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Oh please, can't we keep those piracy apologist posts away from HN? It's bad enough that gamasutra.com's comments are flooded with those "I pirate games because piracy = freedom"-kids. I don't think this kind of discussion would enrich HN in any positive way.
But that's the point, if they are doing nothing illegal and we are not challenging the legal framework either, what right do we have to give them a derogatory name.
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I don't think that the set of people who

A) want to read long form writing online, rather than in print,

B) but they don't use RSS, they don't use Readability, they're not using a mobile app, and they use the default website layout instead of the print stylesheets

C) and they're irritated or turned off by weird ads,

D) but they don't use an ad blocker

is a very large set, and I don't think it's growing any bigger.
Agreed. The guy running Kik seems to be quite timid from what I've heard from friends and doesn't want to burn any bridges at RIM since he interned/worked there. What he needs to do now is get some hard evidence of this and start screaming David and Goliath and anti-competitive motive.
Agree with the above points, especially the memory. You might think the memory is adequate until you have more of it, but once you do, you will wonder how you lived with less.

That is what happened when I upgraded from my iPhone 3G to my iPhone 4. Months later, I'm still getting over the difference.
That's interesting -- I didn't know that. I've just logged into one of my sites, and the editor is using the 'content.css' stylesheet from tinymce, rather than inheriting styles from the homepage.

Perhaps it only works with the default theme.
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I don't entirely disagree, but I will observe that if you have have to borrow money for a water heater, furnace, toilet, cooktop, refrigerator or similar (because you lack one that works), that's almost certainly a wise thing to do. Same with a car if you need a reliable car to get to (or perform [pizza delivery]) your employment. I don't know that financiers would call that leverage or not, but not all consumer borrowing is irresponsible or even EV-negative. I wouldn't characterize the purchases of items like that on credit as impatience.
Fix it.

A lot of people are thinking it, so even if the only responses you get here are "shut up newb" and "welcome to the party" there's an audience for more focused stuff.

People talk about it all the time, so they're just tired of what sounds like people whining and not taking action. I remember a few years ago somebody decided they wanted more startup news. They wrote a short "hacker hacker news" script. source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689204

Someone posted something last week about how the wanted it fixed as well. Less talking more doing.
The thing almost everyone seems to be ignoring is Markus isn't saying "I think piracy is great and you should all do it" he's saying it exists and you just have to deal with it.

It seems almost everyone is taking what he has said as justification of piracy, "oh well he's rich now and he doesn't mind piracy so it must be okay for me to pirate!". If we ask him whether or not he thinks people should pirate he'll not say "yes, do it" he'll say "Well I'd rather you bought it, but if you're not going to then you may as well play it for free as I'd rather you play my game than go without, and I'm not going to spend millions trying to stop you... but I'd prefer if you paid for it".
This isn't a piracy apologist post. This is an article about the creator of a wildly successful game saying piracy isn't as big a deal as people make out of it.
>We have apps that have well over the mentioned 5k LoC of JS that even our Ruby programmers have no problem cracking open

Why the "even?" What is it about your ruby programmers which means you find it unusual that they can understand your 5k line JS app?

Not trying to be snarky or pedantic, I'm genuinely curious. I see the two languages as being relatively similar, with their common emphasis on closures and functions-as-objects. Obviously the object models are very different...
What I hear is that there is a vested interest by the common consumer in Getting Stuff For Free.

I like free stuff too. But believe me, I'd rather put in some registration features to "keep people honest" than to let myself be ripped off.
Excellent comment: apples being techmeme right now and oranges being the natural hn color
Its a pretty fantastic chat tool. It provides message status (read/delivered), an easy way to transfer contacts, photos and videos right in the IM and it let's you create groups. Groups share all the aforementioned benefits as well as group chat, shared calendars, lists and photos.
There are three advantages to BBM that i love: (on blackberry devices, don't know how they'll be on other platforms

1) BBM is essentially a text message that is free. This is handy when you're oversees (business execs) for example. You can be in Taiwan and shoot a BBM to your partner in SF without having to worry about some ridiculous charge.

2) Read Notification - BBM will tell you when your message has been read or not (as opposed to text messages)

3) Group Chat - BBM does this really well - very easy to text and have conversations with multiple people.
In Tunisie, at least, many people have said the Wikileaks exposure of Ben Ali's corruption were influential.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/25/whispering_...
Web Designer/Front End Developer here in Cleveland, local or remote.

Also willing to relocate, if you can believe someone would want to leave this place behind :D
i would love to work on CodeIgniter, jQuery AJAX, Wordpress platforms, building kind of social network apps or data analytics works.

edit: (added few words) and i am looking for full time and long term remote work.
Review:

- It's sloooooow. You need to edit the video. Talk over it to highlight the main points, then cut out all the irrelevant bits. I don't need to watch you typing a query.

- You should explain people what they're seeing (talk). And remove the music.
An analogous story I heard (and it could just be a rumor) was that such lack of regulation was also why the movie industry took off in LA.

The story goes that Edison had lots of patents on movie-related tech, and wanted to squeeze the movie makers and control them; so the movie makers ran off to the furthest place possible from NY (where Edison was), i.e., Los Angeles, CA. There they were free to operate without Edison and regulations.
Possibly OT but I would gladly pay to use something like mailchimp or aweber lite if the deliverability/reputation was good. Lite in this case meaning 10 minute admin learning curve and a simplified feature set. I know that's vague. but in general I find the the current crop of email web apps to be bloated and hence too time consuming.
I don't know, I've met some seriously talented, seriously underpaid programmers over the years. Money isn't everything, especially to people who live for the intellectual stuff.
I have http://dailyjs.com/ in my newsfeed.
i want to make the same bet with ed cooke.
Beautiful but you need to work on your name as it is difficult to spell, difficult to google and not even a .com
Good catch! They should have shipped the iPad 2 first and announced it later.

The article didn't once mention the Galaxy Tab. You missed the parent's point.
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Great article and very funny.

I use JQuery for the simple stuff and Flex/AS3 for RIA. JQuery is pretty cool but I could see how all the plugins help paint you into a corner.

If I did heavy-duty JS development I have no idea what I'd use. I'd probably just spend wy time bitching about no Flex/AS3.
You're right, ack, embarrassing. Unfortunately I seem unable to edit the post now.

EDIT: As an aside I think it reminded me too much of the concept of precedence in maths, so the brain-burp was probably sourced from there.
Yes! Been looking for some hardware for some hacking projects with my kids. How much would it cost to ship to ZIP 01588?
Ask HN: What Interactive panels or talks are you going to at SXSW?
The Interactive schedule is pretty large and its hard to tell the good from the bad on title alone. What panels, talks or other events are you going to at SXSW (and why)?
HN is a community, and like any community it will change over time.

I think the bigger thing you're seeing though is that the drug doesn't have the same effect as it used to. The drug is the same, but your resistance has built up.

In the beginning, many people come to HN and are overwheled to find a community of people JUST LIKE THEM. They thought this never could exist so elegantly, and the initial reaction is euphoria. Then over time you realize that cycles start to repeat, there can only be so much "new" news, and so on. The drug has stayed the same, but you have a resistance to it now. A startup that someone launched over the weekend that is featured on TC Monday afternoon isn't as significant to you as it was the first 3 times you watched it happen. An essay from PG? Still inspiring, but after you've read 20 of them the additive effects of each additional essay are a little less than the one before it.

HN is the same as it ever was. There exists an opportunity still to build something even better though. Doing is more rewarded than observing here, especially when the observation is not new or insightful. This is why some of the reactions to your post may seem a little bit harsh.

If you want HN to go back to the way it was, build that. If you just want someone to sell you a new drug, it's unlikely you'll get what you're looking for.
An easy/fun testbed for this idea might be Erlang's new type specs: http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/typespec.html

You could write a parse transform that wraps all exported funs in a module in some kind of type analyzing shim function, which would eventually output type specs as an .hrl you could -include().

Type specs will eventually be used by Dialyzer and other Erlang tools to issue warnings and optimize code, so the effort wouldn't be in vain.

Seems like a quick way to figure out the feasibility of your excellent idea.
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I'm almost certain this is the majority of the people who read the New Yorker online. Among the HN crowd, you might be right (though I doubt it), but regular people just aren't aware of almost anything you listed.

It might be hard to believe, but there are millions of intelligent people out there who read long-form writing online but have almost no idea that websites are mutable. There's nothing wrong with that--they just have different priorities.
There is no such thing as the top 1%.
Wait, 65% of the stories you linked to were written by women, while only 45%-50% of stories at large were written by women? Have you tried to examine the roots of your gender bias?
I wouldn't place him as timid, he's a very smart person who's going to get what he wants.
To be fair to RIM, they really are going to have a problem with selling hardware if they keep in the iPad or iPhone form factor space. They are up against Apple and HP who have the money and supply chain to manufacture units at a lower price. Samsung has its own manufacturing capability and an OS provided by Google. RIM seems to have some serious challenges to overcome.

Maybe they think they will survive as a software play?
Right, that's why I said 30k/yr might become 60-80k/yr, implying that of those 70% maybe 40-80% would actually buy it if they couldn't pirate it.
As the Crazy Cat Lady of my family, I can attest to this.

> Cats also seem to remember kindness and return the favors later.

The reverse is also true: an affronted cat will hold a grudge.
That's an interesting problem then.

If tablets are going to be a big part of the Android ecosystem, then I would still argue that they would need some kind of special section in the market.

Would the market app be able to read your devices resolution and then denote which apps are optimized for that? I have an older Android phone (Sprint HTC Hero) with a smaller resolution, can I see/install tablet apps from the market? If yes, that's a bad experience, if no, then it would seem that they can do some sort of detection.

I'm just spitballing here, so this might not even be half baked.
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That's actually not true, IP lawyers look at ALL patents when they're going after a patent troll or trying to invalidate, not just large companies. That would be pretty poor due diligence.
Yes - credit for emergency situations - but even in those cases, it's only correct if you are spending within your means.
A cooktop/toilet/refrigerator or similar are not that expensive - people should have at least several months of cushion money in the bank after they've been in the workforce for a few years... there should be no need to live paycheck to paycheck and borrow at absurd rates on credit cards.
This feels a little like when AOL switched to providing their webmail for free. For AOL it was a huge shift in strategy, but a necessary one.

I'm not sure I completely understand how this helps RIM much, though.

BBM is about the only I miss from my BlackBerry, and I would sign up in a minute if it was available on my phone. Still, that doesn't make me more inclined to buy a RIM device again.
Funny, that's around the same amount MS charges for WP7! And they say WP7 can't compete with Android b'coz it's non-free.
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My rough calculation is that Minecraft goes for 15 Euros, so if he's registering 30k people/day, that's 450k/day in revenue. That's a lot. Maybe it could be double that if people who are pirating the game didn't have that option. But my point is, 450k/day or 900k/day? I'd be happy with either.

EDIT: Sorry, 30k/day is registered and 30% purchased, so it's actually 9k/day roughly. That's still 135k/day or 270k/day. Still, two numbers I'd be fine with.
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I'm in the same situation, but I'm from Romania. I emailed the embassy with the details and they said I should apply for an E2 investor visa - you can read more about it on the US State Dept. website. As long as you own the majority of the company, you should be able to legally stay in the US and work for the company.

However I think you need some proof that you got funded to apply for the visa, for example we are waiting for an acceptance letter (if we get accepted obviously) from the startup accelerators we have applied to. After we have the letter we will apply for the visa.
I don't understand why anyone would call the XOOM heavy in comparison to the iPad. The comparisons I have seen list them both at 730g.

I have them both, and I would say that the XOOM is more comfortable to hold. The two big factors are the texture of the back and the fact that I so often hold them in portrait mode. The widescreen form factor of the XOOM makes it easier to handle in portrait mode.
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jQuery is for websites, while Dojo or Prototype is for applications. The architecture of the library/frameworks are extremely different, and if you can write jQuery then it isn't too difficult to switch to another library or framework. It's all javascript. I don't see why people like using tools for unintended use cases. This is like using Rails to build a 3 page static site. Wrong tool for the job.
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Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Impact.

Congrats to the Rocketpack guys in Finland! I met them over a beer a few month ago - they definitely deserve all the success they're having. Maybe I should have accepted their Job offer back then, but I had (and still have) way too much fun with Impact :)

My understanding is that RocketEngine is a complete IDE to develop games - so you write your code directly in the browser. I haven't personally seen it in action though.

For Impact you write your code with whatever editor or IDE you want. It's just a bunch of JS files. Impact also features a tile based level editor that runs in the browser and (surprise) generates level data in JSON format.

Impact is somewhat more targeted at arcade games and not so much at FarmVille-like stuff. It also uses the HTML5 <canvas> element to draw everything, instead of moving around a bunch of DIVs - and while I believe that canvas is the "right way" to do it, it means that it doesn't run in IE prior to version 9.

Impact also has a growing community who creates plugins for all kinds of stuff: Pathfinding, Tweening, Physics, WebSockets, etc. You can see some of that in the forums:

http://impactjs.com/forums/code
Among the reasons why the sub-prime mortgage crisis has been Bad For America are:

¶ People who live in depressed areas who are underwater on their mortgages can’t move to someplace with better job prospects unless they abandon hope of recovering the equity in their current house.

¶ In neighborhoods where a significant number of houses have been foreclosed on (or where there is a lot of excess capacity because it was built up right before the bubble burst), all property values suffer, even the value of houses where the owners have good credit and have been making their payments.

¶ It’s a PITA for a bank to sell a foreclosed house, especially in a neighborhood where there have been a lot of other foreclosures (see above).

None of these factors apply to car loans.
4) BBM barcodes for contacts/groups

The "killer feature" of BBM tho' isn't any one thing, it's just that it's an incredibly polished, seamless experience, I have on my BB the Y!, MSN and Google clients and they are just clunky as hell compared to BBM. It's an absolute joy to use.
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Using NYC salary schedule and then comparing to an average scientist salary that you have no source for is very disingenuous.

NYC has an extremely high standard of living and all wages are higher there, this is common knowledge. This doesn't change the facts on the national average that I posted, 42k.

Then you argue most scientist will not get postdoc but end up a teacher, which is supposed to be so a much better paying job, but not for them?

I didn't post stats for "top" scientist, I posted national averages, and if you looked all scientist categories averaged higher than teachers period.

teachers don't work very hard, scientists do Wow, you don't have an agenda do you...
You're absolutely right that the rate was totally inappropriate for Ireland at that point in time. Today, it is more appropriate for Ireland than it is for Germany. These issues are inevitable in any currency area. The benefits are also well known.
The problem is that given the current state of the patent system we have no particular reason to think the patent is valid. Back before I got there a student at my dorm in college decided to wire up our dorm's laundry machines to a webserver, and we appeared on Slashdot for that. Shortly after a company applied for a patent on the idea of doing that, they sent a cease and desist letter to the dorm, because some lawyer at the company didn't realize where their product came from.

Thats just an illustrative case, but getting a patent that covers already existing products is far from impossible for a big company with lots of resources to throw at the problem. This means that, in practice, big companies all have stocks of patents that they can use to possibly shut down their competitors businesses depending on what the juries decide. But because their competitors are in the same position Mutually Assured Destruction holds and nobody actually wants to sue - especially since there's a chance that any patent might be invalidated if it came to a lawsuit and then you wouldn't have them for protection any more.

So here we have a system that isn't optimal, but its workable and stable. But then patent trolls get into the mix and things get more complicated. Since the patent troll doesn't have products of their own there isn't any threat of MAD, so they're free to extort money from companies. Now, if they actually ever had to bring a lawsuit to conclusion there is always the chance that the patent might be found invalid thus, preventing the troll from using it to sue more companies later. But if they can keep settling for just a bit less money than would cause the victim to fight the suit you can keep extorting money for a long time. But if the potential victims realize what's happening and legally target the patent - which is sort of like whats happening now.

EDIT: Sometimes, often actually, patents are actually for substantial origonal inventions where the patent aplicant actually _was_ the first to invent something. Those tend not to show up in this sort of legal action, however, and sure enough Google and Microsoft were able to find plenty of examples of prior art.
Ask HN:  How do you find newsletters to advertise in?
Hey, I'm looking to diversify my advertising and I'm considering email list advertising.

Are there any resources you might recommend to get started advertising in email lists?

Maybe a directory of email lists or something similar?
Most runners depicted in these magazines look weak and underdeveloped to me. Then again I'm a powerlifter, so it's possible my perspective is skewed.
I'm making a service that does this. Its not public but works OK. I made it for a summer camp where the campers (~250) sign up for different stuff each day (Archery, Swimming, Sailing, + 30 others) so the demand for appropriately trained staff in each activity can fluctuate wildly on a day to day basis. The staff (~70) have days off but the campers don't, so the available talent pool also varies significantly. Let me know if you want to try it. I'm definitely going to charge for it when its publicly available.
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Agreed, and even today plenty of apps that weren't specifically designed for tablets scale just fine. Of the several apps I've downloaded for my rooted Nook, at least half have perfect functionality and appearance (including "major" apps like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja), and almost all the others are fully functional and could just use minor tweaks to improve the interface. It's a much better experience than running iPhone apps on an iPad with pixel doubling.
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Not if they charge a fiver or a tenner a month for it. It could be a goldmine. Remember that BB-anything works by a connection back to a RIM datacentre. That's how they did push before anyone else. It's why a BB device refers to itself as a "handheld", it's only a terminal onto BlackBerry backend services, you need the whole package.
Maybe I am missing the point of this. It seems like they are talking about having no "backend" to manage site content. Plone has been doing this for years. Or maybe this article is about doing these things with a lighter weight framework.

Plone has always let you edit content via the web in the context of the normal web pages, not a separate admin mode.

Additionally for at least 4 years, Plone has also had a feature where you can click on various page parts (title, description, body text, image, etc) and edit inline without entering the full page edit mode. This is not enabled by default, but it is available.

The Plone 5 is scheduled to allow full control of page layout and creation of content types on the fly and in the context of the page. Take a look at

http://blip.tv/file/4310018

It starts getting interesting about 11 minutes in.
the numbers are directy from the creator of minecraft:

http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp