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The content creator licenses the content. Not a "get".

17 U.S.C. § 101

A "work made for hire" is— (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.

Collective or supplementary work? Not sure.
My favorite quote:

"People have been struggling through this economy … I would have thought you were more sympathetic to that aspect of our efforts to find talent in a markedly bruised professional arena and struggling economy."
It's not the case that contractors are guaranteed copyright to their work; in fact, the opposite is more common. The issue of copyright doesn't come up in the IRS criteria for contractor vs. employee.
(I feel like I need to clarify something after upvoting this.)

You're right, the "it's who you are that matters" card spells out resigned bullshit about most of the times someone plays it.

But it's not what they do that matters either: like the author of the article said himself, what they're doing is mostly kiddie stuff. Using well-known tools and techniques to goof around with well-documented security flaw 'patterns'.

And so they're not crafting anything either, they're just wasting humanity's bandwidth. In that sense I agree with you.
Eh, reasonable. I suppose I meant that I care about it enough to post something on the internet, but only about that much. That's what part of me cares.
The idea "in hot code" slides try to express is very simple: if you have a JavaScript function that should run as fast as possible then don't do this and that. Going into details requires a lot of speaking/writing so it was not an option for a 40m talk. I would not say that knowing which constructs should be avoided is meaningless. Of course it's great to know WHY they should be avoided but that requires deeper understanding of VM internals.

Trace parameters are there to give actual nodejs/v8 users a chance to experiment, to trace their app and see what optimizing compiler does to their code.
Good, man. You deserve every word of praise that you get, especially for keeping that site running with the team you had (5, was it? And you were the only SA?).

Good luck at whatever it is that you decide to do :)
It's not sales or installed base share, it's browser share.

I could put the difference down to just iPads, which apparently have much higher browsing rates than mobile devices, but the numbers don't agree there either e.g. my source has iOS as lower than Linux whereas your numbers has it as twice as high.

(Once you add iPad numbers you start to wonder why netbooks aren't included and then the fact that iOS and Android numbers total are dwarfed by any single version of IE begins to make it seem ridiculous.)
Yes, if someone is taking works from others without permission and posting it on a website where they make a profit, they should be fined and possibly jailed if they are repeat offenders.

The law just gives companies more ammunition in the event of a case where someone is actually stealing content. There are sites that do nothing but stream movies and music for profit without giving anything to the content owner. They are clearly criminals.

It's up to the court system to determine if the company has a case or not. I commented to note that the sky isn't falling and bloggers won't be thrown in jail by the thousands.

Common sense will prevail in the end although some battles will have to be fought out in courts to set precedents.

Nothing new here IMHO.
Hats off to you, sir. That is the most excellent troll post that I have seen in a very long time. Well done!
Holy shit, this is amazing. I'm really into electronic music, and when I am listening to new music online (youtube, music blogs, etc.) I don't always take the time to download songs right then. Instead, I simply record the artist and title in a txt file. I uploaded my electro.txt file to roll.io and out came a perfect playlist for all the music (~500 songs) I liked, but haven't downloaded.

This is awesome
It's possible. Due to HN I recently found a relative who was alive 10000+ years ago. He was a mariner, was around 20 when he died. Was found back in 1996 in On Your Knees Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. After a HN story on DNA Day and a 23andMe discount, found out my mtDNA is Haplogroup D4h3a. So we have the same maternal hereditary line, even though I'm like 91% european.
My guess is rationalization. They are lieing to themselves to justify their actions. I've read that even serial-killers think they are doing good. I don't see why blackhats would be much different.
Technically (per Suze Orman) the two things declaring bankruptcy will not clear are Student Loan debt and debt determined by Criminal/Civil courts, in the USA.

I found it shocking that those two debt types are on the same level. The student loan one is probably limited to Federal/State funded loans. I imagine if you pay your College bill with a MasterCard then you could get around this.
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Huh? The "massive growth" has been in traffic. I thought they had less than 10 employees.
Thanks!

Also found related tutorials:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/tutorial.html

http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial
Being a writer has never been a way to get rich. All those movies about newspaper journalists are not filled with a bunch of wealthy writers. They are grinding it out, for the most part, and they always have.
Their campaign is about reaching out, eliciting a response, and then reveling in the emotional connection they've created with another anonymous soul across this tangled mass of copper and silicon.

In other words, for the lulz.
I've said it before, so I apologize for repeating myself, but it shocks me (shocks!) that reddit doesn't append affiliate IDs to all of the outbound links to amazon that are generated.

I've probably made well over $100 in purchases just in the last few months via links I've seen on reddit. ("Can you recommend a good book on welding/bicycles/iOS dev/etc.")

Hopefully they don't do what you're suggesting, because I think if they did, the users would leave almost immediately (and probably flood HN).
The OP talks about how in the age where there are more readers than ever, writers are undervalued. What the OP fails to mention is the quality of readers and writers. A reader who consumes 100,000 pages worth of Facebook statuses is not really much of a reader. Historically, reading was used as a means to communicate ideas. Think Machiavelli, Aristotle, Nietzsche. Now it is used for communicating a much larger scope of information: "Lady Gaga Pantless in Paris". You cannot compare a writer that writes the Illiad and a writer that writes TV Show reviews of shows they've never seen. They are not the same category.
I could be wrong but I thought it read A and B or C.
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"This is the lulz lizard era"

Yes it is. What the fuck is it? Nightowl would be more believable, and true.
There's nothing unique to AOL here. When I first got out of college, I interviewed at local newspapers up and down the east coast. Entry level jobs had awful pay, about $15K/yr, but it was a chance to break in to the business.

One grizzled editor chain smoked cigarettes through our interview (you could do that in the office back then). He listened to me describe why I wanted to write. Then he leaned back, blew a cloud of smoke, and told me:

"You kid come into this business thinking you're going to make a difference. Pretty soon you find out, you're just filling the space around the ads."

He was right, actually. So I got into high tech instead, and have been doing startups ever since. Not sure I always make a difference, but at least I'm trying, instead of just filling space...
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People like you give nosql a bad name. Yes, nosql can help, but you're looking at it for the wrong reasons.

Go back to school, or hire capable developers.
Those selling downloadable products may want to take a look at FastSpring. For subscription based services, there's now SaaSy.
I didn't mean to undermine you, only that I noticed a cleverness in the author's placement of the keywords. He gave us the exact keywords to find the actor who had issues with him, without directly stating who it was. This goes against the whole keyword driven doctrine at AOL, where the keywords used are explicit in who they are trying to promote.
Okay, but the gunshot analogy applies here. If I want to, I can hire 24/7 bodyguards to prevent my being shot. If I'm a potentially high-profile target, then yes, you would expect me to spend resources to hire extra protection.

Most of the targets in this case are not critical services like bank accounts or ticket booths -- those companies DO spend the extra money on protection (more servers, in this case).

Let me ask; do you run a web business? Any website? Is it vulnurable to DDoS?
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It's not the case that contractors are guaranteed copyright to their work; in fact, the opposite is more common.

It is in the constitution, actually, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

The issue of copyright doesn't come up in the IRS criteria for contractor vs. employee.

No, but the IRS's determination of the business relationship between the two parties affects the applicability of work-for-hire.
> This place feels more like Reddit every day.

That's why I downmodded you.
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Wow, I had never heard of yr.no. Thanks for the heads up :)
I saw a different edit of the same event. From that, I didn't realize it was at a marine theme park. It also didn't include the animals' startled reactions.

Still, interesting. And goes to show, cats are real charmers -- when they want to be. ;-)
Remember, how easy it is for you to do it has absolutely nothing to do with what you should charge. How much value it brings to your customer (and how easily that customer could buy that value elsewhere) should determine your price.

If he's going to make a million dollars with it and his only other choice was a $350k corporate license from Oracle, I'd say $300k sounds about right.
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I had a feature similar to this on www.tubalr.com, you could type in several bands and given a playlist.
Yeah, just like reddit. Especially posts complaining about downvotes.
(Except Samsung, who is the biggest vendor.)
Well, that puts a different complexion on things, doesn't it? If they are actively working on it, that proves that they're not discriminatory. This is a pure opportunistic cash grab.
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See: "Invisible Hand"

In economics, the invisible hand, also known as invisible hand of the market, is the term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. This is a metaphor first coined by the economist Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments... For Smith, the invisible hand was created by the conjunction of the forces of self-interest, competition, and supply and demand, which he noted as being capable of allocating resources in society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
>> if it's required on TV, why not on the Internet

You certainly need to be careful that requiring captions doesn't require everybody putting a video on Youtube to caption it. As great as that would be for deaf people (and for searching video), it's a burden that might kill a lot of things.

The move to touch-based devices being hard for the disabled/elderly/etc. is an issue I've been thinking about too. It's a hard problem but one that will hopefully spur some innovation in the coming years.
Important notes:

- RHEL 5 and derivatives include ksm right out of the box. There's a script out there to make use of it: ksmd.

- ksm breaks up transparent huge pages whenever a smaller page is found inside of a huge page. (In other words, you can enable transparent huge pages and ksmd at the same time, but ksmd is likely to negate the benefits of hugepages. )

- ksm is freaking dynamite -- it cut memory usage on my personal virtualization host by a third.
The court will say "OK you embedded a YouTube video that was copyrighted and made $2500 or more from advertisements so yes you have broken this new law". The court will only decide if a blogger has met all the requirements of this new law. If they have, and millions have, then they will be guilty of a felony. No matter if they get the least possible punishment that is still a felony!

Even if someone is found innocent they will still have paid thousands of dollars to defend themselves!

I don't trust courts to be just. The time I had to deal with a judge in court I was not treated fairly and was presumed guilty. Therefore, please don't tell me the courts will determine a fair and just outcome.

Judges and the court system are just a bunch of disconnected old people who you hope to never have to deal with.
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Netflix shows intent with plans to expand to 80% by end of year. What's the problem? Is having a lawsuit really going to make that happen more quickly?
That's a good point. Well there are a couple programs that do what mine does, but it is not something that he would use to make money. He wants the program customized so that his employees can't use it without knowing a password.
Do term limits help or hinder? After all, if we had term limits then the average congressman would need to go off and find a new job once he's finished in congress. And there's no shortage of folks (whether companies, unions, NGOs, foreign governments, or any ol' well-funded group you like) who'd just love to give cushy well-paid jobs to former congressmen who had been suitably sympathetic to their interests during their time in congress.
Yeah, I had uploaded the first 10 chapters of Moby Dick, all along thinking "what is this annoying video playing," before realizing it doesn't do a StarWars scroller.
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Cucumber is a BDD tool. That stands for Behavior Drive Design, which is what the 'when X expect Y' format is. It's intrinsically a testing tool, where the user acceptance tests are described in a BDD format. It's a subset of TDD.
That's correct. But they were bought by Conde Nast.
Indeed. You seem to assume that the music library is somehow static which isn't the reality for a lot of users of Spotify and other streaming services. There are at least a dozen albums released and reissued every day, and some people (like me) enjoy checking out new music on a daily basis.

It is simply not viable to keep buying all those albums and store them in a library, particularly if you won't listen to them ever again after the first listen. While an edge case, the shades of gray in the middle still demand a constantly changing library. Thus, Spotify and Grooveshark, whose catalogue I personally like a lot more, are much better choices than the 'online library' services.
Postgres has bitmap index support baked in as well and it works really well. I'd be awfully interested in knowing where MySQL beats it by 50x at anything.
Also, the more time and resources they spend chasing "copyright infringers", the less they're going to spend preventing and solving the crimes most of us worry about.

(And since the "entertainment industry" is hardly going to rescue the U.S. economy, I really don't give much of a cr-p about its fortunes -- which it already bolsters by producing things in Canada, Ireland, now Eastern Europe or wherever else, whenever it can.)
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It's great that you called. Unfortunately it seems like most, if not all, politicians are shielded and you can't reach (talk to) them directly unless you're connected in some way.
Why does the article mention Greenspan's age?
This is my big interest in YC and why I'll try applying this Winter--There are plenty of resources for doing all of this yourself, and many people have but given my background and experience I have, I probably can't get my idea off the ground without proper guidance and I think many people are like me who genuinely need that little bit of help more than they need large sums of money, a stamp of approval or what have you--that guidance will carry you to all of that stuff in the end.
It's less about how much it costs you to make the change, it's the benefit the user is gonna get via buying your software. Do a little more research on how much it would cost him if he goes to an alternative and decide from there.
No, I agree completely.

My gripe is that the DSL is JS with a fluent interface. You need a DOM context in order to make JS work (unless I'm mistaken) which is why you have tests that drive the browser like Selenium. So you are going to write Javascript in order to drive some other tool that interacts with the AUT.

Anyway, it's neat, and I'm not trying to discourage anyone.
What are you going to do with your free time?

http://design-to-last.com/2011/06/free-time-%e2%80%93-what-a...
I was hoping this would also apply to UIWebView in third party apps, but no suck luck. Would have been a great improvement for apps built with Sencha + PhoneGap.
Lets not overblow things. They don't kill random people, they carry out pranks which can cause emotional and maybe financial distress, that's all.
“Do you guys even CARE what I write? Does it make any difference if it’s good or bad?” I said.

“Not really,” was the reply.

If he had any programming background, he missed a golden opportunity to write a markov text generator which would have let him meet his deadlines without the stress.
It's a little frustrating that every article I've seen on this goes with the "town renamed after corporation" headline instead of the "$5000 equipment donation gives town clean water for next 10-20 years" option.

I don't know, maybe I'm expecting too much.
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Last time I saw this suggested, the more-or-less official response was along the lines of "we thought about it, but we'd be unable to convince everyone that those types of links aren't being tampered with (ranking-wise)" from which I inferred that the trust of their community was (is) worth more than that revenue stream.
You are correct in that cucumber is a testing tool...

What is in that repo on github "whenever.js" is not for testing and is not BDD for js or jquery. The author implemented a dsl like cucumber to allow creation of behavior in javascript.
Discussion about tax rates usually revolve around ‘Tax breaks for the rich’, or ‘Tax the rich!’. Opinions are usually developed depending on the individual’s income, but what if common sense was used.

The U.S. has a marginal tax system. Although your employer uses a table to smooth out the tax burden over the year, the first dollars you make are taxed at the lowest rate, and as you earn more – and move up the income brackets, your tax rate increases for each bracket, and so on. When you file your taxes you’re paying an average of all the brackets that you earned income in.

That said if the government wants to cut taxes that truly affect the entire population, they would start at the bottom, since everyone pays the lowest tax at some point.
There are always economic factors that push for one cut or another, but if the government truly believes that a tax cut is necessary, it should happen at the bottom.
Just an aside: would have been awesome if the writer created an article generating program. He could feed the program a few key words (perhaps just the name of the TV show). The program could scrape or be manually fed some information from Google trends. Then add some scraping of data from existing articles. Use a markov chain to keep the content fresh and you're good to go! I'm just thinking of the sentence generation via markov chain from Programming Pearls and the hilarious auto-generated computer science papers that were submitted and accepted by some journal.
I always think Alex the grey parrot is impressive too
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MySQL only supports nested inner loop joins.
All that 'lulzspeak' in there sounds like an old guy trying to be 'hip' when talking to younger people.
I can't wait for high accuracy brain measurements in the mainstream. hoping to do some brainsourced computation in the future!
I really don't like the idea of the government playing cop for the media companies

This seems like a silly argument. It's the Government's job to "play cop". I mean, that's why, as you may have noticed, actual cops are government employees.

Protecting property rights, whether physical or intellectual, is part of the Government's job. You can argue about the execution of it if you like, and you can even argue about whether existing intellectual property laws are just. But complaining that the government is "playing cop" seems misguided.
Hopefully this will change over the next few years as voice recognition improves.
I would expect aliens capable of interstellar travel would have better metrics than "buzz" :]
You might want to ask this question on http://programmers.stackexchange.com/, then link to the question on HN. I think you'd get more replies there.

$5k might be fair, who knows? $5k total? per store? Does that include future installs?

Are you selling the source code too or just the compiled application?

If you're not selling the source code, are you going to license the software to him based on the number of installations or just give it to him for a specific price? You could sell it on a sliding scale based on the number of installations. If he has 22 locations and 5 installs per store, then have pricing for single installs and discount for a pack of 5 licenses.

You shouldn't give it away cheap just because it "wouldn't be too much trouble". Take into account the impact on business. How much time & money will your software save them? Remember time _is_ money.

Good luck.
Some of their recent hacks were _not_ kiddie stuff. I don't think they will be very impressed by this letter.

Also: I wouldn't bet on them being autistic nolifers, which is what the author of this letter seems to be suggesting, you'd probably be surprised.
_THIS_

It's hard to dumb it down enough for a non-technical user to do anything useful (in which case their tests are frequently invalid in a functional sense even though they're syntactically valid). But by that point you've usually dumbed it down far past the level a competent QA engineer should work at.
You beat me to it :-). I'm curious to what extent this is being done today.
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Well, there goes the conspiracy theory that Apple was doing this to handicap web based apps.
Question: why is this modded down into near-invisibility? It seems to be sensible and well-argued.
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After he claimed that Apple is sponsoring LLVM/clang solely to undermine freedom, and said “The human race has a susceptibility to harm, but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age", I have a hard time taking Moglen seriously.
The least he could have done is get the song right though.
What do your libraries do to fake a bitmap index? When you say libraries, what layer of the stack are you referring to? Data access layer (e.g., via an ORM)?
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