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Yes, but the author is couching his rhetoric in claims to "fairness" and moral righteousness. I think his stories are most revealing of his position:

I am an author, I tend to believe that I should be able to get paid for doing that work (and it is work, Eleanor, it's really hard work)...You think you're entitled to deny all of those people their rightful share of the work they do. I don't understand why you think that.

That's the core of his argument. He thinks that since he has been making a living this way for a long time, and it has worked out all right for everyone, his way is the right way and anything else is of dubious morals, because why would you want to deprive a good man of good work?

The discussion seems to be about whether the girl has a "right" to download or share his sheet music. In my opinion, she can do it, and that's that; should he have a "right" to stop her? He has not convinced me that there's any reason he should have that right.
Who is upvoting this? Dawkins - and according to the Dawkins scale / the poll he ran, most atheists - do not claim there is no god. (That's "strong atheism" and a minority viewpoint, as it is a faith statement.) He rejects Christianity, etc., but leaves open the possibility that some definition of a god may exist, while claiming that such a being is unlikely and unproven.
The author's "screwdriver" example fairly clearly shows that he's still a little foggy on the distinction between physical property and "intellectual property". He goes on to cement that notion with examples about a show and a book. All of which argue from a base of scarcity which doesn't exist in the venue he's suddenly found himself. Its easy to see how the girl could continually miss his point.

This is likely his first encounter with a gift economy, its logic and its denizens (who are mostly, but not exclusively) teenagers. It would seem that the qualities he wants to attribute to the "teenage mind" are really traits of the gift economy that sprung up around trading digital sheet music.

Its easy to sympathize with him however. It may turn out that only a handful of generations found themselves in the peculiar circumstances that allowed them to cast elements of culture into items of physical property that could be mass produced but were not easily duplicated. It must be quite disorienting to find oneself at either edge of that transition.
Maybe there are other possibilities that our brains just aren't able to process at this stage in our evolution.

Voila. You nailed it.
No, everyone has an accent. They just think that they have a "neutral" accent, because that's the way they expect everybody should talk.

Actually, if you record your voice, you will find that your spoken voice has a slight accent, while your "inner voice" (the one you use to compose emails) has no accent. This is because talking to yourself sounds different, due to the acoustics of your head and ears (or whatever).
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It's a pathetic list, and proves the opposite of what it intended to. Basically women aren't generally willing to devote their lives to the kind of intellectual pursuits that 90% of the time end up with you being poor, downtrodden, old and alone. They just play the odds better. They give up the top 10% to avoid the bottom 10%. And then they write articles about how they're excluded from the top 10% because of their gender.
Ask HN: Review my first MVP
Site: finishstart.com

Premise: Write funny stories with random strangers... one sentence at a time.

My Design Goals:

1. Be a true MVP - test the idea without wasting any time

2. Go from idea conception to deployment in 1 day (I nearly achieved that)

3. Try to develop something with some viral marketing potential

4. All content to be user generated

5. Moderation sessions should be fun

6. Try out heroku.com to see if it would be a good fit for another product

7. Do something silly and fun (I come from the enterprise software world)

You can follow my thinking through the process at http://twitter.com/finishstart

All feedback more than welcome. Especially in the areas of:

1. Conversion - I consider a conversion to be someone who adds some
well thought out content and who submits their email address to get a
copy of the story sent to them on completion

2. Viral Marketing approaches

Cheers
That was pretty dumb. She finds most troubling the omission of the woman who was project manager for Java. If Java were to be represented on the list, in what universe would the project manager be the person to represent it, as opposed to say someone like Gosling?
Clickable: http://finishstart.com
This always struck me as unfair - and as an indication that religious types haven't really studied their own beliefs.

Either science is bunk and god answers prayer, or science works and you can use medicine. Of course, the decisions to go to church as use medicine and largely automatic and irrational / social for many.
So startup is a important part of what makes you happy, but focusing on it solely will not make you happy.

Now you are going to have to find out what are the missing ingredients that will make you happy, and what you are willing to give up in your startup dream (as hard it may be) to achieve those missing parts.

Because focusing solely on startup's or on banking on the success of your startup will not help those other parts of your life.
Do you mean a Californian accent? A New York accent? Boston? The accent of a hypothetical guy who immigrated from Mexico when he was 5, went to an all black school in Chicago for 3 years, then moved to South Africa till he finished high school, and now lives in New York? Because while he would have a "non-regional" accent, he will kinda sound a bit different.
I had really hoped that the subrepo things would be more integrated into the hole process.
I prefer "strong atheism" in lieu of the Scottsman-esque term "true atheism."

After all, atheism is commonly just a rejection ("a-") of theism. Adeism, if you will, would be the belief there is absolutely no god. Just like deism weakly claims there is a god but we aren't sure what it's like, but theism tells us everything about this god.
Seems he covered that.
But that would be for either traditional or cultural reasons, not philosophical reasons.
This is very insightful. Thank you!
> If I want a coffee, I take my cash to the corner store and buy it. It is easy. Doing any commerce on the internet is nowhere near as easy as that.

If you have the right form of currency, it's EASIER. You don't have to go to the corner store.

> You are clearly someone who has never not had a credit card

Are you kidding me? I didn't have a credit card until I was 20. How did I get by, how did I survive? Any checking account nowadays has the option of a debit card, which works just as well. Any bank account at all can be accessed by Paypal, and bank accounts are not nearly as exclusive- I opened my own savings account when I was 12. Friends, parents, friends' parents... Someone you know has a credit card, and you can pay them back.

Besides, just because you don't posses the means to pay for something doesn't mean you can take it. If I go into a corner store with only Yen in my pocket, I can't very well pay for a magazine even though I have the money. Does that justify me to steal it? Not a chance.

P.S. it's actually easier to get a cc if you are a student...
There's a big confounding factor in their Windows benchmarks: To test performance without TRIM, they used older firmwares. It's unclear how much of the performance increase is from firmware improvements unrelated to TRIM support.
For strict definitions of these words, you are right. In practice I find the following equivalent list of terms more common:

1. Deism

2. Atheism

3. Theism

4. Strong atheism
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The author isn't trying to preserve his work's integrity, whatever that is, he is trying to preserve his income.

She may be rationalizing her actions, but from my ethical perspective as a libertarian, she's actually in the right. She didn't stole anything, nor did she agree to a explicit contract with the author. The author don't actually have the right to any profits, only profits that he endeavorer and successfully earn in the market.

But that doesn't matter much to me, anyway. As long as people like him don't lay their hand on the results of my intellectual labor, I don't care about what happens to the pirates and the copyright mafia.

I will be very happy to eat the lunch of other game developers at the end of this silly cultural war.
I was born Buddhist, later wondered into many religious believes, such as Christianity, Satanism, Paganism, Wicca. Yes I have tried them all and realized the to me Buddhism makes more sense. It helps me look for the answers right within me. The questions arise within one's self, and answers shall too. At least that is what I believe in. It gives me the answers to questions that interest me. But I do not mean by any means that it can give answers to all your questions or it is the right religion to you. It simply is mine.
"No real downside" is only true if you have perfect discipline and no bad luck. If that were very common, credit wouldn't be such a phenomenally profitable industry.

Betting on credit is like betting against the house in Vegas.
Can you shed more light on 'll' vs 'y'?

You know, Argentinians also speak Castilian, and the way they pronounce the -ll- is completely different from everyone else. Hence, bringing up Mexico to prove that Spanish pronounce -ll- and -y- the same way is a very weak form of argumentation. Euccastro seems to know what he's talking about, so shame on whoever downvoted him.
Yup, I'm a French Canadian and I've heard it before from French people (from France)... Some also say it sounds more like the French that is spoken in the more remote or rural parts of the country...
If you look at the timestamps and the tweets, this was one of the first sites to publish the "scoop". A few others followed eg:

http://news.google.com/news/search?hl=en&q=wikipedia+is+...

It's obviously been years since we've seen a story of this magnitude.
I'm still not understanding. Christianity isn't a works-based religion, and so the passage referring to "profit" on an eternal scale wouldn't make sense. By "profit me nothing", I
understand it as meaning: personally I am not in any way becoming a 'better' person through the good works that I am doing (regardless of whether the consequences are good), because I myself am not doing them for the right reasons (that's where the deontological part comes in). I've never understood this as meaning one should have good intentions because one will be rewarded in the after-life.

Anyway, we're digressing. If you agree that it says "have love" (or charity), why in the first place would you take it as "feel"? They're two very different things.
Dude I had the very idea =) Except mine was one word at a time. It came from an exercise we did in improv101.

I think you can make the UI a lot tighter. Imagine just a WHITE screen with THE story...constantly refreshing. Along with an inputbox at the top to add your contribute to it. Perhaps integrate with twitter.
I think you're dodging the question here. If you can show us credible numbers to indicate that stopping this girl from getting her hands on his music has significantly improved his income, that would be interesting. But I don't think you can, so bringing up his income is a red herring. He's fighting this girl on moral grounds.

(Ironically, he brings up fair use as an excuse for his copying of media, but won't recognize that copying sheet music for a high school project probably falls under the same umbrella.)
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>Ruby 1.9 is being used in production even though it's not completely stable yet

That's the difference. Without being insulting, Ruby is used for web sites that don't matter - if your twitter feed about twilight goes down nobody cares.

Python also gets used for stuff where a lot of $$$ dissapear if it goes too wrong
Strange article. She appears to argue for her own title and against the notion that women were involved in founding the web by presenting a lame and irrelevant list of geek ladies.

Given that the mashable list included the LiveJournal founder she'd have been safer suggesting Caterina Fake than Kim Polese.
Good work, esp idea-to-deployment in about a day.
I found this to be pretty addictive. i.e. I started filling out stories rather than hammering HN, Google News when I've got time to kill.

Suggestion: email users once per week/fortnight with a partial story + embedded form so they can play via email, especially if they haven't played for a while. Increase/decrease frequency of email sending depending on how they respond to playing via email.
> In my opinion, she can do it, and that's that; should he have a "right" to stop her?

I certainly can brutally kill puppies. Do you have the right to stop me if I own them?

Stop trying to twist the argument. There's a helluva lot of things you can do, but whether somebody else has the right to intervene and stop you is irrelevant.
Deism
I'm actually genuinely curious how the whole "art industry" will turn out eventually. On the one hand I sympathize with an artists desire to eat and provide for their family. On the other hand I don't quite buy into the idea that intellectual property is entitled to the same protections as physical property.

In some ways the medieval and renaissance periods had a more valid model with patronage for the arts. That limited the market to a much smaller pool of career artists though. I wonder what will replace the current state of affairs since a lot of signs point to it being unsustainable. And I do enjoy the results of having a larger pool of artists.
It's complicated...
Pain is one thing and it's understandable to fight pain while running a startup. But where I'm at now--this indifference to life--is scarier than pain. It's weird. I should be able to work through it though! Thanks for the uplifting words.
Frankly, I'm kind of shocked by HN's collective opinion on this subject- and I am not a conservative.

In my opinion, it is really very simple. I don't care so much about the nebulous question of whether it's right or wrong to infringe on IP, and all these other new questions that come about when you remove the physical aspect and introduce CTRL+C/CTRL+V. What matters to me, is that books and music and movies continue to exist.

That won't happen if we insist we deserve it all for free. Who the fuck will spend their life writing music or books or movies if we don't leave them a way to monetize it? Artists are rarely driven by greed (and if they are, disillusioned quickly) but in nearly every human being, the desire to NOT DIE usurps the desire to express yourself creatively, so artists will be forced to abandon their works to continue living.
The best bit to get out of many of these guys is that each of us needs to find our service to others. What can you do to benefit and serve other people? When you find the answer to this question, you will be led to both success, and meaning.
When I did this same shit to Reddit a year ago (during the time they were doing it to Sears whilst crying 'I'm being oppressed!) they all called me an asshole.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9cvvp/why_it_was...

Now it's because everyone at Google sucks, and this is some unforgivable sin on the content providers behalf, not the jerk users who are exploiting it.

Fine internet. Have it both ways.... Sigh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
Copyright has caught up with the reality of unlimited effortless copying.

The problem is that the content distributors still have not yet grasped the idea that 'scarcity' is moot in an age where information can easily be produced, reproduced, and disseminated at the speed of thought. Actually, they have grasped it, they just have not extracted a method of controlling it outside of the realms of pay walls, destroying UX by forced advertisement campaigns, and the walled-garden that is the iTunes Music Store.

"Do we care enough about creative works to support their creation?"

I have ticket stubs from twelve Dave Matthews Band concerts that say yes, in my case.
No matter what you choose to do, I hope you get better :)
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Potboilers aren't anything new, my friend.

"so artists will be forced to abandon their works to continue living."

Exactly how is this bad? What do music artists contribute other than catchy tunes to the grand sphere of what our nation defines?

And for that matter, have you seen the statistics of professional athletes who fall face first into the realm of poverty once they retire from their respective sports? It is shocking and frankly, a bit depressing. It's one of those things that invariably happens during the course of man that the lifestyles some of these people live are not going to last forever, and if they build their entire means of existence around "royalties" thinking they'll become the next Mick Jagger or Axl Rose floating comfortably on the sales of platinum albums decades after their last chart topping hit...

well...I don't even need to say it.
It's not fair to compare oil to nuclear. Nuclear offers so many cost advantages, while adding some oil wells in American waters only minimally impacts the price of oil. Jobs should never be a justification for anything (if job creation is the goal, simply banning the combines that harvest corn would create tens of thousands of field worker jobs).

Deep water oil rigs will fail and when they do untold environmental damage will be wrought. We simply can't control the ocean's currents or seismic events.

There is absolutely no reason that a first world nation should settle for offshore drilling and the environmental impacts/risks it creates.
If people don't feel like paying for musicians and the like, than it's a signal to the market to stop supporting musicians and force them to work other jobs that people are willing to pay for.

If that what it meant to be, than it will be. Copyright will merely submerge the will of individuals into the underground illegal music scene and not solve any problems for musicians at all.

They can keep busting pirate networks all they want, it won't change a thing in the long run. Musicians will die off and soon we will be left with a frozen archive of musics, though a very large library.

It doesn't matter that much to me anyway. I'll never be able to get all the favorite songs in the world. I'll never be able to remember enough in my lifetime. I am pretty content with this scenarios.

I don't think what artists fear will come true. Instead, many of them will probably find ways to make a living.

For me, it's the same cognitively. There are still tons of artists and songs to discover, too much for a lifetime, and too much for the limited memory capacity of my brain.
I realise I wasn't meant to, and it doesn't say anything about my position on the issue, but from reading the exchange I formed an immediate liking for the girl.

If every teenage girl was this expressive and self-assertive, I personally would feel better about the world.

cough I now return you to your "Illegal downloading bad, m'kay?" programming
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I fluctuate constantly between being an agnostic and being a believer in God.

Truth of the matter is, when misfortune/tragedy strikes (like the loved ones having health problems) it really helps to believe in God.

My wife just gave birth to a premature child. He's a boy and he's in very good health, but he was born at 30 weeks (now he's at 32). Her water broke at 27 weeks.

We were on the cutting-edge with this pregnancy ever since the start ... she had 2 embryonic bags (most likely twins) and lost one, causing her an ugly hemorrhage and a detachment of the other bag. This detachment was nullified by the child growing, and her water breaking was totally unrelated to that (urinary infection).

After the water broke, the child stayed in her for another 3 weeks, because at 27 weeks children are not viable. This was a dangerous and highly unlikely outcome ... when water breaks most women go into labor immediately. And if not ... it is dangerous because the amniotic fluid was mostly gone and both mother and child could have suffered (even death) from a uterus infection.

And I could say that this was just our luck or that we had some kind of a divine intervention ... I prefer the later, and I would probably go mad if it was the former.

I also noticed another thing ... I have several friends that are now doctors, and I also made lots of friends in the hospital since my wife was hospitalized. People working in health-care have an easier time believing in God than in any other profession I know. Probably because they witness highly unlikely events a lot (miracles do happen).
Whoa there. Some of the most awesome things I've ever come across have been "side-project crumbs". I'll take art made for fun over art made for money any day.
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This article is what they used to call "putting the cart before the horse." She starts out with the assumption that women must have been just as influential in creating the modern Web, based on that assumption condemns this other woman (!) for her patriarchal views, and then — still working from her original assumption — offers a list of women who should have been included. The fact that none of these women had much to do with creating the Web is irrelevant, because it's an a priori fact that women deserve to be on the list.

It's basically an unintentional reductio ad absurdum.

I'm all for giving credit where credit is due. I think Ada Lovelace should be an inspiration to all hackers. But she had nothing to do with the Web. Trying to shoehorn women into a list that no woman rightfully belongs on is desperate at best and patronizing at worst.
It suffers from the same problems as trying to represent the 'myriad' of women in hard sciences, particularly physics.

The simple fact that you know every single time Marie Curie will top the list, followed by 2-4 names, says something about the abundance of ground-breaking female physicists. If there were enough of them, there would be debates as to who was most awesome, and Curie would not make the list every time.

(In biology on the other hand, I'm pretty sure women have made a much larger contribution!)
Do you honestly think that if Obama were the sort of guy who'd do those things that he would have been elected?

No president has ever stood up to an industry as powerful/influential as the modern oil industry (and none ever will).
The UI does need some work but I probably won't invest too much effort until I work out if the idea is viable.

One story is a bit hard for lots of people to concurrently work on unfortunately. Part of my strategy is to have short stories so that I can email it to the contributors when it is completed (hopefully within a day or two). Then I'm hoping they will forward the funny story to their friends (with a link of course).
Your take on government's "time and place" doesn't resonate with me. I value many functions of government that I don't consider "rights" such as antitrust enforcement, insider trading prosecution, radio frequency allocation, long-term research funding, deposit insurance, unemployment insurance, driver licensing, pharmaceutical testing.....

I also don't see completely unregulated industry as remotely tenable. I suspect that wealth and power would rapidly concentrate in a small number of companies (and probably individuals) and competition would be minimal. While I don't exactly understand how the interplay between consumers, workers, share-holders, and corporations would work in that world, I suspect it would be something like a less democratic, less accountable, less liberty protecting, government.