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Freedom to profit from their own labor is very much something Libertarians hold dear.

Libertarians want the government to stop interfering in markets.

Yes, but profiting from your labour is typically handled by an exchange of goods, and once the exchange is done, each party has no say over the goods they traded.

Not so with copyright, it limits what people can do with goods after they have been exchanged, and it does so through a state-enforced artificial monopoly. It is definitely government interference in the market. If it was completely free, you would lose control over your creations the second you sell them.

Piracy isn't a market, it's a crime - piracy hurts markets.

It is a market, and it works exactly like any other market. Piracy appears when a large amount of consumers disagree on the pricing of artificially scarce goods, and instead acquire the goods illicitly, by circumventing the artificial scarcity.

The easiest way to combat piracy is through the market, simply provide a better product than the pirated product, and provide it at a price most consumers are willing to pay. Most people pirate not because they want everything for free, but because there is a huge discrepancy between the price of something and what they percieve it to be worth.

There is a reason that, for example, the Apple Music Store is so incredibly successful even though anyone can pirate music easily. They provide a better product (legal DRM-free files conveniently and quickly delivered is better than illegal DRM-free files that are inconvenient to get) at a better price (1$ per song instead of ~15$ for a bundle you didn't want just to get the song you actually wanted).

It is perfectly possible to compete with the pirate market, and doing so can be more profitable than trying the heavy-handed approach and strengthening the monopoly.
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Storing in UTC goes for all languages, all applications, all realms.

Computer Time = UTC

Think of converting to local timezone as the same as adding commas to a number to make it look nicer. It's useful for humans but the computer doesn't care.
"This is a near-term fix, and the bottom line is that network operators are going to have to invest a lot of money in new technology to ensure they can cope with demand from their customers."

As far as I'm concerned, this ought to be a permanent change. If I get to buy a data bundle (where a data bundle is literally a quotum of data), that would be a direct financial incentive to the operator to make the network faster: the faster they can help me eat through my bundle, the faster they'll sell the next bundle.

I find that a lot more appealing than the model where I'm promised a certain speed, which I may or may not get in practice due to overprovisioning, and where in the end I just get to feel ripped off.
I've never actually done that, but all the evidence suggests that if I ever interview for an employee position again, I should...
I googled some more and it seems that the girl on the cover is a gravure idol. There's more detail and some page scans here [nsfw-ish]:

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/06/03/linux-for-lolicon-u...
Take OCR from one app, voice recognition from another, and a third super power from a third app, and you have yourself a new service.

Only if all those three external apps are happy with your app. (According to past experience)
WebM is not a "web standard" anymore than H264. By that logic, if Mozilla really supported web standards, they'd support h264 playback since Safari, Chrome, and IE will. Even if I have an h264 codec on my system, FF won't play the stupid video.

Web standards would be so much easier if we could just have 2 browsers implement something to make it a standard ;)
Well, talking about web businesses in general. I think there are a lot of these lifestyle web businesses around where people are making enough to support themselves, but are not crazy rich.

It's a bit of a contrast to the VC/silicon valley world where people get investments and try to build a massive business.

It's hard to quantify a failure rate when the cost of starting a web site is so low. I have 200+ domains, but only a few "real" websites. In some ways each of those un-used domains is a failure. :)
Do you have a citation for the 5 year logistic growth curve? Or is it a 'common knowledge' thing.

That's the first time I've heard about it, I'd like to know more.
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Why did I get down voted? Even IGM is having problems with their new iPhone and it does cause dropped calls:

http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=11149
Is Microsoft's non-support for WebM any different than Mozilla's refusal to let me play H264 videos in their browser? You can't just look the other way cos you like the underdog. To my mind it's the same thing. My mac can play h264 videos, but not in Firefox. Cos they're having a standards tantrum.
Unfortunately my mind is more at ease when choosing the free products of the big ad company ... customers don't like making choices, and your product has to be clearly superior for them to chose you versus choosing a big brand.

Out-teaching is not enough.
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You missed the alleged supply constraints on the Retina display, and white version of the iPhone 4 that have "proven more challenging to manufacture than expected".

These are delays/contstaints rather than failures, but all together they point to the potential problems you give yourself when you need to differentiate your new models so much via novel product design.
Does Chrome have HW acceleration otherwise? Serious question.
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Well is there a way to hide your javascript, or compile it to hinder the ability to steal it so easily?
I'd like to know cause as far as I knew you had to be extra careful on what you do with javascript to protect the security of your site. I always have my controllers verifying my input from javascript/ajax, cause I know my js is easily viewable.
I am working for an analytics company and it really depends on your needs as there are dozens and dozens of tools out there. We are specializing in indivualisation, integration of other data and the ability to filter and segment on any recorded data, but that comes at quite a hefty price tag and it requires some time and knowledge to really be of use to a company. So I hesitate to recommend ourselves to startups, which are not really heavily into analytics.

Mixpanel offers some good stuff for web applications. If you want, shoot me an email and let me know, what you are doing and what you need and I can perhaps make a recommendation.
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If I were to venture a guess, I'd say that the constant fanboy angle on practically all Apple stories a) gets tiresome and b) takes away from the discussion of the article at hand.
Arg. I'm only landing at Gatwick at 20:15.

I can't imagine that I'd be able to get there until around 22:00. I don't suppose that anyone will still be around then?
Still, even if the reaction is an "oh-wow" ... it still takes work to do, even for simple things like changing the color of a button.

And since we are talking about statistical confidence, you may end up waisting time instead of doing more meaningful work ... so I don't think A/B testing helps when you're small, unless you have the resources to spare.

I am happy to read about tools/advices that I can use. Nice article.
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>> We will keep making the best computers on the planet. We love it.

It's like they are making the best computers on the world, actually they aren't. Sony VAIO seems always of a better quality for me. They are also quite innovative in the PC industry (http://discover.sonystyle.com/rocket/).

Also, there are other angles to look at; like not being able to change my battery on the iPhone (not sure if it a be done on Apple laptops).
> Not so with copyright, it limits what people can do with goods after they have been exchanged

Fair use is awesome. Copyrights shouldn't last forever. Unfortunately, a lot of people have been conned by places like TPB - which punish everyone, including those who make OSS, and people who give away some of their works for free but charge for others - into thinking copyright reform requires advocating piracy.

There are many people who believe authors deserve to be paid, but fair use has a place. In fact, I think most human being fit into that category. Advocating for fair use while advocating stealing alienates everyone from the cause.
I'd say "don't bother". The very act of measuring changes employees' focus from getting the job done to gaming the system. The more that management focuses on the metrics, the more that people are driven to secondary and even tertiary efforts to look productive, rather than spending their energy just doing their jobs.

It triggers an arms race of workers seeking ways to mask their activities and management building ever-more elaborate and invasive metrics to capture them. The end result is that everyone spends so much time and energy on administration that the output of real work actually falls - along with both employee morale and management confidence.

I found myself nodding my head in recognition when I read the excellent essay on lesswrong.com about spammers trying to game PageRank. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1339704
At least this script in particular seems pretty harmless. I glossed over the "rainbow links" code, so maybe there was something vicious in there.

Either way, XSS sucks. Surprised that they haven't plugged this one yet.
>so I don't think A/B testing helps when you're small, unless you have the resources to spare.

May not be necessarily true. I recently blogged on this topic http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/optimiz...
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nice googling job!
iPad apps are underpriced. There really isn't much profit left after you consider development time, product updates, support, etc.

How often does your existing display adapter get updated with new features?
Some would argue that doctors are paid well because they've formed a cartel and fight strongly to prevent others, such as nurses, from intruding on their turf. Something that would lead to healthcare that is both better and cheaper.

I'll let you draw your own analogies to the creative industries.
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No, I was responding to your statement on copyrights and why society gets to determine that.
Nice link. There are lots of metrics, but in this case, I'm talking about multi-language, large projects where considering tons of code and not enough engineers, there's no bandwidth to even compute this stuff. Thus I'm sticking with the easiest metric there is: lines of code. It's not perfect, but it's still valuable.
So much for theories about Karma, etc.

EDIT: To be more clear, there is no such thing as Karma outside of ones self. If you can be a total douche bag like this guy and not feel bad about it, then nothing bad is going to happen to you because of it.
You're right. UTC is within 0.9 sec from GMT. Nowadays, it seems like GMT and UTC are two interchangeable names, who'd expect to think they were actually so difference in terms of how each gets calculated.
That might very well fix the anisotropy problem (I haven't seen it done yet, but it sounds reasonable). However, that leaves you with another problem -- how do you create a stable particle-like pattern that can travel over a randomly-connected grid of connections without disintegrating :) Something like a Game of Life glider will explode if it hits a differently-connected area of the grid.

But say you solve that problem too -- there are many more problems after that. How do you encode the other properties of a particle like mass, charge, spin and momentum into this pattern? How can patterns attract and repel each other at long distances like real particles do?

These problems are probably all solvable, but my point to the original poster was that it's harder than it seems at first, and it's not something that's amenable to a simple search of the state space of possible automata.
What I was trying to say is that in a "definitive guide" about ab testing I would expect to find some of it. You've done a great job linking all the external resources, and I probably couldn't have done it better, but I'd personally have appreciated more about statistical significance so that I could have understood the links you have included better.
Engadget reports that one of their units is having this particular problem, but their testing unit does not. To me, that sounds like something is wrong with a number of the first units released, rather than a fundamental design flaw.

Either way, it can't be the way Apple would like to start this release, since they want to make units that go to new customers rather than to replace units already bought. I just hope they find the problem quickly and are open about the issue.
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Possibly. Call the bar closer to the time and check, their number is 020 7426 0495. In any case we hope to make this a regular event, so hopefully there will be more opportunities in the future.
If you're feeling bold, here's a link to the experimental build:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=21406&replies=22
Man.. I'm sorry if this isn't the response you're looking for, but the only thing that comes to mind now is that if you enjoy what you do, you'll be more successful then the person who is only looking for success and not enjoying what they do.
All the people I listed were people that do this out of passion, and have become successful over time.

I dunno man, I admire them, they don't have a daily job, they have a daily dream.

Yes there are hard times, but everybody has their own difficulties, and when there is failure, you learn and try again towards success. I believe any entrepreneur will tell you that to win, you are going to lose, you are going to learn, and you will eventually be successful.
Exactly. I also prefer to store things in a UNIX timestamp. Even with it's limitations, it's still the easiest way to do time arithmetic.
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"Using hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish."

It's not a contrived example, as someone already pointed out.

"Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve."

This is entirely irrelevant.

Why is this comment being upvoted?
Twitter is probably still using Rails 2.3, where you have to explicitly tell the framework to html escape every time you're outputting a string.

Rails 3 changes this by always html escaping strings.
Just as important, skeptics can be convinced that the button mattered. People think with their eyes, so visually obvious changes feel real. If your first exposure to AB testing was me telling you that a one word tweak to the sidebar of my landing page increased signups by ten percent you might conclude that I am as barking mad as someone with a perpetual motion machine.
I give a lot of credit to dangrover for creating and shipping a product that people want to have (Etude for iOS).

Dan's been fairly active in the HN community, and I think a lof of us have been inspired by his success as an indie developer. If he wants to sell his product to another company, that's his choice. If he wants to live in Silicon Valley, that's his choice. Maybe some of you in the HN community in the bay area can help him out. It seems like he's trying to address the number one issue with ETude - the lack of music publisher contracts, at the least.

I had no idea Dan was so young. I think he's different from the other masses because he has dreams and cash flow. He's more like an successful entrepreneur than some of the other dreamers because he has some success already.

I'm curious why Tap Tap Tap was such a sucky place to work. Is it because there is an inner circle?

"Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196055

"Etude for iPad is out"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1399258
I don't think anyone has any particular right to profit from their work.

Similarly no one particularly has the right to obtain someone else's work for free. Which is why this argument is a bit silly/flawed because human society doesn't work with such moral absolutes :)
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When I learned that the great Richard Burton had uttered these words I felt I understood him a bit better. After all, here was perhaps the world's greatest actor admitting that he had always treasured the thought of playing rugby for his native Wales above all else- even above the craft for which he was known throughout the world. In Burton's case this was no idle thought as he had been by all accounts a fantastic rugby player in his youth. He was also known to often express great discomfort and ambivalence towards the art of acting with all its inherent 'artificiality' as he put it...
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You must also consider competition. Myspace's relative lack of competition catapulted it to the #1 spot within 3 years [1]. Facebook overtook it at Myspace's 5 year mark.

Alexa isn't scientific, but surely some inferences can be drawn from their data: [2]

If you feel you have a superior product, or that you could out-compete someone else, then consider quitting your day job. If you're making money, someone will form a cargo-cult version of your business. Be ready!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace

[2] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/myspace.com
You don't have to convince me in any of that.

All I'm saying is that unfortunately "if you build it they will come" does not a good business plan make.

You will probably need to market your stuff even if you've produced something awesome, and it's not particularly easy to find success in the indie-gaming market in large part because it is attractive to so many other people.
There are tons, we have our own frequently cited example of Patio11's Bingocardcreator, a lot of the small optional plugin apps you can buy for 37 signals products and general tools like Balsamiq Mockups and Noble Samurai (flash apps). They're the ones I know of just reading this site, I'm sure there's a ton of b2b ones as well we don't know about.

But even with a simple web app you need to know a fair bit about a lot of different aspects of web programming. On the otherhand building one is one of the best forms of practice :)
You mean the one where an existing project with several years of history has its development tree imported into github as its first commit?

I remember the memcached project being announced, and I'm pretty sure it predated github by five years or more.
Yeah—as grellas says above, a ruling on summary judgement basically says “the law is so totally on this guy’s side that there’s no point to having a trial to decide what the facts are”, and all an appeals court has to do is say “umm, actually, if the facts are X or Y or Z then this guy loses, so go have a trial”. And after the trial, whichever side doesn’t like the verdict can appeal again.
Yes, there are tons of online lifestyle businesses that make enough to support their owners. And they don't necessarily take years to build. It just depends.

Generating significant revenue from advertising is tough because it requires a huge audience. But a lot of lifestyle businesses are driven but a more old-fashioned business model: you make something of value and charge a fair price for it. The failure rate of these businesses is lower than that of VC-style startups.

Good luck!
From the NYT article on this event [1].

>It made Fortune magazine's lists in 1998 and 2000 of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

Why do people still cite this ridiculous report? It's had both Walmart and EA in the list. Both companies are about as bad to work for as is possible as a professional in a first world country.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/business/stinging-office-m...
Revenues of Facebook “Not So Far Off”
Some days earlier a very interesting article “Inside Facebook” has been posted i.e. very interesting interview with Mark Zuckerberg- Founder and CEO of the facebook.
He discussed and carve up some future of Facebook and his thoughts on the social gaming, social business that is promoting among the competitors, dynamic developers that are working efficiently etc he also proceeds his consultation by influential Facebook revenues also states that estimates that Facebook would make between $1 and $1.1 billion this year “are not so far off in either direction that it’s causing us any pain…”
I'm not sure what you are arguing. I was invoking the free market in support of blockbusters. People pay to watch big-budget movies in droves. The free market suggests the creation of blockbusters (particularly sequels) and not art-house films (with occasional exceptions).

I'd bet the black market values blockbusters pretty highly too. However the easier it gets to pirate, the more people will do so and the incentive to create these movies will evaporate.
No citation, I just pulled it out of the air based on thinking about big startups and where they seem to be at in the exponential / levelling off / saturation curve.

But it seems to be approximately right. It took 5 years (1998 -- 2003) for Google to claim the #1 spot for search engine market share; twitter launched 4 years ago and seems to be just reaching the point now where everybody is aware of it (so its growth now will be from increasing the awareness-to-signup conversion rate, not by making more people aware of it); and facebook launched 6 years ago and their growth (in users per day) seems to be slowing down now.

I'm not saying that companies can't grow after 5 years, of course; but there does seem to be a general tendency that the growth for a single product seems to peak at about that point.
If they don't push it at the same time, it will take another 10 years!
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Why can't Twitter get its shit together? When Facebook faces those kind of problems, they iron them out in a blink of an eye. Scaling problems? No problem, I don't think I've ever experienced Facebook going down in the past 4-5 years!

How can a top-10 Alexa site such as Twitter continually entertain users with hours of downtime every week? What about escaping input? This is below web dev 101 for god's sake.
I think that statement is just an indication that they aren't recognizing the WebM content type yet in the video tag. I have tested this version of the preview with WebM Directshow installed and it indeed doesn't work yet.
Is that $40/hr or $40 for a single logo design?
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Been happening with coal since the introduction of nuclear power.

The anti-nuclear/anti-weaponization movement didn't help either.

Great article. Just goes to show that there's still so much more to innovate out there.
Reddit tends to act as a filter through which the useful[1] outputs of 4chan reach the rest of the Internet.

[1] - where "useful" here means "non-pornographic" and "not illegal" more than "provides real value"
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The author asked a very generic question, so I did my best to give him a very generic answer. :-)
Including the United States, for many folks with high school education only. They rarely get 80pct yearly raises. We have it pretty good.