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Sure - I would love the creators of the content to get paid.

Unfortunately the writer of Forrest Gump didn't get paid because the movie made a loss, Stan Lee didn't get paid for Spiderman because the company that made it sold it their distribution arm for $1. Peter Jackson and various actors didn't get paid properly for LotR because the studio can keep the accounts secret.
seems both side made mistakes but instead of being men and working it out in private want to bitch fight in public..

Clients of both parties than loose..sad
I had the same thought, so I whipped up how I would have implemented it with PHP:

http://pastebin.com/YD79HaxU

Caveat: That code is completely untested
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I'm really impressed. This is especially interesting given all the TechCrunch type talk of Google falling being Facebook in terms of talent. I'm sure there are a lot of defections (people do seek pre-IPO options after all) but clearly Google still has a strong pull for talent.

I think this shows they truly are doing things right w.r.t treating employees right and creating a great environment to work.
Thank you! Thank you!
You are an honorable person of good taste:)

I shall NOT abuse it. I respect this place too much, and PG is a hero of mine. I've been reading every word he wrote since the Dilbert Cube days. every. single. word:)
I don't.

In the past you paid for the extra's because the ISP had to do extra work for it.

But if the ISP sets everything up so all users have enough from the start. Like a /48. You won't have to bother them.
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This name is awful.

1)It implies that copyright infringement is stealing.
2)It implies lack of responsibility, as in someone is making you do a certain action. You have a choice.
I love my 48G ... it got me through Calc I/II/III and DiffEq.
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They pop into my head like magic. Often I wake up with them. Sometimes just when doing other stuff like having a shower. Fully formed and ready to go.

Some great ideas, some average, some stupid.
The title of this post is inaccurate. The article is discussing how someone (who is not an engineer) provided "engineering-quality work" which could mislead the DOT and the public that it was done by an engineer.

If anything, this article is highlighting how licensing is more often used to protect a select few rather than showing the "dangers of unlicensed engineering."
As far as I know only for mobile.
Yes, it's a tantalizing prospect because so much of the groundwork has already been laid. I have the sense that something is just needed to tie it all together into a nice, easy-to-use package with a consistent interface, easily-understood object model, etc.

My masters is in math, and I have watched Sage create a small revolution in the past couple years by doing exactly this.

Food for thought...
It is worth it. I am the developer of Voices, which has to date sold 644,000 copies thanks in large part to their publishing power.
Considering the forum, I think that the title is sarcasm.
Matt Drance's Twitter alter-ego, Batdrance, put it pretty well:

"I like to complain publicly and play the victim when my business partners do anything I don't like. Who wants to work with me?"

https://twitter.com/batdrance/status/33276755297046528
There hasn't been a decades-long campaign to deliberately confuse the concepts of "lose" and "loose". It's just a mistake.
I think it is in reference to:

"When you start applying the principles for trip generation and route assignment, applying judgments from engineering documents and national standards, and making recommendations," that's technical work a licensed engineer would do, Lacy said.
This should compel you not to steal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
Seriously, anyone in the 0-10 range?
I don't get the modern trend of airing your dirty laundry in public like this.

Just comes off as shit-stirring to me and makes me want to avoid both parties.
Most project-based university courses sort of use a system like that, at least over the timeframe of the course. Often there will be intermediate checkpoints, but they rarely count for a lot, and if you turn in a great final project, that usually overrides anything else. So basically you have 14 weeks to acquire and apply the knowledge. True in humanities courses to some extent also; in many philosophy courses, for example, there are some short essays and responses throughout the semester, but you could do badly on those and still get an A if you turned in a top-quality final paper that showed the prof that, by the end of the course, you had figured out how to develop and communicate a good philosophy argument.

It's true that you might want to do this over a timeframe longer than 14 weeks, though.
Ha! I had this exact same idea not long ago, that's interesting. Have you talked to (potential) customers? I've had multiple times questions like "what's the advantage over google docs/screen sharing?" (which is free).
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When I was interviewing a lot we were using C and C++. Although I can't recall if I specified language.
It seems like following Aaron Boodman's recommended path is a pretty good plan, too.

http://www.aaronboodman.com/2010/10/wherein-i-help-you-get-g...
"Movies are delivered adds free"

I closed the page at this point.
I also want my TV to be ad-free if I'm paying for it. I prefer to pay for it than to watch the ads, because my time has value, but I don't demand that this alternative be offered. Yet.

This being said, I already follow this. I also don't illegally download media. I just don't watch stuff that's not available in a reasonable way. It seems silly, given that paying $10/month for Netflix gets me access to more content than I could ever possibly watch.

If only it worked on Linux. My Win PC is basically a "Netflix box" these days.
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I have a some good friends who work at Black Pixel and had the fortune of meeting Daniel Pasco (and others on the Black Pixel team) a few days ago, just after MacWorld. They're all class acts and damned good at what they do. I wouldn't hesitate to work with or refer someone to them, period. I don't know anyone who wouldn't. Aside from Casasanta, apparently.

I don't know the full story. I don't know what Casasanta is hoping to achieve by posting this. But, I do know other stories from people who do contracting that have been left hanging by him or have refused to work with him due to insane deadlines. And thats enough for me to think that this is a load of bullshit on Casasanta's part to try and make himself look good for whatever reason.
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For what it's worth, I talked to John over a year ago and he mentioned his frustrations with how slow the project was going. After Daniel posted his tweet, I could see this coming.
I always figured this would be the path I'd take - found a successful startup and get bought by Google. Instead, the startup floundered and I got hired by Google anyway.

Regardless of how tough it is to get into Google, founding a successful startup is still tougher. Plus, if you're only looking to get bought by Google, you'll be overlooking many other options, and will decrease your negotiating leverage accordingly. If you want to work at Google, apply to work at Google, and if you want to found a startup, found a startup. But don't confuse your motivations for the two of them, because you'll be doing a disservice both to your startup and to your chances of working at Google.
Here's the relevant bit from the "manifesto":

"I have access to the audio in every language that has been produced."

Even the subtitle issue is complicated. Are these fan-made subtitles? Otherwise, again, you're entering a minefield and the chances of something like that ever happening within a unified interface — as requested — are slim.

Something like that would require a fundamental change to how films and especially TV Shows are distributed in other countries. Not to mention the technical issues that will occur due to certain countries getting a slightly modified (whether censored or extended or just modified) version of the original.

You're far more likely to get somewhere if what you're asking is at least somewhat reasonable.
Verizon actually require 4G devices to support ipv6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#IPv6_support
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Good attitude. Clearly, the work of someone volunteering their time for a non-profit is indicative of the event as a whole.
Another one not listed: Cheeseheads (from old sofa cushions)

http://www.smartbrief.com/news/entrepreneurs/storyDetails.js...
A ton of things are wrong with that app. It works about 80% of the time when I want to lampoon a friend. Fixing it for the other 20% just isn't worth it to me.
It's a valid concern. I think they can have a workaround this problem by offering a discount on say diapers or some kind of other fringe benefit to parents confirming the birth.
If you later want to drill down more into reinforcement learning specifically, check out "Reinforcement Learning:
An Introduction" by Sutton & Barto, full version available online in HTML form:

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
Of course I agree with you - but is that chance that one of the subscribers to your service losing their child reason enough for you to NOT create the functions described?

That was my point. I have a 6-year old and a baby currently loading with delivery in July. I also have a very dear friend who lost her second child to SIDS.

We are getting the "Your baby is currently the size of an avocado" emails -- We like the service.

The fear of a customer of such service's potential pain, while real and however small, shouldn't deter the availability of the service.
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"There is NO legal alternative for me."

Yes there is. You choose not to use them because they are inconvenient. You are not entitled to dl a copy of the movie instead.
Because we're post-wheat-scarcity?

No seriously - we are not post-movie-scarcity because making a blockbuster costs a vast amount of money - and much of that is people's salaries, people not unlike you - and it's a risky business (e.g. Kevin Costner might be involved) and if that cost is not recouped... Well the industry is going to go only for safe bets (sequels/remakes).

It's like another thread on here at the moment, about it taking 5 minutes to upload a favicon. Sure, but that's not how much time it takes to get from scratch to actual deliverable.
> since they would never write something daft like '4'+4

The question is an artificial simplification. They don't care about that literal construct. They care if you know what the + operator does on strings vs. numbers and what the implicit type conversion rules of the language are (and what the resulting 'gotcha' is). No one is worried about you literally writing '4'+4. They are worried about you writing foo + bar and being sloppy about the types of your variables.
A friend of mine is so fond of HP calculators he wrote a complete language inspired by RPN, Reverse Polish Lisp (RPL) : http://www.rpl2.net/
I agree this concrete example should be in the article -- I sort of got the idea from the article but this really solidified the concept in my mind. Very interesting stuff.
Thanks for being open. I think the most interesting part will be about how many hits you got and what kind of conversion rate you were seeing.

Some of my personal curiosities: How many people abandoned the purchase when confronted with the PayPal form? Do you think you could have been profitable with paid customer acquisition methods (like geo-targeted display ads), or would that have eaten into your profit too much?
Ah, very cool, thanks.
Surely the moral is "it's hard to tell in advance which ideas will be successful, so the more of them you execute, the more success you will have"?
> People aren't judged for stealing because it costs the store owner money, they're judged because it's immoral!

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. One could always ask: "Why is it immoral to steal?" and the answer usually revolves around how stealing deprives the owner of something he had a legitimate claim to, etc. etc. That's how our moral intuitions have evolved over thousands of years.

The fact that this age-old intuition no longer seems to apply online is exactly why piracy creates a moral conundrum. You can't resolve the conundrum by fiat. Copyright infringement is a different crime from stealing, and rightly so, because piracy has different moral and economic implications than stealing has.
Would like to get some feedback on a landing page design
What do you guys think about this landing page design?

http://s1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb467/Chrimson02/?action=view&current=Hackernewsreview.png
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If stranded in an airport for hours, would you be happy to be with this person?

I just want to say that some of the best people I have worked with would fail this test.

Moreover, every time I hear one of those statements, I can't help thinking (fairly or unfairly - you are entitled to your opinion): what white business a few decades ago would have hired a black person with guidance like that? A woman? A gay man?

Hire for ability. Hire for work ethic. Hire for ingenuity. Hire for passion. Hire for cold analytical minds. Don't hire for someone to drink beer with. Please.
Sure, and if you ever create a film, feel free to release it under Creative Commons so that people can treat it that way. But not every content creator feels that way and you don't have the right to overrule them just because you can.
This is sounding a lot like a profession making it illegal for others to do anything that could decrease their own income.
Not too hard to fix and retain the oompf:

'Demo your startup to receive a $100K convertible note. Bring it. Kill it. Get funded.'
>since their URL ended up on a real baby shower invitation

Sounds like there's an angle there for promotion - printable invitations, email invite list that tracks responses, free printed snail mail invites (team up with a print house that would take that opportunity) ...?
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The very point of my comment is that such analogies are silly and unproductive.
Hi, thanks for clearing that up. You're totally right.

One question though - why is my name in quotes? Are you implying that I'm not real? =]
I agree with the general idea but the specific criteria sounds very good from a consumer POV and not very realistic for a company to offer.

"Rent should not exceed 1/3 of the cinema price.
Purchase should not exceed the cinema price."

Rent/purchase and cinema are completely different businesses, with different expenses. Going to the cinema doesn't give you a permanent copy. I'm pretty sure movie ticket prices are subsidized by sales of overpriced popcorn, drinks, and snacks. Online sales/rentals might be better compared to brick-and-mortar sales/rentals rather than cinema. Either that or offer a breakdown of how it might be viable for a company to charge those prices.

"I have access to pretty much every movie ever made."

This isn't possible using any other legitimate method that I know of; the only reason pirates can do it is because they don't have to worry about the legal issues, pay for licensing, etc. They just need access to a physical or digital copy which is far easier to do. This will probably be even harder when combined with the pricing demands since it limits how much companies can pay for licensing. If you mean major films/TV shows only, "most" might be a better word, otherwise it sounds like you want them to chase down every indie filmmaker who's put out a movie that a dozen people might be interested in watching.

"Pricing of TV shows is about 1/3 of movies.
I pay for the content, not for bandwidth."

These seem almost contradictory to me. I'm guessing the pricing of TV shows should be 1/3 that of movies because they're 1/3 as long, but if "content" means "length" then the second point doesn't mean very much in most cases. If content is some measure of quality/popularity then there's no reason why TV shows would cost less than movies. (Especially since, from my POV, there are far more good TV shows right now than good movies.)

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That sounds like a good idea. Maybe some kind of integration with a WePay type service?
25%?
I find that my first two attempts at "startups" floundered (and eventually foundered) due in large part because I was too "young" (i.e., immature). I lacked confidence in what I was doing, and I always felt like I wasn't old enough to bring in real customers.

We'll see if startup #3 does any better (having a strong cofounder has certainly helped), but I think I can already say that there's no way our early-20s selves would have gotten this far (the two of us just weren't ready for it).
I think that gives a good idea. It helps to see how someone on the consuming side of your API would do things, without having to know any of your internals.

In other languages/contexts, this has been called things like promise objects -- i.e., the object promises to give you certain data in the future when you request that data. It defers the computation of that data until the last possible moment. You guys go one step extra by retrieving all your promises from factories, so fulfillment of those promises can happen in a way that requires the least number of passes, or is optimized in some other way.

Is that a fair characterization of your technique? It's pretty cool
You're refuting the weakest possible interpretation of his statement. "This" is essentially saying, that it is possible to mislead the public by producing work that has some of the qualities of engineering work, but is not actual engineerng work. The alleged violator clearly started with the conclusion, and put together some official looking research to support it ... one of the many things you learn not to do in engineering school.
I must be completely insane then, because I don't see stealing as wrong because it deprives the owner of their property, I see it as wrong because you're taking something you don't own on your own terms, not the terms of the person who owns it.

If John the shop owner wants to sell bread for $10/loaf and you take it for free, that's immoral because it was his bread and he wanted $10 for it. If Tony the musician wants $10 for an mp3 copy of his latest single and you take it for free, that's immoral because it's his and he wants $10 for it.

Whether or not you deprive the person of money is a side issue, the idea of ownership matters more, to me at least. If I own something through purchase, creation or inheritance it's still mine and you have no right to take it, whether or not it deprives me of it, it's still immoral.

summary: my content, my terms.
I would guess your chances of doing #2 are not much higher after buying the photos than they are right now, unless the photos provide something in particular that's interesting that you can exploit. There are a large number of freely-licensed photographs on the web that you can use free right now: everything from NASA photos to things people on flickr tag as cc-by or cc-by-sa, to a ton of stuff contributed to Wikimedia Commons. You could take those, stick them on a website somewhere, and slap ads on them (and people do that). What will 10 million new photographs add? Unique content that isn't already republished elsewhere, of course, but how valuable is that to the image-farm-with-ads endeavor? Will users even know that your images are unique rather than copied from Wikipedia/Flickr/wherever? My guess is that most won't, at least if you display them as a jumbled aggregate set of images: a random unsorted 1 million images from one place versus a random unsorted 1 million images from another place.

It's possible there's interesting subsets buried in there that do 1) provide unique content not already available on the internet, and 2) that you would be able to drive traffic to. I suspect it would be a lot of labor to sort and figure out if that's true, though.
The punchline:

"If Cox is found to have practiced engineering without a license, Ritter said, the likely action would be a letter telling him not to do it again."
I love iPads, but Apple charges more than I think they should be allowed to charge. I'm going to steal one until they lower the price. I promise I'll buy one then.

I love Photoshop, but Adobe charges more than I think they should be allowed to charge. I'm going to steal it until they lower the price. I promise I'll buy one then.

I love Wolfram-Alpha's database, but Mathematica costs way more than I think they should be allowed to charge. I'm going to steal it until they lower the price. I promise I'll buy one then.

Does this not seam like a ludicrous attitude to you?
Why haven't they been bought out yet?
I like the idea, but doing it would involve a lot of payment processing shenanigans (not an unsolved problem by any means - i.e. kickstarter - but definitely a significant hurdle for a weekend project).
Someone said to me once that a small number of people want to build a great company. A larger number of people want to work at great companies. I'd wager that (more and more) Google is less attractive to the former and more attractive to the latter.

I don't think that bodes well for them.
What I'm really interested in are the sales numbers on this.. A few friends and I did a similar t-shirt project, and sure.. it was profitable in that it brought it more than it cost, but wasn't successful enough to make me want to do it again. All of that said, the execution on this project seems top-notch.
Similar to myfav.es (previously Fav4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129816)
I haven't got much to add since I've expressed my views previously, plus this blog post does a good job of calmly pointing out the issues. It's worth emphasising the penultimate paragraph from the blog post since I feel it's key here though:

"Since people at Microsoft might not like this post, I want to reiterate that I know the people (especially the engineers) at Bing work incredibly hard to compete with Google, and I have huge respect for that. It's because of how hard those engineers work that I think Microsoft should stop using clicks on Google in Bing's rankings. If Bing does better on a search query than Google does, that’s fantastic. But an asterisk that says "we don't know how much of this win came from Google" does a disservice to everyone. I think Bing's engineers deserve to know that when they beat Google on a query, it's due entirely to their hard work. Unless Microsoft changes its practices, there will always be a question mark"

I agree with this entirely. Given Bing's resources, it seems bizarre that they were relying on Google's results even a little bit. And until they sort this issue out, I definitely agree that it's difficult to know when to give credit to Bing.

(Plus it's made all the more difficult considering that Bing keep sort of denying this whole mess, despite the quite conclusive proof. I suspect that if they do stop using Google's results, we won't know about it considering the hole that Bing have dug themselves with their denials. Ah well, que sera sera).