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My point about copying files is more literal than that. I'm not trying to theoretically devalue the creative or economic worth of the work. I'm saying that nowadays those works are delivered as files, which are literally free to copy. They can be encumbered with DRM, but DRM is also free to remove.

This is a drastic change from the days of printing presses, vinyl records, etc. The idea that these industries should be allowed to ignore this reality by punishing those who make use of it is ludicrous, in my opinion.

My alternative to copyright is nothing. Let society figure out how to remunerate artists without coercion.
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This is a huge issue. We really need leaders to start being aggressive with bringing down the variation. It's damaging the benefit of using TLS at all, and I'd argue browser vendors would be making their users safer by having browsers force HTTP (or outright reject) on websites that aren't maintained enough to do TLS1.2 than allowing HTTPS and ultimately hurting the whole ecosystem.

I don't see a mention of timing in this paper, either. I suspect that it is another viable identifier. After accounting for latency, the speed of the response can give you an idea of what hardware they're using.
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How to explain the cost of technical labor to a non technical investor?
Hmmm so where do I start...

I am in an interesting position. I run a tech firm in southern AZ, we're developing some pretty incredible stuff and we're funded. We received an initial seed investment that with my current burn rate will allow me to continue development for another 5 months (we've been grinding away since may) in order to scale, hire on a few more full time developers, and assure said developers that they want to continue working at my company I need follow on capital; which my current investor has already agreed to fund. All of this is great and there really are worse problems to have but here is my problem.

I cant make him understand the high labor cost associated with technical development. My current projections outline my COL at close to 80% of my total projected expenses, which, once you account for the actual requested capital it is still stupid lean. Any tips on communicating effectively what it costs to hire, and maintain quality developers and engineers?

Thanks,
-CA
Right, it was tongue in cheek. There is of course some data in there :-)

I suppose what I meant is that it is lossy: you cannot get back what you "INSERT". That violates a pretty basic assumption about what a database is supposed to do ;-)
So if you marketing types are reading this ... I would have replaced my iPad 2+ with a retina 12" iPad had it been announced, instead I bought a Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro (with the really convoluted name and cute little projector) because it had a decent large screen. I use it for all my reference books at my work bench. I got a look at the replacement, and would buy it in a heartbeat if it had a 12" 4:3 ratio screen, but its only got a 10" screen. Why? Because I want my entire library accessible on my tablet. I've invested in scanning my books and magazines, reference documents already come in PDFs, and more and more of my magazines are available with iPad apps, (SciAm, Economist, Science News, WSJ, NYT, Etc.) it is the "killer app" for me, and it has me using my tablet every day. The occasional game or video is there too, and I've got all my music streaming from it when I need tunes.

However, because of that, and the lack of internet connectivity in many places, I choose "additional storage with SD card" over "name brand" if the features are otherwise equivalent. My selection criteria are screen => document capabilities => extra storage. And for a variety of reasons I'm fairly price insensitive. I was hoping Amazon would do a 'fire HD+' tablet with a 12" screen and the book friendly aspect ratio, but so far they have let me down.
That photo's probably from some German-speaking country. Is it representative of US prison cells?
> And even around here on Hacker News, there is a lot more press and talk about Steve Jobs's life story than Dennis Ritchie's life story.

Hacker News is -- despite the name, and predictably given its sponsorship -- rather (though not entirely!) centered on VC-funded startup culture. Steve Jobs's accomplishments in monetizing technology are, in many respects, much more what that culture is focused on than Ritchie's accomplishments in developing technology.
Fascinating article. The pink hats and the money have made things a little less interesting around the Boston sports scene in the last fifteen years.
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I'll always remember seeing Chris Wrenn slinging those shirts in the early 2000's. Those shirts have always been synonymous with Bridge Nine records in my mind.

It later got spun out into it's own thing: http://www.sullysbrand.com/
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It has pointed out to me: "Hi, I like your spirit but I don't think you can transfer those google cloud credits:
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Your main strength compared to other candidates is that you are cheap. When most CS college grads expect a starting salary above $100K, hopefully you are willing to work for half.

So focus on companies that are price-sensitive. A good starting point: small, underfunded startups.

After 1 year working at a low-paid job in a tech startup, starting with QA or similar low-coding expectations, if you are any good, you'll pick up more and more work. Within a year or two, you'll be a full-time, full-stack dev. Your next job will be easy to find.
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I find the sudden mention of Obamacare rather odd. TSA has done jack all to keep us safe in the decade and a half it's been around. Obamacare, while deeply flawed, has done quite a lot to help people access health care.
ooh, I saw a bin of rebadged e-book readers at the auction liquidation place, that would have been a great use for them. Definitely will keep an eye out for them.
This is a great argument which implicitly favors maximizing privilege for the already rich.
I'm a Computer Science House member -- Drink is still a staple of our organization! Where else can you get Jolt on campus?

Also we've since made an awesome web app and iOS app for dropping drinks.
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Without the restrictions of the GPL we might not have OpenWrt, many Linux modules, or near universal hardware support for gcc.

If we can find a way to ensure we can get those without copyleft, alright, but so far copyright is the only legal tool we have.
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Music's got it right too - it's a flawless, DRM-free experience to buy an album these days. And I do it a lot (not a fan of streaming, prefer to own my content).

Movies however...it couldn't be any less convenient to buy a movie in high quality and original audio/language that can be played in any media player (like Kodi/XBMC). In fact it is legally impossible. Buy and download online? Not possible. The closest option is buying a bluray and ripping it. I'd even consider getting an optical drive (that I absolutely don't need otherwise) to do that, but as a european I'd also have to deal with those unnecessary delays in availability.

I'm sorry, but as long as this situation remains, I won't feel sorry about pirating bluray-ripped movies in good quality.
On the other hand I can't remember when I last pirated music.
As a Bostonian and someone who used to be into the hardcore scene around here, this was an incredible read. I knew nothing about the stories behind those shirts
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From the article:

> Each frame in the timeline represents a single cycle of the browser’s event processing loop, broken down into the tasks that executed during that time
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About $3,000 worth of disk drive space. Quite doable.
Some earlier discussion, people porting to FreeBSD and what not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959628
> Though for the present purposes, it it probably sufficient to note that this reformulation is not fairly debatable: "Creators and makers have the right to determine how and where the work they own is distributed."

This is very very debatable. Do you enjoy jumping into arguments where the salient points of debate have been decided before the discussion has even begun?
Why are the facts irrelevant, and why is it FUD to point it out?
This blew my mind the first time some one showed me, and is one of the reasons I currently prefer C to other mainstream compiled languages.

Edit: I suppose it is possible to get some version of a repl with C++ (Cling?), Java (Beanshell, Java 9?), C# (Mono, but not currently .Net?). But each of those seems generally a bit harder to get access to than simply calling gdb on a binary with debugging symbols enabled.
I think that completely depends on the flavour of code you write. If you mostly use imperative styles, then the large proportion of your declarations will be `var` and `let`. It definitely makes refactoring harder in the direction you mentioned.

Alternatively, for a functional style, you have to have a fairly good reason for using `var` or `let`. I find myself treating them like I'd treat atoms in Clojure. They end up being the mechanism you use to make controlled side-effects.

I'll concede that `const` does have a complexity to understand...initially. However once you understand the distinction between assignment and value (you only have to understand it once), then you're back to a level playing field between both.

From then on, `const` gives you a guarantee about the assignment. Objectively, this guarantee eliminates complexity, you can look at a variable anywhere in a scope and know that it has the same value as at time of declaration (same TDZ exceptions apply). I don't see how this could be seen as backwards.
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It's using third-party APIs for the .torrent content and search engines for content.

But it doesn't even need that. You can use a .torrent or magnet URL from anywhere on the latest builds.

Just drag-n-drop a .torrent file onto the UI or simply paste (Ctrl-V / Cmd-V) a magnet URL that you already had on your clipboard and it will gladly attempt to live stream any arbitrary torrent.

The built-in video player generally works the best with .mp4 video files, but I've seen it successfully stream other media types as well.

When the torrent file in question contains multiple media files, a file chooser dialog appears letting you select which one you wish to watch.

The application could literally be re-written at any time to use any torrent site for showing content.

.. and since it's open source, the genie is out of the bottle.
These are great questions!

US policy has, in at least one specific case, decided that you are not allowed to restrict use of the copyright, so long as you are fairly compensated for it. This is called "compulsory licensing."

Copyright is a government-granted monopoly, so it is natural that there will be tension over the extent of it.

Some people strongly feel that it is natural that creators should have control over the publishing of their content, others feel htat it is not so.

Roman law provided for no copyright, but several other legal traditions, including ancient Greek, as well as Jewish Talmudic laws provided for what today are known in Europe as "moral rights" which are distinct from copyright and cover things such as false-attribution and distortions of the work.

So the question would be, what grounds does a movie producer have to prevent me from giving away a thousand copies of a DVD I have purchased? Clearly there are legal grounds, but are the legal grounds representative of some underlying philosophical ownership a creator has of their works, a monetary incentive for creators to publish their works, or something else?
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>> "If nobody supports it, nothing will be made."

This is often mentioned, but it's just not true. Humans produced creative work long before there was copyright or even money, and they will continue doing so long after our civilization has crumbled. People are hard-wired to create. The social status associated with creative output is the main incentive - money is just icing on the cake.

You might argue that if we don't pay theater admission for bad Tom Cruise thrillers and fifth-installment summer blockbuster sequels, then those specific genres might not be produced, and would be replaced by lower-budget plot/character driven cinema. But that's at least arguably a feature, not a bug.
Sports rivalries are generally a proxy for something else. Not having been to the Northeast myself, can you shed any light on what that might be? Did Boston once seem destined to be the big city in the region?
To be fair, the rivalry has now existed for over 100 years.
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Hopefully we will see less of those arguments as USB-C gets more available.
Bring a starter-pistol. They qualify as firearms with regards to TSA regulations, are legal in every state, and are often trivial to bring abroad.
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Hmm, a back case, a battery, and we have a "vivaldi"...
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I've got to say, this did trip me up too. I was trying to swipe the screen in the direction of the arrows, which it seems was the wrong way. It's beautiful, but that particular screen could certainly be a bit clearer.
It is for intellectual property, because while the cost of copying is negligible, the cost of creating the IP is real.
Very interesting piece (and serendipitous for me since I was reading The Man Who Loved China [very well-written bio, btw]).

"Thus Joseph Needham acquired what administrators at lonely outposts in the British Empire used to call a 'sleeping dictionary.' ”

It has often been commented that one of the fastest ways to learn a new language is to have a partner bilingual (or even better, monolingual) in that language; however, I had never heard of this interesting term before!

As for Needham's Question: Many, many pages have been written on this topic. As is briefly touched upon in the article the problem of moving from empirical to "modern" science is not unique to China. Similar comments have been made made on how the Babylonian math (that survives) is a list of algorithms to (sometimes surprisingly complicated) mathematical problem instances and not an attempt at general theory, cf. to be compared to the Greek advancements in geometry.

As it's stressed in the article cultural factors are often cited as the cause. Sayings similar to the Japanese proverb "A nail that sticks out will be hammered" (http://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-Japanese-pr...) are commonly used in Middle East and Asia. There's a pervasive culture of not standing out both because it's found to be tasteless but also because it may bring danger to oneself (and to the family).

And it's not a question about geographical location, i.e being in the East, either, as is demonstrated by the examples of prominent outlier ports given in the article:

"Wesson put forward the late Roman and Byzantine empires as instances. He calls the latter “exceptionally uncreative,” and points out that the Byzantine trading port of Galata, controlled by the Genoese, was by the end of the fourteenth century producing seven times as much revenue as Constantinople, the imperial capital. The parallel with Chinese treaty ports like Hong Kong is hard to miss."

However, if this is the most satisfactory answer then we have the updated Needham Question: Why did such a culture develop in these societies?
TL/DR - Preemptible VMs are the same as regular instances except for one key difference - they may be shut down at any time [1, 2, 3]. Similar to early AWS spot instances from what I gather (minus the bidding exchange).

[1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2015/05/Introducing-P...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564122
So don't they get grief from other players for camping the spawn points? :-)

More seriously though I see the evidence that humans have lived through large variations in climate throughout their existence and it makes me want to build a domed city. If you started right now how much could you build? How independent could you make it? How many replacement parts? A lot of dystopic scenarios have people scrambling to survive with systems where the underlying support structure has been destroyed, how difficult would it be to build a self supporting community while the systems are working as designed? A decade? A century?

The folks who build houses into the ground in New Mexico call them "Earth Ships", of course the dome project was ridiculed, but rather than take the position of exchanging no air with the rest of the world, how close could you get to self sufficiency?
> there are cases where the firmware inherently requires copyrighted material (For instance, requiring a (copyrighted) poem in a handshake).
Closed source hardware is indeed a problem: If the HW of TxM is pre-compromised, the device/malware running on it might spit out what it thinks is the key via serial or alternative covert channel.

If you start developing on top of TFC, please create a Github fork at some point and submit pull requests to any typos / issues you might find.
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I just use boring zip ties that I mark with a sharpie to make them unique (and show if they've been replaced). I'll also toss a handful of unmarked ties onto the "top" of the luggage.

I've occasionally sent a piece of luggage through, and found it re-zip-tied with a new tie, with a TSA love note inside.
Indeed that's true. A government in a country which decides to absorb all wealth created by its citizens (100% taxation) would bear a cost should it allow any dispensation. I guess there'd be a powerful debate on whether the latter was justified and fair.
> The problem it doesn't solve is what people will do with their time.

How is this a problem? Don't people solve that individually, by doing what has the most utility for themselves?

> I'd like to see a requirement that everyone work.

Either (1) you don't need this, because everyone will have work available that pays something that they are willing to accept for their time, or (2) such a requirement is mandated involuntary servitude.

In neither case does the requirement seem desirable.

> One source of work could be a government website that can provide jobs for people that don't have them, with pay for the work just being the basic income - workfare.gov.

If basic income is conditioned on doing qualifying work, its fundamentally different from the unconditional basic income generally proposed, and instantly avoids the advantages flowing from the unconditional part of the proposal.
There also exists an in browser application [0] that they may be confusing it with. There are a few other sites as well

[0]: http://popcorninyourbrowser.net/
You're missing the point here. The idea is that for you to have an a chest x-ray done, or an appendectomy, or a hip-replacement, is priced at the same rate as if I have the same work done. That they're not charging my insurance company X, while charging your insurance company Y, and Medicare Z, for the same service.
>5-6kloc is not "tons", it's just several days worth of work.

To buy you what? Not even what the Java SDK has as built-in libs. And 5 kloc in "several days"? I doubt it.

>And then I can build a compliant JavaScript implementation on top of this, in order to be able to parasite on 200k npm packages (actually, did this already).

Link or it didn't happen.

Besides, there's no point in using Forth if you're gonna end up running your stuff in a "compliant JavaScript implementation" (which takes much more than "several days" anyway).
Well next time I'll be sure to drive from Paris to New York. Thanks for the tip.
I think a big reason why Steve Jobs has had a couple movies made was because the Mac has been used by creative professionals for many years. Apple almost died in the middle 90s. Now Apple is the most valuable company on Earth. It's an epic story. Plus, he was weird. Black turtle neck uniform? Ideologies formed in the 60s and yet transforming the modern era? This is great stuff and perfect for story telling.
Well nice game, few days ago I found something very interesting, html5 game that is a combination of starcraft and clash of clans, with much better graphic and real time AI, but the game doesn't seems to be ready yet...
http://ageofsalvation.com/
It is the most advanced html5 game I have seen though.
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Exactly. Just one example: John Bardeen. Invented the transistor -- what of today's things would work without it? The CPU in the device you use probably has a billion of them inside.

Also got Nobel twice. And who knows about him?
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And when someone embeds an entire book (that was otherwise written and they have the rights for) into the handshake, what then?
I know.

pkaye mentioned one of the critical flaws with the plan, and you quoted the article as if he missed the part where it addressed the flaws. But it doesn't address them, it just says "maybe my plan doesn't make any sense, not my problem".
I would qualify, I've done both servers and Android at Talkray. It's been a while since I have done both in the same day, but basically, if something broke on our Android client or server, I could jump in and get a fix, same goes for new features, and handle the server deployments.

That said, I'm happy that I don't have to do both. Oh, and right now, nobody's going to poach me. =)
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Well, Popcorn Time proves the value of an interface if anything, and has definitely made the second option more accessible (threatening those serving the first). No learning curve. No new words to learn. Better interface. Better selection. Run for and by the community. Free, but with many who would pay. There really is only one thing wrong with it.
Not to poach—I'm a big fan of Read This Thing!—but I've been semi-frequently updating great reads to a side-project site of my own. Reads, etc.: http://readsetc.com/

I recently started working full time so I'm still trying to figure out how best to schedule it (and I can see now that I'm definitely due for a few new posts!), but I intend to keep it going for the time being.

I'm open to any and all feedback.
I never thought the day would come where I would see Bridge Nine referenced on Hacker News.