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There are certainly times when unjust laws should be ignored. However, when one ignores the law one should be prepared to suffer the consequences of his actions. Uber's CEO is clearly not prepared to suffer those consequences.
> Copyright law doesn’t really care about what you do with copyrighted works as long as you don’t make what you did public.

My understanding of the DMCA is that if there's any copyright access control (DRM, etc.), you're not allowed to attempt to circumvent that protection mechanism. Not even recreationally, privately..
Shop once a week, half hour commute, 8.5 hour day, cut exercise down to half hour or combine with watching TV/listening to audiobook. You gain 3 hours.
I agree, having the source and being able to fix a bug myself is far more valuable than having big blue tell me its not a problem, then me proving it is, then spend months waiting for a promised fix, then the fix breaking two other things...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2584617
Does this letter from Thomas Jefferson - before telegraphs, let alone radio - answer your question? http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....
I didn't downvote you, because I think you're still adding to the conversation, but I don't necessarily agree with your reasoning.

While many young people's views will change over time on many issues, it seems kind of rude to assume that it's certain they will. For example (and this is not meant to be a comparison to copyright, just an example of attitudes not changing), while it appears to mostly be older people against gay marriage, that does not mean that younger people are misinformed and will change their minds on it as they grow older. Somethings are actually generational shifts in attitude, independent of the generation's age. I do agree that it's possible that the current generation may shift to a more conservative view on copyright as it ages, since that happens with many issues, but it can sound somewhat offensive depending on how you worded it. I think it's a point worth considering, but sadly many people will have a negative reaction against something that looks "You'll get it when you're older", and that may prevent them from considering the idea in a more neutral light.

As for whether it's correct, I'd lean towards "No". I think young people who grow up to produce content they want to commercially develop may, but that's likely going to be a minority. I don't think the majority that casually illegally download things without a second thought will have a change of heart. It being wrong just doesn't seem to enter most people's minds. I think part of the reason is the overly harsh propaganda against it. While there is a core ideal worth considering ("Artists should be compensated for their work"), the ridiculous exaggeration ("Pirating movies supports TERRORISM") leads to people ignoring the issue.
The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said.

Why? Maybe this function will be an interesting experiment, but I just don't see it working out. Honestly, does anybody really care if their friend is listening to the same song (in a different geographic location) simultaneously? Where's the value added? What does anybody gain from this? Maybe social has a place in music, but this isn't it.

Edit: I'm not disputing the fact that bonding doesn't happen over music (clearly it does, as anybody who has ever listened to a song with another person would know), but I fail to see the purpose of simultaneous listening across the world.
I've seen some apps in the android marketplaces that do have descriptions which attempt to explain the permissions. I've also seen apps that have a "lite" version with much fewer permissions needed.

But what I really want is the marketplaces to allow direct apk downloads because I always want to examine the file first on an emulator.
Yeah, not a great analogy.

So is disabling the nag screen in a shareware app piracy? What about removing the time limit from a 30 day trial?
He's dedicated to the cause of eliminating death and aging. That's good enough for me.

Ridiculous. Anybody who professes commitment to "eliminating death" is hiding a tax-shelter.
The Moral Economy of Guilt
Good to see who's building the javascript library I use all the time. http://michaeltaras.github.com/gitfaces/#/jquery/jquery
No.

Filing in a state that you aren't yet doing business has no benefit and could actually hurt you.

By registering in a state you are consenting to being sued there. Why would you register a Delaware (or elsewhere) LLC when you are in California. Bad idea.

Second, if you don't register in your home state it could be found that you aren't operating an LLC at all. Say hello to personal liability for your debts.

Register in your home state, and as you expand to operations/contacts in other jurisdictions, register there.
> Personally, I'd give preference to whoever does a better job because how a person got to that stage is none of my business

The problem is, you do not know who will do a better job. The parent post is implying that the past is a signal for the future.
Brainstorm a product idea for which recruiters are the core market segment. Every time a recruiter calls, treat the call as a free half hour customer development interview or usability study. As you continue to refine the idea, build some mocks/prototypes that you can have the recruiter walk through while you're on the phone.

Two possible outcomes:

- The recruiters quickly learn you have no intention of talking about job opportunities, and stop calling.

- You develop a very well validated product that you can effectively sell to recruiters, a space that is red hot right now.
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"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."

So it's not really a 'launch' or a 'music service'. It's an integration.

Having said that, I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.
Hmm I was under the impression my email was public. Here it is: jczhang@ucla.edu
This is a pretty good resource for someone who just wants to know the basics.

In my opinion the best high level resource for quality score information is http://www.clickequations.com/blog/

The guy who writes there also has a book coming out http://www.highresolutionppc.com/books/quality-score-in-high...
It's an arms race. Smart developers will pre-load adds if this becomes a widely adopted practice. That way, users who have blocked internet access or happen to be out of coverage will still see ads.

I doubt that this will be as big of an issue among general consumers.

Also, why is it a bad thing for users to disable internet access on increasingly limited data plans? I know of many people who use ABP on computers with slow connections. I doubt many developers are hurting because users on slow connections aren't seeing ads on their apps.
The times, they are a-changing. COBOL has its own agile framework:

http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
I always wonder whether you're better off trying to talk an entrepreneur out of it, try to talk them deeper into it, or just try to be neutral yet supportive.

On the one hand, good entrepreneurs are supposed to be relentless and ones that are likely to give up should give up earlier rather than later.

On the other hand, we've all heard stories of that brink that many entrepreneurs blindly stumbled onto, missed going off the cliff of failure purely by chance, and came out as huge winners. Substance or not, perhaps my words could be the ones that could make the difference from falling off the edge?

These are the games that PG plays on a regular basis at great scale, with his own money no less. Any thoughts on what the best strategy is, and why?
Programming Languages: Schools Proliferating Without Evidence?
Actually, my friend (in Norway) and I (in the USA) often listen to the same song at the same time because we want to share it with each other.

Most of the time that isn't happening, but when we want to, it'd be nice to have something to help with that.

Not that it's a huge hassle to hit 'play' on whatever youtube video he sends. The 10-20 seconds of lag aren't really that important.
There's a few options and I don't think outlawing it is a good one. It will continue to happen regardless, because it's particularly difficult to prove and enforce.

It is ridiculous for companies to have that as an axiom. What about brilliant students? And what about people taking a break from working (I'd actually think they were more sane than a person who never takes a break from work given they both could afford it)?

You could always fight back by lying on your resume and getting a smooth-talking friend as a reference. It's questionably immoral, but corporations are immoral by design. Just pretend you're the corporation of <your birth name here>. I think there's a website service for that as well, I forget the URL.
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Ask HN: Why aren't the big tech sites discussing #eG8?
Is it just me or is it odd that none of the big tech sites (except Arstechnica and Techdirt) are discussing eG8? I can't believe there's no story for Techcrunch, Gigaom, Gizmodo and even Engadget to write about in any of these days. Isn't this kind of a matter of life and death for the Internet?

I think they should take more responsibility in defending the environment in which they were built, or at least weigh in on the issue.
I also doubt that quality score takes only integral values.

QS as reported in the interface is a bit like tool bar page rank; it can tell you if you're doing really well or really badly but at the end of the day your competitors probably have a load of 7's too
TaxiMagic does exactly that. Apps for Android and iPhone, free to use if you pay cash, a fee to pay with CC thru the app. I use it for short trips in SF and Uber for longer trips. It always takes less time for the Ubermobile to show up than a taxi.
What do you love/hate about MyColorscreen?
If you are distributing your app in the App Market, than your app is listed as "free".

What is the kindest euphemism for people who lie about their product?
Rate my website again. Should you be proud? Ask your friends!
I have introduced my website before, but nobody wanted to test it, because there was no introduction. So now, you are able to see intro video.

I wanted to show my latest project where people can ask their friends why they should be proud of themselves.

For every feedback, opinion, suggestion I will be very grateful.

Thanks for your time!

http://shouldibeproud.com/
Very interesting skim; I'll have to make a few passes and digest it fully when I get the chance.

Is there a particular attack you're looking at here? I assume it's one based on Coppersmith's theorem, as that section was complicated enough that I'll need a few passes to digest it.

Of course, the plaintext could be voided of any semantics by using still more encryption. The simplest way would be to apply a "public" one-time pad to the plaintext. (edit: Different for each plaintext, of course; otherwise, it's not one-time)

The answer to the question I'm asking myself, of course, is "Not at all." I would use a dual-stacked hash/vault system built on high-level libraries if I were implementing something with these requirements. This involves the least new code, limiting both the time and number of mistakes involved.

I treat that as a different question than the purely-theoretical question of whether such a system could be secure.
Many of my friendships involve a lot of bonding over music, as I'm sure do many other peoples'. If I were to suddenly become geographically distant to them, if I moved away to another country or whatever, I would imagine that being able to listen to music in sync with them in that way would be a pretty powerful thing. I'd definitely do it a lot.

Think of it like talking on a webcam with your relatives back home, but with less talking and more shockin' out.

>but I fail to see the purpose of simultaneous listening across the world.

It's just the simple pleasure of knowing that over the other side of the world, your friend, who presumably responds to the music in the same or a similar way to you, is currently having that same response at the same time. This knowledge could reinforce the sensation of a shared experience, especially if you're recreating a shared listening experience from the past where you were physically together.

Obviously it doesn't really matter because you have no way of knowing what the other person is actually doing at that time unless you have some other out of band communication, a webcam or whatever. You would have the same sense of shared experience if spotify only told you it was syncing but actually didn't, how could you know? However, we are talking about emotional phenomena here and as such these logical stipulations don't really hit home.

EDIT: Also using it to synchronise two entire parties would be fun.
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You should add the e-mail to your profile so users can contact and help you.
Marketing surely takes advantage of it, but I think this has more to do with the addictive, yet passive nature of TV, where we let it push images into our brains.

My favorite example (for which I've already given away the punchline) is the following:

Ask a random group of people to imagine that they are watching a baseball game. Give them a minute to think about it. Then ask them -- Are you in the stadium? Or watching it on TV? The amount of people who visualize TV as their first reaction can be frightening.
Hi Samir. Saw your site just now and I have a few comments from my side:

1. I have seen many popular book/product sales sites and usually it is a one page site which pitches the idea and shows through testimonials what can be done. You could use a similar format for your site.

2. The copy writing on your site needs some work. It's a sales pitch so it's gotta be convincing.

3. As @djb_hackernews pointed out in his comment, ebooks usually work out for bloggers or 'celebrities' who already have a following. Perhaps you could start a blog about your ideas [since you mentioned you have worked on many other ideas before]. This way you would slowly but steadily get some regular readers. Also this would help in future ebooks you would like to sell.

4. You have displayed a couple of testimonials on your site. Maybe you could have some of your customers who have actually implemented the business to post some photos/videos talking about how your ebook helped them. This way your testimonials become engaging.

And BTW, the site definitely needs an overhaul.
I find it more odd that the EFF founder wasn't mentioned as a "world's most powerful internet and media bosses" even though he was included to speak on equal terms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13513958

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15099686,00.html?maca=e...
http://www.thereferencestore.com/
In case anyone is curious, here is a way to go about using #ifdef in your app: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549462/how-do-i-manage-bu...

I would argue that it really depends on how many places you need to put the #ifdefs to see if it is worth the added complexity.
I think this is interesting from a DJ or live mix-tape perspective. I have several friends who's taste in music I like. I would love it if they set aside an hour of "dj'ing" live. It is also interesting during a "chat" session.
Build a small sensor array with OTS parts arduino etc and attach to balloon that the Arch can use in the field to look around his position in real time with such techniques.

And mount to DIYDrones for added awesome.
whispermonitor adds a littlesnitch-like gui to android to show and filter network connections:

http://www.whispersys.com/whispermonitor.html

it requires changes to the framework though, so it's only available in their own "whispercore" rom:

http://www.whispersys.com/whispercore.html
Ask HN: Any London-based hackers want to collaborate on Facebook app project
I'm looking for (preferably 2) developers to join me (the designer) on an interesting new FB app that has true startup potential! If you're interested, entrepreneurial and have spare time to devote to this project, let me know by either emailing me or dropping me a tweet – @dalogi. Was thinking of getting something together at a hackday sometime soon, but keen to get it moving, so would be good to hook up with talented hackers :)<p>Regards,
David
thats a helluva right hook for Google
The best answer here, which is honest, straightforward, and has the least chance of being inflamatory is something like "Sorry, I don't have time to help you with any of your ideas, I'm already working a bunch of my own ideas" (although, I might stick the word "shitty" before both instances of "ideas", depending on the audience, to communicate my position on Sturgeon's Law).
Listening along with a friend who appreciates music as much as you do is great. Sometimes you don't have the liberty of be with them physically, so facebook is ready to provide the next best thing.
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The taxi situation in SF is so miserable. For example, right now and for the past week or so, almost every cab in SF is telling their riders that their credit card machine is broken. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/us/22bctaxi.html Basically, they aren't happy that they have to pay credit card fees -- well sorry, nobody does, but that's a cost of doing business.

And next time you can't find a cab, keep this in mind -- SF didn't add any (transferable) cab licenses for 33 years, until 2010. http://www.ktvu.com/news/24519083/detail.html

It's pretty clear who is writing the rules for taxis in SF, and it's not someone with the consumer in mind.
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> How is it obvious they are trying to replicate the design?

Do you really believe they arrived at a design that's really close to Apple's by accident? With all possible design choices they had, why pick this specific one?
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Ask HN: Afghan girls' school terror. Are Edu startups ready to help today?
Shocking news: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/taliban-kill-head-girls-school and I wonder if with all the education startups like Khan Academy, Ingenic etc. booming, are we ready today to help places like Afghanistan access education with still pretty poor infrastructure there? can we offer basic hardware with offline content? let's brainstorm...
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I am on the fringes of BI at my company, and do not claim to be an expert. But to me, the value in the BI suites is not the UI, nor the platform on which BI runs. It is the integration points to everything else. This article told me very little about that aspect of the open source tools.
Some facts you may not be aware of:

USA public university education costs have risen to 300% to 400% over a 20 year period with most of that costs made up of these trends:

-US states cutting education funding
-us public colleges increasing enrollment of non state
citizens both US and World to replace funding
-US fed government increasing loan limits that students
can borrow under
-US public universities increasing the use of grad students as the major instructor both first and second year

students see teaching classes.
-US public universities increasing funding of non-university expenditures such as sports which the NHL, NFL, NBA, etc use a free farm team without paying for it despite not a single program breaking even.

No matter what Petter Thiel believes are it is somewhat factual that US college education is somewhat broken as a public institute for the public good is somewhat broken.

And Thiel is basing his system on certain past models that have worked before. If you go back to the industrial age we did in the USA have certain industrialists that would pick out young people to train in business. Thiel is just re-inventing for the modern era.
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> I like cats who look cute. I wonder...

Unfortunately the catbook app for facebook already has this covered :-)
There's certainly the potential to extract interesting data here, but I haven't found it yet.

I do note with distress, however, that:

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=why+is+my+poop+gree...

searches for "Why is my poop green?" peaked in March 2010 before subsiding, and that it's correlated with "hiv symptoms in women" and "how to get a guy to ask you out".

Meanwhile, "why is my poop black?" is correlated with "How to say I love you in French"
Is there a noticeable size increase from including parts of the Scala library? I know Proguard will probably strip out a lot of unused classes.
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Hi, I'm always a bit confused whenever people talk about how the Khan Academy is revolutionary. How is it significantly different than the MIT Open Courseware? Is it just felt that the quality of the lectures is so much better?
That's dumb, why do they care so much about copyright? I was going to re-new my subscription but I'm not sure I will. Are there any good open source space games that accept donations?
I don't know that I agree with "frightening". I would guess people watch baseball games on TV much more often than they go to them, thus a question that asks about "watching a ... game" would trigger the more common of the two.
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Yes, licensing requirements generally protect incumbents. In SF (and I assume other large cities) it's very political.
I'm underwhelmed. At that level, I find the Java version more readable. (I know, I know, the horror.)

But to answer the question posed: Community. I started messing with Mirah, but there's just not much community yet. Any questions you have is a new one. And nobody knows the answer yet. That's fine if you like figuring things out and have time... But drop either of those and it's just a headache.
Awesome comic about Google correlate
I mostly like inconsolata, but it doesn't keep my favorite part of deja-vu: the lowercase ell. I never ever confuse the ell with the one as it is so distinct. Inconsolata does this by removing the baseline on the one, which works, but I much prefer the deja-vu way of things.
That's "local climate change" and he clearly said "global climate change".
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What if you have a high DPI monitor? Isn't that too hard to see?
I haven't tried myself, but I have used GNU Kawa to great success, and your right, Proguard does strip most of it out.
Anyone but a sales/marketing person, really.
An inside look at how Heroku handles downtime
Synthesizing a possible alternative to addictive painkillers
The ice age is returning. http://iceagenow.com/

Better start knitting wool long-johns now ;)
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Liberation Mono on Ubuntu works great for me.
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Another open source BI suite is Palo http://www.jedox.com

If you need MS Excel or OOo integration it's awesome
I imagine Demand Media can extract interesting data from this.
as long as there is no decision made by policians which will affect ordinary internet users, entrepreneurs and investors nobody cares. but of course you are right. there should be much more engagement right now to prevent negative decisions made by politicians in the future, who care more about elections and votes to get reelected #sarkozy
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You should check out http://outloud.fm/