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I think you actually want two answers, the question you asked and "why
report it?"

The IDA Pro disassembler and the Hex-Rays decompiler are not only very
expensive tools, but they are very difficult to purchase. Due to
constant problems with piracy, these days they will only sell their
products to three areas; (1) governments/law enforcement, (2) very well
established corporations (typically well known security research
people), (3) very well established university researchers.

Typically, they refuse to sell to individuals, but there is a fourth
class of customers who are individuals; very old customers like me who
have a perfect track record of maintaining possession of their copy of
the software.

Every copy of the software is custom compiled and watermarked so it
is traceable to a particular person. Every database created by the
software is also watermarked, so when someone who is not a licensed
customer publishes a database (.idb), the software can be traced and
the account will be terminated (i.e. no further purchases allowed).

When someone does something blatantly stupid like disassembling and
decompiling skype then publicly making all of the files available, it is
fairly certain that they are using a illegal copy of the software. They
do not understand what they're doing. They do not understand the tool
they are using. And they don't have any respect for either the tool or
the work of others. --All of this loudly screams PIRATE!

The pirates either don't know about or don't care about the watermarks
in the databases they create. They don't realize that publishing a
database is discouraged. I've never heard of a case where a database
watermark was successfully forged (i.e. pin the blame on someone else),
but a cracker named "Quine" once successfully removed the watermarking
in IDA back in the late 90's.

The "correct" method to publicly share the research work done in IDA is
to dump the database to an IDC script (an internal language), then
provide the IDC script and the target binary. Customers know this, or at
least they should. With that said, friends do toss databases back and
forth on occasion, but that's a matter of trust between friends where
both of them are customers. Some people in the InfoSec and AntiVirus
crowds exchange databases, even across competing corporate lines since
they're all working together towards the same goal and they've known
each other for years.
Lot of money for Raytheon riding on this. Lot of kudos for UK governmetn as well. if they get taken to the cleaners by Raytheon, what chance have they got of controlling other IT suppliers who don't meet thier satisfaction?
Ask HN: What is a solid % for newsletter signup?
On standard site (small business/web app/etc), what would be a good % for newsletter signup?

What about when offering a discount code?

Does HN have any past experiences they could chip in?
I am not an expert either, but I can't see what Grover's algorithm has to do with quantum computers. When you look at the known algorithms for them, quantum computers seem pretty useless... It's not hashes that fear quantum computers but existing public key crypto.
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Those look very interesting! The price seems a bit steep, though...
There are, but they are derived from the official client if I understand correctly.
> That is because they have already won.

No, they have a bigger share of the pie, when measured in particular ways right now. It's a long game.
I hate the RIAA / MPAA way of doing things, and I think deep linking is fine, but this outright content coping is getting out of hand. It poisons the search results by having people who have no creative spark doing SEO and getting their content elsewhere.

The incentives all point to content coping as the best business model for a whole group of people. Why bother to create when Google will pay you anyway and often put you above the original content owner.

It doesn't seem to be worth the time to send DMCA requests to the site. It seems like sending DMCA requests to Google might help, but really, some method of cutting off the funding of these sites would be best. Remove the profit motive. Ideally (not practically) it would be nice if Google gave the ad sense money to the original content creator if a DMCA request is filed on that pages search results. Won't work, but somehow this Search -> Ad model creates the problem, the same companies need to step up and fix it, because it seems like there is going to be no search alternatives because of advertising mass.
Hi, I'm Adam, I wrote this answer on Quora. Against my better judgement, I'm going to wade in here and make a couple of clarifying points.

1 - Scam. I regret using the word "scam" in my answer, because I think it overshadows the broader point I was making about Bitcoin's severe structural design flaws. After watching the community react to this debate, I'm pretty confident that the average bitcoin supporter is not intentionally defrauding people. Consider my inflammatory rhetoric redacted and apologized for.

2 - Volatility. Since April 1, the average change (up or down) of the bitcoin/dollar exchange rate has been just under 8%. That's unprecedented. It's a clean order of magnitude more volatile than the stock market, which is considered a "volatile", "risky" class of asset. It's two orders of magnitude more volatile than a legitimate currency pair like the Dollar/Euro. Now, it's all fun and games while the exchange rate is basically trending up, but if that trend reverses look out below.

3 - Liquidity. All of that volatility comes on an average bitcoin volume of something like 20,000 per day. If I put in an order for $15,000 worth of Bitcoin right now, I'm pretty sure I could move the market between 5% and 10% to the upside. It's probably even worse to the downside. Call me a skeptic, but with that kind of easy price manipulation, I'm not quite ready to denominate my paycheck in Bitcoins quite yet.

4 - What It Means. A number of people criticized me for not understanding that Bitcoin is designed to be complementary to traditional currencies, and that analyzing it as an alternative is invalid. A number of different people criticized me for not understanding that Bitcoin is a different kind of currency, which will inevitably replace traditional fiat money, and that analyzing it as a component of the fiat currency system is invalid.

The Bitcoin community is diverse, and no one really knows what this is supposed to be yet. That's totally fine with me. I can assure you I don't have any skin in this game. My money is in LinkedIn stock.* But I've studied world currencies extensively (and trust me, a normal currency debate is not this lively). So, I don't know what Bitcoin will end up as, but I know two things with certainty:

a) that it's unstable as a currency

b) that it's currently behaving as a speculative vehicle in an aggressive bubble

* That was a joke
So up to a year in jail is not unreasonable?
It is time to end the patenting of software
TeX and LaTeX. Still the best software available to translate structured markup to a pdf.
>The net transaction is $0 (an exchange of currency for T-bills of equal value), but the market now contains more paper money.

Whatever the mechanism, fiat currencies are subject to inflation through the pressure of an ever-increasing money supply.

>If people demand Bitcoins as a "tax haven" from the government, then Bitcoins aren't long for this world.

It'll be interesting to see how the state tackles this. It'll be easy to drive it underground, but preventing its use will be another matter. Bitcoin transactions through a VPN seem hard to prevent.
All that article did for me was make me want to become an early adopter and download bitcoin mining apps.
By design, the rate of coin creation must asymptotically approach zero as the supply approaches 21 million. And every lost wallet of addresses (failed backup-restore, Scrooge McDuck died without writing down his password, whatever) will take coins out of circulation, causing some additional deflation.
You have to actually FTP files? I ask because if you have your code in, say, github, and you deploy from that, you shouldn't have this problem. Unless there's something specific about your code that means you have to send really large files?
Don't waste your money on lawyers
As it stands, I'm not sure this service is useful. I wanted to check out the space available in Boston, but according to their FAQ:

For now, the only way to receive time credit in order to book desks in the Kodesk network is by sharing your own unoccupied office space. If you don't have any office space, or are not in a position to share any desk, you won't be able to use Kodesk for now. That is because, in the first phase of the Kodesk revolution, we want to encourage companies to share their unused desks and feel all the power of having their employees working from anywhere, and even more important, the power of welcoming new ideas, talents and opportunities into their walls.

If you need to offer space in order to use space, I don't understand who will use the site or power the "Kodesk revolution." If I were an employer with an office, I wouldn't care about "all the power of having their employees working from anywhere."

I think they're missing the point of AirBnB: you need to connect people who _need_ space with those who _have_ space. By limiting themselves to only one half of that equation, I don't know how they will expand.
Some of my stats from one of my sites...

215 subscribers/7,086 visitors (3%)

With offering a discount code. Is a "one time only" offer as well, that is presented BEFORE they see any content of the site or prices.

Interesting enough, almost everyone who goes onto the mailing list ends up purchasing.
I guess what he meant is how google is over-confidant, non-respecting and may be little bit arrogant ... There is no doubt that Android is big now but it is also true that Nokia is the biggest cell-phone maker and the marriage of these 2 would have been revolutionary ... Google may not regret of this blunder but if MS & Nokia execute well then MS would be laughing for pulling this off ...

Also whether critic believe it or not but the TRIO (MS, Nokia and Skype) is a lethal combination in terms of innovation (if planned and executed well) - these 3 can create something very disruptive that Elop is talking about ...
I'm not sure what you mean, sorry.

What I was trying to say was that I don't think having 12 models is going to make things confusing for consumers or be detrimental to sales.

HTC/Samsung/Motorola releases a lot of Android phones in a given year and it hasn't hurt their sales.

Edit: It must be noted that it isn't likely that any single market will have a dozen Nokia models available to the public.
Actually, it's mostly right.

The question, as I understood it, was "how can he apply for a patent on something that I'm shipping". The answer, in the US, is that he can claim to have invented it first.

No, none of this goes to patent term, but he's not concerned about now, he's concerned about the future, if his product is successful, after the patent issues (if it issues).

It seems reasonable to assume a conflict given that a conflict is why he posted.
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LiberWriter, of course: http://www.liberwriter.com
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So many sad points about this story: the shockingly low price he got ($3,400), the culture of consumption that people usually associate with the US but is prevalent in China and other countries (my colleagues tell me that it's common to see people with phones that costs 1.5x - 2x their salary) and the fact that the hospital performed such an operation (one more data point on the anything-goes attitude in China).

On a different note, this brings forth interesting questions about establishing free markets for human organs. Proponents say that this would be a win-win situation. Stories like this show that such a thing would need very tight regulation.

Apple should send this kid one of all their new devices.
I see a lot of comments on HN about people wishing they could work from home and barely any wishing what I prefer instead: A workplace worth being at.

I work from home on occasion, but I also consider my workplace to be a society that I enjoy being a part of.

I like talking to the people in my office throughout the day. I like going to lunch with them sometimes. I like that I am in a building of experts and collaborators.

I suppose I am more fortunate than most in that I can walk to work and that my work is on Main Street, surrounded by many wonderful cafes and restaurants. But that many people do not share such suitable conditions I think is an argument against their conditions (poor commute, poor workplace location), and I don't think their conditions necessarily point to teleworking as the best solution, while it is certainly a better alternative than a miserable commute, I don't see it as an ideal.

So I must Ask HN: If your work was closer to you and in a pleasant location, would you still want to work from home primarily?
subtitle: "Market share dwindling, stock cratering, persistent takeover talk. How the CEO is trying to lead Nokia past its epic fail"

"Epic fail"? Is this really English to the the demographic that reads Businessweek?
Interesting take on things, but I wonder how long this applies? When do you measure success? Take Twilio, since you mention them... they were noticed pretty quickly and able to rise to meteoric heights on that. I don't know the details of their start, but I kind of doubt it took them 10000 hours to get there. I suppose you could argue that they've definitely put it in now, but I'd say they were successful long before then. Perhaps they're one of the edge cases you mention...
Headlines that quote false statement should use quotation marks for clarity.

It is impossible to "admit" something that in one's self interest and is not a proven fact. A defendant in court can admit guilt, but can only claim innocence.
> all of these smart people with smart computers are crunching numbers on a frivolous exercise and not for something productive. total deadweight loss

That's true of gold mining as well, insofar as the price of gold is significantly higher due to speculation and its use as a currency and store of value than it would just for industrial uses (see comparisons to ruthenium). This increase in price drives a whole lot of mining that wouldn't otherwise occur.

But the whole reason for allowing Bitcoin "mining," I think, is because it provides an incentive to early adopters, solving what would otherwise be a chicken-and-egg problem that might be extremely difficult. Other digital currencies (e.g. Flooz) used various marketing gimmicks to spur adoption, but Bitcoin's method is much cheaper.
Also discuseed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611731
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Having access to more wealth gives people more faith that the government will be around a long time, will not do crazy things with the currency. That's not the same thing as the currency having more intrinsic value. (Also, it would not seem to make sense to talk about backing a currency with taxes denominated in that same currency, would it? But I'm unclear what you meant by "provide value".)

(What I've heard about bitcoin makes me a bit skeptical, but I want to be skeptical for the right reasons.)
You may be interested in this[1], open technology for voice and video on the web.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605390
Google Place and Facebook Place will be the two dominant local review sites.

If you are running a local review site, what can you do to survive?

Probably more and more people just go to Google Place and even write reviews there because Google Place will be listed on the top of the Google search results. Don’t think most local review sites can defend themselves from Google’s search power.
http://www.netflix.com/FAQ?p_faqid=2902 says you can have up to six devices authorized for one account, and you can use up to [# of discs in your plan] simultaneously, to a maximum of 4.

http://www.netflix.com/TermsOfUse#instant specifies that this is "within your household".
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I've also seen restaurants offering such deals ask if you're using a GroupOn voucher before presenting you with a menu, the menu you're then given is not the same as the usual menu. Items are more expensive (over-priced I would say), and the selection is narrower.

From a business perspective the failure to convert into repeat business has long known to be a problem, but now having experienced GroupOn as being a second class experience I simply won't be using it again.

In fact, the limited experience of GroupOn in our household has been such that they've successfully made us dubious of the entire offers/group-buying thing and leave us preferring to get personal service and avoiding the offerings of GroupOn and all of their competitors.
I feel like Planet Money (as much as I love them) kind of missed the point with their podcast, and it was nice to see Jonathan run with it.

This is indeed the future of music. Fragmentation. From major labels, to indie labels, to individual musicians or even communities. While the rise of Justin Bieber from the bowels of YouTube might be an anti-point, I still suspect it will only get even more intimate as time goes on. Music discovery only needs to get a little more subtle with existing social services.
Try working in any media centric industry. Soon you'll be uploading gigs of files on a daily basis.
yeah, they might be a edge case and our story isn't over yet - it's one thing for us to have a quick start and so far some pretty good adoption, but it'll be another thing all together to see us succeed long term... that's why what I believe we need is more b2b effort and really the software is a small part of the pie...
Do the Facebook/Twitter mobile apps connect to their servers via SSL? Is this only a problem if you use the web version via your mobile phone?
The TinEye search didn't succeed in capturing FunnyJunk. Assuming The Oatmeal's artwork is still up on FunnyJunk, this implementation wouldn't work, but it's a clever idea.
"Should be valid html."

Am I alone in thinking this is a rather dated viewpoint?
Lobbyists are just advocates for a cause. It is illegal for lobbyists to pay bribes.

It is pretty easy to undo this type of legislation. All you have to do is send a direct mail campaign against a few state senators with the title "Joe Sentator is turning your child into a criminal... Have you ever shared an online password? Joe thinks you deserve 1 year in jail." It would probably cost around $10k to roast a few state senators, and neutralize the music industry lobby. It's just that nobody really cares enough to spend the $10k.
His entire argument boils down to the belief that universities can greatly improve your critical thinking skills. On the other hand, one of the main criticisms of universities these days is the fact that they seem to be doing very poorly in that regard (http://chronicle.com/article/New-Book-Lays-Failure-to-Learn/...)

I tend to agree with the critics, and couldn't find anything compelling me to think otherwise in this post.
In an amazing coincidence, not 20 minutes ago I came across his version of "Baby Got Back" on a completely different forum (one devoted to investing actually) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJeC99QO8A .

Note the presence of banjo pickin' in this variant on a rap song.
one-disc plans allow one stream.
two-disc plans allow two simultaneous streams.
four streams is the maximum.
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Linux is the type of operating system that had been developed to be used with the Linux systems. This operating system is quite expensive to be installed and the user needs to deal with greater care,
Incorrect.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_...
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"They don’t understand the entire raisin-de-etre"

Just to say that raisin-de-etre should be spelled "raison d'être".

raisin, by the way, means grape ;-)
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Whatever the mechanism, fiat currencies are subject to inflation through the pressure of an ever-increasing money supply.

As they should be, given that populations increase.

Anyway, even if Bitcoins go underground, they'd have to be priced such that they'd be cheaper than other money laundering channels. Due to their finite supply, though, money laundering through Bitcoins will get very expensive. So their utility re: taxes will be squashed by either the government or the black market.
I'm pretty sure your use of Netflix terms of service is between you and Netflix, not you and local law enforcement. It's a private contract.
> I'm pretty sure the future of law enforcement is to make sure everyone is breaking some law at some point and they can basically arrest and prosecute you at any time, so you best obey, citizen.

That's not "the future", it's been true for a long time.
"It gives you better frameworks for thinking."

This is vitally important.

People who think school should prepare your for a job are missing the point. What school does is increase your capacity for thought, teaching you new methods. You cannot get out of higher education without learning multiple ways to approach, de-construct, and re-construct problems and questions.
The fact that it will likely never be worth that much doesn't change its value. Heading off the foreseen criticism, let's say that savvy investors would only say it is worth 200MM, the ultimate value times the expectation of realizing it.

A market price is a price at which someone with good information is indifferent between going long and short. If you're applying some discount to the $200mm based on the possibility of a $0 outcome, you'd have to put your money where your mouth is and sell short at that level.

If you'd made $200mm through some other means, and bought that 20% chance for a billion dollars at the market rate, would you treat that as a loss? At what market value would buying that constitute a good deal?

The whole reason we have valuation is to answer questions like that. The question of "What is this worth?" is very different from the question "How much cash can I extract from this now? "What is this worth?" means "What is the net present value of all the cash I can extract from this asset, assuming I extract at the optimal time?" It's the difference between the value of a couple scraps of gold in a creek and the value of a massive gold mine.

A final reduction: There is a claimed ROI of ~13:1. Being generous, I would ask this: how many people who invested 1MM into YC have pulled 5MM out?

That's not the point, though. Startups are illiquid, so it doesn't make sense to sell. Plus, the YC people just don't seem to need that much money. Some people get rich in order to buy jets and vacation homes--the impression I get is that the YCers got rich enough to spend their time working on cool stuff, e.g. YC.
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I have been using an N900 for almost a year, and I think it's a great "phone". Excellent voice quality, great microphone, easy to call people, and the best reception I've had with any device. It works well with all my hands-free stuff, and it works very well as a "phone".

What complaints do you have?
Please don't give me a collapsed tree of things that I need to dig through while trying to mentally unravel what logic might have been going through your head when you put things in various places.

Give me a list. Of everything.

Or, if you absolutely feel you have to categorize things, give me a single "Uncollapse this mess" button so that I can look for the thing I'm looking for.
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