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Care to put me in touch with your django developer? I'm actually moving to China shortly.
In Brin's 1990 novel "Earth" a character had her news reader (blog reader, twitter client, or whatever else the future calls it) specially configured to include random articles, in order to reduce this sort of bias error.
I've been wondering about the internals for a while, and only had a brief notion of what it was like. Thanks for doing all this research!
Content that has been permitted by the owner is released in your country, when the owner permits.

There is no legal means for someone to restrict where and when I can and cannot choose to view or use content I own, as much as they would love to think so. And they indeed love to think so: I've actually seen companies claim that it is illegal to use the software they sell outside of the country they sell it in.

If a movie by company X is released in country A but not country B, company X cannot prevent me from watching their movie in country B. I may have to go out of my way to import a copy, but there is nothing illegal about doing so (at least not under the laws of typical Western countries).

If this wasn't true, it would basically be illegal to take any sort of media-carrying device (laptop, iPod, etc) outside of the country where you bought the relevant media.
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AFAIK the creator did work on CoffeeScript for a while but decided to go in a different direction.

There are plenty of different alternative JavaScript dialects out there, from new ones like Kaffeine to ports of popular languages. http://altjs.org/
"Chrome's sandbox" is the Windows "low integrity mode" mandatory access control mechanism. If the process elevation was achieved through a privilege escalation attack against this mechanism rather than by attacking the non-low integrity mode Chrome master process, this might not be a bug in Chrome at all...
It's not like this is the first evil thing Facebook has done.... there might be some who might argue that yanking around Facebook's defaults about users' privacy settings was far worse than using a PR sock puppet.

Personally, I think using (or perhaps we should say, trying to use) a PR sock puppet was cowardly, and trying to bash a competing product by spreading anonymous innuendoes was crass. But not all would agree with me. Some might even say that anything which is not illegal, is OK in our capitalistic society. And as far as I know, no laws were broken. That being said, I am so glad I don't work at Facebook.
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Although that might be legally correct, it will not stop people rating, and any tv/film company that bases it's online strategy on that theory will continue to fail and miss opportunities.
Why exactly is this is on HN? It's not only very old, but it's also just plain stupid.
Apology (i.e. admission of guilt) or good excuse are both acceptable, it's the bad excuses that are the problem.
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In average the response you'll receive on free lance marketplaces will always be disappointing, but if the project is not too complicate, you can always find someone good enough to do it.

One option is to invite coders to bid on your project by looking at their past experiences and find some that may relate to the type of project you have.

Other than that, and I know I've said this before, the best coders on free lance sites are those that ask questions relevant to your project description.

While you can safely discard all those that submit generic bids with links to their portfolios without any type of comment about the project they are bidding on, those that ask questions are the ones you want to work with.
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Reading the comments here is actually somewhat interesting. I've considered doing a bit of freelancing for some extra cash (I'm in college now) but I always assumed that the people on these sites were pros and that I wouldn't stand a chance.

Maybe I'll have to give freelancing another thought!
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I think you actually want http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842

and thanks, I didn't know about that. I'm going to go do that now; I 'deactivated' my account some time ago and facebook is still spamming me, and people are still trying to message me on facebook.
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I wonder if this cold war is the reason facebook banned adsense from 3rd party apps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291336
This seems unrelated to "why I get my entertainment via bittorrent." In this case, Capcom sold games and decided that they shouldn't be usable when PSN is down, then complained that they were unusable when PSN was down. In the other case, it is impossible for a consumer to pay for content, so he acquires it without paying for it.
Ha. Of course the first instinct is to start adding stuff to it.
Wouldn't that still violate the license terms? So why not just torrent it directly?
Why not start just one of those ? Seems like an opportunity.
Ireland aswell. In recent years films have been released much closer to the USA date. I think most of this is due to piracy. If the studios wait a few months, then people will pirate it. Just look at the second Matrix film, that was released on the same date and same time in many countries. The sort of people who would watch The Matrix are the aort of people who are well able to pirate.

I believe this is another example of where piracy was a force for good (for the consumer) Another example is how many nonDRMed music is more easily purchasable, and many TV stations (eg BBC) have online 'watch yesterday's show' services.
No, it would be theft of services if they sneak into a theatre. On the other hand, if they stay at home and watch a bootleg DVD they bought from a criminal because they were refused admission due to their age, or because they want to watch films the cinema doesn't show, then it's no longer "theft of services", since they are no longer taking up a seat in the cinema. The "service" that is stolen is not the film itself but the delivery mechanism, much as you can steal a DVD from a shop.
My first freelance gig came from oDesk a couple of years ago, and since then I've gone on to freelance full time. I'm not an expert on the subject by any stretch, but this is the best advice I can give:

* Don't try and compete on price. A lot of freelancers on the site can go lower, and you'll end up broke. Besides, if a client is more interested in saving a few dollars than paying for a decent worker, you're saving yourself a lot of future pain.

* When you apply for something, say what you'll do and give a rough idea of how you'll solve their problem. It only has to be a few paragraphs, but you'll have put more thought in than 99% of other applicants.

* Look for jobs that mention an ongoing relationship. This usually means they have a lot more work and want to try things out.

All of my work now comes from referrals which in some way originate from the first job I did on oDesk. It was discouraging when I was rejected for jobs despite putting in the effort, but the work paid off in the end. Best of luck!
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And even if some of these services are available in your country you might get screwed. For instance I once bought a music album on iTunes. A few weeks later a friend of mine sends me a link on grooveshark to a song from the same artist. I've never heard the song before but to my surprise it is supposed to be on the same album I own. I do a little research and find out that the album sold in US iTunes store contains two extra bonus tracks! I check to see if there is another version of the same album in my 'local' iTunes store, but no, it appears these two bonus tracks are only available in the US
b) they still got all the money for the cars
they produced, there is not a single missing

It doesn't work like that - in the event of a magical button that can replicate a car, all the cars they'll be able to produce and sell is exactly 1.

In such an event the car maker won't be able to recuperate its sunk costs, and the writing would be clearly on the wall, so such a magical car will never be produced, unless there's legislation in place that prevents people from giving away free cars.

In software or creative endeavorers, where the sunk cost is mostly measured in time spent on the task, there are always people willing to give away their work for free (having other incentives than money). Internet also makes it easier to find other people with the same interests and collaborate.

But make no mistake about it - hobbyists will never be able to create something like an Audi, or an Avatar or an Adobe Photoshop for that matter (yes, I'm a happy GIMP user, it ain't and never will be on the same level as Photoshop).

I buy the DVD on amazon.com, but while it's
shipping I torrent the same movie and watch it.
Is it still a theft?

Yes and No, depending on the perspective - No because you already payed for the privilege of watching it, Yes because torrents are usually of poor quality, which may make you give bad reviews to people whom would otherwise watch it themselves.

Imagine you're Da Vinci, and I'm displaying a copy of Gioconda in my museum, half the size, with the hue changed, with less details and cropped, saying to people that that's just like the original Gioconda ... after all the hard work you've put, I'd imagine you'd get upset too.

On the other hand it isn't right for people to get charged multiple times for the same movie. So I guess piracy itself is as morally-wrong as these ripoffs.

If I torrent something "getting for free"
is never the reason to do that.

IMHO, I'm also torrenting stuff because I want to check out what I'm buying ... people should really learn to make better demo versions and price their stuff according to the provided value.

Personally I'm sick of bad movies that lured me to see them because of a fancy trailer that exhibited non-representative traits of the movie.

Also for software, 30 days valuation periods are not enough for complex software like Office or Photoshop. Also, software like Photoshop Elements should be free of charge, or you should get some sort of refund when buying Photoshop.

This is the real problem IMHO - ripoffs.
With Google competing with Microsoft for the Lower to mid range market, Microsoft will have corporate competition on a large sector of their traditionally cornered market.

It's going to be an amazing next 10 years for the desktop and web technologies. Late 90's/early 2000's progress was impeded by the Microsoft monopoly.

Even better Chromium listening to what Developers want, the web will move forward at a staggering pace. Combined with the realization of interface importance, mind blowing UI hardware improvements are already happening.

I'm usually cynical, but this really may usher in the golden age of computing.
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What's the TV license at now? 180 pounds or ~275 US? If it came with access to iPlayer, 4oD & iTVoD I'd probably be willing to pay for a UK TV license.

(I'm in Canada)
PR types are always dancing on the shadiness line. Sometimes I get suspicious about the comments on HN when negative stories about certain companies come out.
I'm using pathogen with 'braid' to manage git based bundles.

For example to add the rails plugin I can do:

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then I can do `braid update bundle/vim-rails` to update just that or `braid update` to update all
I would also add to this list audible.com which restricts certain books to US only. I am a platinum subscriber to audible, however, I couldn't get my hands on Stephen King's Under The Dome. So I got it from the thepiratebay pretty much on the next day. I did buy other King's books on audible though.
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less 'not a priority', more 'politically impossible'. They're constantly under pressure from the Murdoch empire, and other commercial TV, trying to prevent the BBC doing anything popular/profitable. International iplayer would send the lobbyists into an epic tantrum.
Interestingly, it actually falls back to a DOM based renderer. Inspect it using Safari and you will see what i mean.
As someone with money who enjoys a lot of American TV, I'm not really interested in excuses why these services are not available worldwide.

Quit making excuses and make it happen. The torrenters don't seem to have any trouble building a global distribution network, and they are hiding from the law while simultaneously kicking your butt.

If you don't want to make it happen, quit whining about losing money. I have money and you have TV shows, so let's make a deal.
In this case, they are taking something away that was already granted, though. They are saying they will take their toy and go home if the Swiss government doesn't do things their way. That -is- a threat. (Although possibly one the Swiss government doesn't care about.)

I happen to think the Swiss government is correct here, too. Privacy is a very real concern these days. I know there are some places where it is illegal to use someone's face commercially without written permission and they have to blur them out... Why should this be any different? Google has a service they are providing that isn't following that.
Been looking for something like this. Any way I can store metadata about the tasks. Or rather more data. Say I would like a "budget" field for a task.
It always amazes me that people who consider it an ethical issue by equating copyright infringement with "stealing", have no ethical problem with the fact that copyright law is being blatantly abused to achieve exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do, i.e. maximizing the distribution of original work.

Copyright laws exist to serve society, not just a handful of corporations.
I work as a django freelancer and have picked up over a dozen sites and built up quite the portfolio in less than a year on Elance. I've met some awesome clients there, and i think the kind of people you attract also reflect on the kind of person you are, and what you want out of it.

A lot of people expect a work of someone at 100$/hr but only want to pay 10-20$/hr.

- Price is a pretty good differentiating factor.

- Communication is another. If he can speak/communicate well then you can still work with him even if he's not a "rockstar"

- Portfolio of work. is he able to deliver a product by himself?

- Get references of past clients. Infact as a freelancer myself, they're my biggest selling point. I simply hand out references of 3-4 clients i've worked with.

- And to be honest, things like "I am real", actually put me and probably other professionals off from your post. You have to treat us like professionals, and not like cheap throw-away labour!

- Be as descriptive as possible, add mockups, add anything that might help a person to judge the effort/skillset needed for that job. Otherwise it indicates, you didn't do much homework and want us to fill in all the blanks. To outsource anything, you actually have to put in more time initially than the actual dev!
True, but I think he was asking why the meta-information isn't provided, where you'd be able to click on something next to a video and get information about which regions it's available in.
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Could this be turned into a plugin for Google Docs as well? It'd be handy to have a cloud-based LaTeX tool, as an alternative to a local-machine install.
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Wouldn't surprise me either if the ones torrenting end up spending more money on the show that those who catch is casually when it finally does get aired.

I've been to concerts where the artist is touring Australia for the first time and hasn't ever done any Australia specific marketing and they manage to fill out venues. Doubt that would have happened before file sharing.
This is also the solution to the old "putting a smiley emoticon in a parenthesised piece of text".

"(What a good idea :)" evidently needs a second parenthesis.
"(What a good idea :))" looks weird and is ambiguous.
"(What a good idea :\))" unambiguous: the non-functional parenthesis is escaped.
I like the fact that CoffeeScript does some magic for me. I know exactly 'what' the magic does, and I don't mind CoffeeScript taking care of it for me.
If I didn't already end up with random other junk on my normal feeds, that would be a really good idea. The major events all somehow make it into my feeds and streams, though... Even here on HN people post a lot of articles that don't fit the site's theme... And many get voted up despite being a complete violation of the rules.

Sometimes, I'm thankful... Most times I'm not.
Does this mean that they are actually worried about whatever Google do/doing on social? Could be a big morale boost to the Google team
> Handing out your authentication credentials to a third party in exchange for a little convenience is more often than not a ridiculous action, and anyone who encourages such behaviour (by providing such a feature) is simply irresponsible.

Yes, absolutely, exactly my point! But obviously it has not hindered lots of websites to STILL do that and obviously lots (or enough) people buy into it. THAT I cannot understand...
The ethos of a company derive from that of the founder, this event should be a surprise to no one.
It's actually part of #1 on YCombinator's list of ideas they'd like to fund: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

But it's a tricky problem, because of the heavy involvement of intellectual-property laws and tangled webs of existing licensing arrangements (defended by large incumbent players with large legal teams).
Sounds like quite doable little project for Google Apps users by combining the Gadgets[1], Inbox Feed[2] and Tasks APIs

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[2] http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/docs/inbox_feed.html
These days 720p torrents are the norm if something is at the point where you can buy the DVD, mainstream stuff anyway. So I doubt your going to really be getting something of lower (drastically at least) quality.
> the German GEMA

Another thing that should be against the law...

Even if I only have an internet access at my home, no TV and no radio, I still have to pay a quarterly "licence fee" (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/licencefee/) because certain public stations have a website and could offer certain TV or radio programs on their website.
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And so you can import it, assuming your country's laws permit.

But if you want the content owner to sell it to you directly, you'll have to wait for them want to do so. The reasons for them not wanting to do so could include laws, expenses, or other craziness that you aren't aware of.

Believe it or not, we experience the same crap here in the US in regards to foreign stuff. BBC shows are really popular here, but are usually delayed at best. Trying to find foreign-language stuff is almost impossible.

So while I share your pain, I also know that there's more to it than it might appear at first glance.
I bought the Apple TV2 in the UK, was so excited to fire it up and switch on Netflix and Hulu and Justin.tv. #researchfail
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Don't try and compete on price.

Agreed, it's a game that you're not going to win. I found that even if a client said "No way, that's my limit," they'd often come back a day later asking me to work for the original amount of money I'd quoted.

I recently blogged about how I got started freelancing here:

http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
You have some interesting points and possible scenarios there which seem near altruistic in their style.

What if we consider what I'll deem the 'general public' when THEY download movies, music and videogames? Is their mindset as enlightened as you, myself and others on HN and similar places?

When someone posts on Facebook or whatever the equivalent is (Myspace, ICQ or whatever) for that time period "How do I use x" with x being torrents, Napster or whatever, they seem for the most part to simply want to get something without paying for it.

I can think back then and being the 'computer guy' I'd get asked how to use Kazaa or whatever was popular, right now it's torrents. Why did they want to know? Because they wanted to get something without paying for it and technology simply streamlined that ancient human desire of wanting something for nothing which desire is one of the bases that man ever once stole.

In my younger days I would pirate much though nowadays I have essentially stopped. I would once play the newest games whether I was able to pay for them or not, now I go without, for the time being, like with Portal 2 - I haven't played it yet and I guess I won't till I buy it though I could easily pirate it. Am I 'missing out'? Apparently.. meh. I did recently buy Sparrow, the email client, and it is excellent.

But hey, we all know Linux users are willing to give billions of dollars for good software - the Humble Bundle has proved that. ;)
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"... but how do i get there?" - so where is the link to google maps?

and i don't understand why they didn't link the email-adress. that's just immature.
The law has nothing to do with "making a copy" or "leaving the original intact."

Wiring into the neighborhood cable-tv network without paying is an example of "theft of services", as is sneaking into a movie theater.

Making an illegal copy still takes money out of somebody's pocket. Saying that you wouldn't (or couldn't) have bought the product makes no difference-- the demand is still being alleviated, and non-zero.