same issue with TDD in Rails, where my functional tests were so brittle that they took more work than they saved, and my unit tests were so simple that I wasn't getting anything useful out of it.

What I really wanted to know was "will my site work," and I found Cucumber+Webrat to be an efficient way of being sure of that. I TDD Cucumber scenarios now, and it makes me more confident without feeling like I'm spending all my time fighting with a testing framework.
I am surprised that so many other people share your sentiment. While I understand everybody loves to be a critic, is it really that bad? To me, the layout of the site was actually somewhat intuitive, and there was only 1 possible place content could be... right in the middle of the page below all the welcoming stuff. It's just like all the other run-of-the-mill blog-like sites... welcoming stuff and main links at the top, content below that, and useless stuff like ads and twitter on the left and/or right.
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I haven't been keeping up with jQuery for awhile, but I look forward to the updates. Site could be toned down a bit, as I find the horns to be a bit distracting, but other than that, all I really care about are the 14 updates.
It is being done bootstrap style (bootstrapped venture funding is no longer an oxymoron). If you want to be a trustee, simply request to be so from the form on the site, and we'll get you in the queue. We've have very positive interest in being a trustee, it gives people an opportunity to cut through the red tape and get started funding companies.
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I thought it could have been a spez or kn0thing post but I went through all of them and couldn't find anything. I guess it could have been deleted, but I'm going to chalk this up to faulty memory on my part; you were there.
Direct link to Chapter 5: http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/modeling-and-viewing-u...
simply not true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
For food, clothing, shelter, medical care and 24 hour-a-day supervision by union employees?
Codility uses open-source component EditArea.

> Hmm so Codility's editor is copy of the one SPOJ uses

Please don't flame. Codility has not copied it from anybody, its EditArea-based interface is in place since 2008.
The thing about the golden number is that it really does appear just about everywhere. That's one of the reasons it's so cool.
In the coming weeks we will be updating the site with more resources. Since we are coming in at a lower funding positioning than YC or Techstars, we will be supporting groups to view us as a stepping stone to those seed funds and similar ones. This allows even the smallest of company ideas to ScaleWell :)
"[...] the Three Strikes ballot initiative ... obliges [the Governor] to incarcerate large numbers of nonviolent offenders indefinitely."

"No one is arguing that it is bad public policy."

I don't see how the above two statements can be reconciled.
Is this article as crackpot as it sounds?

Is there any documentation of that project the article mentions (with a broken link) about worldwide random number generators giving fluctuations during events like Princess Diana's death?
Google hit with Nexus One customer support complaints
For me, not that I use netflix, the 28 days doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. If I really want to see a new release it will be in the cinema which is a much better viewing experience unless you happen to have an expensive home theater, if I didn't see something while I was at the cinema your already waiting a couple of months, I just couldn't see to many situations where I have no interest in the movie at the cinema but could wait the extra 28 days.

I don't know if this increases piracy because most of the time you will be able to get a DVD quality download before it's even been released to rent and buy.
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I have wondered for years why it costs money to have inmates. Slaves in the old south would cost about as much as a good new car (40k according to free the slaves) so you would think there would be some value in inmates.

I compare them to slaves because they have about the same motivation for doing work.
Good point, thanks! But no worries, this is not our real filesystem :-)
I'll join you.
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Litmus will take an HTML email and run it through all sorts of mail clients, providing screenshots of how each one renders: http://litmusapp.com

(I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just found the app to be very useful while working on a recent project)
Brain Hack: turn your Loss Aversion Bias on its head
This search: http://searchyc.com/helicopter?sort=by_date

gives: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033724

and: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033575
I love fabrication stuff like this so much; it's like seeing the future.
Hilarious! I laughed out loud more at this than anything else online I've seen in the last year. Imagine hooking it up to a mic to also snap a pic when a certain volume threshold is exceeded; i.e. when you curse at your computer.
It's just a GUI issue for me. I want a way to easily see which applications are running and more consistency in how applications terminate or stay running in the background. Right now I'd say it's 50/50 -- some apps quit when you hit the home button, some remain running. There's no taskbar, dock or expose style feature to quickly see what's running or switch between applications. The drop down menu is hit and miss. A few apps will put up a notification that say they are still running but most don't. I also think there should be someway to ensure the core applications don't suffer from background tasks. If I leave some apps running in the background sometimes my dialpad in the phone app becomes very laggy to the point of being unusable so I have to get into the habit of pausing my music before I made a phone call and restarting it afterwards instead of letting the phone pause it for me.
That's just beautiful. Thanks for making my afternoon!
Unless it is stated explicitly, we do not provide anything extra but the vanilla programming language and standard libraries. It is more clear for some languages (e.g. Java, C++) than other (e.g. PHP, JavaScript), but we try to stick to the reasonable canonical set of libraries.
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researching business banking for a new startup. Google next to useless due to every single hit including 'reviews' going to commercial sites.

Anyone have experience they can share on this topic? Looking for the obvious -- low fees, no spammy sales pitches, good online, just the basics without a bunch of bs.
Heh, I still cringe too.
Does anyone actually have a good experience with MagicJack's service? The idea of this device is cool, but people I know who've tried the conventional MagicJack, and reviews I've read of it, are both in agreement that it sucks pretty badly.
I think the syntax cards were pretty bogus anyways. If you really wanted to compare syntax, you'd do better to compare grammars (e.g., Scheme's: http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z...) than to decide what's important enough to include in some gif. It's hand-wavy at best (cf. the explanations of why things like eql were on the card) and straw-man at worst.
I think this is cute but I would think hard about the kinds of questions you develop for this. Coming from the perspective of someone working for a big company with a ton of software people that is not a tech company, I could use something like this in general. But, the question you asked is the kind of thing I ask CS undergrads (almost exactly, in fact) because it allows for clever solutions without actually requiring someone to be a particularly good programmer. I can work through it with them and if the basic solution is easy, prompt them to give me something more clever, so I know how they think, which is good when you're looking at an inexperienced developer. However, for an experienced developer that I want to hire to churn out Java code, the difference to me between a correct but simple O(n^2) solution vs a clever O(n) is not terribly meaningful for determining whether they can actually do what I want them to do. I want something that requires people to write more than a handful of lines and demonstrates an ability to keep track of a few more variables correctly, and honestly I don't care all that much about their algorithmic complexity (although I might care a great deal about their space usage, usage of external resources, etc).
So, if this is the audience you are looking to attract, consider thinking about this as a screening tool for people outside of the startup world that actually need "knows how to really do shit in language X" more than "knows how to write clever algorithm,"
Disintermediating Doctors: Going direct to the lab?
But what if your currently employer goes and sees you at a table?
Then you'll need the job fair even more!
Read the license terms on the back of any movie DVD you own. Also: http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6642010.html

As you'll note therein, if a DVD is on sale in the store, the first sale doctrine of copyright law means you can legally rent it out to people, same way you can sell second hand books without getting publishers' permission to do so.

The reason I cite the rental version above is that is how it has been done up to now: the rental version is made available with a restrictive license before the consumer version goes on sale, precisely to avoid the cannibalization of rental revenue due to the first sale doctrine - which is why studios are looking at adding value to rental version by including content that won't be available on the consumer one.

But even then, renting out the consumer version is legally dubious. It would appear to be OK under the first-sale doctrine, and the link above mentions a case known as NEBG vs Weinstein, (the film studio), with the implication that studios can do nothing to prevent such rental. So says Wikipedia too, but without any citation for this assertion.

Here, on the other hand, is a description of how the case went down, including the fact that it was dismissed on the basis of ripeness (ie a complaint brought about something that hasn't actually happened yet) rather than being adjudicated and thus settled case law: http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2007/05/first-sale-fandango...

In a nutshell, a video rental business sued a film distributor over their plan to label consumer DVDs as 'for sale, not rental' claiming that to do so would be an unfair restraint of trade, not least since the distributor had an exclusive rental deal with blockbuster at the time.

It would be foolhardy to assume that freedom to purchase automatically implies freedom to rent, as a rental exception for musical works already exists in law, and while this does not explicitly mention DVDs, the spirit of that legislation (Record Rental Amendment of 1984 which modifies Section 109 of the Copyright Act) would clearly apply, and courts would certainly take that into consideration.

so you might get away with it, and studios/distributors would rather not go to court and been as the same kind of bad guys as the RIAA. But if push came to shove, I believe they would do so since a consumer-copy-rental business would horribly gouge their profits, significantly increasing their commercial risk.
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It looks like a smartphone OS designed by Tetsuya Mizuguchi.

That's kind of awesome.
Codility tech team is from Warsaw University, we are more than familiar with TopCoder, ACM CPC, IOI etc. We deliberately keep Codility tasks at fundamental level. Codility is not a competition for 100 world's best programmers, it is a tool to tell decent programmers from poor ones. We can raise the bar arbitrarily high, if there is a customer who needs it.
Też jestem Polakiem, ale zyję w San Francisco USA.

If you post your error codes online in Polish, then others can find it in Polish... meaning you lower the barrier to entry for other Polish users (one less thing to learn).

The answer is not to require everyone to use English, the answer is to post more about computers in your native tongue.
But don't you get it? His religion is under attack -- this is life or death. If someone is using Perl, it could mean his choice is wrong. And if you pick the wrong programming language, everything you've ever written in it will magically stop working.

So you can see why it's worth getting upset over.

Just the other day I found that my favorite color, green, is no longer the most popular. Everything green I owned then instantly turned orange. Now I am stuck looking at orange things all the time! It's tragic! And could surely have been avoided if I told everyone that green was better on web-based discussion forums.
Exactly. Why should the government be spending more on the school system than on prisons? There isn't even a real argument, it's just being taken as a given. If anything improving the prison system should be given higher priority than fixing the college system, because prisoners have to be there. They don't have a choice. Whereas students can just opt out of college, or else go to a private college.
The point is valid, but what's the takeaway here? You're a two-man shop with a growing product and you desperately need another coder, a designer and a tester. Starting browsing for CEOs probably isn't the best path in this situation.
Holding down the home key shows a list of six running/recently running apps.

There are task managers in the market, I've not gotten a lot of use out of them, other than to note that I should remove an app I'm no longer using any more that I wasn't aware was running.

What happens when an app no longer has foreground capability is app-dependent.
"After arguing for thirty minutes about about everyone’s reasoning..." - typo there.
This headline is actually a key point revealed in the last issue of Echo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(comic_book)

Huge technical advances were made possible by reworking the mathematics of General Relativity and quantum mechanics using base-Phi.
We deliberately underspecify the compiler version, we think in such situation a programmer should attempt to write code as portable as possible.

#include --- good catch! We are not very strict about missing includes, but this is definitely not something we want to penalize.

Sandboxing -- absolutely! :-)
That specific wallpaper is animated. I don't know about atrocious, but I do find it a little hard to see the icons because the colors are so bright on it.

But complaints about wallpapers are kind of dumb: you can change them, or even set it to your own picture that is non-atrocious. It's like complaining that the default twitter avatar icon is ugly. No duh: then change it.
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That's interesting, I would like to know what percentage of Google accounts fall into that category. I find the prospect of linking my casual browsing on sites other than ones I have explicitly allowed being able to resolve my identity for the site owner to be quite irksome. I would take steps against any site that I discovered engaging in such practices on a regular basis.

Now looking for a chrome plugin similar to NoScript.
I'm curious what the monetization strategy is for these types of social news sites (ex. Newsley, Rubyflow, markenomics, etc., etc.). Or is the motivation to do the work to build this type of site (both structurally and in a community sense) born out of strong interest in the subject and perhaps the chance of potential indirect future rewards (networking, jobs, etc.).

I ask because I'm interested in a couple of other subject areas and considering building a similar style of site and thus wondering what realistic expectations should be re. the potential for direct monetization.
Ok, you can be the person that pays for my lawyer then.

Seriously, though: I've organized several dozen publicly-advertised movie screenings of movies (new release or not) and have had to pay anywhere from $50-500 for the rights to do so.

When you pay for such a thing (through Swank [1], for example) you get a box with a DVD and a piece of paper with a mailing slip and a license for showing the movie publicly on a certain date. The DVD has a different silk screen printed on it than a retail DVD and was sometimes even a different color (purple or yellow plastic instead of clear).

[1] http://www.swank.com/college/index.html
How about "Keep satisfying customers"

By using the 'keep' twice you can compress more meaning in to fewer words.

It also works better for people that don't understand the word iterate, which is in common use in English but not one that non-natives or non-programmers would get immediately.
All incognito windows share a profile, so share cookies etc. It's not the case that each tab is a clean profile.
Honestly, the really big factor in teaching effectiveness is the parents. If a kid is living in a household with dysfunctional or drug-addicted parents who don't give a damn about school, then with rare exceptions it doesn't matter how good the teachers are.
We want to avoid sticking to particular compilers/interpreters. An expert in MSVC should not be penalized only because we use GCC. Also we design the tasks so that they are compiler-agnostic (actually they are even language-agnostic). It is sometimes a bit tricky due to non-standardized type sizes (e.g. C, C++, PHP), but generally the tasks can be solved using very limited and portable subset of a language.
The "hack" at the end is a nice touch, but the dilemma raised in the story he tells isn't really the loss aversion bias, but the sunk cost dilemma.

Joe didn't set out to spend hours to get his $11 back. He thought it'd just take an e-mail to resolve it - easy. After that was unsuccessful, he thought it'd just be a phone call to resolve it - easy, no?

Once he got far enough down this road, the sunk cost issue sank in (pun fully intended) because if he'd already spent an hour or two trying to get $11 back, he might as well not let that time spent "go to waste" and instead fight until he achieved success.
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