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The last time I moved, my books were the single biggest pain. I resolved to start getting rid of them (and promptly donated about 1/6th of them right off) and I'm watching for more of my favorites as drm-free ebooks to handle them, too.

I'm starting to consider ripping the covers off, throwing the rest away, and downloading them.
In the US you have the right to format shift [other] media for personal under the so-called "fair use" exceptions (7 USC 107, http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107), don't you?

This creates an absurdity.

You can purchase the book and scan it, create your own EPUB and own that copy (but only use one copy at a time!) or you can purchase the EPUB (or whatever format) and have a much more limited license.

Of course scanning a book is hard work. You'll want to outsource that. So you buy a book of the shelf, the company scan it for you - your book, your format shift, hired help - and forward your copy of the book (now in EPUB format) and kindly dispose of the book for you.

You're now using paper as a digital transmission medium, wasting a whole lot of energy, producing a lot of waste and the result to the customer is the same as if the publisher just sold you the book in EPUB format at the regular books store price¹.

Of course I'm sure common sense will win out in the courts ...

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1 - I'm assuming a book shop could scan the books and cover their costs in the usual retail margin by not needing a high street location and by selling the books on for pulping.

Aside I - In the UK there is no "fair use" but instead a far more restrictive idea of "fair dealing", see www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-doc-j.pdf for a recent comparison.

Aside II - Australia (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/...) have a similar format shifting provision but it specifically applies to "videotape embodying a cinematograph film in analog form" which is messed up in more ways than one.
Oh wow, I remember when fettemama.org was a really questionable blog back in the day (NSFW: http://web.archive.org/web/20080910005654/http://www.fettema... ).
I guess we all grow up and start hacking our own blogging software in Go :)
Yes, but then you would have to legally establish the "Merry Andrew Reading Club LLC" and use it to purchase the books if you want to remain lawful.
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I think you mean a scanner (or better yet outsource it), see my other comment above.
I dont think its worth it, what do you want to do in SV that you cant do where you are now, unless you want to raise angel/vc money its not worth it
We should note that nvidia has rewritten huge chunks of X internally (and that the blob provides these rewritten pieces), X isn't designed to support this kind of thing in the first place, big distros have plans to move off of X in the semi-near future (1 yr+, but still relatively short amount of value for the investment if we assume X will begin to fall into disuse) and the move to Wayland will impose significant development overhead on nvidia anyway (since Wayland requires KMS, which nvidia doesn't currently support), and nvidia has been looking for extra Linux developers for a long time without luck (see job listing at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=61644 ). Also consider that nvidia's primary market for Linux is big workstations, etc. (with OpenCL emerging), a field where Optimus support is not relevant.

I have also been disappointed to see poor support for Optimus and related techs on Linux but when you look at the costs involved it's not too surprising that nvidia would be reluctant to implement support in its existing blob for the existing infrastructure. Fingers crossed that they're working on it for the Wayland/KMS timeframe.
It's interesting, intellectually, to compare this with how Microsoft have acted in the past when producing proprietary web extensions and pushing their own document formats.
Wow, and here I thought I was the only one that did that! I do the same, though with Opera's built-in cookie control features.
awk and sed are useful. But as a principle one should use the weakest tool that gets the job done.

That principle also applies to grep regular expressions vs Perl regexes. Regular languages are quite weak in the right way, and thus can be recognized in linear time. Perl's regexes on the other hand, are so powerful, they can even tell prime numbers from composite numbers with their back tracking.

Choosing a weaker tool also serves as documention---about which features not to worry about.

(Of course you shouldn't try to use a tool that's weaker than what you need. For example, trying to solve some problem crying for recursion or iteration in a spreadsheet will lead to more harm than good.)
Opera (and others I think) does this with JPEG quality. They mirror the image files as far lower quality JPEG so as to improve speed for those on limited bandwidth. You can of course request the full files.
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"b += 15 * (b & 0x00000000ffffffffULL)" might look more magical than it actually is. The crux is:

b * 4

is the same as

b << 2

thus

b += 3 * b

is the same as

b = b << 2

So plus, a multiply and a mask make it possible to shift only a subset of the bits in the integer. The first transformation uses two masks and bitwise or to achieve the same.
you may not be familiar with this episode - they tried numerous methods of DRM'ing CDs. Some were circumventable with black marker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
Come on HN, he makes a justifiable point quite well; this doesn't deserve downvoting.

FWIW I disagree strongly with his sentiment.
It doesn't need to be a question of thick xor thin client. We've tried the thick client (and we're trying it again with the rise of AWS). We've tried the thin client (and we're trying it again with the rise of Chromium). It's almost like our technological adventures are a virtual Edison: "I didn't fail, I found ten thousand things that wouldn't work". I think the next, next big thing will not do away with the web, or the thick client, or the thin client, or big data, but represent a fusion of our understanding of all of these things.
If I wrote a GPL'ed Javascript library that included a Base64 encoded image, would that image be GPL'ed? Why is that different if the person uploads an image which is then Base64 encoded?

I know the answer, I guess you know the answer, and I suspect most people here know the answer.

But it does need explaining, and to raise the complexity as an issue isn't a "straight-up lie".
They all say they want simplicity and good design, but inevitably cave to deadlines, politics, and short-term financial decisions.

This means their incentives aren't aligned with what's best for the business.
100% agree. Encrypt. Not because of what you are afraid today, but for what might happen in the future. You can't even begin to imagine the ways our privacy will be violated tomorrow.
Their site has a pretty bad example. Instead imagine it's an array of authors instead. Then their selector would give you a list of all their favourite drinks, which would require a loop in normal JS.

I think I'd prefer something more XPath-like than CSS myself (as someone linked in another comment)
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I don't think he said anything untrue.

He said people can be confused by it. By definition, all he needs to do is find one person who is confused and what he says isn't untrue.
Agreed - this isn't a business so much as something that could generate cash on the side.
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What is it he says about type theory near the end?
I strongly recommend using Pentadactyl (formerly Vimperator). It removes a lot of UI kludge and simply makes browsing a better experience.

http://i.imgur.com/UwhLg.png
http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
I am 35, developer (actively coding) and feel like i am still in my twenties. And I only now (like a year ago) started to consider to start a business. Is there something wrong with me?
But it's true, sometimes I wish i was 22 again.
All file locker services should offer a check-box or something by default, before you upload your files, to encrypt them with your own key. That should cover a lot more people than it would if everyone had to do everything by themselves.
No, because robbing someone of their incentive to work is a net loss to society, so the bandits would no longer be perfect (unless they in turn gain a corresponding incentive to work, or some other equivalent gain).

There are no perfect bandits, let along a society full of them. Scenarios like "If all members of a society were perfect bandits" are hypothetical and don't really translate to any actual human society that you could imagine. Even so, they're useful for illustrating concepts.
URLs will continue to be an important part of the browsing experience. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html Jakob Nielsen wrote this in 1999 and I don't think much has changed, as recent updates to the article at the end show.

I love browsers that get out of the way, so displaying the address bar in a more intelligent way is something I welcome. I doubt it will disappear entirely.
It really bothers me how, over the last 10-15 years, caffeine has gone from something people use to jump-start their day to some kind of... fad drug. People brag about how many cups of coffee they inhale every day, how many liters of soda they can drink in one sitting, how many bottles of bawls they have on a shelf, or how many cans of red bull they need to chug to stay awake after their all-nighters, but even worse than that is how many people just acknowledge this as a normal thing. Especially among geeks and gamers.

Edit: For example, quotes like this: "It's an efficiency product. I'm talking about improving endurance, concentration, reaction time, speed, vigilance, and emotional status. Taste is of no importance whatsoever."

He makes it very clear that he doesn't think of it as a soft drink, but as a performance-enhancing drug. Yet people are out there pounding it because it's "cool."
What if the bankers get pissed off and sabotage it by not working hard enough to sell the issue.

Have things become so bad that companies must ingratiate themselves with 40-50% tributes to the banks?
I come across this maybe once a year while browsing the internet, and I'm always impressed. The author's ability to get just the right mix of resigned dry wit so he doesn't come across as cocky or a jerk or a defeatist... it's rather incredible.

There's gems in there, too -

> A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Indeed. You can deal with a person who wants to gain, and is comfortable gaining at your expense. They're somewhat predictable, so you can deal with them if you're careful. But the person who is a whirlwind of calamity - making his own life worse and others around - you can't deal with that guy.

The author continues:

> A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

And then, and I love this -

> A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

Indeed! Bandits are unpleasant, but usually easily understandable. With appropriate cautions, you might even be able to transact with a bandit for a short time if it's necessary. But like the author says, the man who does stupid things is much more dangerous.

With a bandit, it's possible to assess what you have and where you're at that they might want to take from you, and to take precautions. With the man who randomly breaks things for no reason, no such precaution can be taken because even the most basic, unevaluated, routine action could be bungled leading to bad results for all inclined.

Gosh, I always enjoy reading this piece, even though I've seen it a bunch. I should send it to some people who might have not have read it.
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I just look at the first picture and completely lose it laughing. "Hmm - something wrong... what could it be?"

Aside from that - if I may add a serious comment - I think the most important insight of this article is to recognise that stupidity has a kind of power. It reminds me very much of the writings of Castaneda whose Don Juan character always advised to disrupt ones routines in order to prevent others from taking advantage of them.

I think what the article misses, however, is that intelligent people can in fact take advantage of this very same power. If your reasons are thought out ahead of time - to a degree beyond what most people are capable, then your individual actions may well appear random to those with short attention spans. It is just too much for them to place them within a greater whole.
The card doesn't stand alone, though. The point is there are tertiary banks that are more consumer friendly. Schwab, yes, and for them the credit crisis put their 2% card on the chopping block. But another tertiary bank, Fidelity, still offers the card that's always been like the Sister Card for the Schwab Visa: The Fidelity Amex is also an FIA card that is nearly identical in terms. It's reward structure involves tiers but it's very clearly a 2% card. And it has a 1% FETF.

Aside from that, it's identical.

And it doesn't change the fact that Schwab put together the terms of this card (certainly with the help of FIA) and that a more traditionally mainstream bank has not.

I also have the British Airways Chase card that literally has netted me a free Biz Class ticket to Europe. Very generous. But that's a signing bonus. If I were to keep this card as my daily-driver for a couple years Chase would make a lot more money off me than Schwab ever would've off the card that's now the "FIA Cash Rewards Visa"
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A lot of us "lifestylers" have similar ambitions to the startup folks, like wanting to work for ourselves and be masters of our own destiny.

Working for someone else's lifestyle business kind of has all the downsides. You know it's not going to go big and turn your equity into big money, plus you're still working for someone else, not being your own boss.

On the flip side, for the people who just want a good, low-stress job, working for a lifestyle biz can be a great thing. There's a better chance the founders will understand and respect your own lifestyle choices (kids, family, travel, etc.) and try to prevent the job from interfering.
But, there is arguably no more commonality between the people of Norway, Portugal and Bulgaria than between Canadians, Mexicans and Chileans, so why can we call the first group collectively European but not the second collectively American?

The standard English nomenclature for residents of the USA (which I belive isn't so much of an issue in other languages) is confusing.
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For goodness' sake people. You don't need to be told which comments are 'good'. In any case, the score system is indicating popularity, not quality.

Use your own judgement, you don't need to behave as part of a herd.
Somewhat off topic, but do you know why KMS seems to be such a big hurdle for the 3d video vendors' drivers? ATI's binery blob driver also doesn't support KMS even though they seem to actively develop it. The open source radeon driver does, but it doesn't support a sufficient amount of OpenGL to allow commercial native linux games or wine+directx games to run.

On the surface it doesn't seem like KMS support would be a big problem for people otherwise building complex graphics drivers.

As an aside, I use a laptop with AMD's switchable graphics solution. You can set and forget it to either setting rather well, but if you actually try switching back and forth you start running into tons of bugs, instabilities, usability problems etc.
Alpha-channel support is in the trunk, marked as experimental, so I think it's coming soon.
Another potential alternative to removing the URL Bar could be to camouflage it. Instead of keeping it white, allow it to blend in with the rest of the browser's color scheme and UI when not active.
I guess it is time to start encrypting the files I got in the cloud. None of which are copyright'ed or especially secret but better safe than sorry.
I have a VERY difficult time believing that a person owning a Dux bed gets better sleep than a farmer sleeping on some blankets in some corner of the world. Lets face it, if you have money, someone will figure out a way to take it from you and put a smile on your face. Another so called necessity.
There's a big difference between a VC round and the open market. The markets are often not driven by anything even related to the companies whose valuations fluctuate wildly by billions of dollars in under a second. They don't open to you (to same degree) to hostile takeovers, pump-dump schemes and naked short attacks. They force companies to kowtow to the opinionated whims of unaccountable analysts and focus on short term profits over long term strategy.
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http://leandesigns.com offers you the ability to customize one design, export to HTML/CSS, and they provide 8-10 templates to start from. It's $9/month, and I'd encourage you to give it a try and drop the $9 for at least one month if you find it useful.
I'm usually for removing every bit of unnecessary chrome, but this strikes me as going too far.

URLs aren't optional if we want to have a world wide web. Otherwise it's just AOL redux. If URLs become this thing that only experienced users know about (or that we allow naive users to forget about) we're losing something important.
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He doesn't come off as a maniac at all. I rather enjoyed his philosophy and his success speaks for itself. He sold a crappy tasting drink for more money than anyone would have imagined possible. The guy is brilliant.
Wont this be a one stop shop for the RIAA?
This was nearly content-free. No details about either business.

It does outline the difference between a VC-backed startup and a regular business but I hope that distinction is clear to most of the people here.

There is Tim-Ferriss-esque hinting at "dream lifestyle" stuff that disturbs me.
I don't want the URL bar going, but...

Users don't know if it's a legitimate site anyway. Plus Google offers phishing protection.
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Too big to fail is _not_ a fallacy. The knock-ons from the failures of Lehman and Bear Stearns were very visible. In Europe, the knock-ons from the failure of Kaupthing and Landsbanki were too, and they only ended up affecting insitutional investors as retail depositors got government protection.

AIG failing would have caused an investor panic across banking as a whole due to their position as the leading insurer of investment risk.

In the UK, Lloyds TSB and RBS (two of the 'big four' UK banks) both very nearly collapsed; the smaller Northern Rock bank did collapse and had to become 100% government owned. The alternative in each case was depositors having their assets frozen for a long period with only the promise of pennies on the pound a long time later, with a knock-on loss of confidence for the sector, combined with a large compensation bill for the taxpayers. Would you _really_ like to see what that happens when 20% of the banking market suddenly freezes?
Being done to death over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568312
The trend to use caffeine like a drug is particularly concerning amongst young people.

I volunteer with a local youth group, and recently some of them have started downing a couple of Red Bulls (or more likely a cheap clone) before arriving. The effect it has on them is ridiculous - kids who usually aren't too much trouble become completely uncontrollable. A bit of running about at that age is healthy, but the excess energy means they spend literally 3 hours charging around the place, with arguments far more likely to happen because they're wired.

I'm not generally one for regulation of substances which don't harm other people, but I think there at least needs to be some publicity given to the fact that saturating yourself with caffeine and other additives is really bad for your heart.
Because overpricing makes it look like there is a lack of interest which is a terrible appearance for anything, really.
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Posted a while back here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319236
I would like to thank whom ever wrote it for leaving he source unminified.
Though its easy to unminify code for most developers, it was a bit overwhelming encountering it when I was new.
Being able to study things like this as easily as possible can really help the community.

Awesome job =]
Also the evidence that caffeine is a cognitive enhancer isn't very good. It seems that the boost people feel from a cup of coffee is just the relief from the symptoms of coffee withdrawl. Quote

> "That alertness you feel is you getting back to normal, rather than to an above normal level.

BBC Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6422279.stm

Podcast: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2010/3073994.h...

I stopped drinking coffee after learning about this but I still drink black tea.
So does Steve Jackson Games:

http://e23.sjgames.com/faq.html#protected

> Q. Are the files in e23 copy protected?

> A. No. That would interfere with your use of them.
There are hundred of companies that meet your criteria and dozens with sales in the billions. A few I can think of off the top of my head: M&M/Mars - owned by 3 siblings, Koch industries - owned by two brothers, and Bechtel. They are family owned businesses with a penchant for secrecy.

Edit: From another story on the home page right now - Red Bull $5B in sales
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> Mateschitz, 67, has been a patron saint for more than two decades to late-night partiers, exam-week undergrads, long-haul truckers, and, above all, extreme-sports athletes everywhere.

I would think that the overwhelming presence of the brand on extreme-sports events has more to do with demographics of the tv-audience than with 'athletes' liking the drink.
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I've never heard of your use case before--that is interesting.

Though I'm not sure I see why the "%5d" method is hard to parse...

nl /usr/share/dict/words | head -20 | sort -n

seems to work ok. "cut -f 2" and "cut -c 8-" also seem to work well in this case.