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From what I read, it will probably not be terribly complicated for a Chinese chip maker to create such a chip. If that happens, they'll be able to sell devices that appear to the player as a legitimate HDCP device and provide the encrypted digital data. Once the device has the data, it can decrypt it and pass on the decrypted data.

It'll be interesting to see if it materializes into an actual product.
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"Lesson: If you think you should build it, not buy it, you’re wrong"

That's bad advice IMHO. There is far more value to building than buying - the amount you learn, and the extra optimization you can put in there.

If you have the luxury of being able to build it yourself, do.
The e-mail model is better. Knowing if an article is read/unread at a glance is very useful.
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This is good and all, but does this give us new news? I'm new to HN and even I have seen some of these linked directly before. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a HN trophy room or something that we link to?
Sorry, but I don't regard anyone who puts in these kinds of hours for a salary and chance at a token bonus (say 40% of yearly base) as rational. You've only got so many productive hours in your life. If you love working so much then take a second job you love and work both at reasonable hours. If you ever wake up and realize life isn't all about making other people rich, at least you'll have a lot more to show for your effort.
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I also doubt you'd raise as much as you might want to open-source it through Kickstarter -- but it's low-risk to try, since if your chosen threshold isn't reached no money changes hands. It'd only be a bruise to your project's cachet, and perhaps reveal your 'reserve price' for future negotiations.

Tools to migrate BB data to Android or iOS devices might be of interest in those app-markets. Even just something that migrates the data to some standard outside file-format might be of interest, or work as the 'first leg' of a transfer that requires a new app-store-bought-app to import to the new device. (Is there a 'blackberryimage' format?)

Could it be used to provide a 'cloud backup' of your BB, either over-the-air or over-a-cable?
Wow. That's really nice kgermino: a not so veiled hint that I should leave this site because I have a dissenting opinion. And like I keep saying, it's not that I don't find the posts interesting or not. It appears that I was operating under the assumption that the submissions in HN are user-generated. Now that HN has gotten popular and can drive a lot of traffic towards a site I think that people should disclose the fact that they are affiliated with the source or not. And for saying that I repeatedly get downmodded. And that (in my opinion) says a lot about the mentality of HN. I was about the 19,000th person to sign up to SlashDot. When I say that I have certain expectations of sites like these I kind of am not talking out of my ass. If you don't mind I think I'll stick around for a while and see does the mentality of HN improve.
I have another question on that regard. How do you "put it all together"? Specially if you want to host your maps locally. Mapserver, Openlayers, OSM data, QGIS, ... I don't know where to start.

Any good references? (I tried google. I will myself check out http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/MappingYourData , but the more the better.)
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After all these years, I think the 6502 instruction set is still the one I know best.
On the recreational pharmaceuticals point...

Year ago we were getting our second round of VC investment from a group of companies that included an American VC company (we were in the UK and our first round had been from UK VCs only).

I remember saying to our dev team "these guys want compulsory drug testing for all staff" (I was joking) - the looks of horror on the faces of the best developers in the team were priceless.
Based on all the published words of Lucinda it seems clear to me that she is essentially incompetent. Groupon is just one type of rope that she used to hang herself. But not the only rope by any means.

Having said that, of course it is in Groupon's best interest to avoid doing business in those kinds of situations. Pretty frightening PR for them.
You need to take some time off and go look at modern research on productivity. You're not gaining anything with these hours. You feel like you're getting more done, but the science simply doesn't support that this is what's happening.
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You're absolutely right but like all opinion pieces I don't think it's meant to be taken as "advice". While some of it touches on real problems it's really just a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun.

Leaving aside the subject I really like the writing in this post. He created some great imagery. Good Friday reading.
Ultimately, I had fun building the site, but it didn't pan out. People don't want to post under their Real Names ;)

I've disabled the Real Name Verification aspects on the site- If you create an account at www.lonava.com is assumes you're verified, if anyone wanted to see how it worked.

Code is at Github.
Must be... this video really did make me feel sick.
It's a response to a one-note troll, of course the signal to noise ratio is going to be low.

For those not following along at home, Gruber's contention is that Android's problem is that it is open. Not just open, but too open in fact. Except in this post where quotes a Google employee talking about Android being open so he can contrast it with how non-open Google's Android is by competing with Skyhook.

No wonder the comments are confused, he's arguing both sides of this issue.
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One way to bring about a modest, regular payment is to not consistently withdraw almost everything you're bringing in. If you're getting paid to a business account, set up a small, regular transfer (even just $100 or $200/wk) when you're starting out and make that your dependable payment rather than getting $2k one day and nothing for the next couple of months.

Renting a desk in a shared office space can always help give you regular hours, social interaction, some networking opportunities, etc. (I currently rent a desk to a freelancer and have another space free - Adelaide, if anyone's interested.)

The rest is not unlike that stated. You have the freedom to get away for a holiday, but there'll be no one running the show while you're away. If you're big enough to have a couple of staff, but not big enough to have someone doing your accounts, prepare to get bogged down with tax, super, billing, etc - it's hell.
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So let's get this nice and clear.

clistctrl says that he is okay with a company submitting their own content and that he found this particular entry to be interesting, and thought-provoking and he get up-modded.

I in my inimitable curt way say that I am not okay with that practice (I'm not okay with it, I think posts should be submitted independently or at least with full disclosure) and I state that I don't find it to be interesting and thought-provoking and I get down-modded.

What I want to know is - why is it not okay to express a contrary opinion? Why is taking an opposite stance in this case worthy of being down-modded. If you don't agree with me you can leave my post unchanged in value. But everybody who has down-modded me is saying that you don't want to see and won't tolerate dissenting voices. I haven't been rude, I haven't spammed, I've contributed some valuable comments and opinions in the past on this site. I'll say it again: SlashDot for all its warts was never like this.
>We couldn't get him to install an IM client, he doesn't carry a phone, his email response rate is ~5%, several days too late, and only responds to say he can't make it to social gatherings, etc

This is probably why he was so much more productive. I've personally turned off notification on my email and tend to set my IM to "away" because it's too distracting to productivity when people can just interrupt me at any moment. We already have a bloody meeting every morning. What ever you have to say can certainly wait until then. I wonder if anyone has done a study of how much money has been lost to these "open plan" working environments.
During the Unix Wars, we lost about a decade of progress entombed in parasitic forks as Microsoft ran away with the whole market. Is there any reason to hope that applying the BSD license to Diaspora would not give it the same Achilles' heel?
Sure, it's murder. But I suspect most people would, on occasion, find justification to murder in order to save lives (or even just to save "more important" lives - wars are fought all the time on the theory that the lives of a country's citizens are more important than the lives of foreigners).

On reflection, perhaps a better reframing of this thought experiment (to avoid many of the issues that others have brought up) would be that a murderer has broken into your house and tied you up, along with a baby and a highly accomplished but relatively young person, and offers you the choice of which one of the others he's going to kill, along with a credible assurance that he'll kill all of you if you don't choose one (and you're not allowed to pick yourself, just because), and he'll really let the remaining two of you free once you've made a choice. Further, you're not allowed to discuss with the others, so there's no opportunity for anyone to sacrifice themselves.
That's a fine point. Personally I favour the GPL and am not really sure what to think about this Diaspora license scheme.

My post was really targeted at BSD style licenses and how they are awful.

The entire principle of pro bono work is as a civil service - improving society by engaging with the disadvantaged in your community.

Software professionals are still new to the professionalism thing. We haven't learned the lessons that lawyers and doctors learned a long time ago. Do pro bono work - it's an important part of life - but choose your beneficiaries wisely.

BSD licensed software is just handing free cash over to the advertising industry. Re-brand it, market it, make easy cash, and destroy the popularity of any GPL competitors which then stifles innovation for that particular type of product.
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The most devoted guy in our firm works easily the shortest hours - but he works like stink and if the product demands it he will work a "late" to get a feature out the door.

Usually, though, he has already got it done.

I've found that hours worked is a poor measure of product devotion :)
After all these years the 6502 (in his reincarnations) it's still alive, selling million of pieces (but at 200MHz).
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> I consider developing to be a creative kind of job, one where more arse-in-seat time means lower or even negative productivity.

As much as I would like to believe this, I don't think it's true. Looking at people who do PhDs, including myself, they work 60-80 hour weeks because you can get more done in that time than working 40 hour weeks. Every startup founder ever has worked extremely long hours. Googlers and Mozillians are in the office long past 5pm.

Certainly your productivity drops on a sliding scale probably after 20 hours of work, but to suggest that 100 hours does not get more done than 40 is pure fiction.
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A cooperation is in a much stronger position than an individual employee. Unions were created to try and make the positions more even.
One item I disagree with. You are a freelancer, but you are also a company. You are employed under whatever name you are doing business as. If you don't have a business name, then it's just your own name as a sole proprietor. You can give yourself a real work history and paychecks, just like you would be receiving by working for any other company. Whatever is left over after your regular paychecks you can give yourself as a periodic bonus. Of course, if you don't make enough money to give yourself regular paychecks, or those paychecks are small, then you aren't making enough to convince a bank to give you a loan for a house.
Motivation is somewhat limited resource. And I believe that rested developer performs much better than tired one.
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Beautiful. It's a shame the exposure in #3 makes the Moon appear so close to the Earth. At the time it was taken, the Moon was near the farthest apparent distance it could be. Someday there needs to be made a time-lapse video of the moon orbiting the Earth as the Earth moves against the stars, taken from above the ecliptic.
Bear in mind we had just launched and had completely failed to build everything our customers needed.

I'm aware that your startup is going much better than mine, but there are no tech startups where people don't work evenings and weekends at the start.

Free was because someone offered to work for free, and we didn't have the resources to pay her. We were going to pay her when we raised money, and we had agreed a rate. In the end, we paid her based on her estimated number of hours worked.
What proof do you have of Lucinda's incompetence? I must admit I'm curious as to how you came to that conclusion (even if it's little hints in the article, here and there).
I've posted to the diaspora-dev list pointing to this comment, so hopefully one of the Diaspora guys will take a look at this soon.

I'll also follow up shortly with a blog post with more details about how this might be implemented atop a well defined set of standards and the benefits of doing so vs re-inventing the wheel.
I suppose to put it another way, you almost certainly do not have the luxury of being able to build it yourself.
It seemed to me that Diaspora is trying to hold the code and project together, and the open source community isn't exactly the best for holding code together. We have forks all over the place. I've got a fork, you've got a fork; we all have forks and no spoons.

AGPL was written to address this exact issue. If it does not accomplish it (as is the case the original article is arguing for) then it's a problem with the license and not the Diaspora project.
Interesting how a 404 basically now translates in to purge DNS cache and try again.

Did I understand it right that the inability to locate a single object for a single customer affected all your customers?
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1. Yes sure - but this is a big bet. And in this case it didn't happen.

2. Understood. But the aggressive discounting is going to encourage a lot of people who just want to get something on the cheap, and will never go there again. As point 1, you've no idea how much repeat business you're going to get.

I would never do this unless I could cap or trial it first, so I could get a proper assessment of what the deal is worth.
"Adaptive structural decomposition."

Congratulations on stumping all of DuckDuckGo, Google, and my own linguistic inferential ability with that term.

My curiosity is piqued, might I ask for an elaboration?

Edit: Wait a sec, found something, this it?

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1458841
I'd gladly work on any number of these types of issues.

Freedom to customize an interface and add features that are missing is something I feel quite passionately about. The web is suppose to be about freedom and setting people free from being forced to use repeatedly anything that feels unsatisfactory. With user-scripting one is no longer a slave to the interface that's presented. Anything that is so insecure or incomplete in and of itself deserves to be exposed, and the person who does so deserves credit. If anything scripting only serves the greater good, that anyone would get angry about their own site's problems and try to force a take-down as if they can't control their own server is truly unacceptable from any of the parties that would enforce this policy of fighting those that are informing them.

Working with rails would be great. I've got some postgress and scaling experience.
Hi Joshua, thank you for chiming in. Can you estimate how much users/visitors you lost due to the complicated domain name?
I dont understand you are complaining that your EMPLOYEE isnt doing 100hours weeks when at the same time you, the CO-FOUNDER, were in "honeymoon for most of May" [1] ???? WTF!

[1]http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=185999
Really? This information is over 100 years old in some cases. Here's a few links I found quickly. The first one has a lot of citations itself.

http://archives.igda.org/articles/erobinson_crunch.php

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5190.html

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/05/the_productivity_myth.html

It seems to me that it's come up several times that in your company you chose to follow what you thought was right instead of actually researching it. I hope you can correct this before future ventures.
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To be perfectly honest, if you open sourced it but just put up the source to download (and not precompiled binaries for OS X), you'd probably sell close to as many copies as you do now.

Another alternative is to port it to Linux and try selling it through Ubuntu's new software store. I imagine that BlackBerry don't make a native Linux app yet?
<<Have you not realized that a decent amount of the users on HN are successful entrepreneurs?>>

Yes I have realized that - it's hard not to notice that.

<<If you ever become a successful entrepreneur, and have some good information to share, are venues like HN off limits? What people like Glenn Kelman are doing is offering valuable information in return for name recognition>>

Of course they are not off limits. But my expectations are usually that the submitter is some random web-surfer. I think that if the submitter discloses that they are affiliated with or actually are the author then that's cool. By the way, I don't think "Bill Gates, My Hero" is good or valuable information. Similarly I do not find that this article contains good or valuable info, it's just zeitgeisty and filled with folksy homespun truths. In fact the two posts, posted one day after another seem designed to generate discusion for discussion's sake and feel like a cynical ploy to push traffic to the site.

<<I "purchase" their information by enjoying it and sharing it with others, which returns value for the original author. For the HN crowd, that value seems to be name recognition, which leads to people talking about whatever project you are working on. So, you give other people value (information about experience), and in return any future project you put your name on benefits.>>

I don't understand you here. We "purchase" nothing. We are being used as a commodity when someone uses the collective traffic we generate for hits or clicks. What name recognition? If I find some tech interesting I'll take note of the company or author but that's how life works. Name recognition for its own sake is meaningless.

<<Futhermore, if he didn't post it here it may or may not ever be read.>>

It would be if someone else found it valuable or interesting. That's the way these things work. I have no idea if an article by the CEO or an employee of a company gets upvoted purely because of who they are and not because of what the content of the submission is.

<<Given the great discussion happening about this particular topic, I feel that would be an unfortunate loss.>>

But as you say yourself it may have been read so there would have been no loss so no need to worry there then I guess.

<<From these comments I have gleaned more information on marketing and the actual costs of certain types of marketing than I have in months. Thanks GlennKelman for instigating the discussion.>>

That's great but that's neither here nor there in relation to my original complaint. You know I actually probably enjoy reading more or less the same stuff as you. In this case, alarm bells went off in my head - I'm sharing that sentiment with you.
AGPL + contrib agreement is a way to ensure that commercial investments in open source projects are more likely.

everyone may use and modify it, but has to disclose its modifications. (since its AGPL'ed)

contributions that find their way back into the parent project (dispora) must sign the contrib agreement so that diaspora can license it commercially under terms they pick. this allows them to potentially make some money selling commercial licenses. investors need this security because they do not want to invest in a product that everyone exploit equally.

i think the model is valid and fair. it work for the company i currently work for (zarafa.com).

jarin has the right to not like the license, sure. but if he used his patches to serve a diaspora instance from heroku to anyone besides him self he should (AGPL) disclose those patches. of course this does not mean he should sign the contrib agreement, but that would limit the impact of his work...

jarin calls diaspora dead. i think thats unfair. they did a great job and it will be nice reference material for a rails3+mongodb+haml+jquery+websocket project. good choise of technology in my eyes! (thank $DEITY for not going with php)
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Yes, the actual linux documentations are actually very good. I live on a server with hacked-together shell commands that are badly-documented, so I'm in the bad habit of doing the --help thing (the default around here).

The man pages are indeed very good. It's also worth noting that the Gnu people tend to prefer info pages - and 'history' is traditionally a Gnu-maintained command (as part of binutils) - so you'll get the absolute best documetation I know of (long explanations, interesting permutations, obscure hacks) if you do:

info history
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Did I understand it right that the inability to locate a single object for a single customer affected all your customers?

Almost right. The Tarsnap server aggregates together data from multiple machines into a single S3 object; I don't know how many users had data stored in that object, but it's probably more than 1 and less than 10.

But the problem wasn't really caused by the object going missing; rather, it was caused by S3 doing Something Which S3 Should Never Do, plus the Tarsnap server code not being designed with that possibility in mind. I've since adjusted the code so that an error like this will be handled less severely.

(That said, I doubt I'll ever see this S3 glitch again -- I got a phone call from Amazon providing some additional details about what caused this and it was clear that they were taking it very seriously.)
Good point, I'll add hackers and founders to the list.
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One point..

My startup friends tell me one of the secrets of working in SF is..you can get cheap studios and sometimes whole small houses leased in Oakland only 8 miles a way..

We are talking in the $1000 to $1500 range..