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Congress has actually enacted specific legislation to exempt the MPAA and RIAA from some aspects of antitrust law. I don't know about the BSA.

To be more specific, though, there are some ways that companies can legally cooperate under current antitrust law — for example, standardizing screw threads and grades of steel. But boycotting the "products" of certain "vendors" is probably not among them.
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Also, an excellent video of Dealmap founder Chandu Thota by Scobleizer - explaining the technology & monetization strategy of DealMap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPURUSK-sX8
Thanks really interesting read!
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Yes, because that's how capitalism works! If you don't buy a specific product, the whole market fails and everyone dies of hunger.
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Please report him anyway; most people are decent and honest, and like to think the best of people, so I understand why you wouldn't want to report him, not to mention the hassle of writing it up and sending it to Twitter, who may not even act on it, but you can be sure if you don't take it further, the guy will be able to keep doing this with impunity. Some quote about evil and good men and doing nothing.
Previous submissions of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882 <- This has over 100 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830614

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831344
As a PC gamer who regularly encounters this problem, I'm a bit disappointed that they made no serious attempt to uncover the reasons why publishers release gimped PC versions of console games. Surely good games sell better than bad games, and if the "features" enumerated in the article are indeed so universally reviled (I'm certainly no exception, myself), why not make them worth playing? Any HN'ers want to take a stab?
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> Sigh... :-)

I honestly have no idea what you mean by that :).

> Are you really surprised about the down votes...?

For that post of course not. For the others yes.

I can only assume you are coming from this viewpoint

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

and no I don't think I had anything genuinely new to bring but I how could I know about something I didn't know about.

I guess what I am really saying if people can't acknowledge the flaws in a thing how could they ever make it better. And to say even more if they can't vocalize their reasoning how does downvoting make it okay but I am sure that is another thing I have missed.
i fear that might not be the case if/when it ever comes out. i have a sinking feeling textmate 2 will end up as a mac store only app, and there's no way to provide free licenses to previous owners of non-mac store licenses.
Yeah, methinks the general rule is: You don't really know a company until you see their reaction to shit happening. Deflecting blame and stonewalling are the worst kinds of response.
For those that don't quite understand what "everything you need to know" means, could you spell it out?
It's more subtle than that. If you wanted to make the sale now and your friend wanted to buy next week when she got paid, then an intermediary would be adding value, purely by being willing to act more quickly. The difference would cover them sitting on the laptop for a week.
What this kind of scammers don't realize is that internet and subsequent proliferation of social media networks has leveled the playing field to a large extent. So, if people who are being arm-twisted become more vocal about it, it might come back to bite the scammers.
Maybe we can use this to help the government bring the sentencing of website defacing crimes back down to Earth alongside well known crimes like physical stealing and vandalism.

If the government wants more top-flight hackers then maybe they should understand that defacing a website is evidence of a deficient company website rather than an evil person who needs to be punished 10x normal.

They will get what they want, because they will reach into your back pocket to compensate the good hackers in short supply.
any tool/technique can be abused/misused. some more easily than others. except you are developing for fun, you need to take ability to misuse (and the ramifications) into consideration.

productivity and maintainability IMHO should be the most important decision makers when choosing what to use. what tools allows me to be the most productivity as a developer? who easy is it for others I work with to change what I've developed? optimize later.

they are very successful solutions developed in a variety of ways. let's not forget that. arguing over what is best is missing the point.
Sad (though sometimes good) fact of the Internet: there are lots of oddballs out there.

Just as there are people who cut you up on the road or hit people for no reason in real life, there are people who'll randomly try to ruin your day with seemingly no motivation (even some people on HN!). Keep your head held high, gracefully conduct yourself, and let them enjoy steeping in their own bile (ooh, a tea joke!)
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Anyone have direct experience with how sharp NSA guys are?

Versus an average quant? Versus an average googler?
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I wouldn't even worry about a subjective review like "this tea tastes like shit". Even if it's the finest quality tea in the world, someone is going to think it tastes like shit.

I would worry about reviews like, "ordered, never received product, called owner and he told me to 'fuck myself with a pointy stick'". That is significantly more damning, since it reads like an account of a factual event, rather than an uninformed opinion.
I'm not arguing that the scenario I painted was the usual scenario, or even common. I was just putting an example together to show how his defense would not work in principle. That is, a legitimate patent scenario where the defendants were infringing without any knowledge of the patent existing.

Basically, I was trying to point out that wide infringement without knowledge of a patent does not a priori mean a patent should be invalid.

Actually, I think you're right about the way invention usually happens. Software patents are by far a net loss for the industry, and I'm against them. I just like to reply when I see what seems to me to be a flawed argument, whether I agree with the conclusion or not.
Did you watch their tea review videos? OMG my 8 yr old could articulate a better description - like watching dumb and dumber.
Maybe this was a case of professional jealousy.
See what I mean here... http://healthyprofessionals.teatra.de/2011/07/26/the-tea-sho...
It's impossible for me to have perfect information, or even relatively accurate information about the working conditions of the people who made my stuff.

Also since working conditions are subjective value judgements, I can't even objectively say that someone is working under bad working conditions.

In the first world there are high-rise window cleaners. Some people would consider washing windows a mile in the sky to be cruel and unusual punishment. Others consider it a thrill and would pay to do it.

I am not qualified to determine the difference between a sweatshop and just a highly efficient assembly line. Even if I was qualified, I would not have the necessary information. Even if I had the necessary information, I use too many products for me to examine the supply lines of each one. Even if someone did this for me, they would not be able to probe into the dark depths of communist China.

No, this doesn't fall to me. The working conditions of Chinese people are the responsibility of Chinese people. I will engage in trade with Chinese people and let them decide how they wish to work and how they wish to organize their society.

Ethnic paternalism is so 19th century.
This is really interesting, thanks for the submission.

It also highlights just what you need to compete in these contests - raw programming skill, plenty of algorithmic knowledge, the ability to come up with clever heuristics and the desire to try absolutely anything to improve the quality of those heuristics. Seeing the process behind that was very enlightening.
So when they say atoms do they mean voxels or is it something else?
There is a mention of a "National Interest" clause with EB2. If this is truly the national interest waiver which is an existing mechanism to accelerate residency permits, it means approved entrepreneurs will be able to become legal residents in under a year, versus 7+ years that it often takes for most visas. This would be phenomenal!

Looks like finally, the government is doing something right on immigration!
I think they meant diffused shadows, the small shadow demo they give didn't appear to be dynamic.
It's a government organization, working on a political logic. So likely, they won't be able to attract consistent quality applicants (to the extent a big tech company could). They may however be able to get ideologically-driven people (those who believe in the goodness of NSA's purpose), who are prepared to work for lower wages.
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You need a next/neither button for some of them :)
"This would not have happened 100 years ago when the top tax bracket was ~90%."

Not to be too pedantic, but 100 years ago was a great time to be a millionaire, the highest tax brackets were inconsequential, the tax for the top bracket of $500,000 was 7%. Rockefeller didn't have too much tax planning to worry about.

The high brackets came with the depression and later WWII.
What about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gshc8GMTa1Y&feature=relat...
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Well, you can click logo, it will refresh the page. :)
Looks very promising.

One thing I wonder, though, is why WYSIWYG editors still use explicit markup (bold, italic, font size) instead of allowing the definition of styles. This is a hassle if you want to write consistent documents.

Even Google Documents does this; it does not have custom named styles like Word. It only has named styles for header 1..6, but usually that's not enough.
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Except that in the USA it's probably illegal to fire workers who won't work 16 hour days and it's also illegal to expose workers to toxic solvents.

OSHA and the associated regulations legislated us right out of the market.
How shallow.
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I think the biggest pay off may be from the membership site, but you'll have to keep it updated. You should update it with a lot of content like once every 6 months. And you should probably do big launches that day with a limited number of seats (but "leak" information about what's coming during the 6 month period). When doing the launches you should also partner with other big sites in your niche to bring you traffic, and so you can let a lot of people know about it at once.

This model comes from http://teachingsells.com. He also owns http://copyblogger.com which has over 100k subscribers, but he also partnered with others, and in the 2 launch days they managed to make $800,000. They have a in-depth course on how to make membership sites, but it's pretty expensive. It was $1600 lifetime membership fee then. However, they also have a forum where all those members can partner up for other projects and so on.

So you could go this route, too - charging a pretty high fee if you're content is very good, but it will be very hard to grow it from the ground up if you don't partner with some big sites.

As for the e-book idea, you might have a chance to make a lot of money if you make it a Kindle e-book and sell it for $0.99 or $1.99, which is the limit for impulse buy. If you're market is not that big, it might not be wise to price it so low. Either way, I think it's best to partner with some sites that can let a lot of people know about it at once.

If it's really good content, and it's good for their readers, and they also stand to make some money from it, I don't see why it wouldn't work. It's probably best to coordinate this so you have a "launch day" where everyone writes about it in the same day or so. If you can make your e-book sell a lot at once, you might get picked up into Amazon's best sellers, and then you'll get even higher volume. Again, one of the ways you can manage that is by making the e-book very cheap so it sells in bigger volume.

I would prefer the membership route because it has bigger potential for growth in the long term and more "stickiness". But it's probably not a bad idea to start off with an e-book, become a "renowned" author, and then get some of your readers to join your new membership site.
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This is why I don't have a profile picture on Facebook, have locked down my privacy settings, and generally keep a really low profile in every tech context. I'm making an exception here to say that I find this unpleasant.
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I can't work out how to insert images. And although it implies it works with all browsers, it would be good to know which versions.
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BS Anti-China Agg-prop.

If you read this, and agree with it whole heartedly. Please stop, get an education, and learn about how economies grow.
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Basically, because that would immediately result in the Indian outsourcing companies importing half a million "consultants" at $20k a year each. Not even joking.

There exist people who think that a nation's immigration laws should not be used to price that nation's citizens out of the market for jobs in their neighborhood. Reasonable people could disagree on that, but suffice it to say that it commands a supermajority in the US.
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So bitchin...that's the beauty, if they're doing great work on the last 1% it makes it more likely the other 99% is well thought out and working right too.
If the port's unplayable - why care about it at all? Treat it as if it had never existed.
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Having written an editor on contentEditable before, I think the biggest challenge is paste events.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3553041/how-can-you-catch...

The onpaste event isn't supported across the board, and doesn't let you access the paste content in any way.

Just try copying a webpage and posting it into the Aloha Editor area- it will paste the entire dom. Blech. contentEditable should be a boon for web devs, but instead the idea of a writable web has stagnated on a buggy, inconsistent implementation of contentEditable.

I'm looking forward to the next iteration of editable html content!
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Do you have any more info on how yelp.com has been running "extortion rackets"?

I don't know much about yelp, and don't use it much, but have generally been led to believe that they are a good company (admittedly, by the tech press) so it'll be interesting to hear if you have actual examples of people getting scammed.
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I've read a couple of the books, but not quite as far as the bit depicted in the last scene, so technically it's a spoiler for me. However, it's not exactly a big surprise ;)
'Too much effort' isn't known to perfectionists, which Apple strives to be.
You could start small, reiterate and improve. Bootstrap/family-fund it with some money.

If they say that it's not possible to patent this idea (I don't see how age should stop you, I don't believe there's an age restriction on applications), it sounds like going the reiteration route is better.

Supporting glimcat's statement; there's also a lot of 'status' or reputation that investors love. It is presumed a large amount of Color's large investment was due to being backed by veteran entrepreneurs in addition to a 'cool idea'.

I also disagree that 'ideas' get stolen all the time. PG(?) or someone said that reputable VCs will not steal your idea. Their reputation is more important than your idea.

Your ideas, may however be copied. Even Hipmunk, backed by Reddit's former staff is somewhat in trouble if Google search copies their features. But, the great thing about ideas being stolen is validation. Those people went through the expense and you can see your idea for what it is.

Google Search wasn't first, Facebook Social Network wasn't first, maybe your first competitor will follow you and outperform you. Also something to consider.
I have applied a couple of times. I don't have anything against Amazon and use their services every single day (my current startup uses it) but I'm hesitant to apply again.

Each year the "startup" that ends winning the competition has received a couple million in VC before entering or is a pretty well established startup.

Maybe I'm confused about what a Startup means these days (like mine for example: single founder, couple of collaborators, hustling every single day, counting pennies, you know the drill...) but 100K in cash and the Amazon Credits will be exponentially more helpful to companies like mine than to heavily VC invested "startups".

Either way good luck to everyone ;)
Except that the Heptarchy were East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria (Bernicia, Deira), Sussex, Wessex (I know it's true because wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptarchy told me ;-)

But yeah, Lancaster->Lannister seemed like a good hint that the War of the Roses was the template for this dynastic struggle.
Avoiding the overhead of python's startup time alone would be nice, hg is impressively fast for being written in Python, but could be much faster and memory-efficient in a compiled language where you have control over memory layout.

And that is without going into the potential of perhaps taking advantage of concurrency and parallelization for some things.
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Here's the post mortem by the winner of the subsequent AI contest: http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
This is a great thread, thanks for bringing it here. As someone who's built a CSS3/DOM animation tool these posts were very interesting to me (Edit Room - link and info in profile). My philosophy is that keeping a semantic DOM HTML structure and setting those elements up for animation is the way to go, for accessibility, focusing on content first, mobile first, etc.

To those asking why not just use SVG or Canvas - including SVG and Canvas for the things they are good for, (vectors / filters / generated graphics) plays to each technologies' strengths. Getting a release out the door is something we all aspire too, and it looks like support for those are coming as well. If they are smart, they will keep the DOM animation as well - it's a great common baseline, can be extended into the past with javascript (like they are doing now)

It's fine, there are tons of animation tools cooking out on the web as well - if this doesn't fit with some people's workflow, then other tools will. Thanks to Adobe for moving the competitive landscape forwards.
Would love to add this to my app, maybe someday someone builds a clone under a less restrictive license.
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Yet another guy wrote Emacs!!
Just drag'n'drop an image from your desktop into the page.
At least it worked for me ;)
While a fair point, I think expressing your dissatisfaction will let others know there is a market for a better solution. And potentially drive more innovation

... but that could be me post-hoc rationalising my whinging :D
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If Facebook charged $20 per month, would anyone use it?
I personally don't know of anyone who owns a company that has been apart of any Yelp Extortion, but there has been several cases brought against them.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=yelp+exto&sourc...
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I want to see results of such a survey. Don't use HN as your user source without giving back.
This isn't particularly on topic so I'll keep it brief. On your site you mention delivering via Amazon UK; I was curious how this works or if you had any links that explained the process better? I'm currently dabbling with the idea of a simple site and this isn't something I've seen before as a way of handling deliveries. Thank you.
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And Groupon is losing money hand-over-fist.
You just explained why Germany isn't bankrupt.