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You can easily use things like Heroku and Modulus to host your site. I think perhaps you are misinformed about your options and should read up a bit more.

I use Digital Ocean with MUP and it works great with minimal efforts.
From the article:

> Royalties on the song bring in about $2 million a year for Warner, according to some estimates.

If they're getting $2 million a year for it, I wouldn't call it de facto invalid.
How did it change that you lost data?
The French are still exceptionally devoted to their culture, to an extent that is unique in the Western world.

It's funny when the two collide. Sitting in Champ de Mars watching people walk by while enjoying sun, wine and a cigarette I was struck by how many Western tourists were too busy with their selfie sticks and massaging their online persona to give a fuck that they were somewhere beautiful and rich in history.

I think a big problem is that individualism, the precursor for optimal consumer behavior, has been incredibly effective at driving people to lowest-common-denominator behaviors, chiefly narcissism, and left a good chunk of the worlds population cretinized. How can French culture or any advanced culture compete?
I retract my claim of meaninglessness!
Ah, I see that. The article has been updated since first posted and is much longer now. Thanks for pointing it out.
It sounds like a strategy might be for YC to have a litigation attorney on staff to help deter frivolous suits against YC startups.
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You know you can switch off image optimisation, right?
There is already graph db (Neo4j) support available using the "ccorcos:anydb" package.

https://github.com/ccorcos/meteor-any-db
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Getting it done right with a bunch of tests to rule out 1 in a million chances is a lot more expensive than getting it right without tests (and wrong 1 in a million times.)
Because what they do is buried in the "Invent" drop down menu, in an entry titled "How it works". Then, instead of giving a short concise response to "How it works", everything above the fold has been reduced to a minute long video which seems to say they connect people with ideas with people able to accomplish those ideas with large companies willing to fund the ideas, although the details are vague. Below the fold is 5 vague testimonials split into 5 overlapping categories with stock photography next to them.

On the positive side, the site is fully responsive and loads fast.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10254721
technically its not in the public domain, it's an orphan work, since the ruling says warner had no grounds to claim ownership of the copyright on the famous arrangement. someone can still come forward and present the evidence that secures them the copyright until the end of its term

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works
What you're saying is "The veneer is so civilized! What are you, a savage?"

And what he's saying is "The thing underlying the veneer is pretty savage, which taints the idea that everything is so civilized"

That's a point you seem to completely miss.
Are you by chance a white heterosexual male? I ask to help understand your biases - of which we all have.
> Microsoft for the first time calculates its OS license fee based on a device’s display size, memory capacity and HDD/SDD storage capacity. The formula also factors in device type and will be different for tablets, notebooks and desktops.

This feels quite strange. The OS itself is the same in all cases, isn't it? So just make them pay different amount because "we can"?
The server is AGPL 3: http://www.scylladb.com/opensource/

Client libraries ("drivers") Apache 2.0.

This is fine, but it really should be on the front page.
OnLive tried that. They're gone.

Yes, latency is the biggest problem. The absolute best case scenario is that you have a direct fiber connection to your ISP, which is hosting servers locally. Then it would probably be acceptable.

Realistically, with a standard consumer broadband connection you're adding tens of milliseconds on top of everything else, which completely ruins a lot of action games.

However! If you've got a desktop gaming PC at home, you can now play games from your laptop (or TV) with Steam in-home streaming. They don't even have to be Steam games. Over a wired LAN it's fantastic, and on WiFi it's still pretty good.
Sure, and all the maintainers of all the other front ends such as KDE, xfce, lxde, compiz etc have been putting all their own fine work into their own UI's.

Gnome is a product of the Gnome project, it just happens to be the default desktop shipped by Fedora, and I guess they had to pick one at some point in the mists of time.

I ran KDE across three versions of Fedora (18,19 and 20), I didn't encounter any problems each time I upgraded or updated.

I don't see the logic or reasoning behind your complaint.
Hardly. Mostly they're low-spec professional cards.

No single slot cooler will handle a 250 watt chip without making a racket.
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Is another human living inside of you?
Gee, I'm glad the US government takes so much care to follow not just the letter but the spirit of the law.
"...as part of a profit-making enterprise." Um ... welcome to capitalism? Seriously, Warner is a for-profit corporation. That makes them a profit-making enterprise. This kind of writing is rather disingenuous.

However, one could indeed argue that collecting license fees on this song was a racket.
Without having done the pricing, I'm betting that the laptop plus external graphics card might not be much more expensive than a low-end laptop + "good enough" gaming system. Going super high-end is going to be expensive either way and it may not matter as much since you have the coin to go all out just for gaming.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199414
>It's funny when the two collide. Sitting in Champ de Mars watching people walk by while enjoying sun, wine and a cigarette I was struck by how many Western tourists were too busy with their selfie sticks and massaging their online persona to give a fuck that they were somewhere beautiful and rich in history.

Or they just prefer a whirlwind of experience, moving around to take in the area from many angles, rather than stopping and passively soaking in a slice.

I wouldn't say either is better. You just have your preference.
Trademark can be lost if not enforced, not copyright.
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This is refreshing. I wonder what other blue collar industries in flyover country are ripe to be optimized by tech.
"profit-making enterprise" refers to the person or people singing the song, because if they are not making a profit, they can claim fair use.

The point of the statement is that you don't have to pay royalties for singing "Happy Birthday" to your mother.
Giving a look at the content and length of videos, this also looks like a great way to consume educational content while on the way to work (On the train, of course. Not driving! :))
Thank you for not saying "disrupted". :)

Also, nice pun.
Out of curiosity, where did you go (what did you read) after these two books?
I can see how I've misapplied the clause in the sentence. Thanks. Not sure if I should delete the comment ...
When is this available for purchase?
Well, it is easy to look something up, but it is still hard to know something.
Non-competes for the targeted employees are completely unenforceable in California, where both companies are based, from long standing statutory and case law.

Many believe that law has more than a little to do with the success of Silicon Valley/the Bay area's tech concentration, which has long and far surpassed all others in the US.
Individualism has nothing to do with it. The French people actually enjoying the Champ de Mars are not not being individualistic. Rather, enjoying private pleasures is individualistic.

What you are actually lampooning is being thoughtless and having poor taste.
The other offshoot of unbridled individualism is the belief in social darwinism.

I say this as no fan of the French: If American intellectuals, from Bible Belt "personal responsibility" types to Silicon Valley libertarians[1], don't reverse their deep social darwinist convictions, it will soon be "American thought once dazzled the world. Where did it go wrong?"

(and no amount of down-voting will prevent that.)

[1] where "meritocracy" is often code for social darwanism.
Lol, accepting your 'tradition' argument (I don't) any such traditions would be overturned by the very statute you cite.

"3426.8.This title shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this title among states enacting it."

That's the law. It overturns everything prior. All commonlaw interpretations (the closest legal thing to tradition) before it are void in the face of this new law.

Fyi. California's law is actual a cut-and-past of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act as adopted by basically every other state in the union. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act.
The only intellectual framework that could work, outside of a Creator, is a state of nature. The problem with the Founders' and the French's state of nature argument is theirs wasn't the Nihilists' state of nature. The Nihilists are right. If there is no creator, all morality and power structures are arbitrary.

Without a foundation on which to build or an authority to appeal, everything is permissible. We might say that something's wrong. Unfortunately it's only wrong as long as a society arbitrarily says so. That goes for everything. Nothing has any meaning apart from what we say. Everything will be forgotten. This means that everything will have no speaker. Thus is will mean nothing.

Most people can't live with that. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming years.
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Does quality of ideas matter? Maybe the French public love their intellectuals, but are the intellectuals producing high quality ideas?

For example, the suicide you mention was in opposition to, among other things, gay marriage.
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The idea that insurance companies are "gouging" providers or that providers are underpaid is absurd:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/02/amer...
If it caused the number of inventors to grow too slowly or of a poor quality, then yeah.
Copyright doesn't work like that, you may be confusing it with trademark.

(Just to be clear, I'm not one of the people that downvoted you.. seems like a silly thing to downvote on when a response is much more useful to everyone).
Given facts like the copies of the original score had a big 'smudge' over the copyright line that clearly proved that Warner Bros never had any claim to things (which isn't visible in the original, that clearly reads), there's a decent case to be made for bad faith.

WB has milked this for years and made millions, knowing it had zero right to the song.
If society/government treats people like animals, don't be shocked when they behave like animals.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10258475
> Are you insinuating that 2 employees quitting a company together and starting a company in the same "general space" is reasonable grounds for a lawsuit?

If a former employer has reason to believe that the employees misappropriated intellectual property or otherwise violated the terms of their employment agreements in doing so, it has every right to seek to enforce its agreements and protect its interests.

Like it or not, when employees leave to start a company in the same general space, claims of misappropriation are more likely.

> And that's to the shame of our legal system, and to the detriment of our country's economy.

How? If a source code comparison will not be dispositive of Smule's claims against Shred's co-founders, why would a court rely on a source code comparison?

From what I can see, nobody has produced the actual filings in this case, so we don't know the exact claims, but other comments indicate that Smule isn't just claiming Shred's co-founders stole source code.
You're not coerced into using many government services.

You may be taxed to pay for them, but you don't have to use them all.
I got curious about the facts, so I dug a bit. If anyone is interested, here is all the public information about the case:

http://webaccess.sftc.org/Scripts/Magic94/mgrqispi94.dll?APP...
Quirky did ALL the hard, expensive, risky parts (go-to-market, marketing, etc). How is the inventor cut not sufficient?

Ultimately Quirky failed BECAUSE they took on all the risk and shipped too many duds and not enough hits.
I think because higher-end PCs are more expensive so they should pay more to MS.
Most IP cases are settled before going to trial. Public opinion is an important factor in persuading the parties to settle or drop the case. Going public could be a valid strategy in forcing the other side's hand.
Instead of relying on racist and sexist stereotypes, you could kindly ask why they have their opinion directly.
That Dominique Venner was "well regarded" tells us all we need to know about the French public's "intellectual" interests.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249362
Please tell me you're working on a PowerShell module. Microsoft is pushing PowerShell HARD (because it's awesome) and admins that do use it know its power and want ALL their vendors to use it.

You can open yourself up to a large number of customers by making it easy to get started via PowerShell.
It sounds like you agree with me then.
Techniques developed for employer A CAN be taken to employer B. [as long as they are independently created ]

If there is some nuance here that I'm missing, I'd like to know what it is. A finer understanding of this point is probably really important for anyone who works in science.
Quirky could have solved this with key partnerships with a larger inventor cut, though. This is pretty common, most marketplaces do some form of this.
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>The Scylla design, right, is based on a modern shared-nothing approach. Scylla runs multiple engines, one per core, each with its own memory, CPU and multi-queue NIC. We can easily reach 1 million CQL operations on a single commodity server. In addition, Scylla targets consistent low latency, under 1 ms, for inserts, deletes, and reads.

Interesting. From: http://www.scylladb.com/technology/architecture/
FWIW, I managed to compile SystemTap with DWARF debug info (using a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, CONFIG_KPROBES and CONFIG_UPROBES) on my Slackware-current box just recently, and have been using to write process probes on shared libraries with success.

It's somewhat slow, the UI is clunky and I had to comment out a rather anal sanity check related to module timestamps from the source, but it works. By far the biggest drawback is it has no formal API, instead you have to wrangle with subprocesses to automate it. It's pretty ugly to see things like the SystemTap initscript or SystemTap toolkits which execute scripts as interpolated strings with a template engine, though that's reality.

It has certainly improved from its former reputation as a routine kernel panic trigger, though fiddling with guru mode haphazardly will still hang or crash your system perhaps a bit too easily.
not really, this is the difference between 'de jure' - by the letter of the law, and 'de facto' - which is what actually happens.

the fact that millions of people unwittingly breach this copyright has made it unenforceable in those cases. you would expect any sane judge to throw such a case out... even before this ruling.
Thankfully there are not vast numbers of people that buy into that string of assertions.
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There are tons of cases out there of clear abuse of the legal system, where the facts are as close to black and white as you can get. This doesn't seem like it is. From an outside view, reading about employees who had access to trade secrets, even source code, leaving together to make their own product in a similar field while retaining access to said secrets (the ongoing support role) seems like a very murky case, and something that the court system is probably best to sort out.
There are multiple issues, and today's ruling only seems to have covered one of them (namely, whether the Warner/Chappell copyright covers the song, or just an arrangement of the song -- the judge ruled it was the latter, which leaves Warner/Chappell without a copyright claim to the song).

The next important step is a piece of evidence unearthed during discovery in this lawsuit: a songbook, whose fourth edition from 1922 contains the lyrics of "Happy Birthday". Since the lyrics had been published in 1922, and the melody is known to date to the 1890s, there is no way for either to currently be protected by copyright in the United States, as all copyrights dating from prior to 1923 are conclusively known to have expired.
The fact that most people have an opinion about him proves my point, really.
He isn't saying being individualistic is bad, but that the philosophy that elevated individualism above all else leads to, among other things, narcissism. The latter is what he lampoons.

Many Americans observe Millennials to be the most narcissistic generation ever. I think there is much truth in that. But I also see hopeful signs of reversal. Maybe.
Making a profit doesn't mean you can't claim fair-use:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140909/15564328465/big-w...
Recently I'm experimenting a lot with Strict graph database schemas. This resulted in this library: https://github.com/renesca/renesca-magic , supporting multiple inheritance, hyperrelations and some more features.
One of my favorite scenes in Sports Night:

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Dan Rydell: I've got the intellectual property cops crawling up my butt.

Isaac: The intellectual property cops?

Dan Rydell: Yeah.

Isaac: Are crawling up your butt?

Dan Rydell: The heat's all over me.

Isaac: What the hell are you talkin' about, Dan?

Dan Rydell: I sang happy birthday to Casey on air.

Isaac: When?

Dan Rydell: Well, on his birthday, Isaac...

Isaac: Someone holds the copyright to "Happy Birthday"?

Dan Rydell: The representatives of Patty and Mildred Hill.

Isaac: Took two people to write that song?

Dan Rydell: Go figure.
How many times are we going to re-invent the well defined, specified, secured, etc, JVM wheel?
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Most people move their desktop as often as they move the rest of their furniture. For college students who dorm, there are small form factor cases that can still support full size GPUs and CPUs.
Interesting idea and your site looks good. One glaring issue though is there is no mention of price or how I am charged. It appears the price is very dependent on time to resolve the issue. To me this is a problem. Take for example my dad. If he called tech support for a problem he wouldn't know whether an issue should take 5 minutes or 1 hour to solve. The tech could be the nicest person to talk to, and my dad would give him a 5 star review based on that, but in the end he could bill my dad for 1 hour when it only took him 5 minutes to solve the issue.

The other problem I would have, but not a glaring issue, is giving a tech remote access to my computer. There is no real way to overcome this initially. You could offer a guarantee or insurance to the customer.

Returning to price, you may look at something like GeekSquad pricing. A flat fee every month and unlimited pricing. Give the techs a % of each call they take.
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Do these nautil.us pay hacker news or something? Why do they get at least one or two derpy links on HN every day?
This comes down to what it means to be an employee and fundamental aspects of class. The reality, although difficult for most to accept, is that the current wage-based system grew directly out of the previous system which was outright slavery. The ownership/master class view employees as property. Any and all output including ideas are also viewed as the property of the owner.

And so far as possible employers attempt to extend the range of their ownership and control of their employee's and employee's ideas as far into the future and to as great a degree of scope as they can get away with.

Fundamentally these are unresolved issues our society has about class, equality, and freedom.
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that is a good point. i was thinking more that very many people learn and hear the song without ever learning that it is copyrighted... i'd expect big legal teams for big companies to at least do their job well some of the time... despite my experiences with this. this is where i'd expect the money comes from... people proactively being very careful to not get into trouble.

i think the vast majority of hypothetical cases claiming copyright infringement would struggle though. many small time birthday party entertainers certainly make money from the song, but it would be utterly unreasonable to pursue that money given the cultural phenomenon that it has become... i'd expect any decent judge to throw such a case out rather than mindlessly doing his job to the letter of the law.